Bill Text: NY S00773 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the director of the division of minority and women's business development shall establish a procedure enabling the office to grant temporary certification to minority and women-owned business enterprise applicants which attest in the certification application that the business enterprise is intending to participate in the medical cannabis or adult-use cannabis industries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTS [S00773 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00773-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           773

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  minority  and  women-
          owned  business  enterprise  applicants  for  the  medical cannabis or
          adult-use cannabis industries

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.    Section 314 of the executive is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 2-d to read as follows:
     3    2-d. The director shall establish a procedure enabling the  office  to
     4  grant  temporary  certification  to  minority  and  women-owned business
     5  enterprise applicants which attest in the certification application that
     6  the business enterprise is  intending  to  participate  in  the  medical
     7  cannabis  or  adult-use cannabis industries pursuant to articles two and
     8  three of the cannabis law, respectively.   Such temporary  certification
     9  shall  be  granted  within sixty days of submission of such application,
    10  and shall be in effect until the office  approves,  denies,  or  revokes
    11  such  certification  or  any  subsequent certification.   Such temporary
    12  certification shall be governed by all the rules and regulations  appli-
    13  cable pursuant to this article.
    14    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    15  the amendments to section 314 of the executive law made by  section  one
    16  of  this  act  shall  not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
    17  deemed to be repealed therewith.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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