HB 685 Virginia House of Delegates · 2024 Regular Session

Fentanyl; selling, giving, or distributing, penalties.

Summary
Selling, giving, or distributing fentanyl; penalties.Provides that any person who sells, gives, or distributes a substancehe knows or should know contains two milligrams or more of any mixtureor substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl, includingits isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, to anotherperson without such person's knowledge that the substance sold, given,or distributed contains fentanyl is guilty of attempted murder ofthe second degree. The bill also provides that if such sale, gift,or distribution results in the death of the other person from hisuse of the substance containing fentanyl, then the person who sold,gave, or distributed the substance is guilty of murder of the seconddegree. The bill also makes it a felony punishable by not less thanfive nor more than 40 years, three years of which are a mandatoryminimum, and a fine not to exceed $1 million for a person to transportinto the Commonwealth by any means with intent to sell or distribute 100 milligrams or more of fentanyl.
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Jan 2024
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Introduced Jan 9, 2024 Last action Feb 13, 2024
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Jay Leftwich
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