Florida Senate - 2016                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 460
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Hays moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 29 - 53
    4  and insert:
    5         2. After July 1, 2016, cannabis that is manufactured and
    6  sold by a dispensing organization as defined in s. 381.986.
    7         (10)(a) Notwithstanding s. 893.13, s. 893.135, s. 893.147,
    8  or any other law, but subject to the requirements of this
    9  section, an eligible patient and the eligible patient’s legal
   10  representative may purchase and possess cannabis for the
   11  patient’s medical use.
   12         (b) An eligible patient and the eligible patient’s legal
   13  representative may obtain cannabis only from a dispensing
   14  organization as defined in s. 381.986.
   15         (c) Notwithstanding s. 381.986, s. 893.13, s. 893.135, s.
   16  893.147, or any other law, but subject to the requirements of
   17  this section, a dispensing organization as defined in s. 381.986
   18  and its owners, managers, and employees may manufacture,
   19  possess, sell, deliver, distribute, dispense, and lawfully
   20  dispose of cannabis.
   21         (d) A dispensing organization as defined in s. 381.986 and
   22  its owners, managers, and employees are not subject to licensure
   23  or regulation under chapter 465 for manufacturing, possessing,
   24  selling, delivering, distributing, dispensing, or lawfully
   25  disposing of cannabis. As used in this subsection, the terms
   26  “manufacture,” “possession,” “deliver,” “distribute,” and
   27  “dispense” have the same meanings as provided in s. 893.02.
   28         (e) This section does not impair a licensed dispensing
   29  organization as defined in s. 381.986 to produce low-THC
   30  cannabis.
   31         (f) By July 1, 2016, the five dispensing organizations
   32  chosen for low-THC cannabis may seek authorization to produce
   33  cannabis, as authorized by this section, only after the
   34  Department of Health has received and approved additional
   35  information in a supplemental application process.
   36         (g) By July 1, 2016, the Department of Health shall
   37  authorize an additional 25 dispensing organizations that meet
   38  the requirements of s. 381.986(5)(b)2.-7. A new application
   39  process shall begin immediately upon this act becoming a law. An
   40  applicant involved in an ongoing administrative licensure
   41  challenge is not eligible to apply.
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   43  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   44  And the title is amended as follows:
   45         Delete line 12
   46  and insert:
   47         providing applicability; authorizing certain
   48         dispensing organizations to produce cannabis after
   49         certain information has been received and approved by
   50         the Department of Health; requiring the department to
   51         authorize additional dispensing organization subject
   52         to certain requirements; providing an effective date.