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Assembly Bill A9316B

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger

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2023-A9316 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4268
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §206, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A4974, S5755

2023-A9316 - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger designed to educate about the effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one.

2023-A9316 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9316
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 29, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to directing the
   commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness  program  for
   students age eighteen and younger
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 32 to read as follows:
   32. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, IN CONSULTATION AND COLLABORATION WITH THE
 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CANNABIS MANAGEMENT AND THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER  OF EDUCATION, ESTABLISH AND DEVELOP A CANNABIS AWARENESS PROGRAM
 WITHIN THE  DEPARTMENT.  SUCH  PROGRAM  SHALL  BE  DESIGNED  TO  EDUCATE
 STUDENTS AGE EIGHTEEN AND YOUNGER ABOUT THE EFFECTS AND RISKS ASSOCIATED
 WITH  CANNABIS  USE,  INCLUDING THAT IT IS ILLEGAL FOR PERSONS UNDER THE
 AGE OF TWENTY-ONE. SUCH PROGRAM SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,
 THE  CREATION  OF AGE-APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS AND MATERIALS THAT
 MAY BE USED BY ALL SCHOOLS, AND MARKETING AND ADVERTISING  MATERIALS  TO
 DISCOURAGE UNDERAGE CANNABIS USE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08945-01-3

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2023-A9316A - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4268
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §206, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A4974, S5755

2023-A9316A - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger designed to educate about the effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one.

2023-A9316A - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9316--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 29, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ZINERMAN, WOERNER -- read once and referred 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  directing  the
   commissioner  of  health to establish a cannabis awareness program for
   youths age eighteen and younger

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 32 to read as follows:
   32. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, IN CONSULTATION AND COLLABORATION WITH THE
 EXECUTIVE  DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CANNABIS MANAGEMENT AND THE COMMIS-
 SIONER OF EDUCATION, ESTABLISH AND DEVELOP A CANNABIS AWARENESS  PROGRAM
 WITHIN  THE DEPARTMENT. SUCH PROGRAM SHALL BE DESIGNED TO EDUCATE YOUTHS
 AGE EIGHTEEN AND YOUNGER ABOUT THE EFFECTS  AND  RISKS  ASSOCIATED  WITH
 CANNABIS  USE, INCLUDING THAT IT IS ILLEGAL FOR PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF
 TWENTY-ONE. SUCH PROGRAM SHALL INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,  THE
 CREATION  OF  AGE-APPROPRIATE INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS AND MATERIALS THAT MAY
 BE USED BY ALL SCHOOLS,  AND  MARKETING  AND  ADVERTISING  MATERIALS  TO
 DISCOURAGE UNDERAGE CANNABIS USE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08945-03-4

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2023-A9316B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4268
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §206, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A4974, S5755

2023-A9316B (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger designed to educate about the effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one.

2023-A9316B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9316--B
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 29, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZINERMAN,  WOERNER, HEVESI, JACKSON, CONRAD,
   GLICK, JEAN-PIERRE, HYNDMAN, GIBBS, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --
   M.  of  A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
   -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
   and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
   tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to
   said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to directing the
   commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness  program  for
   youths age eighteen and younger
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 32 to read as follows:
   32. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, IN CONSULTATION AND COLLABORATION WITH THE
 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CANNABIS MANAGEMENT,  ESTABLISH  AND
 DEVELOP A CANNABIS AWARENESS PROGRAM WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT. SUCH PROGRAM
 SHALL  BE  DESIGNED TO EDUCATE YOUTHS AGE EIGHTEEN AND YOUNGER ABOUT THE
 EFFECTS AND RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH CANNABIS USE,  INCLUDING  THAT  IT  IS
 ILLEGAL  FOR  PERSONS  UNDER  THE  AGE OF TWENTY-ONE. SUCH PROGRAM SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, THE CREATION OF AGE-APPROPRIATE INSTRUC-
 TIONAL TOOLS AND MATERIALS AND MARKETING AND  ADVERTISING  MATERIALS  TO
 DISCOURAGE UNDERAGE CANNABIS USE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08945-04-4

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