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Senate Bill S8205

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to criminal sale of a controlled substance

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2015-S8205 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง220.41 & 220.43, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S623
2019-2020: S623

2015-S8205 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to criminal sale of a controlled substance; adds the sale of one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing carfentanil to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second and first degrees.

2015-S8205 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S8205 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8205

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            October 14, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- 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  sale  of  a
  controlled substance

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 7 of  section  220.41  of  the  penal  law,  as
amended by chapter 75 of the laws of 1995, is amended and a new subdivi-
sion 8 is added to read as follows:
  7.   methadone and the methadone weighs three hundred sixty milligrams
or more[.]; OR
  8.  ONE  OR  MORE  PREPARATIONS,  COMPOUNDS,  MIXTURES  OR  SUBSTANCES
CONTAINING  CARFENTANIL  AND  SAID  PREPARATIONS, COMPOUNDS, MIXTURES OR
SUBSTANCES ARE AN AGGREGATE WEIGHT OF TWO MILLIGRAMS OR MORE.
  S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 220.43 of the penal law, as  amended  by
chapter  75  of  the laws of 1995, is amended and a new subdivision 3 is
added to read as follows:
  2.   methadone and the methadone weighs  two  thousand  eight  hundred
eighty milligrams or more[.]; OR
  3.  ONE  OR  MORE  PREPARATIONS,  COMPOUNDS,  MIXTURES  OR  SUBSTANCES
CONTAINING CARFENTANIL AND SAID  PREPARATIONS,  COMPOUNDS,  MIXTURES  OR
SUBSTANCES ARE AN AGGREGATE WEIGHT OF TEN MILLIGRAMS OR MORE.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD16130-01-6

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