{"id":190642,"date":"2025-04-18T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T10:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/senate-planning-frankenstein-bill-to-regulate-cbd-hemp-products\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T10:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T10:04:39","slug":"senate-planning-frankenstein-bill-to-regulate-cbd-hemp-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=190642","title":{"rendered":"Senate planning Frankenstein bill to regulate CBD, hemp products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a House bill to regulate CBD and hemp products, but the committee chair said the House bill is merely a vehicle for a piecemeal creation of the Senate\u2019s making.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lance Bell, chair of the Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development, told lawmakers that various Senate bills that have passed through committees have been \u201cheld back\u201d in order to piece them together into a singular vision of regulations on cannabinoids in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll those bills are being held so we have one bill and one bill only,\u201d Bell said. \u201cThe House has already passed (HB445) so I think we use that as the vehicle and come up with a Senate version \u2026 hopefully we can come up with one bill that we all kind of agree on and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been at least four other bills regulating hemp introduced in the Senate including SB273 by Sen. April Weaver, R-Alabaster, SB255 by Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Bimringham and SB237 and SB132 by Sen. Tim Melson, R-Florence. All of those bills except for SB132 passed through Senate committees, with wide variations on how to regulate the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Bell said that Senators are still in the \u201cgathering phase\u201d and that everyone would be brought to the table, including representatives of the industry that told lawmakers Wednesday that HB445, sponsored by Rep. Andy Whitt, R-Harvest, would regulate the industry out of existence.<\/p>\n<p>Molly Cole, a representative for the Alabama Hemp and Vape Association, told APR that she is not convinced that the \u201ccompromise bill\u201d under construction will result in anything workable for the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them what would be the bare minimum that businesses need to stay open,\u201d Cole said. \u201cI was basically told on every point that there\u2019s no way that will happen \u2026 The compromise will really be a backhanded prohibition bill that will cancel an entire industry. And I was told that\u2019s kind of the point.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sen. Merika Coleman, D-Birmingham, specifically requested to be recorded as a \u201cno\u201d vote on the bill which the committee approved by voice vote, citing the murky plans that Senators have for the substitute moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that critics could agree on is that HB445 will kill the state\u2019s CBD and hemp industry. By and large, opponents of the bill supported some level of regulation, but argued that this version of regulation is far too broad and treats CBD too strictly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt ought to be beer and wine versus a liquor,\u201d said Mitch Hungerpiller, CEO of Easy Hemp Company in Birmingham. The bill would restrict even non-psychoactive CBD and hemp-derived products to be restricted to stores catering exclusively to clientele 21 and over (like package stores or standalone CBD stores).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this bill is passed the way it is, it\u2019s going to effect over $100 million in current small business revenue and the taxes, and it\u2019s going to bankrupt over 1,000 small businesses,\u201d Hungerpiller said. \u201cGrocery stores are going to have 20- to 30-foot sections of their store shelves empty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocean Jones, owner of four CBD stores in the state, said the bill\u2019s provision limiting individual CBD gummies to 5 mg of THC is an arbitrary limit that will drive consumers to the underground market for something stronger, sacrificing all tax revenue to be made from the products and creating access to riskier products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous provisions in the bill that critics worry will wipe out the industry including an all-out ban on inhalable products including flowers and vape products, a 10 percent excise tax and a requirement that all products sold in the state be derived from Alabama-grown hemp.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Crawford, owner of the Sunmed location in Orange Beach, called HB445 a \u201cbackdoor ban\u201d that would \u201cthrow the baby out with the bathwater.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI represent the baby,\u201d Crawford said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The disparate bills the Senate is weighing alongside input from lobbyists are far-ranging and what the eventual substitute would look like is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever that substitute is, it would likely be seen by the public for the first time when introduced on the Senate floor with just one vote necessary to send the bill to the desk of Gov. Kay Ivey to be signed into law.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would face one final hurdle, however. The House would have to agree to concur to the new substituted bill; if not, the bill would go to conference committee and the two chambers would have to has out yet another compromise, which would then need to go back before both chambers for approval. This could all be done on a single legislative day, a crucial element to the Legislature\u2019s ability to pass regulation this session with only seven legislative days remaining on the calendar.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Senate committee on Wednesday approved a House bill to regulate CBD and hemp products, but the committee chair said the House bill is merely a vehicle for a piecemeal creation of the Senate\u2019s making. Sen. 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