Bill > S0438

Introduced Session

An act relating to food and hemp products; amending s. 381.988, F.S.; providing that a marijuana testing laboratory may acquire hemp and hemp extract only from certain businesses; prohibiting a marijuana testing laboratory from selling, distributing, or transferring hemp or hemp extract from certain businesses; requiring a marijuana testing laboratory to separate marijuana received from certain entities from hemp or hemp extract received from certain entities; amending s. 581.217, F.S.; revising legislative findings; revising definitions; defining terms; revising requirements for the sale and distribution of hemp extract; deleting provisions related to the distribution and sale of hemp extract; providing an exception; prohibiting businesses or food establishments from possessing hemp or hemp extract products that are attractive to children; prohibiting unpermitted business sales, street sales, or festival sales of hemp extract; prohibiting a business permitted to sell hemp or hemp extract from being located in certain areas; providing requirements for businesses permitted to sell hemp or hemp extract; including THC-infused beverages in the list of products prohibited for sale to a person under 21 years of age; providing a penalty for hemp extract possessed, manufactured, delivered, held, offered for sale, distributed, or sold by certain entities in violation of specified provisions; prohibiting the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services from granting permission to remove or use certain hemp extract products until it has determined that such hemp extract products comply with state law; prohibiting event organizers from promoting, advertising, or facilitating certain events; requiring organizers of certain events to provide a list of certain vendors to the department, verify that such vendors are selling hemp products only from approved sources, and ensure that such vendors are properly permitted; providing for administrative fines; requiring that each final batch of hemp extract be tested in a certified marijuana testing laboratory before it may be sold in this state; providing construction; requiring the department to create procedures for the testing of hemp extract that fails to meet specified requirements; authorizing the department to select and test samples of hemp extract from a retail store, hemp distributor, or hemp cultivator for certain purposes; requiring retail stores to recall hemp extract that fails to meet specified requirements; requiring that a certified marijuana testing laboratory retain records of each final batch of tested and sampled hemp extract for a specified timeframe; prohibiting the retail sale of THC-infused beverages at certain locations; prohibiting THC-infused beverages from containing alcoholic or intoxicating beverages; providing that THC-infused beverages may be distributed only by certain distributors; prohibiting distributors of THC infused beverages from taking certain actions; prohibiting a retail vendor of THC-infused beverages from purchasing or obtaining such beverages from a person not licensed as a distributor; prohibiting a retail vendor of THC-infused beverages from attempting to return or exchange a THC-infused beverage under certain circumstances; providing for administrative fines; providing an appropriation; reenacting s. 500.03(1)(n), F.S., relating to definitions, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 581.217, F.S., in references thereto; providing an effective date.

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Colleen Burton (R)*,  Tracie Davis (D), 

Other Sponsors (1)

Died on Second Reading Calendar (on 06/16/2025)

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