Gov. Andrew Cuomo is again pushing this year a marijuana bill that would bring together, under a single new state office, the multifaceted regulation and taxation of the growing marijuana industry in the state, said an assistant counsel to the governor at a state bar conference Tuesday.

If passed in full, the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act would legalize adult, recreational use of marijuana in New York for the first time. But as the assistant counsel, Axel Bernabe, made clear Tuesday while speaking to a conference room full of lawyers at the New York State Bar Association's annual meeting, if that controversial aspect of the sprawling proposal is thwarted—as it was last year by legislators—there are many other elements of the bill.

The act itself, a version of which was first proposed in Albany by Cuomo last year but was not passed, proposes bringing the state's regulation and taxation rules for various elements of the marijuana industry—from industrial to food to medical to recreational—into one state Office of Cannabis Management. Currently, some parts of the wide-ranging industry are overseen and regulated by different divisions of the state government, Bernabe said.