Drug Free Homeless Service Zones
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Overview
This bill creates ‘Drug-Free Homeless Service Zones’ around facilities that provide housing and services to homeless individuals, which receive state or federal funding. It prohibits individuals from possessing, selling, distributing, manufacturing, or purchasing controlled substances within these zones. Violations can result in fines, imprisonment, and ineligibility for certain grants for facility operators.
Key provisions
- Defines ‘Drug-Free Homeless Service Zones’ as an area within 300 feet of facility-based services.
- Specifies ‘facility-based services’ as emergency shelters, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing receiving funding.
- Prohibits possession, sale, distribution, manufacture, or purchase of controlled substances within these zones.
- Establishes penalties for violations, including diversion programs for first offenses and potential felony charges and fines for subsequent offenses.
- Ineligible for homelessness assistance grants for a period of three years for operators convicted of violating the provisions related to allowing controlled substances on the premises.
- Requires facility operators to post conspicuous signs identifying the zone and prohibiting controlled substance activity.
- Uses definitions from existing South Carolina Code regarding ‘controlled substance’ and ‘drug-free homeless zone’.
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