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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5755
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 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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