Assembly Actions -
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May 04, 2016 |
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Senate Bill S7467
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S7467 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A9747
- Current Committee:
- Senate Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§3365 & 3364, Pub Health L
2015-S7467 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S7467 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the public health law, in relation to medical marihuana dispensing sites PURPOSE : To require the Department of Health to register at least five more registered organizations ("ROs") to provide medical marijuana in under-served areas of the state: allow each RO to operate up to four additional dispensaries, for a total of up to eight each; allow ROs to directly contact practitioners for the purposes of education and providing information about the medical use of marihuana; and allow ROs to produce or dispense additional products particularly formulated for treatment of intractable epilepsy notwithstanding any regulatory limits on the number of allowable products per RO. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Section 1: Amends paragraph (a) of subdivision 9 of § 3365 of the Public Health Law to allow each registered organization to operate up to four more dispensaries, for a total of up to eight each. Amends subdivision 9 of § 3365 of the Public Health Law by adding a
2015-S7467 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7467 I N S E N A T E May 4, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to medical marihuana dispensing sites THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 3365 of the public health law, as added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 9. (A) The commissioner shall register no more than five registered organizations that manufacture medical marihuana with no more than [four] EIGHT dispensing sites wholly owned and operated by such regis- tered organization. The commissioner shall ensure that [such] registered organizations and dispensing sites are geographically distributed across the state. The [commission] COMMISSIONER may register additional regis- tered organizations. (B) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, BY JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, REGISTER AT LEAST FIVE ADDITIONAL REGISTERED ORGANIZATIONS THAT MANUFAC- TURE MEDICAL MARIHUANA, EACH OF WHICH MAY OPERATE NO MORE THAN EIGHT DISPENSING SITES. IN DETERMINING WHICH APPLICANTS TO SELECT UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH: (I) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL SEEK TO PROVIDE DISPENSARIES IN UNDERSERVED AREAS; AND (II) WHERE AN APPLICANT WAS AN APPLICANT IN THE COMMISSIONER'S INITIAL SELECTION PROCESS UNDER PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL CONSIDER THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE APPLICANT IN THAT INITIAL PROCESS, TO THE EXTENT IT IS CURRENTLY APPLICABLE, AND GIVE APPROPRIATE WEIGHT TO THE COMMISSIONER'S EVALUATION OF THE APPLICANT IN THAT INITIAL PROCESS. S 2. Subdivision 13 of section 3364 of the public health law, as added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 13. EACH REGISTERED ORGANIZATION SHALL BE PERMITTED TO DIRECTLY CONTACT PHYSICIANS LICENSED BY NEW YORK STATE AND PRACTICING WITHIN THE STATE FOR THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION AND PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT THIS TITLE. ANY SUCH EDUCATION AND PROVISION OF INFORMATION SHALL NOT SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS SET OUT IN PARAGRAPH (III) OF SUBDIVISION TWELVE OF SECTION THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED SIXTY OF THIS TITLE. The commissioner is EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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