OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
TWENTY-NINTH STATE LEGISLATURE
COMMITTEE REFERRALS
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NO. 63
54TH LEGISLATIVE DAY-APRIL 23, 2018
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Committee Abbreviations:
AGR - Agriculture |
CPC - Consumer Protection & Commerce |
EDB - Economic Development & Business |
EDN - Education |
EEP - Energy & Environmental Protection |
FIN - Finance |
HED - Higher Education |
HHS - Health & Human Services |
HSG - Housing |
IAC - Intrastate Commerce |
JUD - Judiciary |
LAB - Labor & Public Employment |
LMG - Legislative Management |
OMH - Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs |
PBS - Public Safety |
TOU - Tourism |
TRN - Transportation |
VMI - Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts |
WAL - Water & Land |
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RELATING TO CANNABIS FOR MEDICAL USE. Part I: Establishes a reciprocity process for medical cannabis patients that requires the Department of Health to register qualifying out-of-state patients and caregivers of qualifying out-of-state patients under certain conditions. Clarifies certain safeguards for qualifying out-of-state patients and caregivers of qualifying out-of-state patients. Authorizes the Department of Health to extend the maximum period of validity of any written certification to three years for debilitating medical conditions that are chronic. Clarifies a dispensary licensee's ability to retest, at its own expense, batches of cannabis or manufactured cannabis products that do not meet the Department of Health's standards for patient safety. Prohibits an employer from suspending, discharging, or discriminating against an employee for testing positive for cannabis if the employee is a registered qualifying patient who is authorized for the medical use of cannabis, with certain exceptions. Part II: Authorizes a bona fide physician-patient or advanced practice registered nurse-patient relationship to be established via telehealth. Part III: Authorizes and regulates the manufacturing of edible cannabis products as manufactured cannabis products by licensed medical cannabis dispensaries. Establishes requirements for manufacturing, handling, labeling, and packaging of manufactured cannabis products. Adds certain devices that provide safe pulmonary administration to the list of medical cannabis products that may be manufactured and distributed. Increases the tetrahydrocannabinol limit per pack or container of certain manufactured cannabis products. Part IV: Specifies certain felonies and conditions that will preclude employment, and other felonies and conditions that may preclude employment, at a medical cannabis dispensary. Effective 7/1/2050. (HB2729 SD2)
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