Bill Text: NY A10599 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits cannabis retail and on-site consumption licensees from operating such premises within one thousand feet of school grounds or a child day care center.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-20 - referred to economic development [A10599 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10599-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10599

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rajkumar) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development

        AN  ACT  to  amend the cannabis law, in relation to prohibiting cannabis
          retail and on-site consumption licensees from operating such  premises
          within one thousand feet of a school or a child day care center

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 72 of the cannabis law is  amended
     2  to read as follows:
     3    6.  No cannabis retail licensee shall locate a storefront within [five
     4  hundred] one thousand feet of [a] school grounds as such term is defined
     5  in the education law, or within one thousand feet of a  child  day  care
     6  center as defined in the social services law, or within two hundred feet
     7  of a house of worship.
     8    §  2.  Subdivision  4  of section 77 of the cannabis law is amended to
     9  read as follows:
    10    4. No applicant shall be  granted  an  adult-use  on-site  consumption
    11  license  for  any  premises  within  [five hundred] one thousand feet of
    12  school grounds as such term is defined in the education law,  or  within
    13  one  thousand  feet  of a child day care center as defined in the social
    14  services law, or within two hundred feet [from] of a house of worship.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15251-01-4
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