{"id":4229,"date":"2011-04-08T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T15:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2013-03-11T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:05:00","slug":"lawmakers-approve-meth-prevention-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=4229","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers approve meth prevention bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statewide electronic tracking system will be implemented for purchases of methamphetamine precursor chemicals at the point of sale under a bill approved by the Legislature April 8.<\/p>\n<p>Under LB20, introduced by Omaha Sen. Beau McCoy, retailers will receive an immediate web-based notification when a person is attempting to purchase illegal amounts of pseudoephedrine, a drug found in over-the-counter cold medications that is used in meth-making.<\/p>\n<p>The system automatically will issue the seller a stop sale alert. Retailers will be required to use the free system unless granted a waiver by the Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ensure that no claim or cause of action shall arise against a seller based upon the electronic submission of information to the exchange;<\/li>\n<li>allow the retailer to store certain information obtained from the purchaser\u2019s license or identification card in case it is needed by law enforcement; and<\/li>\n<li>prohibit the sale of products containing more than 9 grams of pseudoephedrine base or 9 grams of phenylpropanolamine base during a 30-day period unless purchased pursuant to a medical order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bill has an effective date of Jan. 1, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>LB20 was approved on a 44-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statewide electronic tracking system will be implemented for purchases of methamphetamine precursor chemicals at the point of sale under<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-beau-mccoy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10321,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/10321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}