Bill Text: NY A10195 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the definitions of industrial hemp, concentrated cannabis, and marihuana.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-21 - amend by restoring to original print 10195 [A10195 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10195-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10195--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 22, 2018
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        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Agriculture  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definitions of
          concentrated cannabis and marihuana
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  4 of section 3302 of the
     2  public health law, as added by chapter 878 of the laws of  1972  and  as
     3  renumbered  by  chapter  537  of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    (a) the separated resin, whether crude or purified,  obtained  from  a
     6  plant  of the genus Cannabis with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concen-
     7  tration greater than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis; or
     8    § 2. Subdivision 21 of section 3302 of the public health law, as added
     9  by chapter 878 of the laws of 1972 and as renumbered by chapter  537  of
    10  the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
    11    21.  "Marihuana"  means  all parts of the plant of the genus Cannabis,
    12  whether growing or not,  with  a  delta-9  tetrahydrocannabinol  concen-
    13  tration greater than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis; the seeds there-
    14  of;  the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound,
    15  manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its
    16  seeds or resin. It does not include: (a) the mature stalks of the plant,
    17  fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds  of  the
    18  plant,  any  other  compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or
    19  preparation of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom),
    20  fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is  inca-
    21  pable  of germination; or (b) industrial hemp as defined in section five
    22  hundred five of the agriculture and markets law.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15219-02-8