Drug-Free Playgrounds Safety Enhancement Act of 2014

Drug-Free Playgrounds Safety Enhancement Act of 2014 - Amends provisions of the Controlled Substances Act prescribing enhanced penalties for distributing or manufacturing drugs in or near certain facilities, such as schools, playgrounds, youth centers, and swimming pools, to: (1) include among such facilities a video amusement game facility (currently, a video arcade facility); (2) define a "video amusement game facility" as any facility that is legally accessible to persons under 18 years of age, that is intended primarily for amusement, and that contains video game machines or other similar youth games; and (3) revise the definition of "playground" to mean any outdoor area that is intended for recreation, that is open to the public, and that contains one or more apparatus intended for the recreation of children, including play structures, sliding boards, swingsets, seesaws, merry-go-rounds, slides, jungle gyms, chin-up bars, sandboxes, spring riders, monkey bars, overhead ladders, trapeze rings, playhouses, rope bridges, and mazes.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2241 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2241

            To enhance the safety of drug-free playgrounds.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 2014

  Mr. Begich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
            To enhance the safety of drug-free playgrounds.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Drug-Free Playgrounds Safety 
Enhancement Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. DRUG-FREE PLAYGROUNDS.

    Section 419 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 860) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``video arcade 
        facility'' and inserting ``video amusement game facility''; and
            (2) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``outdoor facility'' and 
                        inserting ``outdoor area'';
                            (ii) by striking ``three or more separate'' 
                        and inserting ``1 or more'';
                            (iii) by inserting ``play structures,'' 
                        after ``not limited to,''; and
                            (iv) by striking ``and teeterboards'' and 
                        inserting ``seesaw, merry-go-round, slides, 
                        jungle gym, chin-up bars, sandbox, spring 
                        rider, monkey bars, overhead ladders, trapeze 
                        rings, playhouses, rope bridges, and mazes''; 
                        and
                    (B) by amending paragraph (3) to read as follows:
            ``(3) The term `video amusement game facility' means any 
        facility, legally accessible to persons under 18 years of age, 
        intended primarily for amusement, which contains video game 
        machines or other similar youth games.''.
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