STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5629 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 21, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to conditions permit- ting the use of medical marihuana The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 3360 of the 2 public health law, as added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) "Serious condition" means: 5 (i) having one of the following severe debilitating or life-threaten- 6 ing conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus 7 or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 8 Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of 9 the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable 10 spasticity, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies, 11 Huntington's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, or as added by the 12 commissioner; and 13 (ii) any of the following conditions where it is clinically associated 14 with, or a complication of, a condition under this paragraph or its 15 treatment: cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe or chronic pain; severe 16 nausea; seizures; severe or persistent muscle spasms; or such conditions 17 as are added by the commissioner. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 19 ments to title 5-A of article 33 of the public health law made by 20 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such title and 21 shall be deemed repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10804-01-7