STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1150 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 7, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, SOLAGES, TAYLOR, GRIFFIN, FAHY, HEVESI, DICKENS, THIELE, SIMON, ENGLEBRIGHT, SEAWRIGHT, McDONOUGH, ASHBY, PICHARDO, MORINELLO, PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, BARRON, SAYEGH, RODRIGUEZ, M. MILLER, CRUZ, LUPARDO, FERNANDEZ, DINOWITZ, WEPRIN, STIRPE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BYRNE, DAVILA, J. M. GIGLIO, MANKTELOW -- read once and referred 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public health law made by section 16 one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be 17 deemed repealed therewith.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. LBD00922-01-1