Honorable Bryan Hughes, Chair, Senate Committee on State Affairs
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB3 by Perry (relating to the regulation of consumable hemp products and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring a registration; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; providing an administrative penalty.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted
The bill would create two third degree felony offenses for manufacturing, delivering, or possessing with intent to deliver certain consumable hemp products, and false laboratory report. The bill would create five Class A misdemeanor offenses for marketing a consumable hemp product or packaging in a manner attractive to minors; possessing certain consumable hemp products; providing certain consumable hemp products by courier, delivery, or mail service; selling or distributing certain consumable hemp products to persons younger than 21 years of age; and misleading consumable hemp packaging. The bill would create two Class B misdemeanor offenses for manufacturing, distributing, or selling consumable hemp products for smoking, and selling or delivering certain consumable hemp products near a school.
Creating new criminal offenses may result in additional demands upon state and local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.
The impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources cannot be determined due to a lack of data to estimate the prevalence of conduct outlined in the bill's provisions that would be subject to criminal penalties.