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Assembly Bill A3501

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the retail sale and on-site consumption of cannabis within one thousand feet of a school or child day care center

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2025-A3501 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§72 & 77, Cannabis L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10599

2025-A3501 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits cannabis retail and on-site consumption licensees from operating such premises within one thousand feet of school grounds or a child day care center.

2025-A3501 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3501
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Economic Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the cannabis law, in relation to prohibiting cannabis
   retail and on-site consumption licensees from operating such  premises
   within one thousand feet of a school or a child day care center

   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 WITHIN ONE THOUSAND FEET OF A  CHILD  DAY  CARE
 CENTER AS DEFINED IN THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW, or within two 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  WITHIN
 ONE  THOUSAND  FEET  OF A CHILD DAY CARE CENTER AS DEFINED IN THE SOCIAL
 SERVICES LAW, or WITHIN two hundred feet [from] OF a house of worship.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07483-01-5

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