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MA H146

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Rob Consalvo

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Origin

House of Representatives

194th General Court

AI Summary

  • Maximum cannabis testing batch size required by the Cannabis Control Commission cannot be smaller than 25 pounds

  • Commission must conduct annual reviews of testing regulations and protocols—including batch size requirements, pesticide limits, and bacteria/yeast/mold tests—in collaboration with MDAR, the Cannabis Advisory Board, testing labs, and marijuana establishments, with bi-annual reports to the legislature

  • Environmental media testing (soils, growing media, water) prohibited; only finished marijuana and marijuana products may be tested

  • Commission required to publicly publish industry-wide and per-laboratory testing data quarterly, including failure rates for pesticides, heavy metals, microbiological contaminants, residual solvents, and mycotoxins, plus THC levels for flower, vaporizer devices, and concentrates

  • Commission must investigate and publicly report reasons for statistically significant outliers among individual testing laboratories; regulations must be promulgated within 365 days of enactment

Legislative Description

To create efficient cannabis testing standards

Last Action

Accompanied a new draft, see H4160

5/29/2025

Committee Referrals

Cannabis Policy2/27/2025

Full Bill Text

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