Virginia Senate Bill 1115 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 29 2021 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Industrial hemp; federal hemp producer license; emergency. Updates Virginia's industrial hemp laws to address the new hemp producer license issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The bill changes drug laws to exclude the industrial hemp possessed by a federally licensed hemp producer from the definition of "marijuana" and to exclude certain amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in such industrial hemp from the prohibition on THC. The bill exempts federally licensed hemp producers from state industrial hemp registration requirements and adds such producers to the list of those eligible to receive funds from the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund. Industrial hemp; federal hemp producer license; emergency. Updates Virginia's industrial hemp laws to address the new hemp producer license issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The bill changes drug laws to exclude the industrial hemp possessed by a federally licensed hemp producer from the definition of "marijuana" and to exclude certain amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in such industrial hemp from the prohibition on THC. The bill exempts federally licensed hemp producers from state industrial hemp registration requirements and adds such producers to the list of those eligible to receive funds from the Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Fund. The bill makes other changes to industrial hemp laws, including (i) excluding from the definition of "dealer" any retail establishment that sells a completed product containing industrial hemp; (ii) making optional the monitoring and random testing of industrial hemp by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services and authorizing the random sampling of such hemp; (iii) removing the requirement that the Attorney General of the United States be notified when a Virginia grower, dealer, or processor exceeds the federal THC limit; and (iv) directing the Commissioner to adopt regulations establishing a fee structure for registration. Finally, the bill exempts employees of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services from prosecution for possession or distribution of industrial hemp when possession is necessary in the performance of their duties. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Industrial hemp; increases maximum THC concentration.

Sen. Mark Peake [R]

2021-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (13-Y 0-N 2-A) (Y: 13 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-08	House	Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote
2021-02-05	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2021-02-05	House	Read first time
2021-02-05	House	Placed on Calendar
2021-02-01	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2021-01-29	Senate	Emergency clause added
2021-01-29	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1115S1
2021-01-29	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 21103790D-S1
2021-01-29	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2021-01-29	Senate	Read second time
2021-01-28	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2021-01-26	Senate	Committee substitute printed 21103790D-S1
2021-01-26	Senate	Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (13-Y 0-N 2-A)
2020-12-21	Senate	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
2020-12-21	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101447D

SB1115 (Carry Over) 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	2	4112	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3401	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB1115
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1115+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1115S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/21103790D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB1115FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S01V0040+SB1115
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0161SB1115+SB1115
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0204SB1115+SB1115