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Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Subcommittee Hemp

Morrissey (Chair), Ruff, Suetterlein

Clerk: Patty Lung, Alec Fischbein
Staff: Scott Meacham, David Barry
Date of Meeting: January 22, 2020
Time and Place: 8:30 am - Subcommittee Room 1, 5th Fl. Pocahontas Bldg.

S.B. 827

Patron: Ruff

Industrial hemp; federal regulations; adoption in Virginia. Directs the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services to conform the regulations of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to any federal regulation adopted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, immediately upon publication in the Federal Register, that materially expands opportunities for growing, producing, or dealing in industrial hemp in the Commonwealth. The bill exempts such regulatory amendments by the Board from the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.). The bill contains an emergency clause.

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