Assembly Bill A6593

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes conditional adult-use cultivator licensees to sell their own cannabis products and authorizes the office of cannabis management to create a program for licensees to process cannabis into distillate

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A6593 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6470
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §68-c, Cannabis L

2023-A6593 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes conditional adult-use cultivator licensees to sell their own cannabis products; authorizes the office of cannabis management to create a loan or grant program to help such adult-use cultivator licensees to process cannabis into distillate.

2023-A6593 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6593
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO, PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to authorizing conditional
   adult-use cultivator licensees to sell their own cannabis products and
   authorizing  the  office  of  cannabis  management to create a loan or
   grant program to help such adult-use cultivator licensees  to  process
   cannabis into distillate
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "cannabis
 crop rescue act".
   §  2. Legislative findings. Chapter 18 of the laws of 2022 created the
 conditional adult-use cultivator license. Due to a  variety  of  circum-
 stances  beyond  the control of New York's cannabis farmers, many licen-
 sees cannot afford to process their  cannabis  or  sell  their  finished
 products.  As a result, their 2022 crops are losing value while in stor-
 age due to diminished potency, color and aroma.  Without sales, many are
 unable to plant a crop for the  upcoming  growing  season,  and  are  in
 severe financial stress.
   §  3.  Section  68-c  of the cannabis law is amended by adding two new
 subdivisions 16 and 17 to read as follows:
   16. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS SECTION, A CONDITIONAL
 ADULT-USE CULTIVATOR LICENSEE SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO SELL THEIR  OWN  OR
 ANOTHER  CONDITIONAL  ADULT-USE  CULTIVATOR  LICENSEE  HOLDER'S CANNABIS
 PRODUCTS DIRECTLY TO CONSUMERS UNTIL NO LATER THAN SEPTEMBER  THIRTIETH,
 TWO  THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE. SUCH AUTHORITY SHALL ALLOW FOR ON-FARM SALES
 OF TESTED, PACKAGED AND SEALED PRODUCTS.   THE OFFICE IS  AUTHORIZED  TO
 ISSUE  EMERGENCY  REGULATIONS,  IF NECESSARY, TO IMPLEMENT THIS SUBDIVI-
 SION.
   17. THE OFFICE IS AUTHORIZED TO CREATE A LOAN OR GRANT PROGRAM FOR THE
 PURPOSE OF HAVING ANY  CANNABIS  GROWN  UNDER  A  CONDITIONAL  ADULT-USE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10606-05-3

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