Assembly Bill A10248

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing qui tam proceedings for civil violations of the cannabis law

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A10248 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9441
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §189, St Fin L; amd §138-a, Cannabis L

2023-A10248 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes qui tam proceedings for civil violations of the cannabis law.

2023-A10248 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10248
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Zaccaro) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the cannabis law, in  relation
   to authorizing a qui tam proceeding for civil violations of the canna-
   bis law
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of section 189 of the  state
 finance law, as amended by section 1 of part J of chapter 57 of the laws
 of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (h) knowingly conceals or knowingly and improperly avoids or decreases
 an  obligation  to  pay  or transmit money or property to the state or a
 local government, or conspires to do the same; OR
   (I) VIOLATES ANY CIVIL PROVISIONS OF SECTION ONE  HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE
 OF THE CANNABIS LAW;
   shall be liable to the state or a local government, as applicable, for
 a  civil penalty of not less than six thousand dollars and not more than
 twelve thousand dollars, as adjusted to be equal to  the  civil  penalty
 allowed  under  the  federal  False  Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. sec. 3729, et
 seq., as amended, as adjusted for inflation by the Federal Civil  Penal-
 ties  Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended (28 U.S.C. 2461 note;
 Pub. L. No.   101-410), plus three times  the  amount  of  all  damages,
 including  consequential  damages,  which  the state or local government
 sustains because of the act of that person; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  THE
 CIVIL  PENALTY  FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE CANNABIS LAW SHALL BE AS SET FORTH
 IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO OF SUCH CHAPTER.
   § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 138-a of the cannabis law, as amended by
 section 14 of part G of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   5. request that the attorney general obtain judicial enforcement of an
 order issued under subdivision one of this section or bring an action or
 proceeding  for any relief otherwise authorized under this chapter for a
 violation of this chapter OR BRING AN ACTION  OR  PROCEEDING  AUTHORIZED
 UNDER  SECTION ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW, includ-
 ing the recovery of any applicable civil penalties;
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
              

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