Bill Text: CA SB67 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Cannabis: marketing: appellations of origin: county, city, or city and county of origin.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2020-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 298, Statutes of 2020. [SB67 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB67-Amended.html
Bill Title: Cannabis: marketing: appellations of origin: county, city, or city and county of origin.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2020-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 298, Statutes of 2020. [SB67 Detail]
Download: California-2019-SB67-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 67
| Introduced by Senator McGuire (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Wood) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Lackey) |
January 08, 2019 |
An act to amend Section 26063 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to cannabis.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 67, as amended, McGuire.
Cannabis: marketing: appellations of origin: county, city, or city and county of origin.
(1) Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, regulates the cultivation, distribution, transport, storage, manufacturing, testing, processing, sale, and use of marijuana for nonmedical purposes by individuals 21 years of age and older. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities.
MAUCRSA requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, no later than January 1, 2018, to establish standards by which a licensed cultivator may designate a county of origin for cannabis, and requires for the designation that 100% of the
cannabis be produced within the designated county, as specified. MAUCRSA requires the department, no later than January 1, 2021, to establish a process by which licensed cultivators may establish appellations of origin for cannabis produced in certain geographical areas of California, instead of by county. MAUCRSA prohibits cannabis from being represented to consumers, as specified, as produced in a California county unless the cannabis was produced in that county. MAUCRSA prohibits the name of a California county, including any similar name that is likely to mislead consumers as to the kind of cannabis contained in the product, from being used, as specified, unless 100% of the cannabis contained in the product was produced in that county.
This bill would limit the establishment approval
of appellations of origin to for cannabis planted in the ground, in open air, with no artificial light during the flowering stage of cultivation until harvest. unless it requires the practice of planting in the ground in flowering areas and excludes the practices of using artificial lighting and structures in flowering areas. The bill would also require the department to establish standards by which a licensed cultivator may designate a city or city and county of origin for cannabis produced 100% within the designated city or city and county. The bill would apply the same above-described prohibitions against
misrepresentations related to the county of origin and the misleading use of county names to city or city and county origins and names.
(2) AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions by a 2/3 vote of both houses, without submission to the voters, to further the purposes and intent of AUMA.
This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of AUMA.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 26063 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:26063.
(a) (1) No later than January 1, 2018, the Department of Food and Agriculture shall establish standards by which a licensed cultivator may designate a county, city, or city and county of origin for cannabis. To be eligible for the designation, 100 percent of the cannabis shall be produced within the designated county, city, or city and county, as defined by finite political boundaries.(2) Cannabis shall not be advertised, marketed, labeled, or sold as produced in a California county, city, or city and county, including any similar name that is likely to mislead consumers as to the kind of cannabis, when the cannabis was not produced in that county, city, or city and
county.
(3) The name of a California county, city, or city and county,
including any similar name that is likely to mislead consumers as to the kind of cannabis contained in the product, shall not be used in the advertising, labeling, marketing, or packaging of cannabis products unless 100 percent of the cannabis contained in the product was produced in that county, city, or city and county.
(b) (1) No later than January 1, 2021, the Department of Food and Agriculture shall establish a process by which licensed cultivators may establish appellations of origin, including standards, practices, and cultivars applicable to cannabis produced in a certain geographical area in California, not otherwise specified in subdivision (a).
(2) Cannabis shall not be advertised, marketed, labeled, or sold using an appellation of
origin established pursuant to paragraph (1), including any similar name that is likely to mislead consumers as to the kind of cannabis, unless the cannabis meets the appellation of origin requirements for, and was produced in, the geographical area.
(3) An appellation of origin established pursuant to this subdivision, including any similar name that is likely to mislead consumers as to the kind of cannabis contained in a product, shall not be used in the advertising, labeling, marketing, or packaging of a cannabis product unless 100 percent of the cannabis contained in the product meets the appellation of origin requirements and was produced in the geographical area.
(c) An appellation of origin shall not be established
approved unless the cannabis produced is planted it requires the practice of planting in the ground, in open air, with no ground in flowering areas and excludes the practices of using artificial light during the lighting and structures in flowering stage of cultivation until harvest.
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