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A11217 • 2025

Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits

Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits

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Sponsor
Donna Lupardo
Last action
2026-06-04
Official status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits

Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits.

What This Bill Does

  • Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    SUBSTITUTED BY S10113

  2. 2026-05-29 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  3. 2026-05-29 Assembly

    REPORTED

  4. 2026-05-29 Assembly

    RULES REPORT CAL.281

  5. 2026-05-29 Assembly

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.281

  6. 2026-05-19 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

  7. 2026-05-01 Assembly

    REFERRED TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Official Summary Text

Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits
Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits.

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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                                          11217

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       May 1, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO, PEOPLES-STOKES, STIRPE, ZACCARO, DAIS --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development

        AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to cannabis showcase event
          permit requirements for microbusiness licensees

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 130-a  of  the  cannabis  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  112  of  the  laws  of 2025, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. A licensee authorized under this chapter to conduct retail sales of
     5  adult-use cannabis may apply to the office for a cannabis showcase event
     6  permit and shall be required to demonstrate that they are in partnership
     7  with a licensed cultivator and a licensed processor pursuant to subdivi-
     8  sion one of this  section.    A  MICROBUSINESS  LICENSEE  AUTHORIZED  TO
     9  CONDUCT  RETAIL  SALES  UNDER  SECTION SEVENTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER MAY
    10  ALSO SERVE AS THE REQUIRED LICENSED PROCESSOR  AND  LICENSED  CULTIVATOR
    11  FOR  A  CANNABIS SHOWCASE EVENT PERMIT IF THAT MICROBUSINESS LICENSEE IS
    12  ALSO AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT PROCESSING AND CULTIVATION.  A  MICROBUSINESS
    13  LICENSEE  MAY  ALSO  SERVE  AS  A LICENSED PROCESSOR AND/OR THE LICENSED
    14  CULTIVATOR FOR ANOTHER LICENSEE APPLYING FOR A PERMIT UNDER THIS SECTION
    15  IF THAT MICROBUSINESS IS AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT THE APPLICABLE PROCESSING
    16  OR CULTIVATING ACTIVITY. An application for a  cannabis  showcase  event
    17  permit  shall  identify such licensed cultivators and processors who are
    18  authorized under this chapter to  showcase  at  such  cannabis  showcase
    19  event.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15391-01-6