Florida Senate - 2017                              CS for SB 512
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Regulated Industries; and Senators Young,
       Rouson, and Steube
       
       
       
       
       580-03525-17                                           2017512c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to steroid use in racing greyhounds;
    3         amending s. 550.2415, F.S.; providing that a positive
    4         test result for anabolic steroids in certain samples
    5         taken from a greyhound violates the prohibition on the
    6         racing of animals that are impermissibly medicated or
    7         determined to have a prohibited substance present;
    8         providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
   13  550.2415, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         550.2415 Racing of animals under certain conditions
   15  prohibited; penalties; exceptions.—
   16         (1)(a) The racing of an animal that has been impermissibly
   17  medicated or determined to have a prohibited substance present
   18  is prohibited. It is a violation of this section for a person to
   19  impermissibly medicate an animal or for an animal to have a
   20  prohibited substance present resulting in a positive test for
   21  such medications or substances based on samples taken from the
   22  animal before or immediately after the racing of that animal. It
   23  is a violation of this section for a greyhound to have anabolic
   24  steroids present resulting in a positive test for such steroids
   25  based on samples taken from the greyhound before or immediately
   26  after the racing of that greyhound. Test results and the
   27  identities of the animals being tested and of their trainers and
   28  owners of record are confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1)
   29  and from s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution for 10 days
   30  after testing of all samples collected on a particular day has
   31  been completed and any positive test results derived from such
   32  samples have been reported to the director of the division or
   33  administrative action has been commenced.
   34         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.