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| Bill | Enacts the "marihuana regulation and taxation act"; repealer | Enacts the "marihuana regulation and taxation act"; establishes the cannabis law; defines terms; establishes the New York state cannabis control board and the office of cannabis management; outlines powers and duties thereof; authorizes the lawful use of medical cannabis; authorizes research programs related thereto; establishes a cannabis research license to permit a licensee to produce, process, purchase and/or possess cannabis for certain limited research purposes; relates to adult-use cannabis; authorizes a person to apply for a license to cultivate, process, distribute, deliver or dispense cannabis for sale in this state; relates to the description of cannabis, and the growing of and use of cannabis by persons twenty-one years of age or older; makes technical changes regarding the definition of cannabis; relates to removing certain references to marijuana relating to forfeiture actions; relates to the qualification of certain offenses involving cannabis; exempts certain persons from prosecution for the use, consumption, display, production or distribution of cannabis; relates to the definition of smoking; provides for the licensure of persons authorized to produce, process and sell marihuana; relates to the criminal sale of cannabis; relates to drug paraphernalia; adds a new article on cannabis to the penal law; authorizes a motion for resentence for persons convicted of certain marihuana offenses; levies an excise tax on certain sales of cannabis; creates the New York state cannabis revenue fund, the New York state drug treatment and public education fund and the New York state community grants reinvestment fund. | us/states/ny | New York Legislature | 2021-2022 | S 854 | New York S 854 (2021-2022) |
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New York S 854 (2021-2022) — Enacts the "marihuana regulation and taxation act"; repealer
Enacts the "marihuana regulation and taxation act"; establishes the cannabis law; defines terms; establishes the New York state cannabis control board and the office of cannabis management; outlines powers and duties thereof; authorizes the lawful use of medical cannabis; authorizes research programs related thereto; establishes a cannabis research license to permit a licensee to produce, process, purchase and/or possess cannabis for certain limited research purposes; relates to adult-use cannabis; authorizes a person to apply for a license to cultivate, process, distribute, deliver or dispense cannabis for sale in this state; relates to the description of cannabis, and the growing of and use of cannabis by persons twenty-one years of age or older; makes technical changes regarding the definition of cannabis; relates to removing certain references to marijuana relating to forfeiture actions; relates to the qualification of certain offenses involving cannabis; exempts certain persons from prosecution for the use, consumption, display, production or distribution of cannabis; relates to the definition of smoking; provides for the licensure of persons authorized to produce, process and sell marihuana; relates to the criminal sale of cannabis; relates to drug paraphernalia; adds a new article on cannabis to the penal law; authorizes a motion for resentence for persons convicted of certain marihuana offenses; levies an excise tax on certain sales of cannabis; creates the New York state cannabis revenue fund, the New York state drug treatment and public education fund and the New York state community grants reinvestment fund.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Votes
- Assembly Vote — 94–56 (pass) · lower
- Finance Vote - Version: A — 16–7 (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote - Version: A — 14–7 (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote - Version: A — 40–23 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- KRUEGER — primary (person)
- BAILEY — cosponsor (person)
- BENJAMIN — cosponsor (person)
- BIAGGI — cosponsor (person)
- BRESLIN — cosponsor (person)
- BRISPORT — cosponsor (person)
- BROUK — cosponsor (person)
- COMRIE — cosponsor (person)
- COONEY — cosponsor (person)
- GIANARIS — cosponsor (person)
- HINCHEY — cosponsor (person)
- HOYLMAN — cosponsor (person)
- JACKSON — cosponsor (person)
- KENNEDY — cosponsor (person)
- LIU — cosponsor (person)
- MAY — cosponsor (person)
- MYRIE — cosponsor (person)
- PARKER — cosponsor (person)
- RAMOS — cosponsor (person)
- RIVERA — cosponsor (person)
- SALAZAR — cosponsor (person)
- SANDERS — cosponsor (person)
- SAVINO — cosponsor (person)
- SEPULVEDA — cosponsor (person)
- SERRANO — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-01-06 REFERRED TO FINANCE
referral-committee - 2021-03-27 AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
amendment-passage, referral-committee - 2021-03-27 PRINT NUMBER 854A
amendment-passage - 2021-03-30 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
referral-committee - 2021-03-30 ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.641
- 2021-03-30 PASSED SENATE
passage - 2021-03-30 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- 2021-03-30 REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
referral-committee - 2021-03-30 SUBSTITUTED FOR A1248A
- 2021-03-30 ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.46
- 2021-03-30 PASSED ASSEMBLY
passage - 2021-03-30 RETURNED TO SENATE
- 2021-03-30 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
executive-receipt - 2021-03-31 SIGNED CHAP.92
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51bb2d7b-f6df-4d44-ae89-c0ea042f2a57. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).