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Assembly Bill A11107

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care

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2025-A11107 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8940
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§72 & 77, Cannabis L

2025-A11107 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care.

2025-A11107 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11107
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TANNOUSIS  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to doubling  the  distance
   allowed  between  cannabis  storefronts  and  premises  for  adult-use
   on-site consumption and school grounds  and  houses  of  worship;  and
   restricting their distance with a child day care

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 72 of the cannabis law is  amended
 to read as follows:
   6.  No cannabis retail licensee shall locate a storefront within [five
 hundred] ONE THOUSAND feet of a school grounds as such term  is  defined
 in  the education law OR A CHILD DAY CARE AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN THE
 SOCIAL SERVICES LAW or within [two] FOUR hundred  feet  of  a  house  of
 worship.
   §  2.  Subdivision  4  of section 77 of the cannabis law is amended to
 read as follows:
   4. No applicant shall be  granted  an  adult-use  on-site  consumption
 license  for  any  premises  within  [five hundred] ONE THOUSAND feet of
 school grounds as such term is defined in the education law OR  A  CHILD
 DAY  CARE  AS  SUCH  TERM IS DEFINED IN THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW or [two]
 FOUR hundred feet from a house of worship.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14461-01-6

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