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Committee reviews S.323 hemp amendments and tables further action over fee questions
Summary
Legislative counsel presented draft fixes to S.323 and new provisions giving the Cannabis Control Board rulemaking authority on craft processors and fees; lawmakers raised commerce‑clause and small‑producer concerns and tabled the amendment for further work.
Brandon Schulman of the Office of Legislative Council told the Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry committee that a draft amendment to S.323 corrects internal citations and adds language clarifying fee deposit and rulemaking authority for hemp processing.
Schulman said the first four instances of the amendment are non‑substantive citation corrections, while later sections (numbered in the draft as 10–12) would allow the Cannabis Control Board to define "craft processors," exempt some product categories from registration, and adopt or waive certain fees through rulemaking. "These citations are just about fees, but nothing substantive is changing in the first 4 instances of amendment," Schulman said.
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