KY SB50 | 2013 | Regular Session

Status

Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 7 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-04-07 - became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Chapter 134)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #4) [MS Word]

Summary

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 260 to define "Commissioner," "department," "grower," "industrial hemp," and "tetrahydrocannabinol"; establish conditions and procedures for the licensing of industrial hemp growers by the Department of Agriculture; require the department to coordinate a criminal history check with the assistance of law enforcement agencies; establish a license duration period; require the department to set the cost of the license by administrative regulation; require the department to forward a copy of an industrial hemp grower license to law enforcement agencies; specify stipulations for growers having an industrial hemp grower license; clarify that the Act does not authorize a person to violate federal law; require periodic reports to the Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission; establish circumstances under which a license may be withdrawn; amend KRS 218A.010 to conform; amend KRS 260.853 to clarify the scope of industrial hemp research; amend KRS 260.857 to allow for additional members of the Industrial Hemp Commission and designate the commissioner as the commission chair; amend KRS 260.859 to conform.

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Title

AN ACT relating to industrial hemp.

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History

DateChamberAction
2013-04-07Senatebecame law without Governor's Signature (Acts Chapter 134)
2013-03-26Senatedelivered to Governor
2013-03-26Senateenrolled, signed by each presiding officer
2013-03-26Senatepassed 35-1
2013-03-26SenateSenate concurred in House floor amendment (4)
2013-03-26Senateposted for passage for concurrence in House floor amendment (4)
2013-03-26Senatereceived in Senate
2013-03-26House3rd reading, passed 88-4 with floor amendment (4)
2013-03-26Houseplaced in the Orders of the Day
2013-03-26Housetaken from Rules
2013-03-26Housefloor amendment (4) filed
2013-03-12Housefloor amendment (3) filed
2013-03-11Housefloor amendments (1) and (2) filed
2013-03-07House2nd reading, to Rules
2013-03-06Housereported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2013-02-22Houseposted in committee
2013-02-19Houseto Agriculture & Small Business (H)
2013-02-15Housereceived in House
2013-02-14Senate3rd reading, passed 31-6 with Committee Substitute
2013-02-14Senateposted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 14, 2013
2013-02-12Senate2nd reading, to Rules
2013-02-11Senatereported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2013-02-05Senateto Agriculture (S)
2013-01-11Senateintroduced in Senate

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