Assembly Bill A9389

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the cannabis oversight and official engagement act

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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-A9389 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Add §76-a, Cannabis L

2023-A9389 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "cannabis oversight and official engagement act"; requires the office of cannabis management to notify appropriate elected officials of applications for adult-use retail dispensaries in their legislative districts; requires the office to consider any responses from such elected officials in determining an application for an adult-use retail dispensary license; requires such communications to be made public.

2023-A9389 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9389
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to enacting the  "cannabis
   oversight and official engagement act"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "cannabis oversight and official engagement act".
   §  2. The cannabis law is amended by adding a new section 76-a to read
 as follows:
   § 76-A. NOTIFICATION TO ELECTED OFFICIALS OF ADULT-USE RETAIL  DISPEN-
 SARY  LICENSE.  1.  DEFINITIONS.  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE
 FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A) "ADULT-USE RETAIL DISPENSARY LICENSE" MEANS  AN  ADULT-USE  RETAIL
 DISPENSARY  LICENSE ISSUED PURSUANT TO SECTION SEVENTY-TWO OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE.
   (B) "ELECTED OFFICIAL" MEANS THE ELECTED MEMBER  OF  THE  ASSEMBLY  OR
 SENATE REPRESENTING A LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT.
   (C) "LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT" MEANS AN ASSEMBLY OR SENATE DISTRICT IN THE
 STATE, AS DESIGNATED BY THE MOST RECENTLY APPROVED DISTRICTING OR REDIS-
 TRICTING PLAN.
   2.  NOTICE  REQUIREMENT.  (A) PRIOR TO THE APPROVAL OF ANY APPLICATION
 FOR AN ADULT-USE RETAIL DISPENSARY LICENSE, THE OFFICE SHALL NOTIFY  THE
 ELECTED  OFFICIALS  REPRESENTING  THE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS WITHIN WHICH
 THE PROPOSED ADULT-USE RETAIL DISPENSARY WOULD BE LOCATED OF SUCH APPLI-
 CATION. SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE SENT NO LATER THAN  THIRTY  DAYS  BEFORE  A
 DECISION  IS  MADE REGARDING SUCH APPLICATION. SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE SENT
 BY CERTIFIED MAIL, ELECTRONIC MAIL, OR ANY OTHER METHOD DEEMED  RELIABLE
 BY THE OFFICE.
   (B)  THE NOTICE REQUIRED UNDER PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL
 INCLUDE:
   (I) THE TRADE NAME  AND  ADDRESS  OF  THE  PROPOSED  ADULT-USE  RETAIL
 DISPENSARY;
   (II) THE FULL NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION OF THE APPLICANT;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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