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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Committee

 

 

RE-REFERRAL

 

 

 

HB2729, HD2, SD2

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)

 

HHS, LAB, JUD, FIN