Highlight of the Week: Collaboration is the goal more than ever this year and it was exciting to sit together with colleagues from other organizations to all testify in support of an interstate commerce trigger bill.

This week marked the start of the 2023 legislative session and the capitol is back in person and it was a busy start for cannabis! The legislative team has been busy working on crossing t’s and dotting i’s with legislators on our bills and we expect to see Removing the Excise Tax for Patients, Homegrow, Arrest Protection, and Cannabis Research Commission filed by the end of the week next week. We will let you know as soon as we have bill numbers for each piece of legislation.

If you’d like to follow along with cannabis legislation as it develops, you can view our Bill Tracker HERE.

This week’s action:

1/10/23 Labor and Commerce at 10:30am:

SB 5123 – Concerning the employment of individuals who lawfully consume cannabis.

Burl testifies PRO at 04:09

SB 5069 – Allowing interstate cannabis agreements.

Burl testifies PRO at 24:21

SB 5080 – Expanding and improving the social equity in cannabis program.

Written PRO testimony

1/10/23 Regulated Substances at 4:00p:

HB 1083 – Concerning terms of payment for cannabis retailers.

Burl testifies CON at 17:05

HB 1159 – Allowing interstate cannabis agreements.

Burl testifies PRO at 33:05

New cannabis bills that dropped this week:

We always want to hear from you on what you think about legislation. Please reach-out any time or stop by in office hours. Most Fridays, office hours will also have a number of members from the Legislative Committee and we’d be happy to loop you into the conversation.

SB 5259 – Ensuring commerce and workplaces are safe from product theft

We would like to hear your feedback on this bill.

SB 5367 – Concerning the regulation of products containing THC

This is LCB agency request legislation that has been worked quite a bit and based on a number of surveys and conversation, we will be testifying in support of this bill.

SB 5363 – Concerning cannabis retailer advertising

SB 5376 – Allowing the sale of cannabis waste

We are excited to see the work of our sustainability committee make it into bill form.

SB 5377 – Concerning cannabis license ownership

Look for a survey on this bill in your inbox soon. There is new language regarding the issuing of licenses.

SB 5340/HB 1249 – Regarding limits on the sale and possession of retail cannabis products.

We would like to hear your feedback on this bill.