Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on March 17, 2017. The 2017 session has ended.
2017 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1039
AN ACT CONCERNING CRIMINAL LIABILITY IN THE CASE OF DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS, INCREASING THE PENALTY FOR THE POSSESSION OF A NARCOTIC AND CRIMINALIZING THE MISBRANDING OF SYNTHETIC DRUGS.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To establish the crime of manslaughter by causing a death of another person by drug overdose, make possession of a narcotic a class D felony, to criminalize the false labeling of synthetic drugs to include as illegally supplying a drug, a prescribed narcotic to a person for whom it is not prescribed and to require opiates be labeled to better warn of addictive qualities.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
March 16 to March 17, 2017, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateMar 16 to Mar 17 · stopped1 day
Judiciary CommitteeMar 16 to Mar 17 · stopped1 day
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Mar 16 – Mar 17
- Mar 16Introduced and sent to Judiciary Committee
- Mar 17Heard in Judiciary Committee
All 2 actions, as published
- Mar 16REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
- Mar 17PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses