Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF1590

"Industrial Hemp Development Act"; providing for state economy and agricultural
industry promotion of industrial hemp by permitting regulated industrial hemp
industry development; authorizing industrial hemp as an agricultural product;
placing enforcement under commissioner of agriculture; authorizing regulated and
lawful industrial hemp agriculture and commercial sales; requiring licensure for
cultivation; specifying licensee requirements, compliance and notification
requirements; requiring commissioner to promulgate certain rules; requiring fee
credit to the industrial hemp account and establishing the account in the
agricultural fund; establishing an affirmative defense for possession of
marijuana; exempting industrial hemp from the marijuana and wild hemp
definitions
(je)