This bill amends multiple New York State laws to replace the terms "addict" or "addicts" with "person with substance use disorder" or a similar phrase throughout legal texts. It specifically updates references in the judiciary law (affecting court proceedings), mental hygiene law (governing treatment programs), and public health law (regarding controlled substance dispensing). The change applies to all relevant legal documents, including those describing mental health hearings, treatment eligibility, and medication administration protocols. This terminology shift aims to reduce stigma by using person-centered language consistent with modern healthcare and legal standards. The bill was signed into law as Chapter 511 on November 21, 2025.
Relates to warning labels on cannabis products; includes advertising, deceptively advertising, branding, marketing, packaging, displaying, labelling, offering for ingestion outside of packaging, or administering cannabis products in contravention of a certain section of the cannabis law or rules and regulations in the criminal sale of cannabis in the first degree.
Includes within the class A misdemeanor of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, the possession of a firearm, rifle or shotgun, outside the home, while impaired or intoxicated by use of alcohol or drugs; increases maximum fine for such offense to $10,000; provides for chemical testing of certain persons for whom there is reasonable cause to believe are in violation of such provision; provides for revocation of firearms permit upon conviction or refusal of a chemical test.
Establishes the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance upon the grounds of a drug or alcohol treatment center, or alcoholics anonymous or narcotics anonymous meeting; designates such crime as a class E felony.
This bill amends New York's penal law to remove criminal penalties for possessing rifles, shotguns, or firearms on college and university campuses. It explicitly states that the prohibition on weapon possession "shall not apply to college or university buildings or grounds," meaning students, faculty, and visitors could legally carry such firearms without authorization on campus. However, the bill maintains that schools cannot authorize teachers, administrators, or non-security staff to carry weapons - only certified security personnel with special registration may be permitted to do so. The change eliminates the current class E felony charge for firearm possession on campus grounds, shifting the legal standard for campus safety.
This bill makes possessing or selling armor-piercing ammunition a class B felony in New York, directly affecting individuals who handle this type of ammunition. It adds specific provisions to the penal law stating that possessing armor-piercing ammunition, or unlawfully selling, exchanging, or disposing of it, constitutes a serious criminal offense. The bill repeals an existing subdivision and amends two sections of the penal law to include these new felony classifications. These changes raise penalties for these activities from lesser offenses to a class B felony, the second-highest criminal classification in New York.
This bill amends New York's penal law to set a 15-gram threshold for stimulants. It specifies that possessing 15 grams or more of a stimulant, or selling 15 grams or more of a stimulant, will be classified as a class A-I felony. These changes directly affect individuals who possess or sell stimulant drugs (like cocaine or methamphetamine) in quantities meeting or exceeding this weight. The bill does not alter existing thresholds for narcotics or methadone.
Classifies operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs by an individual under the age of twenty-one as a per se offense; includes any substance or combination of substances that impair, to any extent, physical or mental abilities in the definition of drugs; allows the odor of cannabis to be the basis for evidence for a violation of section 1192-a of the vehicle and traffic law.
Increases penalties for the crimes of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the first, second, third and fourth degrees and criminal sale of a prescription.
Relates to the classification of the drug xylazine as a schedule I controlled substance, and to the criminal sale and possession of xylazine or preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing xylazine.
