Authorizes conditional adult-use cultivator licensees to sell their own cannabis products; authorizes the office of cannabis management to create a loan or grant program to help such adult-use cultivator licensees to process cannabis into distillate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6470
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 21, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to authorizing conditional
adult-use cultivator licensees to sell their own cannabis products and
authorizing the office of cannabis management to create a loan or
grant program to help such adult-use cultivator licensees to process
cannabis into distillate
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "cannabis
2 crop rescue act".
3 § 2. Legislative findings. Chapter 18 of the laws of 2022 created the
4 conditional adult-use cultivator license. Due to a variety of circum-
5 stances beyond the control of New York's cannabis farmers, many licen-
6 sees cannot afford to process their cannabis or sell their finished
7 products. As a result, their 2022 crops are losing value while in stor-
8 age due to diminished potency, color and aroma. Without sales, many are
9 unable to plant a crop for the upcoming growing season, and are in
10 severe financial stress.
11 § 3. Section 68-c of the cannabis law is amended by adding two new
12 subdivisions 16 and 17 to read as follows:
13 16. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a conditional
14 adult-use cultivator licensee shall be authorized to sell their own or
15 another conditional adult-use cultivator licensee holder's cannabis
16 products directly to consumers until no later than September thirtieth,
17 two thousand twenty-three. Such authority shall allow for on-farm sales
18 of tested, packaged and sealed products. The office is authorized to
19 issue emergency regulations, if necessary, to implement this subdivi-
20 sion.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 17. The office is authorized to create a loan or grant program for the
2 purpose of having any cannabis grown under a conditional adult-use
3 cultivator license prior to September thirtieth, two thousand twenty-
4 three processed into distillate. The end-product of such processing
5 shall be returned to the licensee for future use.
6 § 4. A conditional adult-use cultivator licensee may select to operate
7 under subdivisions 16 and 17 of section 68-c of the cannabis law until
8 September 30, 2023.
9 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
10 the amendments to section 68-c of the cannabis law made by section three
11 of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
12 deemed repealed therewith.
