Bill Text: NY S09923 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Alters the definition of "drug" to include any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-04 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09923 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09923-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9923

                    IN SENATE

                                     October 4, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  the  defi-
          nition of drugs

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 114-a of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by
     2  chapter 92 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 114-a. Drug. The term "drug" when used in this  chapter,  means  and
     4  includes any substance listed in section thirty-three hundred six of the
     5  public  health  law and cannabis and concentrated cannabis as defined in
     6  section 222.00 of the penal law and  any  substance  or  combination  of
     7  substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     9  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16237-01-4