Bill Sponsors: NY A08341 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly

Bill Title: Enacts the "marihuana regulation and taxation act"; relates to the description of marihuana, and the growing of and use of marihuana by persons eighteen years of age or older; makes technical changes regarding the definition of marihuana; relates to the qualification of certain offenses involving marihuana and exempts certain persons from prosecution for the use, consumption, display, production or distribution of marihuana; provides for the licensure of persons authorized to produce, process and sell marihuana; levies an excise tax on certain sales of marihuana; repeals certain provisions of the penal law relating to the criminal sale of marihuana and provisions of the general business law relating to drug paraphernalia.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to codes [A08341 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Sponsors

NameTypeSponsorshipDistrictFinancialEncyclopediaBiography
Assemblymember Crystal Peoples-Stokes [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-141FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-075FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Senator Luis Sepulveda [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsSD-032FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember David Weprin [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-024FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Donna Lupardo [D]CosponsorSponsored BillsHD-123FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember James Brennan [D]PrimarySponsored BillsSD-036FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart
Assemblymember Frank Skartados [D]PrimarySponsored BillsHD-104FollowTheMoneyBallotpediaVoteSmart

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