Bill Text: NY S00221 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that possession or sale of a stimulant weighing 15 grams or more shall be punishable as a class A-I felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00221 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00221-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           221

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sens. PALUMBO, MATTERA -- 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  possession  and
          sale of stimulants weighing fifteen grams or more

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

     1    Section 1. Section 220.21 of the penal law, as amended by  chapter  75
     2  of  the laws of 1995, the opening paragraph and subdivision 1 as amended
     3  by chapter 738 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
     4  § 220.21 Criminal possession of a  controlled  substance  in  the  first
     5             degree.
     6    A person is guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in
     7  the  first  degree when [he or she] such person knowingly and unlawfully
     8  possesses:
     9    1.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
    10  containing a narcotic drug and said preparations, compounds, mixtures or
    11  substances are of an aggregate weight of eight ounces or more; or
    12    2.  methadone  and  said  methadone weighs five thousand seven hundred
    13  sixty milligrams or more[.]; or
    14    3. a stimulant and said stimulant weighs fifteen grams or more.
    15    Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree is a
    16  class A-I felony.
    17    § 2. Section 220.43 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 785 of the
    18  laws of 1975, subdivisions 1 and 2 as amended by chapter 75 of the  laws
    19  of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
    20  § 220.43 Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree.
    21    A  person  is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the
    22  first degree when [he] such person knowingly and unlawfully sells:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00635-01-5
        S. 221                              2

     1    1.  one  or  more  preparations,  compounds,  mixtures  or  substances
     2  containing  a narcotic drug and the preparations, compounds, mixtures or
     3  substances are of an aggregate weight of two ounces or more; or
     4    2.  methadone  and  the  methadone  weighs  two thousand eight hundred
     5  eighty milligrams or more[.]; or
     6    3. a stimulant and the stimulant weighs fifteen grams or more.
     7    Criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree is a class
     8  A-I felony.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.