A01137
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1024
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY SCHEMEL, BURGOS, POLINCHOCK, RAPP, RYAN,
ZIMMERMAN, WHEATLEY, SHUSTERMAN AND FRANKEL, MARCH 26, 2021
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
AS AMENDED, MAY 24, 2021
AN ACT
Amending the act of April 17, 2016 (P.L.84, No.16), entitled "An
act establishing a medical marijuana program; providing for
patient and caregiver certification and for medical marijuana
organization registration; imposing duties on the Department
of Health; providing for a tax on medical marijuana
organization gross receipts; establishing the Medical
Marijuana Program Fund; establishing the Medical Marijuana
Advisory Board; establishing a medical marijuana research
program; imposing duties on the Department of Corrections,
the Department of Education and the Department of Human
Services; and providing for academic clinical research
centers and for penalties and enforcement," in preliminary
provisions, further providing for definitions; in program,
further providing for confidentiality and public disclosure
and for lawful use of medical marijuana; in practitioners,
further providing for duration; in patients, further
providing for caregivers; in medical marijuana organizations,
further providing for permits AND FOR RELOCATION; IN MEDICAL
MARIJUANA CONTROLS, FURTHER PROVIDING FOR GROWER/PROCESSOR
AND FOR LABORATORY; in dispensaries, further providing for
dispensing to patients and caregivers and for facility
requirements; and, in miscellaneous provisions, further
providing for applicability.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The definitions of "caregiver" and "continuing
care" in section 103 of the act of April 17, 2016 (P.L.84,
No.16), known as the Medical Marijuana Act, are amended and the
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