STATE OF NEW YORK
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3248--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to authorizing for a
private right of action for certain violations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The cannabis law is amended by adding a new section 138-c
2 to read as follows:
3 § 138-c. Private right of action. In addition to the right of action
4 granted to the office and the attorney general pursuant to this article,
5 any person who has been injured by reason of a violation of subdivision
6 one of section one hundred twenty-five of this article may bring an
7 action in their own name to enjoin such unlawful act or practice, an
8 action to recover actual damages, or both such actions. The court may,
9 in its discretion, increase the award of damages to an amount not to
10 exceed three times the actual damages, if the court finds the defendant
11 willfully or knowingly violated such section. The court may award
12 reasonable attorney's fees to a prevailing plaintiff.
13 § 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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