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Senate Bill S6140

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Adds fentanyl-related substances to the controlled substances list

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2019-S6140 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8217
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3306, Pub Health L

2019-S6140 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds fentanyl-related substances to the controlled substances list.

2019-S6140 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6140 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6140
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 17, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding  substances
   to the schedules of controlled substances
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (b) of schedule I of section 3306 of the public
 health law is amended by adding a new paragraph 58 to read as follows:
   (58) FENTANYL-RELATED SUBSTANCES, THEIR ISOMERS, ESTERS, ETHERS, SALTS
 AND SALTS OF ISOMERS, ESTERS AND ETHERS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS  PARA-
 GRAPH,  FENTANYL-RELATED  SUBSTANCE  MEANS  ANY  SUBSTANCE  FOR WHICH NO
 EXEMPTION OR APPROVAL IS IN EFFECT UNDER  SECTION  505  OF  THE  FEDERAL
 FOOD,  DRUG,  AND  COSMETIC  ACT  (21  U.S.C. 355), THAT IS STRUCTURALLY
 RELATED TO FENTANYL BY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING MODIFICATIONS:
   (A) REPLACEMENT OF THE PHENYL PORTION OF THE PHENETHYL  GROUP  BY  ANY
 MONOCYCLE, WHETHER OR NOT FURTHER SUBSTITUTED IN OR ON THE MONOCYCLE;
   (B)  SUBSTITUTION  IN  OR  ON THE PHENETHYL GROUP WITH ALKYL, ALKENYL,
 ALKOXYL, HYDROXYL, HALO, HALOALKYL, AMINO OR NITRO GROUPS;
   (C) SUBSTITUTION IN OR ON THE PIPERIDINE  RING  WITH  ALKYL,  ALKENYL,
 ALKOXYL, ESTER, ETHER, HYDROXYL, HALO, HALOALKYL, AMINO OR NITRO GROUPS;
   (D) REPLACEMENT OF THE ANILINE RING WITH ANY AROMATIC MONOCYCLE WHETH-
 ER OR NOT FURTHER SUBSTITUTED IN OR ON THE AROMATIC MONOCYLE; AND/OR
   (E) REPLACEMENT OF THE N-PROPIONYL GROUP BY ANOTHER ACYL GROUP.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11376-02-9

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