 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  BOYLE,  AKSHAR,  FUNKE,  HELMING, JACOBS, O'MARA,
          RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE -- read  twice  and  ordered  printed,  and  when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law,  in  relation to criminal sale of a
          controlled substance

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  220.41  of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 75 of the laws of 1995, is amended and a new subdivi-
     3  sion 8 is added to read as follows:
     4    7.  methadone and the methadone weighs three hundred sixty  milligrams
     5  or more[.]; or
     6    8.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
     7  containing carfentanil and said  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or
     8  substances are an aggregate weight of two milligrams or more.
     9    §  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 220.43 of the penal law, as amended by
    10  chapter 75 of the laws of 1995, is amended and a new  subdivision  3  is
    11  added to read as follows:
    12    2.    methadone  and  the  methadone weighs two thousand eight hundred
    13  eighty milligrams or more[.]; or
    14    3.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
    15  containing  carfentanil  and  said  preparations, compounds, mixtures or
    16  substances are an aggregate weight of ten milligrams or more.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04378-01-9
Relates to criminal sale of a controlled substance

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