Bill Text: NY A04013 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Decriminalizes the possession of buprenorphine from certain crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A04013 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04013-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4013--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  L. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, STECK, SIMON, REYES,
          GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  MAMDANI,  BURDICK,  FORREST,  HEVESI,  CRUZ,   CLARK,
          GALLAGHER,  TAYLOR,  WEPRIN,  WALKER  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law,  in relation to decriminalizing the
          possession of buprenorphine

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  5 and 8 of section 220.00 of the penal law,
     2  subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 92 of the laws of 2021 and  subdivi-
     3  sion  8 as amended by section 18 of part C of chapter 447 of the laws of
     4  2012, are amended to read as follows:
     5    5. "Controlled substance" means any substance listed  in  schedule  I,
     6  II,  III,  IV  or  V  of  section thirty-three hundred six of the public
     7  health law other than buprenorphine.
     8    8. "Narcotic preparation" means any  controlled  substance  listed  in
     9  schedule II(b-1), III(d) or III(e), other than buprenorphine.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    11  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.
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