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2023 SESSION

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SB 391 Cannabis control; retail market.

Introduced by: Adam P. Ebbin | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales by pharmaceutical and industrial hemp processors; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth. The bill creates a regulatory and licensing structure for such retail market and for the cultivation, manufacture, and wholesale of marijuana and marijuana products to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows certain pharmaceutical and industrial hemp processors, pending establishment of the retail market, to cultivate, manufacture, and sell to persons 21 years of age or older cannabis products. The bill also relocates and modifies numerous criminal provisions regarding marijuana offenses. The bill has staggered effective dates. The bill satisfies the reenactment requirement of Chapters 550 and 551 of the Acts of Assembly of 2021, Special Session I, but makes numerous modifications to the provisions of the 2021 legislation related to licensure, criminal penalties, expungement, regulation of certain hemp products, local regulation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

FULL TEXT

• 01/11/22  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103983D  pdf | impact statement
• 02/04/22  Senate: Committee substitute printed 22105973D-S1  pdf | impact statements
• 02/10/22  Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106443D-S2  pdf
• 02/15/22  Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106647D-S3 (Ebbin)  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

• Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered

HISTORY

• 01/11/22  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103983D
• 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: Committee substitute printed 22105973D-S1
• 02/04/22  Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
• 02/10/22  Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (11-Y 4-N 1-A)
• 02/10/22  Senate: Committee substitute printed 22106443D-S2
• 02/11/22  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/14/22  Senate: Read second time
• 02/14/22  Senate: Committee substitute rejected 22105973D-S1
• 02/14/22  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/14/22  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22106443D-S2
• 02/14/22  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB391S2
• 02/15/22  Senate: Passed by temporarily
• 02/15/22  Senate: Floor substitute printed 22106647D-S3 (Ebbin)
• 02/15/22  Senate: Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/22  Senate: Committee substitute reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/22  Senate: Committee substitute rejected 22106443D-S2 (15-Y 25-N)
• 02/15/22  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 02/15/22  Senate: Substitute by Senator Ebbin agreed to 22106647D-S3
• 02/15/22  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB391S3
• 02/15/22  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/22  Senate: Passed Senate (23-Y 16-N)
• 02/15/22  Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/22  Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
• 02/24/22  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/24/22  House: Read first time
• 02/24/22  House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
• 02/24/22  House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #5
• 02/28/22  House: Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2023 (5-Y 3-N)
• 03/01/22  House: Continued to 2023 in General Laws (12-Y 10-N)
• 11/22/22  House: Left in General Laws