STATE OF NEW YORK
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9582
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to adding substance
use disorder to the list of conditions covered for lawful medical use
of marihuana
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of
2 section 3360 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 403 of the
3 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) having one of the following severe debilitating or life-threaten-
5 ing conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
6 or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
7 Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of
8 the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable
9 spasticity, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies,
10 Huntington's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance use
11 disorder, or as added by the commissioner; and
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
14 7 of section 3360 of the public health law, made by section one of this
15 act, shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed
16 repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14262-01-8
