Requires applicants for a license to cultivate, process, distribute, deliver, or dispense cannabis within the state to pay a prevailing wage or have entered into a project labor agreement for the construction of buildings or transportation of items relating to the activity described in the application.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5775
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to requiring applicants
for a license to cultivate, process, distribute, deliver, or dispense
cannabis within the state to pay a prevailing wage or have entered
into a project labor agreement for the construction of buildings or
transportation of items relating to the activity described in the
application
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (m) and (n) of subdivision 1 of section 64 of
2 the cannabis law, paragraph (m) as amended and paragraph (n) as added by
3 section 15 of part UU of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, are amended and
4 a new paragraph (o) is added to read as follows:
5 (m) if the applicant is a registered organization, the organization's
6 maintenance of effort in manufacturing and/or dispensing and/or research
7 of medical cannabis for certified patients and caregivers; [and]
8 (n) whether the applicant or its managing officers have been found to
9 have engaged in activities in violation of this chapter[.]; and
10 (o) the applicant will pay a prevailing wage or has entered into a
11 project labor agreement for the construction of any buildings which will
12 be used to properly carry on the activity described in the application
13 and for transportation to and from the grower to the applicant or to and
14 from the manufacturer to the retail licensee.
15 § 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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