By Shelby Huffaker, MPH | San Diego Americans for Safe Access Co-Chair
Note: This page is a living document, though not all updates will be reflected immediately. Please refer to the bills’ pages for the most up-to-date information.
LAST UPDATE: 4/25/2024
ASSEMBLY
This bill would authorize a local jurisdiction to allow for the preparation or sale of non-cannabis food or beverage products at licensed consumption lounges and the sale of tickets for live musical or other performances on the premises of licensed consumption lounges. (ASA endorsed)
- STATUS: Re-referred to the Governmental Organization Committee. Hearing date scheduled for April 17, 2024 at 1:30pm.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Non-Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
AB 2223: Cannabis: industrial hemp.
This bill would allow licensees to manufacture, process, distribute, or sell products that contain industrial hemp or cannabinoids, extracts, or derivatives from industrial hemp if the product is registered with the State Department of Public Health (including products manufactured outside of California) and includes less than 1 milligram of THC (0.25 milligrams per serving). Hemp food and beverage products could not be labeled, marketed, or advertised as having an intoxicating effect.
- STATUS: Re-referred to Appropriations Committee.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; State-Mandated Local Program
AB 2296: Enhancements: concentrated cannabis.
Adds concentrated cannabis to the list of substances that if an individual, if convicted of violating certain laws where a person aged 16 years or younger is affected, subjects them to additional criminal penalties.
- STATUS: Referred to Assembly Public Safety Committee. Hearing date scheduled for April 23, 2024 at 9am.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; State-Mandated Local Program
AB 2540: Cannabis: license transfers.
Grants the Department of Cannabis Control the ability to transfer, assign, and reassign licenses for commercial cannabis activity.
- STATUS: Re-referred to Appropriations Committee. Hearing date scheduled for April 24, 2024 at 9:30am.
- DETAILS: ⅔ Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
AB 2555: Sales and use tax: exemption: medicinal cannabis: donations.
Would extend provisions exempting donated medical cannabis products from taxation for an additional 5 years.
- STATUS: Re-referred to Revenue and Taxation Committee. Hearing date scheduled for April 29, 2024 at 2:30pm.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; State-Mandated Local Program
AB 2643: Cannabis cultivation: environmental remediation.
Would require the Department of Fish and Wildlife to conduct a study to develop a framework for cannabis site restoration by 2027 and submit annual reports on the environmental impacts of illicit cannabis cultivation on California public lands. Civil penalties for noncompliant production of a controlled substance would be amended to apply specifically to noncompliant production of cannabis or cannabis products, even if they are removed from the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act.
- STATUS: Re-referred to Appropriations Committee.
- DETAILS: ⅔ Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
Would expand penalties for engaging in planting, cultivating, harvesting, drying, or processing greater than 6 cannabis plants by those aged 21 years and over (or for any living cannabis plant by people aged 18-20 years) from of an infraction and a fine to a felony.
- STATUS: Re-referred to Public Safety Committee. Hearing date scheduled for April 23, 2024 at 9am.
- DETAILS: ⅔ Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; State-Mandated Local Program
AB 2888: Cannabis: invoices: payment.
Would create penalties for licensees that do not pay for cannabis goods or services later than 15 days following the invoice due date.
- STATUS: Re-referred to Appropriations Committee. Hearing date scheduled for April 17, 2024 at 9:30am.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
AB 3054: Cannabis: appointees: prohibited activities.
Specifies that, in addition to other members of the Cannabis Control Appeals Panel, neither the Director nor any Governor-appointed official shall receive a commission or profit from an applicant or licensee.
- STATUS: Re-referred to Appropriations Committee with recommendation to place on the Consent Calendar.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
AB-3248 Cannabis excise tax: rate reduction.
Would lower the cannabis excise tax from 15% to 5% until 2027.
- STATUS: Re-referred to the Business and Professions Committee and the Revenue and Taxation Committee.
- DETAILS: ⅔ Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
SENATE
SB 820: Cannabis: enforcement: seizure of property.
Adds language about the need for the department or a jurisdiction to have an inspection warrant in order to seize specified property in the place where commercial cannabis activity is conducted without a license.
- STATUS: Passed Senate, awaiting Assembly Committee Assignment.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
SB-1059 Cannabis: local taxation: gross receipts.*
Would prohibit cities and counties from including, in their definition of taxable gross receipts for cannabis products, the cannabis excise tax (the “tax-on-tax”).
- STATUS: Amended and re-referred to Appropriations Committee.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; State-Mandated Local Program
SB-1064 Cannabis: operator and separate premises license types: excessive concentration of licenses.
Would consolidate commercial cannabis license categories, including retail sale, manufacturing, and distiribution licenses, into a single operator license category.
- STATUS: Re-referred to Appropriations Committee.
- DETAILS: ⅔ Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State Mandated Local Program
SB 1109 Cannabis: demographic information of persons with financial interests in license applicants.
Would require the Department of Cannabis Control to collect, consolidate, and publish demographic information about every person with a financial interest in a cannabis license applicant. Applicants would not be required to provide this information.
- STATUS: Re-referred to Appropriations Committee.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
SB 1264 Employment discrimination: cannabis use.
Would amend employment protections for off-the-job cannabis use by exempting employees in law enforcement agencies, including “applicants and employees who have functions related to civil enforcement matters, animal control, or coroner functions.”
- STATUS: Re-referred to the Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee. Hearing date scheduled for April 24, 2024 at 9:30am.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
SB 1498 Cannabis: advertising: private right of action.
Would allow the parent or guardian of a minor to take civil action against entities that do not comply with cannabis advertising and marketing restrictions.
- STATUS: Re-referred to the Judiciary Committee. Hearing date scheduled for April 23, 2024 at 9:30am.
- DETAILS: Majority Vote Required; Non-Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
Restricts the use of cannabis edibles to only patients with terminal illnesses in acute healthcare facilities (currently any patient over the age of 65 can legally use cannabis edibles in a hospital setting).
- STATUS: Re-referred to Appropriations Committee.
- DETAILS: ⅔ Vote Required; Appropriation; Fiscal Committee; Non-State-Mandated Local Program
*Indicates that the bill has been endorsed by ASA
