US Congress House Bill 2843 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 42-0)
Status: Introduced on May 20 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-06-26 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Decriminalizes marijuana. Specifically, it removes marijuana from the list of scheduled substances under the Controlled Substances Act and eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who imports, exports, manufactures, distributes, or possesses with intent to distribute marijuana. Additionally, the bill does the following: establishes a trust fund to assist women-owned and minority-owned marijuana businesses, requires federal research on the impacts of marijuana use on highway safety and public health, authorizes federal restrictions on the marketing of marijuana-related products, and authorizes grants for state and local governments to expunge or seal convictions for marijuana possession.

Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Kathleen Rice [D-NY]	Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Adriano Espaillat [D-NY]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]
Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI]	Rep. Rashida Tlaib [D-MI]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]
Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]	Rep. David Trone [D-MD]
Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Debra Haaland [D-NM]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Charlie Crist [D-FL]	Rep. Joseph Neguse [D-CO]
Rep. Luis Correa [D-CA]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Steven Horsford [D-NV]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Angela Craig [D-MN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-06-26	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
2019-06-10	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
2019-06-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
2019-05-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
2019-05-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2019-05-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-05-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-05-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-05-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-05-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-05-20	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2019-05-20	House	Introduced in House

SB1552 (Related) 2019-05-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S2971-2972)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2843/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr2843/BILLS-116hr2843ih.pdf