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                                 HOUSE AMENDED
        PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 476, 953                 PRINTER'S NO. 1772

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 454 Session of 1989


        INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, SHAFFER, ANDREZESKI, WENGER, SALVATORE,
           O'PAKE, AFFLERBACH, PETERSON, PORTERFIELD, LYNCH AND RHOADES,
           FEBRUARY 7, 1989

        AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, HOUSE OF
           REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, DECEMBER 5, 1989

                                     AN ACT

     1  Requiring school directors to prohibit the use of steroids by
     2     pupils involved in athletics; requiring education regarding
     3     the use of anabolic steroids; requiring penalties for
     4     unauthorized use of anabolic steroids; and providing for
     5     dispensing anabolic steroids and for prescriptions for
     6     anabolic steroids.

     7     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     8  hereby enacts as follows:
     9  Section 1.  School directors to prohibit steroids.
    10     The board of school directors in every school district in
    11  this Commonwealth shall prescribe, adopt and enforce rules and
    12  regulations to prohibit the use of anabolic steroids, except for
    13  a valid medical purpose, by any pupil involved in school-related
    14  athletics. Body building, muscle enhancement, increasing muscle
    15  bulk or strength or the enhancement of athletic ability is not a
    16  valid medical purpose. HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE (HGH) SHALL NOT BE    <--
    17  INCLUDED AS AN ANABOLIC STEROID UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
    18  ACT.


     1  Section 2.  Education regarding steroid use.
     2     The board of school directors in every school district shall
     3  include education regarding the dangers of anabolic steroids
     4  with any other drug and alcohol program required by law.
     5  Section 3.  Penalties.
     6     (a)  Violations of rules and regulations.--The board of
     7  school directors shall prescribe the following minimum penalties
     8  for any pupil found in violation of the rules and regulations
     9  required under section 1:
    10         (1)  For a first violation, suspension from school
    11     athletics for the remainder of the season.
    12         (2)  For a second violation, suspension from school
    13     athletics for the remainder of the season and for the
    14     following season.
    15         (3)  For a third violation, permanent suspension from
    16     school athletics.
    17     (b)  Eligibility for participation in school athletics
    18  limited.--No student shall be eligible to resume participation
    19  in school athletics unless there has been a medical
    20  determination that no residual evidence of steroids exists. The
    21  board may require participation in any drug counseling,
    22  rehabilitation, testing or other program as a condition of
    23  reinstatement into a school athletic program.
    24  Section 4.  Violations.
    25     No physician, or other person regulated by the act of
    26  December 20, 1985 (P.L.457, No.112), known as the Medical
    27  Practice Act of 1985, shall dispense, inject or prescribe an
    28  anabolic steroid for the purpose of hormonal manipulation
    29  intended to increase muscle mass, strength, weight without a
    30  medical necessity to do so, or for the intended purpose of
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     1  improving performance in any form of exercise, sport or game.
     2  The State Board of Medicine shall promulgate guidelines
     3  providing specific periods of license suspension or revocation
     4  for dispensing, injecting or prescribing anabolic steroids in
     5  violation of this section.
     6  Section 5.  Prescriptions.
     7     Any prescription for an anabolic steroid written in this
     8  Commonwealth shall state the purpose for which the drug is
     9  prescribed.
    10  Section 6.  Effective date.
    11     This act shall take effect in 60 days.













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