Bill Text: NY S08072 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 8072 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Amends the definitions of concentrated cannabis and marihuana.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08072 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08072-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         8072--A
            Cal. No. 901
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 26, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Agriculture  --  reported
          favorably  from  said  committee,  ordered to first and second report,
          ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered  reprinted,  retaining
          its place in the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definitions of
          concentrated cannabis and 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  4  of  section  3302  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as added by chapter 878 of the laws of 1972 and as
     3  renumbered by chapter 537 of the laws of 1998, is  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    (a)  the  separated  resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from a
     6  plant of the genus Cannabis with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol  concen-
     7  tration greater than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis; or
     8    § 2. Subdivision 21 of section 3302 of the public health law, as added
     9  by  chapter  878 of the laws of 1972 and as renumbered by chapter 537 of
    10  the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
    11    21. "Marihuana" means all parts of the plant of  the  genus  Cannabis,
    12  whether  growing  or  not,  with  a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concen-
    13  tration greater than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis; the seeds there-
    14  of; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every  compound,
    15  manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its
    16  seeds or resin. It does not include: (a) the mature stalks of the plant,
    17  fiber  produced  from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the
    18  plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt,  derivative,  mixture,  or
    19  preparation of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom),
    20  fiber,  oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is inca-
    21  pable of germination; or (b) industrial hemp as defined in section  five
    22  hundred five of the agriculture and markets law.
    23    § 3. 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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