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Senate Bill S221

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to criminal possession and criminal sale of a controlled substance

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2025-S221 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§220.21 & 220.43, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9506
2023-2024: S3152

2025-S221 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that possession or sale of a stimulant weighing 15 grams or more shall be punishable as a class A-I felony.

2025-S221 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S221 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    221
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. PALUMBO, MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 220.21 of the penal law, as amended by  chapter  75
 of  the laws of 1995, the opening paragraph and subdivision 1 as amended
 by chapter 738 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
 § 220.21 Criminal possession of a  controlled  substance  in  the  first
            degree.
   A person is guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in
 the  first  degree when [he or she] SUCH PERSON knowingly and unlawfully
 possesses:
   1.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
 containing a narcotic drug and said preparations, compounds, mixtures or
 substances are of an aggregate weight of eight ounces or more; or
   2.  methadone  and  said  methadone weighs five thousand seven hundred
 sixty milligrams or more[.]; OR
   3. A STIMULANT AND SAID STIMULANT WEIGHS FIFTEEN GRAMS OR MORE.
   Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree is a
 class A-I felony.
   § 2. Section 220.43 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 785 of the
 laws of 1975, subdivisions 1 and 2 as amended by chapter 75 of the  laws
 of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
 § 220.43 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree.
   A  person  is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the
 first degree when [he] SUCH PERSON knowingly and unlawfully sells:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00635-01-5
 S. 221                              2

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