Amendment #514 to H3600

Further clarifying the laboratory analysis of cocaine

Representatives Tucker of Salem and Whelan of Brewster move to amend the bill by adding  the following section:

“Section XX: Section 31 of chapter 94C of the General Laws, as amended by section 30 of chapter 52 of the acts of 2016, is hereby further amended by striking out clause (4) of paragraph (a) of Class B and inserting in place thereof the following clause:-

(4) Coca leaves, and the salts, optical and geometric isomers and salts of isomers, excluding coca leaves and extracts of coca leaves from which cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine or their salts have been removed; of cocaine, ecgonine, pseudococaine, allococaine and pseudoallococaine, their derivatives, their salts, isomers and salts of their isomers; or any compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of any of the substances referred to in this paragraph.”

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Further clarifying the laboratory analysis of cocaine