SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1839

90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BACKER, KISSELL, DAYS, WILSON (42), SCHEVE, GAW,

KREIDER, CRUMP (Co-sponsors), SEIGFREID, PARKER, FRANKLIN, O'CONNOR, GREEN, SELBY,

KOLLER, FOLEY, WILLIAMS (159), HICKEY, HAGAN-HARRELL, WILLIAMS (121), RILEY,

BOYKINS, WIGGINS, OVERSCHMIDT, RELFORD, VAN ZANDT, FARNEN, MURRAY, DAVIS (122),

SMITH, McKENNA, HOLLINGSWORTH, BONNER, GRATZ, GRAHAM (24), McBRIDE, SUMMERS,

LEVIN, LOUDON, BRITT, GUNN, THOMPSON (72), WARD, O'TOOLE, CURLS, SKAGGS,

LUETKENHAUS, KENNEDY, SCHILLING, LIESE, BARRY, LEGAN, HARTZLER (124), OSTMANN,

FOSTER, SALLEE, GASKILL AND TUDOR.

Read 1st time January 31, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk

4041L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 568, RSMo, relating to offenses against the family by adding thereto one new section relating to unlawful drug transactions with a child, with penalty provisions.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 568, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 568.072, to read as follows:

568.072. 1. A person commits the crime of unlawful drug transactions with a child if the person:

(1) Knowingly permits a child less than seventeen years of age to enter or remain in a place where illegal activity in controlled substances, as defined in chapter 195, RSMo, is maintained or conducted; or

(2) Knowingly encourages, aids or causes a child less than seventeen years of age to engage in any conduct which violates the provisions of chapter 195, RSMo;

(3) Enlists the aid, either through payment or coercion, of a person less than seventeen years of age to unlawfully manufacture, compound, produce, prepare, sell, transport, test or analyze amphetamine or methamphetamine or any of their analogues, or to obtain any material used to manufacture, compound, produce, prepare, test or analyze amphetamine or methamphetamine or any of their analogues; or

(4) Unlawfully manufactures, compounds, produces, prepares, sells, transports, tests or analyzes amphetamine or methamphetamine or any of their analogues in the presence of a person less than seventeen years of age;

(5) Violates section 195.211, RSMo, by distributing or delivering any controlled substance to a person less than seventeen years of age.

2. Unlawful drug transactions with a child is a class A felony.

3. It is not a defense to a violation of this section that the defendant did not know the age of the child.


Missouri House of Representatives