Substitute Senate Bill 25 Summary

• Designates April as "Sexual Assault Prevention Awareness Month" to increase public awareness about preventing sexual assault.

• Enhances criminal penalties for drug trafficking offenses involving schedule I and II controlled substances when committed in the vicinity of substance addiction services providers or recovering addicts.

• Adds new definitions including "substance addiction services provider," "recovering addict," and "vicinity of a substance addiction services provider or a recovering addict" to establish when enhanced penalties apply.

• Increases felony degrees for trafficking offenses near addiction treatment facilities (within 500 feet or when selling to persons receiving treatment within 30 days) to create mandatory minimum prison sentences for major drug offenses.

• Names the bill's drug trafficking penalty provisions the "Relapse Reduction Act."