2025 bills / H.B. 203
H.B. 203 Cannabis Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill would allow more medical cannabis pharmacies and create a new license for independent pharmacies, with limits on who can own them. It would also change fees, production and sanitation rules, enforcement and appeals, product information requirements, and the state patient portal, and set new reporting and repeal dates.
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Official description
- defines terms
- allows for additional medical cannabis pharmacies
- creates a new medical cannabis pharmacy license for independent medical cannabis pharmacies
- creates ownership restrictions for independent medical cannabis pharmacies
- adjusts fees for certain medical cannabis pharmacy licenses
- amends provisions regarding cannabis production and sanitation
- modifies provisions related to enforcement and appeals
- amends provisions related to closed-door medical cannabis pharmacies
- allows a cannabis processing facility to have a website that includes product information
- limits the number of licenses that the Department of Agriculture and Food (department) may issue for cannabis processing facilities
- amends provisions regarding when the department may seize products and test products
- amends provisions related to information a medical cannabis pharmacy must have available to a patient purchasing medical cannabis
- creates a reporting requirement for the department
- repeals sections related to the state central patient portal
- authorizes the creation of patient product information inserts
- moves the repeal date for the Cannabis Research Review Board earlier one year
- extends the repeal date for the Medical Cannabis Governance Structure Working Group
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 203 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 203 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 13 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to change the bill · Jan 29, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 5 no, 1 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 29, 2025Who voted how
- 57 yes, 15 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 7, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 2 noSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how