Assembly Bill A4330

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes exposing another person to fentanyl, a fentanyl derivative or an opiate containing fentanyl or a fentanyl derivative in the definition of the offense of assault in the first degree

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A4330 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §120.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8060

2025-A4330 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes exposing another person to fentanyl, a fentanyl derivative or an opiate containing fentanyl or a fentanyl derivative by any means including throwing or tossing at or injecting such other person with any such substance in the definition of the offense of assault in the first degree.

2025-A4330 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4330
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including exposing another
   person to fentanyl, fentanyl derivatives or opiates containing  fenta-
   nyl  or  fentanyl  derivatives  in  the  definition  of the offense of
   assault in the first degree

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 120.10 of the penal law, subdivision 4 as amended
 by chapter 791 of the laws of 1967 and the closing paragraph as  amended
 by chapter 646 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
 § 120.10 Assault in the first degree.
   A person is guilty of assault in the first degree when:
   1.  With  intent  to  cause serious physical injury to another person,
 [he] SUCH PERSON causes such injury to such OTHER person or to  a  third
 person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument; or
   2.  With intent to disfigure another person seriously and permanently,
 or to destroy, amputate or disable permanently  a  member  or  organ  of
 [his]  SUCH  OTHER PERSON'S body, [he] SUCH PERSON causes such injury to
 such OTHER person or to a third person; or
   3. Under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life,
 [he] SUCH PERSON recklessly engages in conduct  which  creates  a  grave
 risk  of  death  to  another person, and thereby causes serious physical
 injury to another person; or
   4. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or  attempted
 commission  of  a  felony  or  of  immediate flight therefrom, [he] SUCH
 PERSON, or another participant if there be any, causes serious  physical
 injury to a person other than one of the participants; OR
   5.  WITH  INTENT  TO  CAUSE SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY TO ANOTHER PERSON,
 SUCH PERSON CAUSES SUCH INJURY TO SUCH OTHER  PERSON  BY  EXPOSING  SUCH
 OTHER  PERSON TO FENTANYL, A FENTANYL DERIVATIVE OR AN OPIATE CONTAINING
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07451-01-5

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