New York S 8332: Relates to providing handicap parking permits in the form of both placards and window stickers

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S08332 Summary:

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Enacts the "small cannabis farmer relief act" in relation to authorizing certain licensees who qualify as distressed farmer licensees and who legally cultivated cannabis during the two thousand twenty-two or two thousand twenty-three calendar year to expand their cultivation canopy.

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06/03/2025REFERRED TO RULES

06/06/2025RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8332

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 June 3, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the cannabis law, in relation to enacting the "small
 cannabis farmer relief act"; and providing for the repeal of such
 provisions upon expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "small cannabis farmer relief act".
 3 § 2. The cannabis law is amended by adding a new section 68-c to read
 4 as follows:
 5 § 68-c. Limited canopy expansion. 1. For the purposes of this section,
 6 the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 7 (a) "Canopy" or "cultivation canopy" shall mean an area to be calcu-
 8 lated in square feet and measured using clearly identifiable boundaries
 9 of all areas that will contain non-immature cannabis, including the
 10 spaces within the boundaries. Canopy may be noncontiguous, but each
 11 unique area included in the total canopy calculations shall be separated
 12 by an identifiable boundary, including, but not limited to, interior
 13 walls, shelves, greenhouse walls, hoop house walls, garden benches,
 14 hedge rows, fencing, garden beds, or garden plots. Canopy does not
 15 include areas used for seedling production, propagation of clones, main-
 16 tenance of mother plants used for cloning, or nursery area.
 17 (b) "Greenhouse" shall mean a structure or thermally isolated enclosed
 18 area with rigid walls that maintains a specialized conditioned and
 19 sunlit environment used for and essential to the cultivation,
 20 protection, or maintenance of plants. A greenhouse may include addi-
 21 tional artificial lighting and climate controls based on cultivation
 22 techniques used.
 23 (c) "Hoop house" shall mean specialized unconditioned agricultural
 24 equipment having a framework covered with demountable non-rigid materi-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13306-01-5

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 1 als unsealed from the outdoor elements, which allows for penetration of
 2 sunlight to cannabis plants, specifically designed, constructed, and
 3 used for agricultural production. A hoop house may include up to twenty
 4 artificial lights for the propagation of seedlings or clones. Such
 5 lights shall meet photosynthetic photon efficacy requirements as deter-
 6 mined by the office.
 7 (d) "Immature cannabis plant" or "immature plant" shall mean a canna-
 8 bis plant which does not have a flower or buds that may be observed by
 9 visual examination.
 10 (e) "Mother plant" shall mean an immature cannabis plant that is main-
 11 tained in an immature state indefinitely and intended to be used for
 12 propagation.
 13 (f) "Nursery area" shall mean an area to be calculated in square feet
 14 and measured using clearly identifiable boundaries of all areas that
 15 will be used to produce clones, seedlings, immature cannabis plants,
 16 cloned propagation material, tissue culture and cannabis seeds, includ-
 17 ing the spaces within the boundaries. Provided that the primary purpose
 18 of the area is to produce clones, seedlings, immature cannabis plants,
 19 cloned propagation material, tissue culture or cannabis seeds, a nursery
 20 area may also contain mature and i