STATE OF NEW YORK
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6283
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 7, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to the state cannabis
advisory board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 14 of the cannabis law is amended
2 to read as follows:
3 2. The state cannabis advisory board shall consist of thirteen voting
4 appointed members, along with a representative from the department of
5 environmental conservation, the department of agriculture and markets,
6 the office of children and family services, the department of labor, the
7 department of health, the division of housing and community renewal, the
8 office of addiction services and supports, [and] the department of
9 education, and the division of service-disabled veterans' business
10 development, serving as non-voting ex-officio members. The governor
11 shall have seven appointments, the temporary president of the senate and
12 the speaker of the assembly shall each have three appointments to the
13 board. The members shall be appointed to each serve three year terms
14 and in the event of a vacancy, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner
15 of the original appointment for the remainder of the term. The appointed
16 members and representatives shall receive no compensation for their
17 services but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
18 incurred in the performance of their duties as board members.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06266-01-5
