STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 300 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MURPHY, AKSHAR, AMEDORE, O'MARA, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to designating Xyla- zine as a schedule III depressant The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of schedule III of section 3306 of the 2 public health law is amended by adding a new paragraph 15 to read as 3 follows: 4 (15) Xylazine (N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-5,6-dihydro-4H-1,3 thiazin-2- 5 amine). 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 7 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02324-01-7