Bill Text: NY A09151 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to designate additional registered organizations to manufacture and dispense medical marihuana.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-29 - referred to health [A09151 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09151-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9151
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to designating  addi-
          tional  registered  organizations  to manufacture and dispense medical
          marihuana
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 9 of section 3365 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     3    9. (a) The commissioner shall register no more  than  five  registered
     4  organizations  that manufacture medical marihuana with no more than four
     5  dispensing sites wholly owned and operated by such registered  organiza-
     6  tion. The commissioner shall ensure that [such] registered organizations
     7  and  dispensing  sites  are geographically distributed across the state.
     8  The commission may register additional registered organizations.
     9    (b) The commissioner shall, by January first, two thousand  seventeen,
    10  register at least five additional registered organizations that manufac-
    11  ture  medical  marihuana,  each  of  which may operate no more than four
    12  dispensing sites. In determining which applicants to select  under  this
    13  paragraph:
    14    (i) the commissioner shall seek to provide dispensaries in underserved
    15  areas; and
    16    (ii) where an applicant was an applicant in the commissioner's initial
    17  selection  process  under paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the commis-
    18  sioner shall consider the information provided by the applicant in  that
    19  initial  process,  to  the  extent  it is currently applicable, and give
    20  appropriate weight to the commissioner's evaluation of the applicant  in
    21  that initial process.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided however that the
    23  amendments  to section 3365 of the public health law made by section one
    24  of this act shall not affect the repeal of such  section  and  shall  be
    25  deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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