| Chapter 105 |
| 2018 -- H 7715 SUBSTITUTE A AS AMENDED Enacted 06/29/2018 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - HOMICIDE |
| Introduced By: Representatives Mattiello, Jacquard, Lima, Serpa, and Corvese |
| Date Introduced: February 28, 2018 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Kristen's Law." |
| SECTION 2. Section 11-23-6 of the General Laws in Chapter 11-23 entitled "Homicide" |
| is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 11-23-6. Controlled substance transaction resulting in death of minor. |
| Any person convicted of the sale who sells, delivery delivers, or distribution distributes |
| of a controlled substance, the sale of which would constitute a felony under chapter 28 of title 21, |
| to a minor, or of knowingly provides providing a controlled substance for sale, delivery, or |
| distribution to a minor, and death has resulted to the minor because of the ingestion orally, by or |
| the injection, or by inhalation of the controlled substance, shall be imprisoned for life. |
| SECTION 3. Chapter 11-23 of the General Laws entitled "Homicide" is hereby amended |
| by adding thereto the following section: |
| 11-23-7. Controlled substance delivery resulting in death. |
| (a) A person is guilty of a controlled substance delivery resulting in death when, as a |
| result of an unlawful delivery of a controlled substance in exchange for anything of value to an |
| adult, death results to that adult because of the ingestion orally, or the injection, or inhalation of |
| the controlled substance. |
| (b) A person is guilty of a controlled substance delivery resulting in death when, as a |
| result of an unlawful delivery of a controlled substance to another person who subsequently |
| delivers such controlled substance to an adult, death results to that adult because of the ingestion |
| orally, or the injection, or inhalation of the controlled substance. |
| (c) Those in violation of subsections subsection (a) or (b) of this section, upon |
| conviction, shall be imprisoned up to life. |
| (d) For the purposes of this section only, any person who, in good faith, without malice |
| and in the absence of evidence of an intent to defraud, seeks medical assistance for someone |
| experiencing a controlled substance overdose shall not be charged or prosecuted for a violation of |
| this section, if the evidence for the charge was gained as a result of the seeking of medical |
| assistance. |
| (e) The phrase "in exchange for anything of value" does not apply to the act of sharing a |
| controlled substance when said the sharing results in the proximate cause of a person's death |
| under this section. |
| SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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