STATE OF NEW YORK
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5439--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 6, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to designating Xyla-
zine as a schedule III depressant
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of schedule III of section 3306 of the
2 public health law is amended by adding a new paragraph 15 to read as
3 follows:
4 (15) Xylazine (N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-5,6-dihydro-4H-1,3 thiazin-2-
5 amine), including its salts, isomers and salts of isomers whenever the
6 existence of such salts, isomers and salts of isomers is possible within
7 the specific chemical designation.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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