Bill Text: NY A05592 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that criminal possession of fentanyl is a class E felony.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-09 - held for consideration in codes [A05592 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05592-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5592

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the criminal possession of
          fentanyl

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

     1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 220.79  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 220.79 Criminal possession of fentanyl.
     4    A  person  is guilty of criminal possession of fentanyl when he or she
     5  knowingly and unlawfully possesses, manufactures, distributes,  or  uses
     6  fentanyl, or any fentanyl analogs, to enhance another illegal substance.
     7    Criminal possession of fentanyl is a class E felony.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03449-01-3