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2023 SESSION
HB 1455 Fentanyl; selling, giving, or distributing a substance that contains 2 mgms. or more, penalties.
Introduced by: Timothy Anderson-Resigned 4/3 | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Selling, giving, or distributing a substance containing fentanyl; penalties. Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substance he knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, to another person without such person's knowledge that the substance sold, given, or distributed contains fentanyl is guilty of attempted murder of the first degree by poison. The bill also provides that if such sale, gift, or distribution results in the death of the other person from his use of the substance containing fentanyl, then the person who sold, gave, or distributed the substance is guilty of murder of the first degree by poison.
FULL TEXT
- 12/21/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103550D pdf | impact statements
- 02/03/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23106356D-H1 pdf | impact statements
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 12/21/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103550D
- 12/21/22 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/03/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 02/03/23 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (15-Y 5-N)
- 02/03/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23106356D-H1
- 02/05/23 House: Read first time
- 02/06/23 House: Read second time
- 02/06/23 House: Committee substitute agreed to 23106356D-H1
- 02/06/23 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1455H1
- 02/07/23 House: Read third time and passed House (70-Y 29-N)
- 02/07/23 House: VOTE: Passage (70-Y 29-N)
- 02/08/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/08/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 02/15/23 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Judiciary with letter (8-Y 7-N)