Senate Bill S5827

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires all edible cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations 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-S5827 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §125, Cannabis L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S5981

2025-S5827 (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.

2025-S5827 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5827 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5827
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SEPULVEDA,  BORRELLO,  MURRAY  --  read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Investigations and Government 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.
                                                            LBD10395-01-5

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