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CCB executive director briefs board on multiple 2025 cannabis-related bills, including major taxation and testing proposals
Summary
Executive Director James updated the board on multiple Assembly and Senate bills affecting licensing, taxation, testing, and agency operations, including AB307 (changes to wholesale and retail excise taxes) and SB41 (creation of a cannabis tax permit, effective 12/31/2026).
Executive Director James delivered an extended legislative briefing to the Cannabis Compliance Board on April 17, summarizing agency-sponsored AB 76 and multiple Assembly and Senate bills the CCB is tracking in the 2025 session.
On assembly measures, James described AB149 (data-sharing regulations and a requested $3.3 million appropriation for research/CPI), AB203 (omnibus operations bill with multiple amendments and the removal of a proposed social equity liaison position), AB307 (taxation changes that would eliminate the 15% wholesale excise tax while increasing the retail excise tax from 10% to 14.25% and revising…
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