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- Referred to health
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.50
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Print number 1640a
- Amend (t) and recommit to health
- Referred to health
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to health
- Delivered to assembly
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- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.818
- Referred to health
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Includes within the schedules of controlled substances, any substances designated as controlled substances pursuant to the federal Analog Act and Controlled Substances Act
In Assembly Committee · Health · Sponsor Michael Cusick
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to including substances designated pursuant to the federal Analog Act and Controlled Substances Act within the definition of controlled substances
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill will give state drug and law enforcement agencies and individuals the another tool to combat the quickly moving world of designer drugs. The Federal Analog Act (21 use § 813) allows scheduling and enforcement against drugs which are substantially structurally similar to those in schedule I or II. This bill will incorporate substances scheduled under this act into New York State Public Health Law.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 amends Public Health Law Section 3306 to incorporate the Federal Analog Act into New York State's Drug Scheduling provisions.
Justification
Currently under New York State Law, only a narrow selection of scheduled substances have analog protection. That is, manufacturers often only need to chemically "tweak" a drug to avoid scheduling. This creates a game of cat and mouse, with legislation and enforcement far slower to act than the manufacturers of designer drugs. On the federal level, the Drug Enforcement Agency is able to act on new, individual substances on a case-by-case basis through the use of the Federal Analog Act which schedules burgeoning substances "substantially similar to the chemical structure of a controlled substance in schedule or II." This legislation incorporates this act into Public Health Law 3306 to give state enforcement another tool.
Prior legislative history
2014 - S. 2447 - Passed Senate 2012 - S. 7102 Reported to Senate Calendar.
Fiscal implications
None to the State.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the 180th day after it shall have become law.
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