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- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 45–13
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.354
- Referred to codes
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 53–9
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- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.949
- Referred to codes
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Establishes the crime of homicide by sale of an opiate controlled substance
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Michael DenDekker
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4163
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to enacting "Laree's law"
Purpose
Establishes the crime of homicide by sale of an opiate controlled substance.
Summary of provisions
Section 1: This act shall be known and cited as "Laree's Law."
Section 2: Adds subdivision 21 to Section 220 00 of the penal law
Section 3: Adds section 125.24 to the penal law
Section 4: Establishes the effective date.
Justification
Heroin use is steadily on the rise. Its impact now reaches every aspect of our society regardless of income, education or genders. The increasing-availability of this drug combined with more powerful incarnations is creating an epidemic that is having a dramatic impact across the state and leading to the unfortunate deaths of too many New Yorkers. Currently, a person who provides an illicit drug that results in the death of a user can typically only be charged with criminal sale of a controlled-substance, allowing those involved in the illicit drug trade to escape prosecution for the deaths caused by their actions.
This law would hold drug dealers accountable for the true cost of their activities, significantly diminish the open availability of these dangerous drugs on our streets and give district attorneys the necessary tools to work up the criminal chain to the ultimate supplier because facing life imprisonment for any amount of drugs that results in death is a profound disincentive to sell drugs within the state of New York.
This law seeks to punish those individuals involved in the illegal drug trade and is not intended to punish those individuals who are merely co-users.. Therefore a co-user who shares the drugs with the victim still has an incentive to follow the current good Samaritan law and save the other person as he or she will be able to avoid prosecution for homicide by sale of an opiate controlled substance and instead admit to a lower felony because it still is a distribution.
Legislative history
2013/14- S.7657 - Passed Senate.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become law.
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