Mandatory minimums for fentanyl trafficking become law
COEUR d’ALENE — Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill Monday creating mandatory prison sentences for fentanyl trafficking.
The House and Senate both passed House Bill 406, which takes effect July 1, by large margins. Lawmakers faced pressure to support the bill from a “heavily funded” political action committee, according to reporting by BoiseDev, as well as from law enforcement groups.
Under the new law, people convicted of possession between four and 14 grams of fentanyl or “any mixture or substance containing a detectable amount” of fentanyl will face a mandatory minimum sentence of three years in prison and a $10,000 fine. If the fentanyl is in pill form, it would take between 100 and 249 pills to receive that sentence.
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