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A RESOLUTION
25-490
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
May 7, 2024
To declare the existence of an emergency basis, due to congressional review, with respect
to the need to amend the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment
Initiative of 1999 to provide a deadline date by which existing cultivation centers
and dispensaries must file their applications with ABCA for additional medical
cannabis facility licenses, to not allow a cultivation center to also hold an internet
retailer license, to provide that the 2 cultivation center registration applicants that
tied for second and received the same total score after submitting a medical
cannabis facility registration application to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
between November 29, 2021 and March 28, 2022, be awarded a cultivation center
registration, to provide that other cultivation center and dispensary registration
applicants that scored 150 points or more after submitting a medical cannabis
facility registration application to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board during
the same open application period be considered for a cultivation center or retailer
registration, and to allow a cultivation center and dispensary registration applicant
that scored 150 points or more to change the location of its facility without
otherwise affecting the status of its application.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That
this resolution may be cited as the “Medical Cannabis Clarification Supplemental
Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2024”.
Sec. 2. (a) There existed an immediate need to provide a deadline date by which
existing cultivation centers and dispensaries must file their applications with ABCA for
additional medical cannabis facility licenses, to not allow a cultivation center to also hold
an internet retailer license, to provide that the 2 cultivation center registration applicants
that tied for second and received the same total score after submitting a medical cannabis
facility registration application to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board between
November 29, 2021 and March 28, 2022, be awarded a cultivation center registration, to
provide that other cultivation center and dispensary registration applicants that scored
150 points or more after submitting a medical cannabis facility registration application to
the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board during the same open application period be
considered for a cultivation center or retailer registration, and to allow a cultivation center ENROLLED ORIGINAL
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and dispensary registration applicant that scored 150 points or more to change the
location of its facility without otherwise affecting the status of its application.
(b) In February 2024, the Council enacted the Medical Cannabis Clarification
Supplemental Emergency Amendment Act of 2024, effective February 22, 2024 (D.C.
Act 25-403; 71 DCR 2101), (“emergency legislation”) and the Medical Cannabis
Clarification Supplemental Temporary Amendment Act of 2024, passed on 2nd reading
on March 5, 2024 (Enrolled version Bill 25-679), (“temporary legislation”) to address the
above-referenced needs.
(c) The emergency legislation expires on May 22, 2024. The temporary
legislation must still complete the 30-day review period required by section 602(c)(1) of
the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 813;
D.C. Official Code § 1-206.02(c)(1)), and will not become law until after the emergency
legislation has expired.
(d) It is necessary that the provisions of the emergency legislation continue in
effect, without interruption, until the temporary legislation is in effect.
Sec. 3. The Council determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2
constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Medical Cannabis
Clarification Supplemental Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2024
be adopted after a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.