Bill Text: NJ A626 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits sex offenders from using or possessing erectile dysfunction drugs; prohibits provision or sale of erectile dysfunction drugs to sex offenders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee [A626 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2010-A626-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 626

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

214th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  PAUL D. MORIARTY

District 4 (Camden and Gloucester)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits sex offenders from using or possessing erectile dysfunction drugs; prohibits provision or sale of erectile dysfunction drugs to sex offenders.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning sex offenders and supplementing chapter 7 Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  a.  It shall be a crime of the fourth degree for an person who has been convicted, adjudicated delinquent or found not guilty by reason of insanity of a sex offense as defined in N.J.S.2C:7-2 to possess or use any prescription drug to treat erectile dysfunction.

     b.  It shall be a crime of the fourth degree for a person to knowingly sell, give, transfer or otherwise provide a prescription drug to treat erectile dysfunction to a person who has been convicted, adjudicated delinquent or found not guilty by reason of insanity of a sex offense as defined in N.J.S.2C:7-2.

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill prohibits the use of  and provision or sale to sex offenders of drugs to treat erectile dysfunction, such as Viagra and Cialis. 

     Under the bill's provisions, it is a crime of the fourth degree for a sex offender to possess or use any prescription drug to treat erectile dysfunction.

     The bill also makes it a crime of the fourth degree for a person to knowingly sell, give, transfer or otherwise provide a prescription drug to treat erectile dysfunction to a sex offender.