B 24-0194 — Medical Cannabis Emergency Amendment Act of 2021

_______________________________ENROLLED CouncilmemberORIGINAL KenyanAN R.ACT __________ IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________ To amend, on an emergency basis, the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Amendment Act of 2010 to ban straw ownership, provide that the number of testing laboratories allowed in an election ward cannot exceed 2, provide that no person who has a felony conviction for a crime of violence, gun offense, tax evasion, fraud, or credit card fraud that occurred within 3 years preceding the filing of an application shall be eligible to be a director, owner, officer, or agent of a dispensary, cultivation center, or testing laboratory, and remove the prohibition preventing an individual with a felony conviction from working at a dispensary, cultivation center, or testing laboratory.

McDuffie 4 6 A BILL 8 __________ IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________ To amend, on an emergency basis, the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Amendment Act of 2010 to ban straw ownership, provide that the number of testing laboratories allowed in an election ward cannot exceed 2, provide that no person who has a felony conviction for a crime of violence, gun offense, tax evasion, fraud, or credit card fraud that occurred within 3 years preceding the filing of an application shall be eligible to be a director, owner, officer, or agent of a dispensary, cultivation center, or testing laboratory, and remove the prohibition preventing an individual with a felony conviction from working at a dispensary, cultivation center, or testing laboratory.

Official Code § 1-1-1041.03), 1041.03), shall not exceed 6 and the total number of testing laboratories that may be registered to operate within an election ward shall not exceed 2.”.

ENROLLED ORIGINAL (ii) A new subparagraph (A-i) is added to read as follows:

“(A-i) Straw ownership for the purposes of meeting the medical cannabis ownership requirements of this section is prohibited, both for a District resident and an out-of-stateout-of- state resident.

This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), and shall remain in effect for no longer than 90 days, as provided for emergency acts of the Council of the District of Columbia in section ENROLLED ORIGINAL 412(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat.

______________________________ Chairman Council of the District of Columbia _________________________________ Mayor District of Columbia 3