Senate Bill S938

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Amends the definitions of concentrated cannabis and marihuana

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S938 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3302, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S8072

2019-S938 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the definitions of concentrated cannabis and marihuana.

2019-S938 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S938 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    938
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definitions of
   concentrated cannabis and marihuana
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  4 of section 3302 of the
 public health law, as added by chapter 878 of the laws of  1972  and  as
 renumbered  by  chapter  537  of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (a) the separated resin, whether crude or purified,  obtained  from  a
 plant  of  the  genus Cannabis, EXCEPT WHEN DERIVED FROM INDUSTRIAL HEMP
 PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-NINE OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW; or
   § 2. Subdivision 21 of section 3302 of the public health law, as added
 by chapter 878 of the laws of 1972 and as renumbered by chapter  537  of
 the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
   21.  "Marihuana"  means  all parts of the plant of the genus Cannabis,
 whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from  any
 part  of  the  plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,
 mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin.  It  does  not
 include:  (A)  the  mature  stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the
 stalks, oil or cake  made  from  the  seeds  of  the  plant,  any  other
 compound,  manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the
 mature stalks (except the resin extracted  therefrom),  fiber,  oil,  or
 cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is incapable of germina-
 tion;  OR  (B)  INDUSTRIAL  HEMP  PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-NINE OF THE
 AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03308-01-9

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