STATE OF NEW YORK
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2331
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, BRISPORT, COMRIE, COONEY, GONZALEZ,
GOUNARDES, HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, MYRIE, RAMOS, SALAZAR --
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 decriminalizing the
possession of buprenorphine
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 8 of section 220.00 of the penal law,
2 subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 92 of the laws of 2021 and subdivi-
3 sion 8 as amended by section 18 of part C of chapter 447 of the laws of
4 2012, are amended to read as follows:
5 5. "Controlled substance" means any substance listed in schedule I,
6 II, III, IV or V of section thirty-three hundred six of the public
7 health law other than buprenorphine.
8 8. "Narcotic preparation" means any controlled substance listed in
9 schedule II(b-1), III(d) or III(e), other than buprenorphine.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
11 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.
LBD04454-01-5
