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Senate Bill S9627

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes certain patients to use medical cannabis at certain health care facilities

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2025-S9627 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8469
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2833, Pub Health L

2025-S9627 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes certain patients who are terminally ill to use medical cannabis at hospitals and nursing homes.

2025-S9627 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9627 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9627
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 30, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- 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  authorizing
   certain patients to use medical cannabis at certain health care facil-
   ities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 2833 to read as follows:
   § 2833. MEDICAL  CANNABIS ACCESS IN HEALTH CARE FACILITIES. 1. FOR THE
 PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE  THE  FOLLOWING
 MEANINGS:
   (A)  "HEALTH  CARE  FACILITY" SHALL MEAN A GENERAL HOSPITAL OR NURSING
 HOME AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED BY SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT  HUNDRED  ONE  OF
 THIS ARTICLE.
   (B)  "MEDICAL  CANNABIS"  SHALL  HAVE  THE  SAME MEANING AS DEFINED BY
 SUBDIVISION THIRTY-THREE OF SECTION THREE OF THE CANNABIS LAW.
   (C) "PATIENT" SHALL MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS TERMINALLY ILL.
   (D) "TERMINALLY ILL" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS DEFINED BY  SUBDI-
 VISION FIFTY-ONE OF SECTION THREE OF THE CANNABIS LAW.
   2. A HEALTH CARE FACILITY SHALL PERMIT PATIENT USE OF MEDICAL CANNABIS
 WHILE AT SUCH HEALTH CARE FACILITY AND SHALL:
   (A)  PROHIBIT  SMOKING OR VAPING AS METHODS TO USE SUCH MEDICAL CANNA-
 BIS;
   (B) INCLUDE THE USE OF MEDICAL  CANNABIS  IN  SUCH  PATIENT'S  MEDICAL
 RECORDS;
   (C)  REASONABLY REGULATE THE WAY IN WHICH SUCH PATIENT STORES AND USES
 MEDICAL  CANNABIS, INCLUDING REQUIRING THE MEDICAL CANNABIS BE STORED IN
 A LOCKED CONTAINER; AND
   (D) DEVELOP AND DISSEMINATE WRITTEN GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF  MEDICAL
 CANNABIS  WITHIN  SUCH HEALTH CARE FACILITY PURSUANT TO ARTICLE THREE OF
 THE CANNABIS LAW.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11830-04-6
 S. 9627                             2

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