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Committee adopts substitute for bill regulating low‑dose hemp‑derived beverages; vote 12‑5
Summary
The House Committee on Crime and Public Safety adopted a committee substitute to House Bill 593 that would regulate low‑dose hemp‑derived beverage products with a three‑tier, alcohol‑style system and assign product‑testing authority to the Department of Health and Senior Services.
The House Committee on Crime and Public Safety voted to adopt a House Committee substitute for House Bill 593 and moved the substitute "do pass" to the floor, adopting regulatory language that would treat low‑dose hemp‑derived consumable beverage products differently from other hemp products.
Under the substitute described in committee, the proposal would exempt "low‑dose" hemp‑derived beverage products (manufactured beverages containing no more than 5 milligrams of naturally derived delta‑9 THC) from the stricter limitations that apply to higher‑dose or synthetically derived THC products. The substitute would create an alcohol‑style, three‑tier system for manufacture, distribution and retail;…
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