Bill Text: NY A08472 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8472

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits adult-use dispensing facilities and tobacco businesses from opening until one hour after the latest beginning of a school day of any school located within one mile of the facility or business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to economic development [A08472 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08472-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8472

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 29, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the cannabis law and the public health law, in  relation
          to limiting the hours of certain businesses located near schools

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section 85 of the cannabis law is  renum-
     2  bered  subdivision  13  and  a  new  subdivision  12 is added to read as
     3  follows:
     4    12. No adult-use dispensing facility shall open until one  hour  after
     5  the  latest  beginning  of a school day of any school located within one
     6  mile of such adult-use dispensing facility; provided, however, that  the
     7  provisions  of  this  subdivision  shall  only  apply on those days such
     8  school is operational. The provisions of this subdivision shall  not  be
     9  construed to permit operation of an adult-use dispensing facility during
    10  hours  which are prohibited by any general, special or local law or rule
    11  or regulation.
    12    § 2. The public  health  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new  section
    13  1399-cc-1 to read as follows:
    14    §  1399-cc-1. Tobacco business hours of operation. No tobacco business
    15  shall open until one hour after the latest beginning of a school day  of
    16  any  school  located within one mile of such tobacco business; provided,
    17  however, that the provisions of this section shall only apply  on  those
    18  days  such  school  is operational. The provisions of this section shall
    19  not be construed to permit operation of a tobacco business during  hours
    20  which  are  prohibited  by  any general, special or local law or rule or
    21  regulation.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    23  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13534-01-3