Bill > S72

This bill aims to ensure equitable host community agreements and increase small business opportunity in the cannabis industry. The key provisions include: 1. Requiring marijuana establishments and medical marijuana treatment centers to execute agreements with host communities that set forth the conditions for their operation, including a community impact fee of up to 3% of gross sales for a maximum 5-year term. The bill also requires host communities to establish procedures and policies to promote and encourage participation in the industry by people from communities disproportionately harmed by marijuana prohibition. 2. Authorizing the Cannabis Control Commission to review, regulate, and enforce all host community agreements, as well as monitor federal activity regarding marijuana and adopt regulations for the implementation, administration, and enforcement of the chapter. 3. Requiring the Commission to promulgate regulations for host community agreements, including criteria for calculating the community impact fee, and prohibiting certain requirements or conditions in the agreements that are not directly related to the costs imposed on the municipality.

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https://malegislature.gov/Bills/192/S72