Includes exposing another person to fentanyl, a fentanyl derivative or an opiate containing fentanyl or a fentanyl derivative in the definition of the offense of assault in the first degree.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8060
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 27, 2023
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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 including exposing another
person to fentanyl, fentanyl derivatives or opiates containing fenta-
nyl or fentanyl derivatives in the definition of the offense of
assault in the first degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 120.10 of the penal law, subdivision 4 as amended
2 by chapter 791 of the laws of 1967 and the closing paragraph as amended
3 by chapter 646 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
4 § 120.10 Assault in the first degree.
5 A person is guilty of assault in the first degree when:
6 1. With intent to cause serious physical injury to another person, he
7 or she causes such injury to such person or to a third person by means
8 of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument; or
9 2. With intent to disfigure another person seriously and permanently,
10 or to destroy, amputate or disable permanently a member or organ of his
11 or her body, he or she causes such injury to such person or to a third
12 person; or
13 3. Under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to human life,
14 he or she recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of
15 death to another person, and thereby causes serious physical injury to
16 another person; or
17 4. In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted
18 commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he or she, or
19 another participant if there be any, causes serious physical injury to a
20 person other than one of the participants; or
21 5. With intent to cause serious physical injury to another person, he
22 or she causes such injury to such person by exposing such person to
23 fentanyl, a fentanyl derivative or an opiate containing fentanyl or a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 fentanyl derivative by any means, including, but not limited to, throw-
2 ing or tossing at or injecting such person with any such substance.
3 Assault in the first degree is a class B felony.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
5 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law and shall apply to
6 offenses committed on or after such effective date. Effective immediate-
7 ly the addition, amendment or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
8 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
9 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
