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PA SB732
Bill
Status
5/12/2025
Primary Sponsor
Patrick Stefano
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AI Summary
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Amends Pennsylvania's Medical Marijuana Act to add new definitions for "essential functions," "impaired," "safety-sensitive position," and "under the influence," with specific THC thresholds of 15 nanograms per milliliter in urine for determining impairment
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Defines safety-sensitive positions broadly to include work at heights, confined spaces, vehicle operation, equipment operation, firefighting, utilities, handling hazardous materials, dispensing pharmaceuticals, carrying firearms, and direct patient/elder/child care
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Allows employers to require drug testing for safety-sensitive positions, require disclosure of medical marijuana identification cards, and make adverse employment decisions against medical marijuana users in safety-sensitive roles after engaging in an interactive accommodation process
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Prohibits employers from discriminating against employees solely based on their certified medical marijuana patient status, while protecting employers who act in good faith on observable impairment or workplace policy violations
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Requires the Secretary of Labor and Industry to promulgate enforcement regulations and mandates that complainants exhaust all administrative remedies before filing civil actions; takes effect 60 days after enactment
Legislative Description
In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in patients, further providing for prohibitions; in miscellaneous provisions, further providing for protections for patients and caregivers and providing for enforcement and civil actions; and promulgating regulations.
Last Action
Referred to Law & Justice
5/12/2025