Bill Text: CA AB2925 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: California Cannabis Tax Fund: spending reports.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 394, Statutes of 2022. [AB2925 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB2925-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2925

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Introduced by Assembly Member Cooper

February 18, 2022

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An act to amend Section 26040 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to cannabis.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2925, as introduced, Cooper. Cannabis Control Appeals Panel: membership.

The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.

MAUCRSA establishes in state government a Cannabis Control Appeals Panel to review specified decisions of licensing authorities appealed by any person aggrieved by those decisions. MAUCRSA requires that the panel to consist of 5 members, including one member appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, one member appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, and 3 members appointed by the Governor, as specified.

This bill would instead require the Cannabis Control Appeals Panel to consist of 7 members, including 2 members appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, 2 members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, and 3 members appointed by the Governor, as specified.

AUMA authorizes legislative amendment of its provisions with a ²/₃ vote of both houses, without submission to the voters, to further its purposes and intent.

This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of AUMA.

Digest Key

Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 26040 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:

26040.

 (a) (1) There is established in state government, in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, a Cannabis Control Appeals Panel which that shall consist of the following members:

(A) One member Two members appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules.

(B) One member Two members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.

(C) Three members appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by a majority vote of all of the members elected to the Senate.

(2) Each member appointed by the Governor, at the time of their initial appointment, shall be a resident of a different county from the one in which either of the other members appointed by the Governor resides. Members of the panel shall receive an annual salary as provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

(b) The members of the panel may be removed from office by their appointing authority.

SEC. 2.

 The Legislature finds and declares that this act furthers the purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016.