Virginia House Bill 674

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Selling, giving, or distributing a substance containing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, to another person without such person's knowledge that the substance sold, given, or distributed contains fentanyl is guilty of attempted murder of the first degree by poison. The bill also provides that if such sale, gift, or distribution results in the death of the other person from his use of the substance containing fentanyl, then the person who sold, gave, or distributed the substance is guilty of murder of the first degree by poison.

Fentanyl; selling, giving, or distributing a substance that contains two mgs. or more, etc.

Del. Chris Obenshain [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2024-01-09	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2024-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103179D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	248.05	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB674
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB674+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB674F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB674F122+PDF