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Assembly Bill A11190

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree

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2025-A11190 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §220.16, Pen L

2025-A11190 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds to the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree the possession, within any facility owned or operated by the state or upon school grounds, of any controlled substance or hazardous substance which has the potential to cause significant injury or death, with the intent to sell or distribute such substance.

2025-A11190 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11190
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 1, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal possession  of  a
   controlled substance in the third degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section  220.16  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended by chapter 75 of the laws of 1995, is amended and a new subdivi-
 sion 14 is added to read as follows:
   13.  phencyclidine  and  said  phencyclidine  weighs  one thousand two
 hundred fifty milligrams or more[.]; OR
   14. WITHIN ANY FACILITY OWNED OR OPERATED BY THE STATE  OR  ANY  POLI-
 TICAL SUBDIVISION, AGENCY, OR INSTRUMENTALITY THEREOF, OR WITHIN OR UPON
 ANY SCHOOL GROUNDS, ANY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OR ANY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE,
 AS  DEFINED  BY  SECTION 240.00 OF THIS PART, WHICH HAS THE POTENTIAL TO
 CAUSE SIGNIFICANT INJURY OR DEATH, AND SUCH PERSON HAS INTENT TO SELL OR
 OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTE SUCH CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OR HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15520-01-6

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