New York S 8940: Relates to service contract payment reductions and prohibitions on new service contracts in the event of mid-year budget cuts

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S08940 Summary:

BILL NOS08940 

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SAME ASSAME AS A11107

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SPONSORSCARCELLA-SPANTON

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§72 & 77, Cannabis L

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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.

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BILL NOS08940 

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01/16/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8940

 IN SENATE

 January 16, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 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.
 LBD14461-01-6

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