HB 5302 Summary

• Transfers responsibility for the statewide marijuana tracking system from the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs to the Marijuana Regulatory Agency created under Executive Reorganization Order No. 2019-2.

• Adds "licensed specialty medical grower" as a defined term and expands the statewide monitoring system to verify specialty medical grower licenses and track transfers to licensed specialty medical growers alongside registered qualifying patients and primary caregivers.

• Requires the Marijuana Regulatory Agency to seek competitive bids to establish, operate, and maintain the statewide monitoring system, with evaluation based on cost, ability to prevent fraud and abuse, and compliance with relevant statutes.

• Specifies that the contract awardee must deliver a functioning system within 180 days after contract award and prohibits disclosure or use of system information for purposes other than enforcement and implementation of marijuana laws.

• Ties the bill's effectiveness to enactment of HB 5301, HB 5300, and two additional bills (request nos. 04326'21 and 04327'21).