STATE OF NEW YORK
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4163
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 1, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ORTT -- 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 adding autism 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 273 of the
3 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) having one of the following severe debilitating or life-threaten-
5 ing conditions: cancer, autism, positive status for human immunodefici-
6 ency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic lateral
7 sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nerv-
8 ous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of
9 intractable spasticity, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropa-
10 thies, Huntington's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, pain that
11 degrades health and functional capability where the use of medical mari-
12 huana is an alternative to opioid use, substance use disorder, or as
13 added by the commissioner; and
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
15 the amendments to section 3360 of the public health law made by section
16 one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
17 deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05228-01-9
