STATE OF NEW YORK
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7985
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 18, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death, a class
A-1 felony
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 125.30 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 125.30 Criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death.
4 A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance result-
5 ing in death when he or she, in violation of article thirty-three of the
6 public health law, sells, exchanges, gives, disposes of or supplies to
7 the victim a controlled substance listed in schedule I, II, III, IV or V
8 of section thirty-three hundred six of the public health law and the use
9 of such controlled substance causes the death of the victim.
10 Criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death is a class
11 A-1 felony.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
14 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
15 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
16 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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