Legislative Session Enacts the “marihuana regulation and taxation act”; repealer
The bill in full (116pp)
- Current Committee: Senate Finance
- Law Section: Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:Amd Various Laws, generally
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
- 2013-2014: S6005
2015-2016: S1747
2017-2018: S3040
2019-2020: S1527
S854 (ACTIVE) – SUMMARY
Enacts the “marihuana regulation and taxation act”; relates to the description of cannabis, and the growing of and use of cannabis by persons twenty-one years of age or older; makes technical changes regarding the definition of cannabis; relates to removing certain references to marijuana relating to forfeiture actions(view more)
S854 (ACTIVE) – SPONSOR MEMO
BILL NUMBER: S854 SPONSOR: KRUEGER TITLE OF BILL: An act in relation to constituting chapter 7-A of the consolidated laws, in relation to the creation of a new office of cannabis management, as an independent entity within the division of alcoholic beverage control, providing for the licensure of persons authorized to cultivate, process, distribute and sell cannabis and the use of cannabis by persons aged twenty-one or older; to amend the public health law, in relation to the description of cannabis; to amend the penal law, in relation to the growing and use of cannabis by persons twenty-one years of age or older; to amend the tax law, in relation to providing for the levying of taxes on cannabis; to amend the criminal procedure law, the civil practice law and rules, the general business law, the state finance law, the execu- tive law, the penal law, the alcoholic beverage control law, the general obligations law, the social services law, the agriculture and markets law and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to making conforming changes; to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition of smoking; to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the New York state cannabis revenue fund, the New York state drug treat- ment and public education fund and the New York state community grants