House Bill 99 Summary

• Establishes mandatory minimum sentences for trafficking in marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, amphetamine, heroin, and immediate precursors, with sentences ranging from 1 year to life imprisonment depending on quantity and substance type.

• Allows courts to deviate from mandatory minimum sentences only if the court finds that imposing the minimum sentence would result in manifest injustice and that the minimum sentence is not necessary for public protection.

• Doubles the mandatory minimum sentence for any person convicted of a second trafficking offense.

• Makes the weight of controlled substance as represented by the seller determinative if that representation is greater than the actual weight seized.

• Eliminates suspension, deferment, or withholding of adjudication or sentence, and denies parole eligibility prior to serving the full mandatory minimum fixed term of imprisonment.