S06308 Summary:
| BILL NO | S06308 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | SAVINO |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §3365, Pub Health L | |
| Increases the number of medical marihuana locations by allowing for retail-only organizations. | |
S06308 Actions:
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| 05/11/2017 | REFERRED TO HEALTH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/03/2018 | REFERRED TO HEALTH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
S06308 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6308 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2017 ___________ 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 the registration of medical marihuana manufactures and dispensing sites The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 3365 of the public health law, as 2 added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 3 9. The commissioner shall initially register no more than five regis- 4 tered organizations that manufacture medical marihuana with no more than 5 four dispensing sites wholly owned and operated by such registered 6 organization. The commissioner shall ensure that such registered organ- 7 izations and dispensing sites are geographically distributed across the 8 state. The commissioner shall register no more than five retail-only 9 registered organizations by no later than the first of August two thou- 10 sand seventeen for the sole purpose of operating dispensing sites. Each 11 retail-only registered organization shall be entitled to operate as many 12 dispensing sites as the commissioner determines necessary to adequately 13 meet the needs of certified patients. The commissioner shall ensure that 14 such dispensing sites are geographically distributed across the state. 15 The [commission] commissioner may register additional registered organ- 16 izations upon the earlier of the first of September two thousand eigh- 17 teen or when the number of patients certified by their practitioner to 18 possess marihuana pursuant to this title exceeds one hundred thousand. 19 The commissioner may give preference to retail-only registered organiza- 20 tions in granting registrations beyond the initial five registered 21 organizations. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 23 ments to subdivision 9 of section 3365 of the public health law made by 24 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and 25 shall be deemed repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11709-01-7