Bill Text: NY A06593 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6593 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 20, 2023 ___________ 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. LBD10606-05-3A. 6593 2 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.