Bill Text: NY A05189 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes a crime for the possession of synthetic marihuana in correctional facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A05189 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05189-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5189 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, MORINELLO, REILLY, MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the possession of synthet- ic marihuana in a prison 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 220.04 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 220.04 Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the sixth 4 degree. 5 A person is guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in 6 the sixth degree when he or she possesses any amount of a tetrahydrocan- 7 nabinol, as such term is defined in paragraph twenty-one of subdivision 8 (d) of schedule I of section thirty-three hundred six of the public 9 health law, while such person is employed at, visiting, or incarcerated 10 in, any state or local correctional facility. 11 Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the sixth degree is a 12 class E felony. 13 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 60.14 to read as 14 follows: 15 § 60.14 Authorized disposition; Criminal possession of a controlled 16 substance in the sixth degree. 17 When a court finds that a defendant is guilty of criminal possession 18 of a controlled substance in the sixth degree as defined in section 19 220.04 of this chapter while such person is incarcerated in a state or 20 local correctional facility, the court must impose a minimum sentence of 21 at least one year to run consecutively with the defendant's current 22 sentence. 23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 24 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02396-01-9