S5827 • 2025

Requires all edible cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging

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Sponsor: Luis R. Sepúlveda
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires all edible cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging

Requires all edible cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging Prohibits all registered organizations, licensees, or permittees or other entities under the jurisdiction of the cannabis board from selling or delivering any edible cannabis products not in child resistant packaging.

What This Bill Does

Requires all edible cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging Prohibits all registered organizations, licensees, or permittees or other entities under the jurisdiction of the cannabis board from selling or delivering any edible cannabis products not in child resistant packaging.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-03-12 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-03-11 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-03-10 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.530
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
2025-06-13 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-06-04 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-05-29 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-05-28 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1442
2025-03-03 Senate
REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Official Summary Text

Requires all edible cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging
Prohibits all registered organizations, licensees, or permittees or other entities under the jurisdiction of the cannabis board from selling or delivering any edible cannabis products not in child resistant packaging.

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

                                          5827

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      March 3, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SEPULVEDA,  BORRELLO,  MURRAY  --  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 requiring all edible
          cannabis products be packaged in child resistant packaging

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

     1    Section  1. Section 125 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 13 to read as follows:
     3    13. (A) NO REGISTERED ORGANIZATION, LICENSEE, OR  PERMITTEE  OR  OTHER
     4  ENTITY  UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE BOARD SHALL SELL, OR AGREE TO SELL
     5  OR DELIVER IN THIS STATE ANY EDIBLE CANNABIS  PRODUCT  THAT  IS  NOT  IN
     6  CHILD RESISTANT PACKAGING.
     7    (B)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "EDIBLE CANNABIS PRODUCT"
     8  SHALL MEAN A "CANNABIS-INFUSED PRODUCT" AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF
     9  SECTION THREE OF THIS CHAPTER THAT IS INTENDED FOR CONSUMPTION.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    12  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    13  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    14  completed on or before such effective date.




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