S 7141: Amends the offense of murder in the second degree to include when a person knowingly distributes fentanyl or any substance containing fentanyl and as a result of such distribution causes the death of another person; establishes the crime of aggravated criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in serious physical injury.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7141 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE April 1, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CHAN -- 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 fentanyl The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Sasha's Law". 3 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 125.25 of the penal law, as amended by 4 chapter 23 of the laws of 2024, is amended and a new subdivision 6 is 5 added to read as follows: 6 5. Being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing 7 rape in the first, second or third degree, a crime formerly defined in 8 section 130.50, 130.45 or 130.40 of this title, the crime of sexual 9 abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first, second, 10 third or fourth degree, or incest in the first, second or third degree, 11 against a person less than fourteen years old, [he or she] they inten- 12 tionally [causes] cause the death of such person[.]; or 13 6. Knowingly, the defendant distributes fentanyl or any substance 14 containing fentanyl and causes the death of another person. 15 § 3. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.12-a to read 16 as follows: 17 § 120.12-a Aggravated criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting 18 in serious physical injury. 19 A person is guilty of aggravated criminal sale of a controlled 20 substance resulting in serious physical injury when such person knowing- 21 ly manufactures, sells, or distributes fentanyl or any substance 22 containing fentanyl, and as a result of such manufacture, sale or 23 distribution, causes the serious physical injury of another person. 24 Aggravated criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in seri- 25 ous physical injury is a class B felony. 26 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11423-02-5