Bill Text: NY S07249 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the use of medical marihuana for severe chronic pain not associated with another listed condition.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-03 - PRINT NUMBER 7249A [S07249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07249-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7249--A
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 11, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to conditions permit-
          ting the use of medical marihuana
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  7  of  section  3360  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as  added  by  chapter  90 of the laws of 2014, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) "Serious condition" means:
     5    (i) having one of the following severe debilitating or  life-threaten-
     6  ing conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
     7  or  acquired  immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
     8  Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of
     9  the spinal cord with objective neurological  indication  of  intractable
    10  spasticity,   epilepsy,   inflammatory   bowel   disease,  neuropathies,
    11  Huntington's disease, severe chronic pain (in  which  other  therapeutic
    12  interventions,  including  opiate therapy, are contraindicated, ineffec-
    13  tive, or likely to have more serious side effects), or as added  by  the
    14  commissioner; and
    15    (ii) any of the following conditions where it is clinically associated
    16  with,  or  a  complication  of,  a condition under this paragraph or its
    17  treatment: cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe or chronic pain;  severe
    18  nausea; seizures; severe or persistent muscle spasms; or such conditions
    19  as are added by the commissioner.
    20    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    21  ments to title 5-A of article 33  of  the  public  health  law  made  by
    22  section  one  of  this act shall not affect the expiration and repeal of
    23  such title and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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