Bill Text: CA SB622 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Cannabis regulation: plant identification program: unique identifier.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 496, Statutes of 2023. [SB622 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB622-Chaptered.html
Senate Bill
No. 622
CHAPTER 496
An act to amend Section 26069 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to cannabis.
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Approved by
Governor
October 08, 2023.
Filed with
Secretary of State
October 08, 2023.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 622, Allen.
Cannabis regulation: plant identification program: unique identifier.
(1) Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, regulates the cultivation, distribution, transport, storage, manufacturing, testing, processing, sale, and use of marijuana for nonmedical purposes by people 21 years of age and older. 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.
Existing law requires the Department of Cannabis Control to implement a unique identification program for cannabis and cannabis products and requires the program to include the identification of permitted cannabis plants at a cultivation site during the cultivation period.
Existing law requires a unique identifier to be issued for each cannabis plant and to be attached at the base of each plant or as otherwise required by law or regulation.
This bill would instead require the unique identifier to be recorded in a manner as determined by the department by regulation.
(2) AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions by a
2/3 vote of each house if the amendment furthers 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: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 26069 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:26069.
(a) (1) The department shall implement a unique identification program for cannabis and cannabis products.(2) The unique identification program shall include the identification of permitted cannabis plants at a cultivation site during the cultivation period. A unique identifier shall be issued for each cannabis plant. The department shall ensure that unique identifiers are issued as quickly as possible to ensure the implementation of this division. The unique identifier shall be recorded in a manner as determined by the department by regulation.
(b) Unique identifiers shall only be issued to those persons appropriately licensed by this division.
(c) Information associated with the assigned unique identifier and licensee shall be included in the trace and track program specified in Section 26067.
(d) The department may charge a fee to cover the reasonable costs of issuing the unique identifier and monitoring, tracking, and inspecting each cannabis plant.
(e) The department shall take adequate steps to establish protections against fraudulent unique identifiers and limit illegal diversion of unique identifiers to unlicensed persons.
(f) A city, county, or city and county may administer unique identifiers and associated identifying
information but a city, county, or city and county’s identifiers shall not supplant the department’s track and trace program.
(g) This section does not apply to the cultivation of cannabis in accordance with Section 11362.1 of the Health and Safety Code or the Compassionate Use Act.
