Assembly Bill A8472

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Limits the hours of certain businesses located near schools

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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-A8472 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7984
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §85, Cannabis L; add §1399-cc-1, Pub Health L

2023-A8472 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits adult-use dispensing facilities and tobacco businesses from opening until one hour after the latest beginning of a school day of any school located within one mile of the facility or business.

2023-A8472 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8472
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 29, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the cannabis law and the public health law, in  relation
   to limiting the hours of certain businesses located near schools
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section 85 of the cannabis law is  renum-
 bered  subdivision  13  and  a  new  subdivision  12 is added to read as
 follows:
   12. NO ADULT-USE DISPENSING FACILITY SHALL OPEN UNTIL ONE  HOUR  AFTER
 THE  LATEST  BEGINNING  OF A SCHOOL DAY OF ANY SCHOOL LOCATED WITHIN ONE
 MILE OF SUCH ADULT-USE DISPENSING FACILITY; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  THE
 PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  ONLY  APPLY ON THOSE DAYS SUCH
 SCHOOL IS OPERATIONAL. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL  NOT  BE
 CONSTRUED TO PERMIT OPERATION OF AN ADULT-USE DISPENSING FACILITY DURING
 HOURS  WHICH ARE PROHIBITED BY ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL OR LOCAL LAW OR RULE
 OR REGULATION.
   § 2. The public  health  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new  section
 1399-cc-1 to read as follows:
   §  1399-CC-1. TOBACCO BUSINESS HOURS OF OPERATION. NO TOBACCO BUSINESS
 SHALL OPEN UNTIL ONE HOUR AFTER THE LATEST BEGINNING OF A SCHOOL DAY  OF
 ANY  SCHOOL  LOCATED WITHIN ONE MILE OF SUCH TOBACCO BUSINESS; PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL ONLY APPLY  ON  THOSE
 DAYS  SUCH  SCHOOL  IS OPERATIONAL. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL
 NOT BE CONSTRUED TO PERMIT OPERATION OF A TOBACCO BUSINESS DURING  HOURS
 WHICH  ARE  PROHIBITED  BY  ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL OR LOCAL LAW OR RULE OR
 REGULATION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13534-01-3

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