PA SB120Introducedas of 2025-07-10
Providing for cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Cannabis Control Board; providing for powers and duties of the Cannabis Control Board; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for disproportionately impacted area, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis, edible and infused products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis, edible and infused products; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to medical use of cannabis; transferring powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Cannabis Control Board; and making repeals.
Plain-English summary
What happened: This Pennsylvania bill would establish a Cannabis Control Board to oversee adult-use cannabis licensing, taxation, lab testing, advertising, and packaging, while also consolidating medical cannabis provisions, but a resolution to discharge it from committee was dropped from the calendar.
Why it matters: If enacted, the bill would create a comprehensive new regulatory framework affecting licensing requirements, tax obligations, testing standards, and packaging rules across the Pennsylvania cannabis industry.
Affects: retailers and cultivators and labs and patients
LATEST ACTION: Resolution to discharge committee from further consideration of this bill dropped from calendar
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HB2694In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in medical marijuana organizations, providing for additional dispensary permits authorized; and, in administration, providing for available licenses.IntroducedHB2254Providing for compassionate access to medical marijuana; and imposing a penalty.In CommitteeSB1274Further providing for definitions; and providing for medical marijuana exemption.IntroducedSB1135Providing for the use of hemp in commercial animal feed.IntroducedSB1035Providing for compassionate access to medical marijuana.IntroducedHB1773Providing for adult use cannabis; imposing certain gross receipts tax and excise tax; and making repeals.IntroducedHB1735Providing for cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Cannabis Control Board; providing for powers and duties of the Cannabis Control Board; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for disproportionately impacted area, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis, edible and infused products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis, edible and infused products; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to medical use of cannabis; transferring powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Cannabis Control Board; and making repeals.IntroducedHB20Providing for adult use of cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Keystone Cannabis Authority; providing for powers and duties of the Keystone Cannabis Authority; establishing the Community Opportunity Fund; providing for social and economic equity, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to the medical use of cannabis; transferring certain powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Keystone Cannabis Authority; and making repeals.Introduced
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