H.B. 469 Cannabinoid Amendments: transcript

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will once again invite up Dr. Forsyth from the Department of Agriculture and Food to co-present with me. So, cannabinoid amendments, again, is just a recognition that our industrial hemp industry is an evolving process. And this bill is one that I've worked with U DAF for years on. Um, just helping be responsive to their needs and the changing industry, um, to make sure that they have the ability to do the job that we statutorily task them to do. Um, and if it's okay, I will pass it to Dr. Forsyth to address the details.

Dr. Brandon Forsyth, director of the, uh, specialized Products Division at the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food. Um, some pretty minor changes in this bill, but ones that do need to take place. Um, last year there was a provision put into statute to require video recording at the register for these facilities that are selling cannabinoid products that ended up being more difficult to implement than we could bear and would've created a pretty significant burden on the retailers that are performing this. So it's necessary, unfortunately, to remove that, even though we would prefer to be able to have eyes on that. Um, this also puts in a provision to dispose of waste properly for several people involved in the chain of custody of these products. Um, that's very necessary with the types of products that are available out here in the community, especially vape products where they have integrated batteries in them. Those need to be disposed of safely when the products are being destroyed or disposed of because they, uh, pose Ophir as well as a chemical risk to the environment. That concludes your presentation. That's It. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Mr. Chair. Elaborate a little more on the waste part. I get the battery, but what do you, I mean, to separate, I'm obviously not in this, but when you get, it seems like those be two different processes and how complicated and how does it work?

Yeah, it's really just breaking those apart. So in a integrated vape device, you'd have both the cannabinoid capsule as well as the battery. You just need to physically separate those, remove the battery and dispose of it in accordance with local The battery's. The issue then, uh, In most cases, yeah, if there were other hazardous chemicals, which we test for most of those, and they can't be in the products in the first place, but if they were found to contain heavy metals or something that needed to dispose of that and in accordance with the laws for those as well.

Will, uh, move that we move out favorably.

Uh, Mr. Chair, I'd like to move. We make, make a motion that we move first sub house bill 4 69 with a favorable recommendation.

Back to the sponsor for summation. I Couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you.

Our substitute house bill 4 69 CANOP OID Amendments by Representative DA Provo. This bill was heard in Natural Resources, agriculture and Environment with a vote of 9 0 5.

You Mr. Speaker Prote. Motion to circle.

Would briefly in an effort to decrease the number of bills that were running through the house. The substitute that we just passed in the previous bill is in that bill, so we no longer need this one.