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Apr 28, 2014 |
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Senate Bill S7100
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 46th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
(D) Senate District
(D, WF) Senate District
(D, WF) 21st Senate District
2013-S7100 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Penal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §125.20, Pen L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2015-2016:
S1329
2017-2018: S2798
2019-2020: S780
2021-2022: S1469
2013-S7100 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S7100 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to deaths caused by the sale of opioids PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To deter the future sale of opioids by increasing the penalty for the sale of an opioid if the use of such opioid causes the death of the user. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 establishes the name "Laree's Law" for the legislation. Section 2 amends subdivision 4 to section 125.20 and adds a new subdivi- sion 5 to section 125.20 of the penal law to increase the penalty for the deliberate sale of an opioid that results in death to manslaughter in the first degree. Section 3 is the effective date of the bill. JUSTIFICATION: Heroin addiction has been an ongoing problem since the drug was first created over 100 years ago. During the 1960s and 1970s, heroin abuse in New York was viewed largely an urban problem, and was gradually, though not entirely, displaced as other drugs like cocaine, and particularly crack cocaine, became available in the 1980s. From the 1990s to the present these drugs were, in turn, largely
2013-S7100 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7100 I N S E N A T E April 28, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BRESLIN, DILAN, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER, PARKER, STAVISKY -- 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 deaths caused by the sale of opioids THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Laree's Law." S 2. Subdivision 4 of section 125.20 of the penal law, as added by chapter 477 of the laws of 1990, is amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows: 4. Being eighteen years old or more and with intent to cause physical injury to a person less than eleven years old, the defendant recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of serious physical injury to such person and thereby causes the death of such person[.]; OR 5. HE INTENTIONALLY AND UNLAWFULLY SELLS AN OPIOID ANALGESIC AND THE INGESTION OF SUCH OPIOID ANALGESIC CAUSES THE DEATH OF ANOTHER PERSON. S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14028-03-4
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