STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
8820--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 9, 2025
___________
Introduced by M. of A. DAIS, SCHIAVONI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Economic Development -- recommitted to the Committee on
Economic Development in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the usage of funds
in the New York state cannabis revenue fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 99-ii of the
2 state finance law, as added by chapter 92 of the laws of 2021, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (b) Reasonable costs incurred by the office of cannabis management and
5 the cannabis control board for implementing, administering, and enforc-
6 ing the marihuana regulation and taxation act, including, but not limit-
7 ed to, the cost of implementing a track and trace program with a unique
8 package identifier. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "package"
9 shall mean a single regulatory identification number, whether repres-
10 ented by alphanumeric characters, symbols, a barcode, or a QR code,
11 applied to all line items on a shipping manifest. Further, for the
12 purposes of this paragraph, the term "line items" shall mean cases of
13 products, and shall expressly exclude any unique identifiers assigned to
14 the individual product units contained within such cases.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10699-03-6
