Bill Text: NY S04268 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4268

Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness program for youths age eighteen and younger designed to educate about the effects and risks associated with cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-12 - PRINT NUMBER 4268A [S04268 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04268-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4268--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to directing the
          commissioner of health to establish a cannabis awareness  program  for
          youths age eighteen and younger

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

     1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 32 to read as follows:
     3    32. The commissioner shall, in consultation and collaboration with the
     4  executive director of the office of cannabis management and the  commis-
     5  sioner  of education, establish and develop a cannabis awareness program
     6  within the department. Such program shall be designed to educate  youths
     7  age  eighteen  and  younger  about the effects and risks associated with
     8  cannabis use, including that it is illegal for persons under the age  of
     9  twenty-one.  Such  program  shall  include,  but  not be limited to, the
    10  creation of age-appropriate instructional tools and materials  that  may
    11  be  used  by  all  schools,  and  marketing and advertising materials to
    12  discourage underage cannabis use.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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