Bill Text: NY A10398 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the cannabis control board to issue a cannabis showcase event permit to certain licensees authorized to conduct retail sales of adult-use cannabis, cannabis products and cannabis merchandise.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - substituted by s9679a [A10398 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10398-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10398--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 21, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lupardo,
          Peoples-Stokes, Stirpe) -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
          Economic  Development  --  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to authorizing a  cannabis
          showcase event permit

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

     1    Section 1.  The cannabis law is amended by adding a new section  130-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 130-a. Cannabis showcase event permit. 1. When used in this section,
     4  "cannabis showcase event" shall mean an event where:
     5    a  licensee  authorized to conduct retail sales of adult-use cannabis,
     6  cannabis products, and cannabis merchandise  engages  in  the  sale  and
     7  showcase  of  such  products  away  from the licensed premises in demon-
     8  strated partnership with a licensed New York  state  adult-use  cannabis
     9  cultivator  or processor, at showcase events located at farmers' markets
    10  and public markets as defined in section two hundred sixty of the  agri-
    11  culture  and markets law or similar such locations, as authorized by the
    12  office.
    13    2. A licensee authorized under this chapter to conduct retail sales of
    14  adult-use cannabis may apply to the office for a cannabis showcase event
    15  permit and shall be required to demonstrate that they are in partnership
    16  with a licensed cultivator or processor.  An application for a  cannabis
    17  showcase  event permit shall identify licensees who are authorized under
    18  this chapter to showcase at such cannabis showcase event.
    19    3. A cannabis showcase event permit shall authorize: (a) the permitted
    20  licensee, authorized under this  chapter  to  conduct  retail  sales  of
    21  adult-use  cannabis,  adult-use cannabis products, and cannabis merchan-
    22  dise, and (b) the permitted licensee, authorized under this  chapter  to
    23  cultivate  and  process  adult-use cannabis, to showcase their adult-use
    24  cannabis  and cannabis products, for a temporary period of  time,  at  a
    25  cannabis showcase event.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15667-02-4
        A. 10398--A                         2

     1    4.  A  separate  cannabis  showcase event permit shall be required for
     2  each showcase event at which a cannabis showcase event is being held.
     3    5.  No  cannabis  showcase  event permit shall authorize more than one
     4  cannabis showcase event at one time. A licensee may participate in  more
     5  than one cannabis showcase event so long as each cannabis showcase event
     6  has a corresponding separate cannabis showcase event permit.
     7    6.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of this chapter, a cannabis
     8  showcase event permit shall be valid for no more than fourteen days.
     9    7. The board may set  reasonable  fees  for  cannabis  showcase  event
    10  permits.  Such  fees may be based on the type of cannabis showcase event
    11  permit sought, size, length,  duration,  or  any  other  factors  deemed
    12  reasonable  and  appropriate  by  the  board  to  achieve the policy and
    13  purpose of this chapter.
    14    8. Permitted licensees shall comply with all  reporting  requirements,
    15  including required sales reporting, and all other requirements set forth
    16  in  regulations, and any noncompliance by such permitted licensees shall
    17  subject such permitted licensees to applicable fees,  fines  and  penal-
    18  ties.
    19    9. The board shall promulgate regulations to implement this section.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.