Proposed Virginia Firearm Legislation HB1815
Legislation Overview
Title: Marijuana; legalization of cultivation, manufacture, sale, possession, and testing, penalties.
Description: Marijuana; legalization of cultivation, manufacture, sale, possession, and testing; penalties. Establishes a regulatory scheme for the regulation of marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana manufacturing facilities, marijuana testing facilities, and retail marijuana stores by the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The bill also grants localities the authority to enact ordinances establishing additional licensing requirements for marijuana establishments located within such locality and allows the home cultivation of marijuana for personal use under certain circumstances. The bill imposes a tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products sold by a retail marijuana store at a rate of 9.7 percent (for a total sales tax of 15 percent) and provides that 67 percent of the revenues collected from the tax be deposited into the general fund and 33 percent of the revenues be deposited into a "Retail Marijuana Education Support Fund" to be used solely for purposes of public education. Finally, the bill establishes several new criminal penalties related to marijuana, as well as modifies some existing criminal penalties.
Session: 2021 Regular Session
Last Action: Incorporated by General Laws
Last Action Date: January 30, 2021
Sponsors
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17 sponsors: Steve Heretick (D); Kelly Convirs-Fowler (D); Dawn Adams (D); Lee Carter (D); Joshua Cole (D); Nancy Guy (D); Patrick Hope (D); Chris Hurst (D); Kaye Kory (D); Mark Levine (D); Alfonso Lopez (D); Kenneth Plum (D); David Reid (D); Ibraheem Samirah (D); Marcus Simon (D); Shelly Simonds (D); Suhas Subramanyam (D);
Percentage of House Of Delegates sponsoring bill: 17% (17 of 100)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Jan 30, 2021 | Incorporated by General Laws |
| House | Jan 26, 2021 | Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB2312-Herring) by voice vote |
| House | Jan 25, 2021 | Assigned GL sub: ABC/Gaming |
| House | Jan 6, 2021 | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100114D |
| House | Jan 6, 2021 | Referred to Committee on General Laws |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Prefiled | Jan 6, 2021 | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
