Act 281 (HB 4209) - Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act

• Establishes a medical marihuana licensing board within the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs to license and regulate growers, processors, provisioning centers, secure transporters, and safety compliance facilities for commercial medical marihuana operations.

• Provides immunity from criminal prosecution and civil penalties for individuals and property owners operating licensed marihuana facilities in compliance with the act and municipal ordinances.

• Creates five types of commercial licenses with specific plant limits (Class A grower: 500 plants; Class B: 1,000; Class C: 1,500) and operational restrictions, including prohibitions on cross-ownership between grower/processor and transporter/testing facilities.

• Imposes a 3% excise tax on provisioning center gross retail receipts with revenues allocated to municipalities (25%), counties (30%), state operations (30%), law enforcement training (5%), and state police (5%).

• Requires licensees to use third-party inventory tracking systems integrated with a statewide monitoring database to track all marihuana plants, products, transfers, and sales while maintaining consumer privacy protections.