Bill Text: NY A04896 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Implements licensure and eligibility limitations for the cannabis control board's social and economic equity plan regarding persons convicted of certain felonies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A04896 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04896-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4896

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to implementing  licensure
          and  eligibility  limitations  for the cannabis control board's social
          and economic equity plan

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 87 of the canna-
     2  bis law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (c) was convicted of a marihuana-related offense prior to  the  effec-
     4  tive  date of this chapter, or had a parent, guardian, child, spouse, or
     5  dependent, or was a dependent of an individual who, prior to the  effec-
     6  tive date of this chapter, was convicted of a marihuana-related offense;
     7  provided,  however,  an  individual  convicted of an offense or offenses
     8  relating to any illegal substance or substances other than marihuana-re-
     9  lated offenses shall be deemed ineligible for consideration for  licens-
    10  ing under the social and economic equity plan.
    11    §  2. Section 65 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new subdi-
    12  vision 6 to read as follows:
    13    6. A licensee convicted of a felony pursuant to  article  two  hundred
    14  twenty  or  two  hundred  twenty-two  of  the  penal  law shall have all
    15  licenses granted under this chapter immediately revoked.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05159-01-3