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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9316

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 29, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to directing the
          commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness  program  for
          students 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 and the  commis-
     5  sioner  of education, establish and develop a cannabis awareness program
     6  within the  department.  Such  program  shall  be  designed  to  educate
     7  students age eighteen and younger about the effects and risks associated
     8  with  cannabis  use,  including that it is illegal for persons under the
     9  age of twenty-one. Such program shall include, but not  be  limited  to,
    10  the  creation  of age-appropriate instructional tools and materials that
    11  may be used by all schools, and marketing and advertising  materials  to
    12  discourage underage cannabis use.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08945-01-3