Bill Text: NY A08217 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Adds fentanyl-related substances to the controlled substances list.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A08217 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08217-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8217

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. RAYNOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding substances
          to the schedules of controlled substances

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (b) of schedule I of section 3306 of the public
     2  health law is amended by adding a new paragraph 58 to read as follows:
     3    (58) Fentanyl-related substances, their isomers, esters, ethers, salts
     4  and  salts of isomers, esters and ethers. For the purposes of this para-
     5  graph, fentanyl-related substance  means  any  substance  for  which  no
     6  exemption  or  approval  is  in  effect under section 505 of the Federal
     7  Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act  (21  U.S.C.  355),  that  is  structurally
     8  related to fentanyl by one or more of the following modifications:
     9    (A)  Replacement  of  the phenyl portion of the phenethyl group by any
    10  monocycle, whether or not further substituted in or on the monocycle;
    11    (B) Substitution in or on the phenethyl  group  with  alkyl,  alkenyl,
    12  alkoxyl, hydroxyl, halo, haloalkyl, amino or nitro groups;
    13    (C)  Substitution  in  or  on the piperidine ring with alkyl, alkenyl,
    14  alkoxyl, ester, ether, hydroxyl, halo, haloalkyl, amino or nitro groups;
    15    (D) Replacement of the aniline ring with any aromatic monocycle wheth-
    16  er or not further substituted in or on the aromatic monocyle; and/or
    17    (E) Replacement of the N-propionyl group by another acyl group.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11376-02-9
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