Summary of the Introduced Bill

HB 1280 -- Falsifying a Drug or Alcohol Test

Sponsor:  Roorda

This bill creates the crime of altering or falsifying a drug or
alcohol test, a class D felony.  The crime is committed when a
person knowingly alters or falsifies a drug or alcohol test or
test results by:

(1)  Using or possessing any substance or device designed to
alter or falsify the test;

(2)  Submitting an altered, false, or adulterated biological
sample;

(3)  Submitting a sample collected from another person or an
animal; or

(4)  Submitting false documents or making false material
statements with the intent to alter or falsify a test.

The bill also makes it a class A misdemeanor to manufacture,
possess, sell, give away, distribute, produce, market, or
transport a biological sample with the intent to alter or falsify
a test or to manufacture, possess, sell, give away, distribute,
produce, or market an adulterant with the intent that it be used
to alter or falsify a test.  An adulterant is any additive which
makes a sample impure or corrupt.

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Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Last Updated September 14, 2010 at 3:10 pm