What's happening
This bill requires the creation of an online database listing known synthetic cannabinoids, their descriptions, and related product information for public and law enforcement access.
Why it matters
Empowers consumers, retailers, and law enforcement. by providing a centralized, accessible source of up-to-date information about dangerous synthetic cannabinoids, helping them identify these substances and avoid unintentional harm or legal violations.
Facilitates rapid response to emerging drug trends. by requiring ongoing updates to the database, ensuring that new compounds and products can be quickly catalogued as they appear on the market.
Aims to deter illegal sales and misuse. by publishing physical descriptions, trade and brand names, and images of product packaging, making it harder for sellers to disguise or misrepresent synthetic cannabinoid products.
Limits government liability. by explicitly stating that the state is not responsible for economic harm, injury, or death resulting from the information in the database, which may encourage more open sharing of potentially incomplete or evolving data.
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Who cares
Department of Health and Division of Criminal Justice Services
They would jointly establish and maintain the database, with protection from liability for economic harm, personal injury or death resulting from information included or omitted.
Consumers
They would gain access to descriptions, effects, brand names and packaging images of products known to contain synthetic cannabinoids.
Retailers
They could consult the public database for compounds, trade names and packaging images to help identify products known to contain synthetic cannabinoids.
Law enforcement agencies
They would have an online resource listing known synthetic cannabinoid compounds and identifying products that contain them.
Headline styles
List Synthetic Drugs Online
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7144
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 10, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the commissioner of health to establish an electronic database of known synthetic cannabinoids
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 3308 of the public health law is amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
7. The commissioner shall, in conjunction with the division of criminal justice services, establish and maintain an electronic database of known synthetic cannabinoids, a hallucinogenic controlled substance defined in subdivision (g) of Schedule I of section thirty-three hundred six of this title. Such database shall be published on the department's website so that consumers, retailers and law enforcement agencies can access information including, but not limited to:
(a) a list of compounds known to belong to the classes of chemicals listed in such subdivision and their trade names;
(b) a physical description of products known to contain such compounds, and their effects; and
(c) a list of the brand names of products known to contain such compounds, and images of their packaging.
The website shall include a statement indicating that such information is being provided as a resource for consumers, retailers and law enforcement. Neither the department nor the division of criminal justice services shall be liable for any economic harm, personal injury or death that may result from information included in or omitted from the database.
§ 2. The commissioner of health shall promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of section one of this
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11096-01-9
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act, its purpose and intent pursuant to subdivision 7 of section 3308 of the public health law.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that section one of this act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, further, that the commissioner of health and the division of criminal justice services shall immediately take the actions necessary to ensure that the database created by subdivision 7 of section 3308 of the public health law, as added by section one of this act, is operational on or before the effective date of section one of this act.
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