New York A 8893: Relates to permitting farmstand cannabis sales

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A08893 Summary:

BILL NOA08893 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRozic

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COSPNSRLunsford, Burroughs, Tapia, Dinowitz

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 45-A §§1509 - 1514, Gen Bus L

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Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct commercially reasonable age assurance to determine whether a user is a covered minor and shall provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).

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BILL NOA08893 

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06/10/2025referred to consumer affairs and protection

01/07/2026referred to consumer affairs and protection

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8893

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 June 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Consumer Affairs and Protection

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to device-level
 age assurance

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

 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 2 45-A to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 45-A
 4 DEVICE-LEVEL AGE ASSURANCE

 5 Section 1509. Definitions.
 6 1510. Age assurance required.
 7 1511. Nondiscrimination.
 8 1512. Rulemaking authority.
 9 1513. Scope.
 10 1514. Enforcement.
 11 § 1509. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
 12 terms shall have the following meanings:
 13 1. "Application programming interface" or "API" shall mean a system
 14 that allows two or more software systems to communicate and exchange
 15 information, features, and functionality.
 16 2. "Application store" shall mean a publicly available website, soft-
 17 ware application, or online service that distributes third party plat-
 18 forms' software applications to an internet-enabled device.
 19 3. "Covered manufacturer" shall mean a manufacturer of an internet-en-
 20 abled device, an operating system provider, or an application store.
 21 4. "Covered minor" shall mean a user of an internet-enabled device who
 22 a covered manufacturer has determined via one or more commercially
 23 reasonable age assurance methods to be under the age of eighteen.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13065-02-5

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 1 5. "Internet-enabled device" shall mean and include any desktop,
 2 laptop, smartphone, tablet, or other device capable of connecting to the
 3 internet and enabling the user to access content on the internet,
 4 including a social media platform.
 5 6. "Operating system" shall mean the system software that manages the
 6 hardware of an internet-enabled device and allows programs and applica-
 7 tions to run on such device.
 8 7. "Operating system provider" shall mean any person, partnership,
 9 association, firm, business, or other legal entity, or any member there-
 10 of, who develops, distributes, and/or maintains an internet-enabled
 11 device's operating system, including but not limited to the design,
 12 programming, or supply of operating systems for internet-enabled
 13 devices.
 14 8. "Social media platform" shall have the same meaning as in subdivi-
 15 sion five of section eleven hundred of this chapter.
 16 § 1510. Age assurance required. 1. Upon activation of an internet-ena-
 17 bled device, a covered manufacturer shall conduct commercially reason-
 18 able age assurance to determine whether a user is a covered minor. The
 19 attorney general shall promulgate regulations identifying methods for
 20 commercially reasonable and technically feasible age assurance, which
 21 shall consider the size, financial resources, and technical capabilities
 22 of covered manufacturers, the costs and effectiveness of available age
 23 assurance techniques for users of internet-enabled devices, and preva-
 24 lent practices o