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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9316--A
IN ASSEMBLY
February 29, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN, WOERNER -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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 and the commis-
5 sioner of education, establish and develop a cannabis awareness program
6 within the department. Such program shall be designed to educate youths
7 age eighteen and younger about the effects and risks associated with
8 cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of
9 twenty-one. Such program shall include, but not be limited to, the
10 creation of age-appropriate instructional tools and materials that may
11 be used by all schools, and marketing and advertising materials to
12 discourage underage cannabis use.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08945-03-4
