Bill Text: NY S07603 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7603 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the cannabis board's social and equity plan to promote diversity in commerce, ownership and employment, and opportunities for social and economic equity in the adult-use cannabis industry and to award fifty percent of adult-use cannabis licenses to social and economic equity applicants and ensure inclusion of lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-07 - REFERENCE CHANGED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S07603 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07603-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7603

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 15, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to ensure the inclusion of
          lesbian, gay, and bisexual  individuals  in  the  award  of  adult-use
          cannabis licenses

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 87 of the cannabis law is  amended
     2  to read as follows:
     3    2.  The  board's  social  and  economic equity plan shall also promote
     4  diversity in commerce, ownership and employment, and  opportunities  for
     5  social  and  economic  equity in the adult-use cannabis industry. A goal
     6  shall be established  to  award  fifty  percent  of  adult-use  cannabis
     7  licenses  to  social and economic equity applicants and ensure inclusion
     8  of:
     9    (a) individuals from communities disproportionately  impacted  by  the
    10  enforcement of cannabis prohibition;
    11    (b) minority-owned businesses;
    12    (c) women-owned businesses;
    13    (d)  minority  and women-owned businesses, as defined in paragraph (d)
    14  of subdivision five of this section;
    15    (e) distressed  farmers,  as  defined  in  subdivision  five  of  this
    16  section; [and]
    17    (f) service-disabled veterans; and
    18    (g) lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals.
    19    § 2. 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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