Bill Text: IL HB5272 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that entities awarded a cannabis transporting license may defer paying the associated license fee for a period of no more than 2 years. Provides that from January 1, 2023 through January 1, 2028, there shall be a 5-year moratorium on the Department of Agriculture issuing any additional transporting licenses other than those issued through the process provided for under the Act.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-18 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5272 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB5272-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB5272 Introduced , by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
410 ILCS 705/40-5
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that entities awarded a cannabis transporting license may defer paying the associated license fee for a period of no more than 2 years. Provides that from January 1, 2023 through January 1, 2028, there shall be a 5-year moratorium on the Department of Agriculture issuing any additional transporting licenses other than those issued through the process provided for under the Act.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act is amended
by changing Section 40-5 as follows:
(410 ILCS 705/40-5)
Sec. 40-5. Issuance of licenses.
(a) The Department shall issue transporting licenses
through a process provided for in this Article no later than
July 1, 2020. Entities awarded a license under this Section
may defer paying the associated license fee for a period of no
more than 2 years.
(b) The Department shall make the application for
transporting organization licenses available on January 7,
2020 and shall receive such applications no later than March
15, 2020. The Department of Agriculture shall make available
such applications on every January 7 thereafter or if that
date falls on a weekend or holiday, the business day
immediately succeeding the weekend or holiday and shall
receive such applications no later than March 15 or the
succeeding business day thereafter.
(c) From January 1, 2023 through January 1, 2028, there
shall be a 5-year moratorium on the Department issuing any

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transporting licenses other than those issued in subsection
(a).
(Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-593, eff. 12-4-19.)