Bill Text: NY A07365 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates certain substances as schedule I opiates controlled substances; includes within the offenses of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second and first degrees, the sale of certain amounts of preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing heroin and schedule I opiates.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-25 - referred to health [A07365 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07365-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7365
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 25, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GRAF -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  designating
          certain  substances as schedule I opiates; and to amend the penal law,
          in relation to  the  sale  of  preparations,  compounds  mixtures  and
          substances containing heroin and an opiate
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (b) of schedule I of section 3306 of the public
     2  health law is amended by adding three new paragraphs 56, 57  and  58  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (56) N-(1-phenethylpiperidin-4-yl)-N-phenlyacetamide   (Acetyl  Fenta-
     5  nyl).
     6    (57) N-(1-phenethylpiperidin-4-yl)-N-phenylbutyramide (Butyryl  Fenta-
     7  nyl).
     8    (58) N-{1-{2-hydroxy-2-(thiophen-2-yl)ethyl}piperidin-4-yl}- N-phenyl-
     9  propionamide (Beta-Hydroxythiofentanyl).
    10    §  2.  Subdivision 7 of section 220.41 of the penal law, as amended by
    11  chapter 75 of the laws of 1995, is amended and a new  subdivision  8  is
    12  added to read as follows:
    13    7.  methadone  and the methadone weighs three hundred sixty milligrams
    14  or more[.]; or
    15    8.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
    16  containing  heroin and an opiate, defined in subdivision (b) of schedule
    17  I of section thirty-three hundred six of the public health law, and  the
    18  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances  are of an aggregate
    19  weight of one-quarter ounce or more.
    20    § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 220.43 of the penal law, as  amended  by
    21  chapter  75  of  the laws of 1995, is amended and a new subdivision 3 is
    22  added to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    2. methadone and the  methadone  weighs  two  thousand  eight  hundred
     2  eighty milligrams or more[.]; or
     3    3.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
     4  containing heroin and an opiate, defined in subdivision (b) of  schedule
     5  I  of section thirty-three hundred six of the public health law, and the
     6  preparations, compounds, mixtures or  substances  are  of  an  aggregate
     7  weight of one ounce or more.
     8    §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.