Senate Amendment 5
S 1 - Session 125 (2023-2024)
Drug-induced homicide

Senator Garrett proposes the following amendment (SJ-1.BM0007S):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, SECTION 1, by striking Section 16-3-80 and inserting:

Section 16-3-80.(A) A person who unlawfully delivers, dispenses, or otherwise provides a controlled substance to another person, in violation of the provisions of Section 44-53-370 or Section 44-53-375, commits the felony offense of drug-induced homicide if the proximate cause of the death of any other person is the injection, inhalation, absorption, or ingestion of any amount of the controlled substance that was unlawfully delivered, dispensed, or otherwise provided.

(B) A person convicted of a drug-induced homicide pursuant to the provisions of this section must be imprisoned not more than thirty years.

(C) It is not a defense pursuant to this section that a decedent contributed to his own death by his purposeful, knowing, reckless, or negligent injection, inhalation, absorption, or ingestion of the controlled substance or by his consenting to the administration of the controlled substance by another person.

Amend the bill further, SECTION 2, by striking Section 16-1-10 and inserting:

Section 16-3-80. Drug-induced homicide