Bill Text: NY S04712 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to defining the term synthetic cannabinoid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04712 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04712-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4712
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 10, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law and the penal law, in relation  to
         synthetic cannabinoids
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 3302 of the public health law is amended by  adding
    2  two new subdivisions 44 and 45 to read as follows:
    3    44. "SYNTHETIC CANNABINOID" MEANS ANY CHEMICAL COMPOUND THAT IS CHEMI-
    4  CALLY SYNTHESIZED AND:
    5    (A)  HAS  BEEN  DEMONSTRATED TO HAVE A BINDING ACTIVITY AT ONE OR MORE
    6  CANNABINOID RECEPTORS; OR
    7    (B) IS A CHEMICAL ISOMER, SALT OR SALT OF AN ISOMER OF A COMPOUND THAT
    8  HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO HAVE BINDING ACTIVITY AT ONE OR  MORE  CANNABI-
    9  NOID RECEPTORS.
   10    "SYNTHETIC  CANNABINOID"  DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY PRODUCTS THAT HAVE BEEN
   11  APPROVED FOR MEDICAL USE BY THE UNITED STATES  FOOD  AND  DRUG  ADMINIS-
   12  TRATION.
   13    45. "SYNTHETIC CANNABINOID ANALOG" MEANS ANY CHEMICAL THAT IS SUBSTAN-
   14  TIALLY  SIMILAR  IN  CHEMICAL  STRUCTURE TO A CHEMICAL COMPOUND THAT HAS
   15  BEEN DETERMINED TO HAVE BINDING ACTIVITY  AT  ONE  OR  MORE  CANNABINOID
   16  RECEPTORS.  IT DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY PRODUCTS THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED FOR
   17  MEDICAL USE BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.
   18    S 2. Subdivision 6 of section 220.00 of the penal law, as  amended  by
   19  chapter 1051 of the laws of 1973, is amended to read as follows:
   20    6.   "Marihuana"  means  "marihuana"  [or],  "concentrated  cannabis",
   21  "SYNTHETIC CANNABINOID" OR "SYNTHETIC CANNABINOID ANALOG" as those terms
   22  are defined in section thirty-three hundred two  of  the  public  health
   23  law.
   24    S 3. 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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