Bill Text: NY A07006 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes post-traumatic stress disorder as a condition permitting the use of medical marihuana.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-6)

Status: (Passed) 2017-11-11 - signed chap.403 [A07006 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07006-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7006
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 29, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED, KEARNS, ZEBROWSKI, ORTIZ, MOSLEY,
          LAVINE, HUNTER, COOK, HEVESI, D'URSO, SKOUFIS, SIMON, GLICK, McDONALD,
          M. L. MILLER, SEPULVEDA, WALTER, PEOPLES-STOKES, HOOPER, GALEF,  RICH-
          ARDSON,  MOYA, CARROLL, BLAKE, LUPARDO, BRINDISI -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A.  CAHILL, DINOWITZ, FARRELL, LENTOL, McDONOUGH, McLAUGHLIN,
          MORINELLO, ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to conditions permit-
          ting the use of medical marihuana
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  7 of section 3360 of the
     2  public health law, as added by chapter  90  of  the  laws  of  2014,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) "Serious condition" means:
     5    (i)  having one of the following severe debilitating or life-threaten-
     6  ing conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
     7  or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic  lateral  sclerosis,
     8  Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of
     9  the  spinal  cord  with objective neurological indication of intractable
    10  spasticity,  epilepsy,   inflammatory   bowel   disease,   neuropathies,
    11  Huntington's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, or as added by the
    12  commissioner; and
    13    (ii) any of the following conditions where it is clinically associated
    14  with,  or  a  complication  of,  a condition under this paragraph or its
    15  treatment: cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe or chronic pain;  severe
    16  nausea; seizures; severe or persistent muscle spasms; or such conditions
    17  as are added by the commissioner.
    18    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    19  ments to title 5-A of article 33  of  the  public  health  law  made  by
    20  section  one  of  this act shall not affect the repeal of such title and
    21  shall be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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