Bill Text: AZ SB1137 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: Medical marijuana; prohibited chemicals; appropriation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-14 - Senate third reading FAILED voting: (17-13-0-0) [SB1137 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2019-SB1137-Engrossed.html
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019
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SENATE BILL 1137 |
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AN ACT
amending section 3‑101, Arizona Revised Statutes; Amending title 3, chapter 1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 3‑109.03; amending sections 3‑145, 3‑201, 3‑231 and 3‑364, Arizona Revised Statutes; appropriating monies; relating to medical marijuana.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Subject to the requirements of article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, section 3-101, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
3-101. Definitions
In this title, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Department" means the Arizona department of agriculture.
2. "Designated caregiver" has the same meaning prescribed in section 36‑2801.
2. 3. "Director" means the director of the department.
4. "marijuana" has the same meaning prescribed in section 36‑2801.
5. "medical use" has the same meaning prescribed in section 36‑2801.
6. "nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary" has the same meaning prescribed in section 36‑2801.
Sec. 2. Subject to the requirements of article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, title 3, chapter 1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 3-109.03, to read:
3-109.03. Marijuana for medical use; agricultural commodity; rules; allowable pesticide products
Marijuana that is cultivated for medical use by a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary or a designated caregiver is an agricultural commodity as defined in rule by the department and, beginning June 1, 2020, is subject to regulation under this title and the rules adopted pursuant to this title. The director may adopt any rules necessary relating to the cultivation of marijuana for medical use and required testing by independent third‑party laboratories of marijuana that is cultivated by a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary or a designated caregiver for medical use. Only pesticide products that are exempt from federal regulation under the minimum risk exemption regulations in 40 Code of Federal Regulations 152.25(f) may be used in cultivating marijuana for medical use.
Sec. 3. Subject to the requirements of article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, section 3-145, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
3-145. Mandatory and voluntary certification; sampling procedures; application; immunity; expiration; renewal
A. A person who that establishes, conducts or maintains a laboratory that provides agricultural laboratory services to agencies or departments of this state or its political subdivisions shall apply for a certificate from the state agricultural laboratory as proof that the laboratory so certified is in compliance with rules adopted by the director for the certification of such laboratories. Any other person providing agricultural laboratory services may apply for such a certificate.
B. A person providing guaranteed laboratory analysis information to distributors of commercial feed and whole seeds for consumption by livestock shall be certified under this section.
C. An individual who collects samples for the state agricultural laboratory or for any certified agricultural laboratory shall follow the sampling procedures established by the director.
D. A person that provides laboratory analysis of marijuana cultivated for medical use shall apply for a certificate from the state agricultural laboratory. the director shall adopt rules for certifying laboratories that analyze marijuana cultivated for medical use, including the required sampling and testing of marijuana. A laboratory that is certified to analyze marijuana:
1. Shall report the test results only to the nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary or designated caregiver that cultivates the marijuana, the department of health services and the state agricultural laboratory.
2. May not have any familial or financial relationship with or interest in a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary or designated caregiver for which the laboratory is testing marijuana for medical use.
E. Notwithstanding title 13, chapter 34, an employee of the Arizona department of agriculture or an employee of any contracted third‑party testing facility may not be charged with or prosecuted for possession of any amount of marijuana that is cultivated for medical use and that the employee is using as a sample for testing as required by this section and rules adopted pursuant to this title.
D. F. A certified laboratory shall report test results only to the party who provided that provides the original sample and, on request, to the state agricultural laboratory or as required by section 3‑2611.01.
E. G. A person who that desires a certificate pursuant to this section shall file with the state agricultural laboratory an application for a certificate accompanied by the application fee.
F. H. The application shall be on a form prescribed by the assistant director and furnished by the state agricultural laboratory and shall contain:
1. The name and location of the laboratory.
2. The name of the person owning the laboratory and the name of the person supervising the laboratory.
3. A description of the programs, services and functions provided by the laboratory.
4. Such other information as the assistant director deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
G. I. The assistant director shall issue a certificate to an applicant if the assistant director is satisfied that the applicant has complied with the rules prescribing standards for certified laboratories.
H. J. A certificate expires one year after the date of issuance and shall be renewed upon on payment of the renewal application fee as prescribed in section 3‑146 and continued compliance with this article and the applicable rules.
Sec. 4. Subject to the requirements of article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, section 3-201, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
3-201. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Associate director" means the associate director of the division.
2. "Diseases" includes any fungus, bacterium, virus or other organism of any kind and any unknown cause that is or may be found to be injurious, or likely to be or to become injurious to any domesticated or cultivated plant, or to the product of any such plant.
3. "Division" means the plant services division of the Arizona department of agriculture.
4. "Noxious weed" means any species of plant that is, or is liable to be, detrimental or destructive and difficult to control or eradicate and shall include includes any species that the director, after investigation and hearing, shall determine determines to be a noxious weed.
5. "Nursery" means real property or other premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown or cultivated or from which source nursery stock is offered for distribution or sale.
6. "Nursery stock" includes all trees, shrubs, vines, cacti, agaves, succulents, herbaceous plants whether annuals, biennials or perennials, bulbs, corms, rizomes, roots, decorative plant material, flowers, fruit pits or seeds, cuttings, buds, grafts, scions and other plants intended for sale, gift or propagation, either cultivated or collected in the wild, except seeds as regulated by article 2 of this chapter, fruit and vegetables regulated by chapter 3, articles 2 and 4 of this title and cotton plants.
7. "Pests" includes all noxious weeds, insects, diseases, mites, spiders, nematodes and other animal or plant organisms found to be injurious, or likely to be or to become injurious, to any domesticated, cultivated, native or wild plant, or to the product of any such plant.
8. "Plant" or "crop" includes:
(a) Every kind of vegetation, whether wild or domesticated, and any part thereof of that vegetation, as well as seed, fruit or other another natural product of such that vegetation.
(b) Marijuana that is cultivated for medical use by a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary or a designated caregiver.
9. "Shipment" includes anything that is brought into the this state or that is transported within the this state and that may be the host or may contain or carry or may be susceptible of containing, carrying or having present on, in or about it any plant pest or plant disease.
Sec. 5. Subject to the requirements of article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, section 3-231, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
3-231. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Advertisement" means all representations, other than those on the label, made in any manner relating to seed within the scope of this article.
2. "Agricultural seed":
(a) Means the seeds of grass, forage, cereal, and fiber crops and any other kinds of seeds commonly recognized within this state as agricultural seeds, lawn seeds and mixtures of such seeds., and
(b) May include noxious-weed seeds when if the department determines that such the seed is being used as agricultural seed.
(c) Includes seeds of marijuana that a nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary or a designated caregiver cultivates for medical use.
3. "Cease and desist order" means an administrative order that is provided by law restraining the sale, use, disposition and movement of a definite amount of seed.
4. "Certified seed" or "registered seed" means seed that has been produced and labeled in accordance with the procedures and in compliance with the rules and regulations of an officially recognized seed-certifying agency.
5. "Custom application" means an application of pesticide to a seed by a pesticide applicator who that does not hold title to the seed.
6. "Dealer" means any person who that sells seed.
7. "Division" means the environmental services division of the Arizona department of agriculture.
8. "Established plant, warehouse, or place of business" means any permanent office headquarters maintained by an importer, broker, seller or authorized manufacturer's agent, or any permanent warehouse, building or structure in or from which a permanent business is operated, at which stocks of agricultural seed, vegetable seed or ornamental plant seed regulated by this article are sold, distributed, processed, mixed, stored or kept.
9. "Hybrid" means the first generation seed of a crossbreed that is produced by controlling pollination and by combining two or more inbred lines, or one inbred or a single crossbreed with an open pollinated variety, or two varieties or species, except open pollinated varieties of corn (zea mays). The second generation, or subsequent generations from such crosses, shall not be regarded as crosses. Hybrid designations shall be treated as variety names. Any kinds or varieties that have pure seed which that is less than ninety‑five per cent percent but more than seventy‑five per cent percent hybrid seed as a result of incompletely controlled pollination in a cross shall be labeled to show the percentage of pure seed that is hybrid seed, or shall be labeled with a statement such as "contains from seventy‑five per cent percent to ninety‑five per cent percent hybrid seed". No one kind of seed shall be labeled as hybrid if the pure seed contains less than seventy-five per cent percent hybrid seed.
10. "Inoculant" means a commercial preparation containing nitrogen‑fixing bacteria that is applied to seed.
11. "Kind" means one or more related species or subspecies which that singly or collectively are known by one common name, such as corn, oats, alfalfa and timothy.
12. "Label" means any label or other written, printed or graphic representations, in any form whatsoever, accompanying or pertaining to any seed whether in bulk or in containers and includes representations or invoices.
13. "Labeler" means any person whose name and address appear on the label pertaining to or attached to a lot or container of agricultural, vegetable or ornamental plant seed that is sold, offered for sale, exposed for sale or transported for sowing purposes.
14. "License" means an Arizona state seed license that is obtained from the department.
15. "Lot" means a definite quantity of seed that is identified by a lot number or other mark, every portion or bag of which is uniform within recognized tolerances for the factors which that appear in the labeling.
16. "Noxious-weed seeds" means "prohibited noxious-weed seeds" and "restricted noxious-weed seeds" as defined as follows and the following as listed in the rules adopted under this article: .
(a) "Prohibited noxious-weed seeds", which are the seeds of perennial or annual weeds which that, when established, are highly destructive and difficult to control by ordinary good cultural practice and the seed of which is prohibited by this article subject to recognized tolerances.
(b) "Restricted noxious-weed seeds", which are all noxious-weed seed not classified as prohibited noxious-weed seed.
17. "Ornamental plant seed" means the seed of any plant that is used for decorative or ornamental purposes and includes flower seed.
18. "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, company, society or association.
19. "Pure seed", "germination" and other seed labeling and testing terms in common usage shall be defined as in the federal seed act (53 Stat. 1275; 7 United States Code sections 1551 through 1611) and the rules and regulations promulgated under that act.
20. "Record" means all information relating to the shipment or shipments involved and includes a file sample of each lot of seed.
21. "Sell" means to offer for sale, expose for sale, possess for sale, exchange, barter or trade.
22. "Treated" means that the seed has received an application of a substance or process that is designed to reduce, control or repel certain disease organisms, insects or other pests attacking such seeds or seedlings growing from the seeds.
23. "Type" means either a group of varieties so similar that the individual varieties cannot be clearly differentiated except under special conditions or, when used with a variety name, seed of the variety named, which may be mixed with seed of other varieties of the same kind and of similar character. If type is designated, the designation may be associated with the name of the kind but in all cases shall be clearly associated with the word "type". If the type designation does not include a variety name, it shall include a name that describes a group of varieties of similar character, and the pure seed shall be at least ninety per cent percent of one or more varieties that all of which conform to the type designation.
24. "Variety" means a subdivision of a kind characterized by growth, yield, plant, fruit, seed or other characteristics by which it can be differentiated from other plants of the same kind.
25. "Vegetable seeds" means seeds of those crops which that are grown in gardens and on truck farms and that are generally known and sold under the name of vegetable seeds in this state.
26. "Weed seeds" means the seeds of all plants that are generally recognized as weeds within this state and includes noxious-weed seeds.
Sec. 6. Subject to the requirements of article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, section 3-364, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
3-364. Inspection powers; notification requirements
A. The director may enter at reasonable times into or on or through any public or private property for the purpose of ascertaining to determine compliance or noncompliance with any rules or orders adopted or issued under this article. If practicable, and if notice will not inhibit the director's ability to enforce this article, the director or the director's agent shall notify the owner, operator or lessee of the property when entering on the property.
B. The director may enter at reasonable times into or on private property where marijuana is cultivated for medical use to determine compliance or noncompliance with any rules or orders adopted or issued under this title. If practicable, and if notice will not inhibit the director's ability to enforce this article, the director or the director's agent shall notify the nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary or the designated caregiver when entering on the property.
B. C. Within five days after the inspection, the director shall inform any alleged violator in writing if the director anticipates an enforcement action. The notice of a potential enforcement action shall indicate the nature of the alleged violation and the last possible date for issuing a citation under section 3‑368, subsection F. If in the course of an investigation the department identifies any additional alleged violator, the director shall inform the additional alleged violator within five days of after initiating the new investigation. The notice of a potential enforcement action against the additional alleged violator shall indicate the nature of the alleged violation and the last possible date for issuing a citation or notice of de minimis violation under section 3‑368, subsection F. If the director does not issue a notice of a potential enforcement action, the director shall inform the alleged violator within fifteen days after the inspection that the director does not anticipate any enforcement action.
Sec. 7. Appropriation; Arizona department of agriculture; medical marijuana fund; exemption
A. Subject to the requirements of article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, the sum of $2,000,000 is appropriated from the medical marijuana fund established by section 36‑2817, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2019‑2020 to the Arizona department of agriculture to regulate marijuana as an agricultural commodity.
B. The appropriation made in subsection A of this section is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.
Sec. 8. Requirements for enactment; three-fourths vote
Pursuant to article IV, part 1, section 1, Constitution of Arizona, section 3‑101, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, section 3‑109.03, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act, sections 3‑145, 3‑201, 3‑231 and 3‑364, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, and section 7 of this act are effective only on the affirmative vote of at least three-fourths of the members of each house of the legislature.
