Cannabis legislation in New York

Every bill in the New York Legislature that falls inside the Cannabis Legislation Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.

88

Bills in Scope

18

Past Committee

6 August 2026

Most Recent Action

Cannabis bills in New York

5Enacted

1Cleared both chambers

12Past committee

70Introduced or inactive

88 bills in scope

Showing the 25 furthest along of 88. Subscribers see all of them, filtered and searchable. Bill titles link to the New York Legislature's own page.

Coverage depth varies by jurisdiction. How this is measured, and where it is thinner.

What's In Scope

How Cannabis Legislation bills are selected

In scope is any bill regulating the cultivation, manufacture, testing, distribution, sale, possession or taxation of cannabis and cannabis products: adult-use and medical programmes, licence classes and the agency that issues them, excise rates and revenue allocation, social equity licensing and automatic expungement, intoxicating hemp and cannabinoid products, potency limits, packaging and labelling, impaired driving, workplace and tenancy protections for lawful use, and banking and insurance access for licensees.

Scope is defined by a written topic profile that every bill is measured against. The profiles are drafted by a model and validated by retrieval measurement against a judged set of bills, not reviewed by an attorney. LawSignals is a research tool and does not provide legal advice.

New York is one of Cannabis Legislation's jurisdictions

The tracker follows this subject everywhere it is legislated, and publishes a monthly issue on what moved across all of them.