PA Bill Number: HB1472
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Last Action: Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT
Last Action Date: Apr 22, 2024
Proposed Federal House Legislation HB1119
This legislation would provide an exception to the Schedule 1 drug category for Marijuana.
Legislation Overview
Title: Responsibly Addressing the Marijuana Policy Gap Act of 2019
Subject: Crime and law enforcement: Alternative treatments: Bank accounts, deposits, capital: Banking and financial institutions regulation: Bankruptcy: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies: Business expenses: Business records: Criminal justice information and records: Criminal procedure and sentencing: Department of Veterans Affairs: Drug trafficking and controlled substances: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use: Federal-Indian relations: Fraud offenses and financial crimes: Free trade and trade barriers: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management: Health personnel: Higher education: Housing and community development funding: Immigration status and procedures: Income tax credits: Income tax deductions: Indian social and development programs: Intergovernmental relations: Licensing and registrations: Marketing and advertising: Medical research: Minority health: Personnel records: State and local government operations: Student aid and college costs: Trade agreements and negotiations: Veterans' medical care
Description: Removes federal restrictions on, and creates new protections for, marijuana-related conduct and activities that are authorized by state or tribal law (i.e., state-authorized). Among other things, the bill does the following: eliminates regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal penalties under the Controlled Substances Act for state-authorized marijuana-related activities; allows businesses that sell marijuana in compliance with state or tribal law to claim certain federal tax credits and deductions; eliminates restrictions on print and broadcast advertising of state-authorized marijuana-related activities; creates protections for depository institutions that provide financial services to marijuana-related businesses; specifies that a marijuana-related business is entitled to federal bankruptcy protections; establishes a process to expunge criminal records related to certain marijuana-related convictions; reestablishes federal student aid eligibility for certain students convicted of a misdemeanor offense for marijuana possession; exempts real property from civil forfeiture due to state-authorized marijuana-related conduct; prohibits the inadmissibility or deportability of aliens for state-authorized marijuana-related conduct; specifies that drug-related criminal activity, which is prohibited in federally assisted housing, does not include state-authorized marijuana-related conduct; establishes a new, separate registration process to facilitate medical marijuana research; authorizes health care providers employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs to recommend participation in state marijuana programs; and authorizes medical providers through an Indian health program to make medical recommendations regarding marijuana.
Session: 116th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Last Action Date: March 14, 2019
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1119/all-info
Sponsors
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3 sponsors: Earl Blumenauer (D); Joseph Neguse (D); Ted Lieu (D)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Mar 14 2019 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| House | Mar 6 2019 | Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States. |
| House | Feb 8 2019 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| House | Feb 8 2019 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| House | Feb 8 2019 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| House | Feb 8 2019 | Introduced in House |
| House | Feb 8 2019 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| House | Feb 8 2019 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| House | Feb 8 2019 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| House | Feb 8 2019 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
| House | Feb 8 2019 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Natural Resources, Education and Labor, Veterans' Affairs, and Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. |
Texts
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Mar 6 2019 | federal bill text | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Committee
Chamber: H
Committee Name: Subcommittee on Health
Votes
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