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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 893
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT CONCERNING AN ENFORCEMENT PLAN FOR HEMP
PRODUCTION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Not later than July 1, 2020, 1
the Commissioner of Agriculture shall adopt regulations, in 2
accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 of the general statutes, to 3
establish an agricultural pilot program for the purpose of growing or 4
cultivating industrial hemp in accordance with the provisions of 5
section 7 USC 5940, as amended from time to time. Such pilot program 6
shall be established for the purpose of studying the growth, cultivation 7
and marketing of industrial hemp in a manner that ensures that only 8
such department grows or cultivates such industrial hemp through the 9
use of sites that are certified by, and registered with, the Department of 10
Agriculture. In developing the regulations required by this section, the 11
commissioner shall review and incorporate the provisions of the 12
Kentucky Department of Agriculture Industrial Hemp Research Pilot 13
Program 2017 Policy Guide, as the commissioner deems appropriate 14
and consistent with the provisions of 7 USC 5940, as amended from 15
time to time. For the purposes of this section, "industrial hemp" means 16
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the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether 17
growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of 18
not more than 0.3 per cent on a dry weight basis. 19
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To enable the growth of the state's industrial hemp industry.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]