STATE OF NEW YORK
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6039--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
August 26, 2015
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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.
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