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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9316--B
IN ASSEMBLY
February 29, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN, WOERNER, HEVESI, JACKSON, CONRAD,
GLICK, JEAN-PIERRE, HYNDMAN, GIBBS, GUNTHER -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to
said committee
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:
1 Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 32 to read as follows:
3 32. The commissioner shall, in consultation and collaboration with the
4 executive director of the office of cannabis management, establish and
5 develop a cannabis awareness program within the department. Such program
6 shall be designed to educate youths age eighteen and younger about the
7 effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is
8 illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one. Such program shall
9 include, but not be limited to, the creation of age-appropriate instruc-
10 tional tools and materials and marketing and advertising materials to
11 discourage underage cannabis use.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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