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LEGISLATIVE REPORT: WINTER 2024
HB2500 An Act amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes,
providing for adult use of cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis;
providing for powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture; establishing the Cannabis
Business Development Fund; providing for social and economic equity, for regulation of
cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing,
for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and
regulation of cannabis and cannabis- infused edible and nonedible products; imposing a
sales tax and excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products;
establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for
miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to medical
cannabis; transferring certain powers and duties of the Department of Health to the
Department of Agriculture; and making repeals.
Sponsor Summary Rep. Aaron D. Kaufer (R)
(PN 3636) Amends Title 35 (Health and Safety), providing for adult use of cannabis; regulating
the personal use and possession of cannabis; providing the Department of Agriculture (PDA)
with general and sole regularity authority over the conduct of adult-use cannabis or related
activities. Requires the department with the Pennsylvania State Police to conduct a criminal
history record check and fingerprinting of each prospective principal officer, board member and
agent of a cannabis business establishment and charge a fee not to exceed the actual cost of the
commonwealth and national criminal history record check. Allows for the personal use, possession
and transport of cannabis.
Limits the ownership of cannabis to individuals 21 years of age or older and less than 30 grams of
cannabis flower and 1,000 milligrams of THC contained in cannabis-infused edible or nonedible
products and 5 grams of cannabis concentrate. Provides for penalties. Provides for restrictions.
Prohibits discrimination. Provides for the powers and duties of PDA. Establishing the Cannabis
Business Development Fund; providing for social and economic equity, for regulation of cannabis
business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising,
marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis and
cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis
and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products. Establishes the Cannabis Regulation Fund
in the State Treasury and directs any unspent amount at the end of the fiscal year to be transferred
to the general fund if there has been an appropriation from the General Fund for the operations of
the department. Provides 2 percent of gross receipts of the revenue in the fund to the department
as necessary for actual costs and expenses. Provides for disbursement of all revenue from taxes
collected. Establishes the Cannabis Clean Slate, which provides for an individual who has been
arrested or charged with the Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act in relation
to cannabis to have their record expunged. This section shall only apply to nonviolent offenses.
Provides for a resentencing process for an individual currently serving a sentence for a conviction.
Allows for an employer to adopt reasonable policies restricting the use, consumption, possession,
transfer, display, transportation, sale or growing of cannabis by employees in the workplace.
Consolidating provisions relating to medical cannabis; transferring certain powers and duties of the
Department of Health to DPA; and making repeals. Effective Immediately.
Categories 1. Agriculture, 2. Business and Manufacturing, 3. Law and Justice/Judiciary, 4. Law Enforcement/
Firearms, 5. Municipalities/Cities/Urban Affairs
Intro Date 09/12/2024
Last Action 09/19/2024 H - Referred to - House Health
SB1313 An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes,
in computer offenses, providing for Internet protections for minors.
Sponsor Sen. Cris Dush (R)
Summary (PN 1867) Amends Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses), in computer offenses, providing for Internet
protections for minors. Creates subchapter F for the internet protections for minors, providing
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