STATE OF NEW YORK
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6140
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 17, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding substances
to the schedules of controlled substances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (b) of schedule I of section 3306 of the public
2 health law is amended by adding a new paragraph 58 to read as follows:
3 (58) Fentanyl-related substances, their isomers, esters, ethers, salts
4 and salts of isomers, esters and ethers. For the purposes of this para-
5 graph, fentanyl-related substance means any substance for which no
6 exemption or approval is in effect under section 505 of the Federal
7 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 355), that is structurally
8 related to fentanyl by one or more of the following modifications:
9 (A) Replacement of the phenyl portion of the phenethyl group by any
10 monocycle, whether or not further substituted in or on the monocycle;
11 (B) Substitution in or on the phenethyl group with alkyl, alkenyl,
12 alkoxyl, hydroxyl, halo, haloalkyl, amino or nitro groups;
13 (C) Substitution in or on the piperidine ring with alkyl, alkenyl,
14 alkoxyl, ester, ether, hydroxyl, halo, haloalkyl, amino or nitro groups;
15 (D) Replacement of the aniline ring with any aromatic monocycle wheth-
16 er or not further substituted in or on the aromatic monocyle; and/or
17 (E) Replacement of the N-propionyl group by another acyl group.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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