New York S 1769: Requires telemarketers to add a customer's telephone number to all do-not-call lists maintained by such telemarketer

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S01769 Summary:

BILL NOS01769 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORFERNANDEZ

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COSPNSRADDABBO

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Amd §72, Cannabis L

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Prohibits new cannabis dispensaries from opening up within five hundred feet of other licensed cannabis dispensaries; provides an exception if the location of such premises is in the public interest.

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BILL NOS01769 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1769

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. FERNANDEZ, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered print-
 ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi-
 gations and Government Operations

 AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to prohibiting new canna-
 bis dispensaries from opening up within a certain distance from other
 licensed cannabis dispensaries

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 72 of the cannabis law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 7 to read as follows:
 3 7. (a) No cannabis retail licensee applicant shall submit an applica-
 4 tion to locate a storefront in a city, town or village having a popu-
 5 lation of twenty thousand or more within five hundred feet of an exist-
 6 ing premises licensed and operating pursuant to this article or article
 7 three of this chapter.
 8 (b) The measurement in paragraph (a) of this subdivision shall be
 9 taken in straight lines from the center of the nearest entrance of the
 10 premises sought to be licensed to the center of the nearest entrance of
 11 such premises licensed and operating pursuant to this article or article
 12 three of this chapter.
 13 (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
 14 sion, the cannabis control board may issue a license pursuant to this
 15 section for a premises which shall be within five hundred feet of an
 16 existing premises licensed and operating pursuant to this article or
 17 article three of this chapter if, after consultation with the cannabis
 18 control board, such board determines that granting such license would be
 19 in the public interest. Before it may issue any such license, the canna-
 20 bis control board shall conduct a hearing, upon notice to the applicant
 21 and the municipality or community board where the proposed premises is
 22 located and shall state and file in its office its reasons therefor.
 23 Notice to the municipality or community board shall mean written notice

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05185-01-5

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 1 mailed by the authority to such municipality or community board at least
 2 fifteen days in advance of any hearing scheduled pursuant to this para-
 3 graph. Upon the request of the cannabis control board, any municipality
 4 or community board may waive the fifteen day notice requirement. The
 5 hearing may be rescheduled, adjourned or continued, and the cannabis
 6 control board shall give notice to the applicant and the municipality or
 7 community board of any such rescheduled, adjourned or continued hearing.
 8 Before the cannabis control board issues any said license, the cannabis
 9 control board may, in addition to the hearing required by this para-
 10 graph, also conduct a public meeting regarding said license, upon notice
 11 to the applicant and the municipality or community board. The public
 12 meeting may be rescheduled, adjourned or continued, and the cannabis
 13 control board shall give notice to the applicant and the municipality or
 14 community board of any such rescheduled, adjourned or continued public
 15 meeting. No premises having been granted a license pursuant to this
 16 section shall be denied a renewal of such license upon the grounds that
 17 such premises are within five hundred feet of a building or buildings
 18 wherein a premises is licensed and