BILL NUMBER: AB 1975	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Halderman

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act relating to medical marijuana.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1975, as introduced, Halderman. Medical marijuana: pesticide
regulation.
   Existing law establishes the Medical Marijuana Program to exempt
certain qualified patients who hold an identification card issued
pursuant to the program, and the caregivers of those persons, from
certain state criminal sanctions related to the possession,
cultivation, transportation, processing, or use of limited amounts of
marijuana, as specified.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require the Department of Pesticide Regulation
to develop guidelines to enforce state pesticide regulations on
medical marijuana cultivation.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would require the Department of Pesticide Regulation
to develop guidelines to enforce state pesticide regulations on
medical marijuana cultivation.