Title: Establishes Penalties for Fentanyl-Related Offenses
Vote to pass a bill that establishes criminal penalties for fentanyl-related offenses in the state of New Hampshire.
Establishes a maximum term of imprisonment of 30 years, a fine of not more than $500,000 or both, if a person commits the following offenses (Sec. 1):
Possesses 5 ounces or more of a mixture containing adulterants or dilutants:
Coca leaves with cocaine, ecgonine, and derivatives of ecgonine of their salts;
Cocaine other than crack cocaine, its salts, optical and geometric isomers, and salt isomers; or
Ecogine, its derivative, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers.
Prohibits the possession of lysergic acid diethylamide in a quality of 100 milligrams or more (Sec. 1).
Establishes the aforementioned imprisonment for the possession of heroes or its analog, crack cocaine, or fentanyl class drug in a quantity of 5 grams of more (Sec. 1).
Specifies the possession of fentanyl class drug in a quantity of 5 grams or more as a minimum term of imprisonment of not less than three years and six months incarceration (Sec. 1).
Expands the imprisonment of possession of fentanyl to be not less than seven years if found with 28 grams or more of fentanyl (Sec. 1).
Establishes that if the offender was less than 18 years of age at the time of the commission for the offense the following shall be considered (Sec. 2):
The offender’s mental capacity; or
If the offender was an accomplice.
Establishes the effective date as January 1, 2025 (Sec. 2).
Title: Establishes Penalties for Fentanyl-Related Offenses