Virginia Senate Bill 1490 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 19 2023 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2023-01-25 - Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Selling, giving, or distributing a substance containing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, to another person without such person's knowledge that the substance sold, given, or distributed contains fentanyl is guilty of attempted murder of the first degree by poison. The bill also provides that if such sale, gift, or distribution results in the death of the other person from his use of the substance containing fentanyl, then the person who sold, gave, or distributed the substance is guilty of murder of the first degree by poison.

Fentanyl; selling, giving, or distributing a substance that contains 2 mgms. or more, etc.

Sen. Jill Vogel [R]

2023-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-01-25	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary (9-Y 6-N)
2023-01-19	Senate	Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
2023-01-19	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 23104369D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	248.05	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1490
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1490+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1490F160+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S03V0081+SB1490