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S08940 Summary:

BILL NOS08940
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORSCARCELLA-SPANTON
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §§72 & 77, Cannabis L
 
Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care.
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S08940 Text:




 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8940
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 16, 2026
                                       ___________
 
        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 doubling the distance
          allowed  between  cannabis  storefronts  and  premises  for  adult-use
          on-site  consumption  and  school  grounds  and houses of worship; and
          restricting their distance with a child day care
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 6 of section 72 of the cannabis law is amended
     2  to read as follows:
     3    6. No cannabis retail licensee shall locate a storefront within  [five
     4  hundred]  one  thousand feet of a school grounds as such term is defined
     5  in the education law or a child day care as such term is defined in  the
     6  social  services  law  or  within  [two] four hundred feet of a house of
     7  worship.
     8    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 77 of the cannabis  law  is  amended  to
     9  read as follows:
    10    4.  No  applicant  shall  be  granted an adult-use on-site consumption
    11  license for any premises within [five  hundred]  one  thousand  feet  of
    12  school  grounds  as such term is defined in the education law or a child
    13  day care as such term is defined in the social  services  law  or  [two]
    14  four hundred feet from a house of worship.
    15    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14461-01-6
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