Bill Text: NY A06593 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes conditional adult-use cultivator licensees to sell their own cannabis products; authorizes the office of cannabis management to create a loan or grant program to help such adult-use cultivator licensees to process cannabis into distillate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to economic development [A06593 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06593-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6593

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 20, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO, PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to authorizing conditional
          adult-use cultivator licensees to sell their own cannabis products and
          authorizing  the  office  of  cannabis  management to create a loan or
          grant program to help such adult-use cultivator licensees  to  process
          cannabis into distillate

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "cannabis
     2  crop rescue act".
     3    §  2. Legislative findings. Chapter 18 of the laws of 2022 created the
     4  conditional adult-use cultivator license. Due to a  variety  of  circum-
     5  stances  beyond  the control of New York's cannabis farmers, many licen-
     6  sees cannot afford to process their  cannabis  or  sell  their  finished
     7  products.  As a result, their 2022 crops are losing value while in stor-
     8  age due to diminished potency, color and aroma.  Without sales, many are
     9  unable to plant a crop for the  upcoming  growing  season,  and  are  in
    10  severe financial stress.
    11    §  3.  Section  68-c  of the cannabis law is amended by adding two new
    12  subdivisions 16 and 17 to read as follows:
    13    16. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a conditional
    14  adult-use cultivator licensee shall be authorized to sell their  own  or
    15  another  conditional  adult-use  cultivator  licensee  holder's cannabis
    16  products directly to consumers until no later than September  thirtieth,
    17  two  thousand twenty-three. Such authority shall allow for on-farm sales
    18  of tested, packaged and sealed products.   The office is  authorized  to
    19  issue  emergency  regulations,  if necessary, to implement this subdivi-
    20  sion.
    21    17. The office is authorized to create a loan or grant program for the
    22  purpose of having any  cannabis  grown  under  a  conditional  adult-use

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10606-05-3
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     1  cultivator  license  prior  to September thirtieth, two thousand twenty-
     2  three processed into distillate.  The  end-product  of  such  processing
     3  shall be returned to the licensee for future use.
     4    § 4. A conditional adult-use cultivator licensee may select to operate
     5  under  subdivisions  16 and 17 of section 68-c of the cannabis law until
     6  September 30, 2023.
     7    § 5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however,  that
     8  the amendments to section 68-c of the cannabis law made by section three
     9  of  this  act  shall  not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
    10  deemed repealed therewith.