Bill Text: NY A09316 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger designed to educate about the effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - reported referred to ways and means [A09316 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09316-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9316--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 29, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZINERMAN,  WOERNER, HEVESI, JACKSON, CONRAD,
          GLICK, JEAN-PIERRE, HYNDMAN, GIBBS, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --
          M.  of  A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
          tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to
          said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to directing the
          commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness  program  for
          youths age eighteen and younger

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

     1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 32 to read as follows:
     3    32. The commissioner shall, in consultation and collaboration with the
     4  executive director of the office of cannabis management,  establish  and
     5  develop a cannabis awareness program within the department. Such program
     6  shall  be  designed to educate youths age eighteen and younger about the
     7  effects and risks associated with cannabis use,  including  that  it  is
     8  illegal  for  persons  under  the  age of twenty-one. Such program shall
     9  include, but not be limited to, the creation of age-appropriate instruc-
    10  tional tools and materials and marketing and  advertising  materials  to
    11  discourage underage cannabis use.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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