Bill Text: NY S06039 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Criminalizes the sale of synthetic cannabinoids.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-08 - PRINT NUMBER 6039A [S06039 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06039-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         6039--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     August 26, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  KLEIN, VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee  on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the public health law and the penal law, in relation to
          synthetic cannabinoids and synthetic cathinones
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 3302 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 878 of the laws of 1972 and as  renumbered  by  chapter
     3  537 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
     4    4. "Concentrated Cannabis" means
     5    [(a)]  the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from a
     6  plant of the genus Cannabis[; or
     7    (b) a material, preparation,  mixture,  compound  or  other  substance
     8  which  contains  more than two and one-half percent by weight of delta-9
     9  tetrahydrocannabinol, or  its  isomer,  delta-8  dibenzopyran  numbering
    10  system, or delta-1 tetrahydrocannabinol or its isomer, delta 1 (6) mono-
    11  terpene numbering system].
    12    §  2.  Section  3302 of the public health law is amended by adding two
    13  new subdivisions 44 and 45 to read as follows:
    14    44. "Synthetic cannabinoid" means a substance or substances listed  in
    15  paragraph  thirty-six  of subdivision (d) of schedule I of section thir-
    16  ty-three hundred six of this title.
    17    45. "Synthetic cathinone" means a substance or  substances  listed  in
    18  paragraph  thirty-five of subdivision (f) of schedule I of section thir-
    19  ty-three hundred six of this title.
    20    § 3. Paragraph 21 of subdivision (d) of schedule I of section 3306  of
    21  the  public  health law, as added by chapter 664 of the laws of 1985, is
    22  amended and a new paragraph 36 is added to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11831-02-6
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