Senate Bill S623

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to criminal sale of a controlled substance

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S623 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§220.41 & 220.43, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S8205
2017-2018: S623

2019-S623 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to criminal sale of a controlled substance; adds the sale of one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing carfentanil to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second and first degrees.

2019-S623 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S623 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    623
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  BOYLE,  AKSHAR,  FUNKE,  HELMING, JACOBS, O'MARA,
   RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE -- read  twice  and  ordered  printed,  and  when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law,  in  relation to criminal sale of a
   controlled substance

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  220.41  of the penal law, as
 amended by chapter 75 of the laws of 1995, is amended and a new subdivi-
 sion 8 is added to read as follows:
   7.  methadone and the methadone weighs three hundred sixty  milligrams
 or more[.]; OR
   8.  ONE  OR  MORE  PREPARATIONS,  COMPOUNDS,  MIXTURES  OR  SUBSTANCES
 CONTAINING CARFENTANIL AND SAID  PREPARATIONS,  COMPOUNDS,  MIXTURES  OR
 SUBSTANCES ARE AN AGGREGATE WEIGHT OF TWO MILLIGRAMS OR MORE.
   §  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 220.43 of the penal law, as amended by
 chapter 75 of the laws of 1995, is amended and a new  subdivision  3  is
 added to read as follows:
   2.    methadone  and  the  methadone weighs two thousand eight hundred
 eighty milligrams or more[.]; OR
   3.  ONE  OR  MORE  PREPARATIONS,  COMPOUNDS,  MIXTURES  OR  SUBSTANCES
 CONTAINING  CARFENTANIL  AND  SAID  PREPARATIONS, COMPOUNDS, MIXTURES OR
 SUBSTANCES ARE AN AGGREGATE WEIGHT OF TEN MILLIGRAMS OR MORE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04378-01-9

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