Bill Text: NY A06709 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the criminal sale of a controlled substance to a person less than fourteen years of age.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A06709 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06709-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6709

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the  criminal  sale  of  a
          controlled substance to a person less than fourteen years of age

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 220.48 of the penal law, as added by section 28  of
     2  part  AAA  of  chapter  56  of  the  laws of 2009, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4  § 220.48 Criminal sale of a controlled  substance  to  a  child  in  the
     5             second degree.
     6    A  person  is  guilty  of criminal sale of a controlled substance to a
     7  child in the second degree when, being over twenty-one years old, he  or
     8  she  knowingly  and unlawfully sells a controlled substance in violation
     9  of section 220.34 or 220.39 of this article to a person less than seven-
    10  teen years old.
    11    Criminal sale of a controlled substance  to  a  child  in  the  second
    12  degree is a class B felony.
    13    §  2.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 220.49 to read
    14  as follows:
    15  § 220.49 Criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child in the first
    16             degree.
    17    A person is guilty of criminal sale of a  controlled  substance  to  a
    18  child in the first degree when, being over eighteen years old, he or she
    19  knowingly  and  unlawfully  sells a controlled substance in violation of
    20  section 220.34 or 220.39 of this article to a person less than  fourteen
    21  years old.
    22    Criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child in the first degree
    23  is a class A-II felony.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    25  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09158-01-3