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2022 SESSION
SB 313 Cannabis products; retail sale by certain pharmaceutical processors & industrial hemp processors.
Introduced by: Adam P. Ebbin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Retail sale of cannabis products by certain pharmaceutical processors and industrial hemp processors; sunset. Allows certain pharmaceutical processors and industrial hemp processors to sell, under the oversight of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority (the Board), cannabis products at retail to unregistered persons who are 21 years of age or older without the need for a written certification. The bill directs the Board to adopt and enforce regulations governing such sales that shall model certain Board of Pharmacy regulations and comply with other requirements set forth in the bill. The bill requires pharmaceutical processors and industrial hemp processors engaging in such sales to pay a $1 million fee and collect a 21 percent excise tax, both of which shall ultimately be allocated to the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to be used to assist independent cannabis retailers located in designated rural and urban opportunity zones. The bill also requires such pharmaceutical processors and industrial hemp processors to submit and comply with a plan describing how the processor will educate consumers about responsible consumption of cannabis products and incubate independent cannabis retailers or support and educate persons that wish to participate in the cannabis market. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2023, and shall expire when pharmaceutical processors and industrial hemp processors engaging in the sale of cannabis products pursuant to the provisions of the bill are authorized by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority to apply for and be granted licenses to cultivate, manufacture, wholesale, and sell at retail to consumers 21 years of age or older retail marijuana and retail marijuana products.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104291D pdf
- 02/04/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105965D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/14/22 Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106562D-S2 (Morrissey) pdf
- 02/14/22 Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106563D-S3 (Ebbin) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate amendments
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104291D
- 01/11/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/18/22 Senate: Assigned Rehab sub: Cannabis
- 02/04/22 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (8-Y 7-N)
- 02/04/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/04/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105965D-S1
- 02/04/22 Senate: Incorporates SB621 (Dunnavant)
- 02/10/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 3-N 2-A)
- 02/11/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106562D-S2 (Morrissey)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106563D-S3 (Ebbin)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/14/22 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 22105965D-S1
- 02/14/22 Senate: Ebbin floor substitute ruled out of order
- 02/14/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/14/22 Senate: Substitute by Senator Morrissey agreed to (21-Y 18-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Title replaced 22106562D-S2
- 02/14/22 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/14/22 Senate: Amendment by Senator Morrissey agreed to
- 02/14/22 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/15/22 Senate: Read second time
- 02/15/22 Senate: Passed by for the day (21-Y 19-N)
- 02/15/22 Senate: Reconsideration of Passed by for the day agreed to (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/22 Senate: Stricken from Senate calendar (38-Y 2-N)