Bill Text: NY S09506 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that possession or sale of a stimulant weighing 15 grams or more shall be punishable as a class A-I felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-07-20 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09506 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S09506-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9506 IN SENATE July 20, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal possession and sale of stimulants weighing fifteen grams or more The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 220.21 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 75 2 of the laws of 1995, the opening paragraph and subdivision 1 as amended 3 by chapter 738 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows: 4 § 220.21 Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first 5 degree. 6 A person is guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in 7 the first degree when he or she knowingly and unlawfully possesses: 8 1. one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances 9 containing a narcotic drug and said preparations, compounds, mixtures or 10 substances are of an aggregate weight of eight ounces or more; or 11 2. methadone and said methadone weighs five thousand seven hundred 12 sixty milligrams or more[.]; or 13 3. a stimulant and said stimulant weighs fifteen grams or more. 14 Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree is a 15 class A-I felony. 16 § 2. Section 220.43 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 785 of the 17 laws of 1975, subdivisions 1 and 2 as amended by chapter 75 of the laws 18 of 1995, is amended to read as follows: 19 § 220.43 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree. 20 A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the 21 first degree when he knowingly and unlawfully sells: 22 1. one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances 23 containing a narcotic drug and the preparations, compounds, mixtures or 24 substances are of an aggregate weight of two ounces or more; or 25 2. methadone and the methadone weighs two thousand eight hundred 26 eighty milligrams or more[.]; or 27 3. a stimulant and the stimulant weighs fifteen grams or more. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16134-01-2S. 9506 2 1 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree is a class 2 A-I felony. 3 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.