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Amend the bill in section 1 in subsection 1 by striking out all of paragraph D (page 1, lines 27 to 33 in L.D.) and inserting the following:
 
‘D. Trafficks in a drug with or furnishes a drug to another person in violation of chapter 45 and death is in fact caused by the use of the drug trafficked or furnished. Violation of this paragraph is a Class A crime.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, clarifies the new Class A crime of illegal trafficking in a drug with or furnishing of a drug to another person when death is in fact caused by the use of the drug trafficked or furnished. It removes language stating that it is not a defense to prosecution of the new crime that the decedent contributed to the decedent's death by the decedent's use of or consent to the administration of a drug.