SENATE BILL 255

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2026

INTRODUCED BY

Jay C. Block

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES; PROVIDING THAT A PERSON WHO TRAFFICKS FENTANYL RESULTING IN DEATH IS GUILTY OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND SHALL SERVE A MANDATORY THIRTY-YEAR SENTENCE.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. A new section of the Controlled Substances Act is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] TRAFFICKING OF FENTANYL RESULTING IN DEATH.--

          A. Trafficking of fentanyl resulting in death consists of the intentional and unlawful trafficking or distribution of any amount of fentanyl to another person that results in the death of that person by cause of injecting, inhaling, absorbing or ingesting the fentanyl. Whoever commits trafficking of fentanyl resulting in death is guilty of first degree murder and shall serve a mandatory thirty-year sentence.

          B. In any prosecution for trafficking of fentanyl

resulting in death, it is no defense that the deceased

purposefully, knowingly, recklessly or negligently injected,

inhaled, absorbed or ingested any amount of fentanyl."

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