Amends existing law to revise penalties for trafficking in heroin and to provide penalties for trafficking in fentanyl.

This legislation increases the minimum quantities established for heroin in our drug trafficking statute. These changes will help provide that the trafficking statutes are applied to those participating in drug distribution and sales instead of those engaging solely in personal use. The sentencing time frames for heroin are being reduced to more closely correspond to other controlled substances in the statute. Fentanyl and its derivatives are described as being 100 to 1000 times more potent and dangerous than heroin. It is being added with the specified quantities and sentencing timeframes matching those established for heroin.