Bill Text: NY A10258 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds to the penalties for the underage use of cannabis the office of cannabis management contacting the person's parents and/or guardians and such person and their parents and/or guardians attending a cannabis diversion program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to codes [A10258 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10258-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10258

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the cannabis law, in relation to the underage use of
          cannabis

          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 4 of
     2  section 132 of the cannabis law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (i) The person shall be subject to a civil penalty of  not  more  than
     4  fifty  dollars.  The  civil  penalty  shall  be payable to the office of
     5  cannabis management. The office of cannabis management shall contact the
     6  parents and/or guardians of such person and inform them of the  person's
     7  violations of this chapter. Such person and the parents and/or guardians
     8  of  such person shall be required to attend a cannabis diversion program
     9  established by the office of cannabis management to assess for substance
    10  use disorders.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    13  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    14  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    15  on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10799-01-1