"AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PILOT PROGRAM TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS. "

After the last section, add the following and renumber sections and internal references accordingly:

"Sec. 501. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2006) (a) Any person who sells or offers for sale at retail any drug product or combination of drug products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine, or their salts, isomers or salts of isomers, shall (1) store such drug products or combination of drug products in a location that is inaccessible to consumers, and (2) require consumers to request and purchase such drug products or combination of drug products at the counter.

(b) No person shall purchase, receive or otherwise acquire more than nine grams of any drug product or combination of drug products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine or phenylpropanolamine, or their salts, isomers or salts of isomers within any thirty-day period.

Sec. 502. Subsection (c) of section 21a-277 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2006):

(c) No person shall knowingly possess drug paraphernalia in a drug factory situation as defined by subdivision (20) of section 21a-240 for the unlawful mixing, compounding or otherwise preparing any controlled substance for purposes of violation of this chapter. Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection may, for the first offense, be fined not more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than two years, or be both fined and imprisoned, except that if such drug paraphernalia is for the unlawful mixing, compounding or otherwise preparing methamphetamine, such person may be fined not more than five thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than five years, or be both fined and imprisoned. Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection may, for a subsequent offense, be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than ten years, or be both fined and imprisoned.

Sec. 503. Subsection (a) of section 21a-278 of the 2006 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2006):

(a) Any person who manufactures, distributes, sells, prescribes, dispenses, compounds, transports with the intent to sell or dispense, possesses with the intent to sell or dispense, offers, gives or administers to another person one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing an aggregate weight of one ounce or more of heroin or methadone, [or] an aggregate weight of one-half ounce or more of cocaine or one-half ounce or more of cocaine in a free-base form or an aggregate weight of fifty grams or more of methamphetamine or five hundred grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, or a substance containing five milligrams or more of lysergic acid diethylamide, except as authorized in this chapter, and who is not, at the time of such action, a drug-dependent person, shall be imprisoned for a minimum term of not less than five years nor more than twenty years; and, a maximum term of life imprisonment. The execution of the mandatory minimum sentence imposed by the provisions of this subsection shall not be suspended except the court may suspend the execution of such mandatory minimum sentence if at the time of the commission of the offense (1) such person was under the age of eighteen years, or (2) such person's mental capacity was significantly impaired but not so impaired as to constitute a defense to prosecution. "