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House panel approves bill letting local governments enforce hemp retail rules as stopgap
Summary
The House Commerce Committee amended and approved legislation allowing local governments to create Hemp/HDCP boards that can enforce existing state hemp laws and local ordinances if they enter a memorandum of understanding with a state agency; the bill was sent to Finance as amended.
The House Commerce Committee on March 26 approved an amended bill that would let local governments create Hemp/HDCP boards to enforce state hemp laws and related local ordinances under a memorandum of understanding with a state agency.
Sponsor and committee members said the measure is intended chiefly as a stopgap to assist enforcement while the Legislature considers a separate, broader regulatory scheme. "At the moment, my vision for this legislation only enforces what's in state law," sponsor Mister Foster said after members attached amendment 006085. "Local government becomes an arm of the state enforcement on this particular issue."
The amendment the committee adopted adds…
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