PA Bill Number: HB2663
Title: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal.
Description: Providing for older adults protective services; and making a repeal. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGING AND OLDER ADULT SERVICES
Last Action Date: Nov 19, 2024
Proposed Federal House Legislation HB2843
This legislation would decriminalize marijuana.
Legislation Overview
Title: Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act
Subject: Crime and law enforcement: Child safety and welfare: Criminal justice information and records: Criminal procedure and sentencing: Drug trafficking and controlled substances: Forests, forestry, trees: Government trust funds: Law enforcement administration and funding: Marketing and advertising: Medical research: Minority employment: Research administration and funding: Sales and excise taxes: Small business: Transportation safety and security: Women in business
Description: Decriminalizes marijuana. Specifically, it removes marijuana from the list of scheduled substances under the Controlled Substances Act and eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who imports, exports, manufactures, distributes, or possesses with intent to distribute marijuana. Additionally, the bill does the following: establishes a trust fund to assist women-owned and minority-owned marijuana businesses, requires federal research on the impacts of marijuana use on highway safety and public health, authorizes federal restrictions on the marketing of marijuana-related products, and authorizes grants for state and local governments to expunge or seal convictions for marijuana possession.
Session: 116th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Last Action Date: June 26, 2019
Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2843/all-info
Sponsors
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42 sponsors: Hakeem Jeffries (D); Barbara Lee (D); Earl Blumenauer (D); Eleanor Norton (D); Janice Schakowsky (D); Steve Cohen (D); Kathleen Rice (D); Tony Cardenas (D); Jared Huffman (D); Adriano Espaillat (D); Yvette Clarke (D); Bobby Rush (D); Mark Pocan (D); Tulsi Gabbard (D); Rashida Tlaib (D); Henry Johnson (D); Alcee Hastings (D); Jose Serrano (D); Ed Perlmutter (D); David Trone (D); Alan Lowenthal (D); Debra Haaland (D); Jamie Raskin (D); Pramila Jayapal (D); James McGovern (D); Katherine Clark (D); Charlie Crist (D); Joseph Neguse (D); Luis Correa (D); Eliot Engel (D); Darren Soto (D); Raul Grijalva (D); Ted Lieu (D); Betty McCollum (D); Steven Horsford (D); Chellie Pingree (D); Eric Swalwell (D); Seth Moulton (D); Cedric Richmond (D); Zoe Lofgren (D); Grace Meng (D); Angela Craig (D)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Jun 26 2019 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. |
| House | Jun 10 2019 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry. |
| House | Jun 7 2019 | Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands. |
| House | May 21 2019 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. |
| House | May 21 2019 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. |
| House | May 20 2019 | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, 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 | May 20 2019 | Introduced in House |
| House | May 20 2019 | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, 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 | May 20 2019 | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, 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 | May 20 2019 | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, 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 | May 20 2019 | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, 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 | May 20 2019 | Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Small Business, 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 | Jun 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 Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
Votes
There have not been any votes on this bill
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