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An Act To Facilitate the Reporting of the Crime of Acquiring Drugs by Deception
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1108, sub-§6  is enacted to read:
 
6.      A prescribing health care provider, or a person acting under the direction or supervision of a prescribing health care provider, who knows or has reasonable cause to believe that a person has committed deception may report that fact to a law enforcement official. A person participating in good faith in reporting under this subsection, or in participating in a related proceeding, is immune from criminal or civil liability for the act of reporting or participating in the proceeding.
 
SUMMARY
This bill permits and provides immunity for the good faith reporting of the crime of acquiring drugs by deception by a prescribing health care provider, or a person acting under the direction or supervision of a prescribing health care provider, to a law enforcement official.