Bill Text: CA SB595 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Cannabis: state licensing fee waivers: needs-based applicants and licensees: local equity applicants and licensees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-12 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 852, Statutes of 2019. [SB595 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB595-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Cannabis: state licensing fee waivers: needs-based applicants and licensees: local equity applicants and licensees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-12 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 852, Statutes of 2019. [SB595 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB595-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 595 |
| Introduced by Senator Bradford |
February 22, 2019 |
An act relating to cannabis.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 595, as introduced, Bradford.
Cannabis: local equity programs.
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (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, among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.
Existing law, the California Cannabis Equity Act of 2018, authorizes the Bureau of Cannabis Control, upon request by a local jurisdiction, to provide technical assistance, as defined, to a local equity program that helps local equity applicants or local equity licensees. Existing law authorizes, upon appropriation of funds by the
Legislature, an eligible local jurisdiction to submit an application to the bureau for a grant to assist local equity applicants and local equity licensees through that local jurisdiction’s equity program and for the bureau to grant funding to an eligible local jurisdiction, based on specified factors. Existing law requires an eligible local jurisdiction that receives grant funds pursuant to these provisions to use the grant funds to assist local equity licensees in that local jurisdiction to gain entry to, and to successfully operate in, the state’s regulated cannabis marketplace.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide financial support to local cannabis equity applicants or licensees.
