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ACT No. 199
2018 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 186
BY REPRESENTATIVES MARINO AND BACALA
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 40:979, relative to the attempt or conspiracy to commit
3 violations of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law; to provide relative
4 to the penalties imposed for the attempt or conspiracy to distribute or possess with
5 intent to distribute certain Schedule I controlled dangerous substances; and to
6 provide for related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 40:979 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง979. Attempt and conspiracy
10 A. Except as otherwise provided herein, any Any person who attempts or
11 conspires to commit any offense denounced and/or made unlawful by set forth in the
12 provisions of this Part shall, upon conviction, be fined or imprisoned in the same
13 manner as for the offense planned or attempted, but such fine or imprisonment shall
14 not exceed one-half of the longest term of imprisonment prescribed for the offense,
15 the commission of which was the object of the attempt or conspiracy.
16 B. Any person who attempts or conspires to distribute or possess with intent
17 to distribute any substance classified in Schedule I, as provided for in R.S. 40:963
18 and R.S. 40:964, which is a narcotic drug (all substances in Schedule I preceded by
19 an asterisk "*") shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than
20 eight nor more than fifty years without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of
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1 sentence and may, in addition, be required to pay a fine of not more than ten
2 thousand dollars.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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