Bill Text: NY S00210 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases penalties for the crimes of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the first, second, third and fourth degrees and criminal sale of a prescription.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00210 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00210-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 210 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- 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 increasing penalties for the crimes of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the first, second, third and fourth degrees and crim- inal sale of a prescription THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 178.10 of the penal law, 2 as added by chapter 81 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in 5 the fourth degree is a class [A misdemeanor] E FELONY. 6 S 2. The closing paragraph of section 178.15 of the penal law, as 7 added by chapter 81 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows: 8 Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in 9 the third degree is a class [E] D felony. 10 S 3. The closing paragraph of section 178.20 of the penal law, as 11 added by chapter 81 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows: 12 Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in 13 the second degree is a class [D] C felony. 14 S 4. The closing paragraph of section 178.25 of the penal law, as 15 added by chapter 81 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows: 16 Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in 17 the first degree is a class [C] B felony. 18 S 5. The closing paragraph of section 220.65 of the penal law, as 19 added by chapter 31 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 20 Criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance or of a 21 controlled substance by a practitioner or pharmacist is a class [C] B 22 felony. 23 S 6. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 24 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. LBD02160-01-5