HCS/SB 52 - This act changes provisions relating to the distribution of controlled substances in drug free zones.

Under this act, a person commits the crime of distribution of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone if he distributes, delivers, manufactures, or produces a controlled substance or possesses such a substance with the intent to distribute, deliver, manufacture or produce. This crime occurs in a drug free zone if such act occurs within:

1) One thousand feet of any private or public elementary or secondary school, public vocational school, or a public or private junior college, college or university, public housing or governmental assisted housing, public parks or recreation centers, day care facilities, youth centers video arcades or churches; or

2) Within one hundred feet of a school bus stop.

Distribution of a controlled substance in a drug free zone is a Class B felony. Distribution of such substance in all other instances is a Class C felony.
CHERYL GRAZIER