Bill Text: NY A01587 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits cannabis retail and on-site consumption licensees from operating such premises within one thousand feet of the perimeter of a school grounds; prohibits the advertising and marketing of cannabis content within one thousand feet of the perimeter of a school grounds, playgrounds, child day care providers, public parks, and libraries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - referred to economic development [A01587 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01587-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1587

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation  to  prohibiting  cannabis
          retail  and on-site consumption licensees from operating such premises
          within one thousand feet of the perimeter of a school grounds

          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 the perimeter of a school grounds as such
     5  term is defined in the education law or within two  hundred  feet  of  a
     6  house of worship.
     7    §  2.  Subdivision  4  of section 77 of the cannabis law is amended to
     8  read as follows:
     9    4. No applicant shall be  granted  an  adult-use  on-site  consumption
    10  license  for any premises within [five hundred] one thousand feet of the
    11  perimeter of a school grounds as such term is defined in  the  education
    12  law or two hundred feet from a house of worship.
    13    §  3. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 86 of the cannabis law
    14  is amended to read as follows:
    15    (e) is within or is readily observed within [five hundred]  one  thou-
    16  sand  feet  of  the perimeter of a school grounds, playground, child day
    17  care providers, public park, or library;
    18    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03077-01-5