HB20 Summary

• Expands the crime of unlawful manufacture of a controlled substance in the first degree to include operating or planning to operate a clandestine drug laboratory on rental property such as apartments, rental houses, hotels, or motels.

• Adds a new condition (condition 8) to the existing list of factors that can elevate drug manufacturing charges, specifically targeting clandestine laboratory operations on rented residential property or involving criminal trespass.

• Imposes an additional mandatory sentence of five years imprisonment without parole, probation, or suspended sentence for methamphetamine manufacturing on rental property.

• Requires individuals operating clandestine drug laboratories to pay all reasonable costs associated with remediation of the affected property.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.