{"id":51913,"date":"2020-07-23T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/new-york-state-senate-passes-bill-to-prevent-medical-cannabis-patients-from-eviction\/"},"modified":"2020-07-23T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:09:02","slug":"new-york-state-senate-passes-bill-to-prevent-medical-cannabis-patients-from-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/new-york-state-senate-passes-bill-to-prevent-medical-cannabis-patients-from-eviction\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Senate Passes Bill to Prevent Medical Cannabis Patients From Eviction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New York<\/a> State Senate has voted<\/u><\/a> 58 to 2 in favor of legislation to protect tenants from being evicted simply because they are legal medical marijuana<\/a> patients<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Bill S.4117<\/u><\/a>,<\/u> which is sponsored by Sen. Anna Kaplan (D), lays out the need to shield cannabis patients from housing discrimination<\/a>. It declares the legislation will seek to \u201censure that tenants lawfully using medical marihuana are protected from eviction proceedings.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt shall be a defense to a proceeding to recover possession of a residential unit that a landlord seeks such recovery because of a person\u2019s certified medical use of medical marihuana, and that, but for such use, the landlord would not seek to recover possession,\u201d it continues. \u201cA landlord may rebut such defense by showing that he or she seeks to recover possession of a residential unit because of any other lawful ground.\u201d<\/p>\n