A 2021: Establishes the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death, a class A-1 felony.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2021 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SLATER, GALLAHAN, DURSO, E. BROWN, GANDOLFO, WALSH, DeSTEFANO, GRAY, MAHER, ANGELINO, BRABENEC, BLANKENBUSH, TAGUE, BENDETT, BEEPHAN, HAWLEY, K. BROWN, JENSEN, PIROZZOLO, SIMPSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death, a class A-1 felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 125.30 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 125.30 Criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death. 4 A person is guilty of criminal sale of a controlled substance result- 5 ing in death when such person, in violation of article thirty-three of 6 the public health law, sells, exchanges, gives, disposes of or supplies 7 to the victim a controlled substance listed in schedule I, II, III, IV 8 or V of section thirty-three hundred six of the public health law and 9 the use of such controlled substance causes the death of the victim. 10 Criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death is a class 11 A-1 felony. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 14 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 15 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 16 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05034-01-5