STATE OF NEW YORK
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5629
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 21, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- 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 conditions permit-
ting the use of medical marihuana
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 3360 of the
2 public health law, as added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) "Serious condition" means:
5 (i) having one of the following severe debilitating or life-threaten-
6 ing conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
7 or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
8 Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of
9 the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable
10 spasticity, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies,
11 Huntington's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, or as added by the
12 commissioner; and
13 (ii) any of the following conditions where it is clinically associated
14 with, or a complication of, a condition under this paragraph or its
15 treatment: cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe or chronic pain; severe
16 nausea; seizures; severe or persistent muscle spasms; or such conditions
17 as are added by the commissioner.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
19 ments to title 5-A of article 33 of the public health law made by
20 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such title and
21 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10804-01-7