Bill Text: NY S06470 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes conditional adult-use cultivator licensees to sell their own cannabis products; authorizes the office of cannabis management to create a loan or grant program to help such adult-use cultivator licensees to process cannabis into distillate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06470 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06470-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6470

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 21, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to authorizing conditional
          adult-use cultivator licensees to sell their own cannabis products and
          authorizing the office of cannabis management  to  create  a  loan  or
          grant  program  to help such adult-use cultivator licensees to process
          cannabis into distillate

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

     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "cannabis
     2  crop rescue act".
     3    § 2. Legislative findings. Chapter 18 of the laws of 2022 created  the
     4  conditional  adult-use  cultivator  license. Due to a variety of circum-
     5  stances beyond the control of New York's cannabis farmers,  many  licen-
     6  sees  cannot  afford  to  process  their cannabis or sell their finished
     7  products. As a result, their 2022 crops are losing value while in  stor-
     8  age due to diminished potency, color and aroma.  Without sales, many are
     9  unable  to  plant  a  crop  for  the upcoming growing season, and are in
    10  severe financial stress.
    11    § 3. Section 68-c of the cannabis law is amended  by  adding  two  new
    12  subdivisions 16 and 17 to read as follows:
    13    16. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a conditional
    14  adult-use  cultivator  licensee shall be authorized to sell their own or
    15  another conditional  adult-use  cultivator  licensee  holder's  cannabis
    16  products  directly to consumers until no later than September thirtieth,
    17  two thousand twenty-three. Such authority shall allow for on-farm  sales
    18  of  tested,  packaged  and sealed products.  The office is authorized to
    19  issue emergency regulations, if necessary, to  implement  this  subdivi-
    20  sion.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    17. The office is authorized to create a loan or grant program for the
     2  purpose  of  having  any  cannabis  grown  under a conditional adult-use
     3  cultivator license prior to September thirtieth,  two  thousand  twenty-
     4  three  processed  into  distillate.  The  end-product of such processing
     5  shall be returned to the licensee for future use.
     6    § 4. A conditional adult-use cultivator licensee may select to operate
     7  under  subdivisions  16 and 17 of section 68-c of the cannabis law until
     8  September 30, 2023.
     9    § 5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however,  that
    10  the amendments to section 68-c of the cannabis law made by section three
    11  of  this  act  shall  not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
    12  deemed repealed therewith.