New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico Senate Bill SB95 Compare Versions

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28	28	SENATE BILL 95
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46	46	INTRODUCED BY
47	47	Crystal Brantley
48	48	AN ACT
49	49	RELATING TO CRIME; MAKING THE DISTRIBUTION OF FENTANYL
50	50	RESULTING IN DEATH A CAPITAL FELONY; PRESCRIBING A PENALTY.
51	51	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
52	52	SECTION 1. A new section of the Controlled Substances Act
53	53	is enacted to read:
54	54	"[NEW MATERIAL] DISTRIBUTION OF FENTANYL RESULTING IN
55	55	DEATH.--
56	56	A. Distribution of fentanyl resulting in death is
57	57	the intentional and unlawful distribution of any amount of
58	58	fentanyl or a fentanyl-related substance to another person that
59	59	results in the death of that person by cause of injecting,
60	60	inhaling, absorbing or ingesting the fentanyl or fentanyl-
61	61	related substance. Whoever commits distribution of fentanyl
62	62	resulting in death is guilty of a capital felony and shall be
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90	90	sentenced pursuant to the provisions of Section 31-18-14 NMSA
91	91	1978.
92	92	B. In any prosecution for distribution of fentanyl
93	93	resulting in death, it is no defense that the deceased
94	94	purposefully, knowingly, recklessly or negligently injected,
95	95	inhaled, absorbed or ingested any amount of fentanyl or
96	96	fentanyl-related substance.
97	97	C. For the purposes of this section, "fentanyl-
98	98	related substance" means any substance not otherwise assigned a
99	99	number pursuant to the federal Controlled Substances Act and
100	100	for which no exemption or approval is in effect under Section
101	101	505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that is
102	102	structurally related to fentanyl by one or more of the
103	103	following modifications:
104	104	(1) replacement of the phenyl portion of the
105	105	phenethyl group by any monocycle, whether or not further
106	106	substituted in or on the monocycle;
107	107	(2) substitution in or on the phenethyl group
108	108	with alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxyl, hydroxyl, halo, haloalkyl, amino
109	109	or nitro groups;
110	110	(3) substitution in or on the piperidine ring
111	111	with alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxyl, ester, ether, hydroxyl, halo,
112	112	haloalkyl, amino or nitro groups;
113	113	(4) replacement of the aniline ring with any
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143	143	the aromatic monocycle; or
144	144	(5) replacement of the N-propionyl group by
145	145	another acyl group."
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