Bill Text: NY S06208 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6208

Introduced

Bill Title: Classifies possession of substances containing fentanyl, carfentanyl, or analogs thereof as criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S06208 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06208-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6208

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ASHBY  -- 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 classifying possession  of
          fentanyl as criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth
          degree

          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 220.06 of  the  penal  law,
     2  subdivision  5 as amended by chapter 75 of the laws of 1995 and subdivi-
     3  sion 8 as added by chapter 264 of the laws of 2003, are  amended  and  a
     4  new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows:
     5    5. cocaine and said cocaine weighs five hundred milligrams or more[.];
     6  or
     7    8.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
     8  containing gamma hydroxybutyric acid, as defined in  paragraph  four  of
     9  subdivision (e) of schedule I of section thirty-three hundred six of the
    10  public  health  law,  and  said  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or
    11  substances are of an aggregate weight of twenty-eight grams or  more[.];
    12  or
    13    9.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
    14  containing fentanyl, carfentanyl, or analogs thereof when such  prepara-
    15  tions,  compounds,  mixtures or substances are of an aggregate weight of
    16  five hundred milligrams or more.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    18  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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