Bill Text: NY A04390 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary individuals in the social and economic equity plan of the New York state cannabis control board relating to the awarding of adult-use cannabis licenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to economic development [A04390 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04390-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4390 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to including gender equal- ity in the social and economic equity plan of the New York state cannabis control board The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 2 of section 87 of 2 the cannabis law are amended and a new paragraph (g) is added to read as 3 follows: 4 (e) distressed farmers, as defined in subdivision five of this 5 section; [and] 6 (f) service-disabled veterans[.]; and 7 (g) transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary individuals. 8 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 87 of the cannabis law is amended by 9 adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows: 10 (h) "Transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary individuals" 11 shall mean any person who has a gender identity or expression different 12 from the sex assigned to that individual at birth. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02628-01-3