Bill > HB431

This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. The key provisions include: - Defining "cultivation location" to include locations under the control of qualifying patients or designated caregivers, in addition to alternative treatment centers. - Allowing designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use on behalf of a single qualifying patient who has not reported a cultivation location. - Establishing limits on the amount of cannabis that qualifying patients and designated caregivers can possess and cultivate at their reported cultivation locations. - Requiring qualifying patients and designated caregivers to report their cultivation locations to the Department of Health and Human Services. - Allowing qualifying patients without registry identification cards, who have applied to the Department, to use an affirmative defense for certain cannabis-related charges. - Removing limits on the number of cannabis seedlings that alternative treatment centers can possess or cultivate. The bill aims to expand access to therapeutic cannabis by permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis in addition to obtaining it from alternative treatment centers.