Virginia House Bill 2371 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Marijuana; legalization of simple marijuana possession; penalty. Eliminates criminal penalties for possession of marijuana for persons who are 21 years of age or older. The bill also decriminalizes marijuana possession for persons under 21 years of age and provides a civil penalty of no more than $50 for a first violation, $100 for a second violation, and $250 for a third or subsequent violation. Under current law, a first offense is punishable by a maximum fine of $500 and a maximum jail sentence of 30 days, and subsequent offenses are a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also modifies several other criminal penalties related to marijuana. The bill establishes a regulatory scheme for the regulation of marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana manufacturing facilities, marijuana testing facilities, and retail marijuana stores by the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The bill imposes a tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products sold by a retail marijuana store at a rate of 9.7 percent (for a total sales tax of 15 percent) and provides that 67 percent of the revenues collected from the tax be deposited into the general fund and 33 percent of the revenues be deposited into a "Retail Marijuana Education Support Fund" to be used solely for purposes of public education.

Marijuana; legalization of simple marijuana possession, penalty.

Del. Steve Heretick [D]	Del. Lee Carter [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Marcus Simon [D]

2019-01-16 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (6-Y 2-N) (Y: 6 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2019-01-16	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (6-Y 2-N)
2019-01-15	House	Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
2019-01-08	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2019-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100100D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
16	1	260	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	273	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	278.8:01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	278.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
16	1	69.48:1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	247	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	248.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	250.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	251	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	251.03	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	251.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	252	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	254	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	255	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	255.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	255.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	258	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	258.02	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	258.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	259.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	265.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	265.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	265.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	287.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.09	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.1:5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	308.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	46.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	460	(n/a)	See Bill Text
18	2	474.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	11.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	120	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	188.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	303.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	386.22	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	386.25	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	389	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	392.02	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	66	(n/a)	See Bill Text
19	2	83.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3705.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3711	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	277.08	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	233	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	4113	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	4121	(n/a)	See Bill Text
3	2	4198	(n/a)	See Bill Text
37	2	416	(n/a)	See Bill Text
4	1	225	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	390.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
53	1	231.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3408.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3442.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
54	1	3442.8	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2371
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2371+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H0801V0035+HB2371