South Carolina Senate Bill 468 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-4)
Status: Introduced on February 23 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-23 - Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Pending: Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Revise The Definitions Of Terms Contained In This Chapter, To Provide A Definition For The Term "human Consumption", To Create The South Carolina Industrial Hemp Program, To Provide That Industrial Hemp Is An Agricultural Crop Upon Which An Institution Of Higher Education May Conduct Research, To Provide That Industrial Hemp Or Hemp Products May Not Be Considered An Adulterant, To Provide Provisions That Regulate The Growing, Selling, And Importation Of Industrial Hemp And Hemp Seed, To Delete The Provision That Excludes Industrial Hemp From The Definition Of Marijuana, To Revise The Provision That Specifies That Certain Conduct Regarding The Manufacturing, Distribution, Purchase, And Other Activities Relating To Disguising Marijuana To Make It Appear To Be Industrial Hemp, And To Provide For Laboratory Testing Of Industrial Hemp.

Industrial hemp cultivation

Sen. Paul Campbell [R]	Sen. Vincent Sheheen [D]	Sen. Gerald Malloy [D]	Sen. Luke Rankin [R]
Sen. Danny Verdin [R]	Sen. Thomas Young [R]	Sen. Katrina Shealy [R]	Sen. Thomas Davis [R]
Sen. Chauncey Gregory [R]	Sen. John Matthews [D]	Sen. Kevin Johnson [D]	Sen. Stephen Goldfinch [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-23	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
2017-02-23	Senate	Introduced and read first time

H3559 (Similar To) 2017-05-18 - Act No. 37

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=0468&session=122&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-2018/prever/468_20170223.htm