Bill Text: IL HB1189 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. Provides that, if there is an amount in excess of $12,500,000 in the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund on the effective date of the amendatory Act, the State Treasurer shall so certify to the Department of Public Health and the State Comptroller, and the Department of Public Health shall certify to the State Comptroller the names and addresses, as well as any other necessary information, of all medical cannabis patients who made any medical cannabis product purchase in the 180-day period preceding the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that the State Comptroller shall determine a refund amount by dividing the amount in excess of $12,500,000 by the number of medical cannabis patients certified by the Department of Public Health, and the State Comptroller shall disburse the refund amount to each medical cannabis patient certified by the Department of Public Health. Provides for the issuance of refunds if there is an amount in excess of $12,500,000 in the Fund on June 30, 2024 or June 30 of any subsequent year. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-01-31 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB1189 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1189-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB1189 Introduced , by Rep. Bob Morgan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
410 ILCS 130/20
Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. Provides that, if there is an amount in excess of $12,500,000 in the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund on the effective date of the amendatory Act, the State Treasurer shall so certify to the Department of Public Health and the State Comptroller, and the Department of Public Health shall certify to the State Comptroller the names and addresses, as well as any other necessary information, of all medical cannabis patients who made any medical cannabis product purchase in the 180-day period preceding the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that the State Comptroller shall determine a refund amount by dividing the amount in excess of $12,500,000 by the number of medical cannabis patients certified by the Department of Public Health, and the State Comptroller shall disburse the refund amount to each medical cannabis patient certified by the Department of Public Health. Provides for the issuance of refunds if there is an amount in excess of $12,500,000 in the Fund on June 30, 2024 or June 30 of any subsequent year. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis
Program Act is amended by changing Section 20 as follows:
(410 ILCS 130/20)
Sec. 20. Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund.
(a) There is created the Compassionate Use of Medical
Cannabis Fund in the State treasury to be used exclusively for
the direct and indirect costs associated with the
implementation, administration, and enforcement of this Act
and for refunds as set forth in subsection (d). Funds in excess
of the direct and indirect costs associated with the
implementation, administration, and enforcement of this Act
shall be used to fund crime prevention programs.
(b) All monies collected under this Act shall be deposited
in the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund in the State
treasury. All earnings received from investment of monies in
the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund shall be
deposited in the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund is not subject to
sweeps, administrative charge-backs, or any other fiscal or

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budgetary maneuver that would in any way transfer any amounts
from the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund into any
other fund of the State.
(d)(1) If there is an amount in excess of $12,500,000 in
the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund at the close of
business on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
103rd General Assembly, the State Treasurer shall so certify
to the Department of Public Health and the State Comptroller,
and the Department of Public Health shall certify to the State
Comptroller the names and addresses, as well as any other
necessary information, of all medical cannabis patients who
made any medical cannabis product purchase in the 180-day
period preceding the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 103rd General Assembly. The State Comptroller shall
determine a refund amount by dividing the amount in excess of
$12,500,000 by the number of medical cannabis patients
certified by the Department of Public Health under this
paragraph (1). The State Comptroller shall disburse the refund
amount from the Fund to each medical cannabis patient
certified by the Department of Public Health under this
paragraph (1).
(2) If there is an amount in excess of $12,500,000 in the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund at the close of
business on June 30, 2024 or June 30 of any subsequent year,
the State Treasurer shall so certify to the Department of
Public Health and the State Comptroller, and the Department of

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Public Health shall certify to the Comptroller the names and
addresses, as well as any other necessary information, of all
medical cannabis patients who made any medical cannabis
product purchase during the State fiscal year ending on June
30 of that year. The State Comptroller shall determine a
refund amount by dividing the amount in excess of $12,500,000
by the number of medical cannabis patients certified by the
Department of Public Health under this paragraph (2) for that
year. The State Comptroller shall disburse the refund amount
from the Fund to each medical cannabis patient certified by
the Department of Public Health under this paragraph (2).
(Source: P.A. 98-122, eff. 1-1-14.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.