Senate Bill S5755

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health 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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2025-S5755 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4974
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §206, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S4268, A9316

2025-S5755 (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.

2025-S5755 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5755 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5755
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee 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
   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.
                                                            LBD09015-01-5

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