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A11107 • 2025

Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care

Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care

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Sponsor
Michael Tannousis
Last action
2026-04-24
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care

Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care.

What This Bill Does

  • Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-24 Assembly

    REFERRED TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Official Summary Text

Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care
Increases the distance allowed between cannabis storefronts and premises for adult-use on-site consumption and school grounds and houses of worship; restricts their distance with a child day care.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11107

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TANNOUSIS  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to doubling  the  distance
          allowed  between  cannabis  storefronts  and  premises  for  adult-use
          on-site consumption and school grounds  and  houses  of  worship;  and
          restricting their distance with a child day care

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 72 of the cannabis law is  amended
     2  to read as follows:
     3    6.  No cannabis retail licensee shall locate a storefront within [five
     4  hundred] ONE THOUSAND feet of a school grounds as such term  is  defined
     5  in  the education law OR A CHILD DAY CARE AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN THE
     6  SOCIAL SERVICES LAW or within [two] FOUR hundred  feet  of  a  house  of
     7  worship.
     8    §  2.  Subdivision  4  of section 77 of the cannabis law is amended to
     9  read as follows:
    10    4. No applicant shall be  granted  an  adult-use  on-site  consumption
    11  license  for  any  premises  within  [five hundred] ONE THOUSAND feet of
    12  school grounds as such term is defined in the education law OR  A  CHILD
    13  DAY  CARE  AS  SUCH  TERM IS DEFINED IN THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW or [two]
    14  FOUR hundred feet from a house of worship.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.




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