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Senate Bill S5981

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires all edible cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging

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2023-S5981 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6666
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §125, Cannabis L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S5827

2023-S5981 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits all registered organizations, licensees, or permittees or other entities under the jurisdiction of the cannabis board from selling or delivering any edible cannabis products not in child resistant packaging.

2023-S5981 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5981 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5981
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the cannabis law, in relation to requiring all edible
   cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 125 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 13 to read as follows:
   13. (A) NO REGISTERED ORGANIZATION, LICENSEE, OR  PERMITTEE  OR  OTHER
 ENTITY  UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE BOARD SHALL SELL, OR AGREE TO SELL
 OR DELIVER IN THIS STATE ANY EDIBLE CANNABIS  PRODUCT  THAT  IS  NOT  IN
 CHILD RESISTANT PACKAGING.
   (B)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "EDIBLE CANNABIS PRODUCT"
 SHALL MEAN A "CANNABIS-INFUSED PRODUCT" AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF
 SECTION THREE OF THIS CHAPTER THAT IS INTENDED FOR CONSUMPTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10467-01-3

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