Senate Bill S6283

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the state cannabis advisory board

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations 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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2025-S6283 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6456
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Cannabis Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14, Cannabis L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7528, A7718

2025-S6283 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds a non-voting member from the division of service-disabled veterans' business development to the state cannabis advisory board.

2025-S6283 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6283 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6283
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 7, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
   and Government Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  cannabis law, in relation to the state cannabis
   advisory board
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 14 of the cannabis law is amended
 to read as follows:
   2. The state cannabis advisory board shall consist of thirteen  voting
 appointed  members,  along  with a representative from the department of
 environmental conservation, the department of agriculture  and  markets,
 the office of children and family services, the department of labor, the
 department of health, the division of housing and community renewal, the
 office  of  addiction  services  and  supports,  [and] the department of
 education, AND  THE  DIVISION  OF  SERVICE-DISABLED  VETERANS'  BUSINESS
 DEVELOPMENT,  serving  as  non-voting ex-officio members.   The governor
 shall have seven appointments, the temporary president of the senate and
 the speaker of the assembly shall each have three  appointments  to  the
 board.    The  members shall be appointed to each serve three year terms
 and in the event of a vacancy, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner
 of the original appointment for the remainder of the term. The appointed
 members and representatives shall  receive  no  compensation  for  their
 services  but  shall  be  allowed  their  actual  and necessary expenses
 incurred in the performance of their duties as board members.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06266-01-5

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