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Bill Detail: SB24-076

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Title Streamline Marijuana Regulation
Status Governor Signed (06/06/2024)
Bill Subjects
  • Liquor, Tobacco, & Marijuana
House Sponsors W. Lindstedt (D)
Senate Sponsors K. Van Winkle (R)
J. Gonzales (D)
House Committee Finance
Senate Committee Finance
Date Introduced 01/22/2024
AI Summary
Summary

Current law allows the transfer of immature plants, seeds, and
genetic material between a medical or retail cultivation facility and
certain people, including people approved by rule. Sections 1, 7, and 10
of the bill allow this transfer from or to a medical or retail marijuana
cultivation facility from or to a person permitted by another jurisdiction
to possess or cultivate marijuana. The medical or retail cultivation facility
must confirm that the purchaser is 21 years of age or older. The
cultivation facility may accept online payments for the transfer. The state
licensing authority may promulgate rules to implement the provision, but
limits are placed on the rules that the state licensing authority may adopt.
Section 2 limits the frequency at which regulated marijuana and
a regulated marijuana product need to be tested to no more than once for
each required test and otherwise requires the elimination of redundant
testing. Section 2 also exempts the fungi in the genus aspergillus from
product testing.
Current law requires beneficial owners and people who have
access to the limited access areas of a medical marijuana business or retail
marijuana business to have identification cards. Section 2 repeals the
requirement that beneficial owners have identification cards, but retains
the requirement that people with access to the limited access areas need
to have identification cards.
Section 2 also specifies that a licensee need not use radio
frequency identification tags to tag or track marijuana and marijuana
products.
Current law requires the marijuana enforcement division in the
department of revenue (division) to promulgate rules requiring testing of
marijuana and marijuana products for contaminants or substances that are
harmful to health. Section 2 clarifies that these tests should be made to
determine whether the contaminants or substances are present in amounts
that are harmful to health. Current law allows a licensee to remediate
marijuana or marijuana products that have failed a test. Section 2
removes a requirement that the licensee identify on the labeling that the
product has failed a test when the product subsequently passed the same
test. Section 2 also authorizes retesting when the marijuana or marijuana
product has failed a test.
Current law authorizes the division to establish procedures to issue
a conditional employee identification card, which allows an individual to
work for a license holder, after the individual has submitted an initial
application and the division has conducted an investigation regarding the
application but before the fingerprint record check is finished. Section 2
requires the division to promulgate rules and issue the employee
identification card upon initial review of the application.
The division is required to adopt rules authorizing a licensee to
conduct fewer tests than normal upon demonstrating that the licensee's
standard operating procedures and production practices result in
consistent passing test results (program). Section 2 specifically authorizes
this program and sets an expiration date for reduced testing under the
program at 3 years.
Sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 11 extend the initial license and
license renewal periods from one year to 2 years.
Section 3 requires the division to establish a system that allows a
medical or retail marijuana business that transports marijuana or
marijuana products to use an electronic manifest system.
Section 5 requires the division to retain fingerprints submitted for
initial licensure for use in a criminal history record check for license
renewal. Section 5 also authorizes a person who holds multiple licenses
or affiliated persons who hold multiple licenses to submit a unified
application for license renewal. The license holders must elect to have
one or more licenses expire in less than 2 years in order to coordinate the
expiration date.
Section 12 requires the division to promulgate rules categorizing
each violation as a safety violation or a technical violation. The division
will expunge technical violations from a licensee's record on the later date
of one year after the violation is reported or when the license is renewed.
Section 13 reduces the amount of time for which a marijuana
licensee must retain books and records that show the business's
transactions from 3 years to one year.
Current law requires that excise tax be levied on the first transfer
of unprocessed retail marijuana. Section 14 specifies that the transfer of
unprocessed retail marijuana exclusively for microbial control is not the
first transfer of unprocessed retail marijuana for taxation purposes.

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