Mississippi House Bill 391 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Failed on January 30 2018 - 100% progression
Action: 2018-01-30 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Be Known As The Mississippi Medical Marijuana Pilot Program Act; To Define Certain Terms; To Allow The Therapeutic Use Of Marijuana For Certain Patients Who Have Debilitating Medical Conditions; To Provide Certain Protections To Patients, Caregivers, Physicians, Therapeutic Marijuana Establishments, Dispensaries And Testing Facilities For The Therapeutic Use Of Marijuana; To Provide That The State Department Of Health Will Administer This Act, And Issue Registry Identification Cards To Qualifying Patients And Registrations To Therapeutic Establishments, Dispensaries And Testing Facilities; To Authorize Local Governments To Enact Certain Ordinances Not In Conflict With This Act; To Provide Civil And Criminal Penalties For Violations Of This Act; To Provide For An Advisory Committee To Make Recommendations To The Legislature And The Department; To Require The Department To Make An Annual Report To The Legislature About The Operation Of This Act; To Provide That This Act Will Stand Repealed Five Years After The First Dispensary Begins Supplying Qualifying Patients With Marijuana; To Amend Sections 41-29-125, 41-29-127, 41-29-136, 41-29-137, 41-29-139, 41-29-141 And 41-29-143, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Conform To The Preceding Provisions; To Bring Forward Section 73-25-29, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purposes Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.

MS Medical Marijuana Pilot Program Act; create.

Rep. Joel Bomgar [R]

Rep. Kathy Sykes [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-30	House	Died In Committee
2018-01-05	House	Referred To Drug Policy;Public Health and Human Services

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf/history/HB/HB0391.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0300-0399/HB0391IN.htm