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Assembly Bill A9151

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to designating additional registered organizations to manufacture and dispense medical marihuana

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2015-A9151 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3365, Pub Health L

2015-A9151 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to designate additional registered organizations to manufacture and dispense medical marihuana.

2015-A9151 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9151

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to designating  addi-
  tional  registered  organizations  to manufacture and dispense medical
  marihuana

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 9 of section 3365 of the public health law, as
added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
  9. (A) The commissioner shall register no more  than  five  registered
organizations  that manufacture medical marihuana with no more than four
dispensing sites wholly owned and operated by such registered  organiza-
tion. The commissioner shall ensure that [such] registered organizations
and  dispensing  sites  are geographically distributed across the state.
The commission may register additional registered organizations.
  (B) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, BY JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  SEVENTEEN,
REGISTER AT LEAST FIVE ADDITIONAL REGISTERED ORGANIZATIONS THAT MANUFAC-
TURE  MEDICAL  MARIHUANA,  EACH  OF  WHICH MAY OPERATE NO MORE THAN FOUR
DISPENSING SITES. IN DETERMINING WHICH APPLICANTS TO SELECT  UNDER  THIS
PARAGRAPH:
  (I) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL SEEK TO PROVIDE DISPENSARIES IN UNDERSERVED
AREAS; AND
  (II) WHERE AN APPLICANT WAS AN APPLICANT IN THE COMMISSIONER'S INITIAL
SELECTION  PROCESS  UNDER PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE COMMIS-
SIONER SHALL CONSIDER THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE APPLICANT IN  THAT
INITIAL  PROCESS,  TO  THE  EXTENT  IT IS CURRENTLY APPLICABLE, AND GIVE
APPROPRIATE WEIGHT TO THE COMMISSIONER'S EVALUATION OF THE APPLICANT  IN
THAT INITIAL PROCESS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that the
amendments  to section 3365 of the public health law made by section one
of this act shall not affect the repeal of such  section  and  shall  be
deemed repealed therewith.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13377-01-5

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