Mississippi House Bill 180 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Failed on January 31 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-01-31 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Authorize The Growing And Handling Of Industrial Hemp; To Define Certain Terms; To Require The Licensing Of Hemp Growers By The Department Of Agriculture And Commerce; To Require Record Keeping, Seed Retention And Inspections; To Provide For Fees For Licensing; To Provide For The Revocation Of Licenses And Imposition Of Civil Penalties For Violations Of This Act; To Amend Sections 41-29-113 And 69-1-13, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Preceding Provisions; And For Related Purposes.

Industrial hemp; legalize and regulate for certain purposes.

Rep. Joel Bomgar [R]

Rep. Kathy Sykes [D]

Rep. Jeffrey Smith [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-31	House	Died In Committee
2017-01-03	House	Referred To Drug Policy;Public Health and Human Services

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2017/pdf/history/HB/HB0180.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2017/html/HB/0100-0199/HB0180IN.htm