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2023 SESSION
SB 1133 Cannabis control; retail market, transitional sales, regulated hemp products, penalties.
Introduced by: Adam P. Ebbin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; regulated hemp products; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, which would be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing marijuana licenses on July 1, 2024, and, beginning July 1, 2023, allows certain pharmaceutical processors, pending establishment of the retail market, to cultivate, manufacture, and sell cannabis products to persons 21 years of age or older. The bill transitions from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to the Authority the authority to regulate the testing, labeling, packaging, and advertising of regulated hemp products, as defined in the bill. The bill creates a process by which persons convicted of certain felony marijuana-related offenses committed prior to July 1, 2022, who remain incarcerated or on community supervision on July 1, 2023, may receive an automatic hearing to consider modification of such person's sentence.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104135D pdf
- 01/27/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23105693D-S1 pdf
- 02/02/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23106127D-S2 pdf
- 02/02/23 Senate: Substitute bill reprinted 23106127D-S2 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104135D
- 01/10/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/24/23 Senate: Assigned Rehab sub: Cannabis
- 01/27/23 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with substitute (9-Y 6-N)
- 01/27/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23105693D-S1
- 01/27/23 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/02/23 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (12-Y 4-N)
- 02/02/23 Senate: Committee substitute printed 23106127D-S2
- 02/02/23 Senate: Substitute bill reprinted 23106127D-S2
- 02/03/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/23 Senate: Read second time
- 02/06/23 Senate: Rehabilitation and Social Service Committee substitute rejected 23105693D-S1
- 02/06/23 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/06/23 Senate: Finance and Appropriations Committee substitute agreed to 23106127D-S2
- 02/06/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1133S2
- 02/07/23 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 16-N)
- 02/10/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/10/23 House: Read first time
- 02/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/13/23 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #5
- 02/14/23 House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/22/23 House: Left in General Laws