Bill Text: NY S05981 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits all registered organizations, licensees, or permittees or other entities under the jurisdiction of the cannabis board from selling or delivering any edible cannabis products not in child resistant packaging.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05981 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05981-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5981

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 24, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend the cannabis law, in relation to requiring all edible
          cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging

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

     1    Section  1. Section 125 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 13 to read as follows:
     3    13. (a) No registered organization, licensee, or  permittee  or  other
     4  entity  under the jurisdiction of the board shall sell, or agree to sell
     5  or deliver in this state any edible cannabis  product  that  is  not  in
     6  child resistant packaging.
     7    (b)  For  the  purposes of this subdivision, "edible cannabis product"
     8  shall mean a "cannabis-infused product" as defined in subdivision ten of
     9  section three of this chapter that is intended for consumption.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    12  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    13  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    14  completed on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10467-01-3