Senate Bill S6243

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to cannabis grower energy efficiency

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S6243 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6543
Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 29-A §§530 & 531, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S1751

2021-S6243 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires applicants for a license to grow adult-use or medical cannabis to submit an energy efficiency plan to the department of agriculture and markets; sets resource efficiency requirements for such cannabis growers.

2021-S6243 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6243 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6243
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to cannabis
   grower energy efficiency
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
 article 29-A to read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 29-A
                            GROWTH OF CANNABIS
 SECTION 530. DEFINITIONS.
         531. CANNABIS GROWER ENERGY EFFICIENCY.
   § 530. DEFINITIONS. AS USED IN THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL
 HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1. "CANNABIS" MEANS ALL OR PARTS OF THE PLANT OF THE GENUS CANNABIS.
   2. "CONCENTRATED CANNABIS" MEANS: (A)  THE  SEPARATED  RESIN,  WHETHER
 CRUDE  OR  PURIFIED, OBTAINED FROM CANNABIS; OR (B) A MATERIAL, PREPARA-
 TION, MIXTURE, COMPOUND OR OTHER  SUBSTANCE  WHICH  CONTAINS  MORE  THAN
 THREE-TENTHS  OF  ONE PERCENT BY WEIGHT OR BY VOLUME OF DELTA-9 TETRAHY-
 DROCANNABINOL, OR ITS ISOMER, DELTA-8 DIBENZOPYRAN NUMBERING SYSTEM,  OR
 DELTA-1  TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL  OR  ITS  ISOMER,  DELTA 1 (6) MONOTERPENE
 NUMBERING SYSTEM OR WHICH EXCEEDS AN AMOUNT OF DELTA-9  TETRAHYDROCANNA-
 BINOL  OR ITS ISOMER, DELTA 1 (6) MONOTERPENE NUMBERING SYSTEM PER SERV-
 ING OR PER PRODUCT DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   3.  "CANNABIS  CULTIVATION"  MEANS  THE  PLANTING,  GROWING,  CLONING,
 HARVESTING, DRYING, CURING, GRADING AND/OR TRIMMING OF CANNABIS, OR SUCH
 OTHER CULTIVATION RELATED PROCESSES AS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   4.  "ADULT-USE CANNABIS" MEANS ANY CANNABIS, CONCENTRATED CANNABIS, OR
 CANNABIS-INFUSED OR EXTRACTED  PRODUCTS,  OR  PRODUCTS  WHICH  OTHERWISE
 CONTAIN  OR  ARE  DERIVED  FROM CANNABIS, AND WHICH HAVE BEEN AUTHORIZED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09477-01-1
              

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