MjLink Cannabis Business News and Press

New Jersey voters will decide whether to legalize adult-use cannabis this fall, and with just over two weeks until Election Day, NJ CAN 2020 is ramping up its campaign efforts to support the referendum, enlisting the help of Gov. Phil Murphy and Sen. Nicholas Scutari.

Murphy and Scutari, who have long supported legalization in the state, joined NJ CAN 2020 for a live panel discussion Oct. 8 on what a “Yes” vote means for New Jersey (see below video).

“Gov. Murphy has been an outspoken proponent for this since he’s been elected and prior to being elected, and he’s been full-throated behind this effort to get this ballot question passed,” Bill Caruso, an attorney with Archer & Greiner and a member of NJ CAN 2020, told Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary. “A million people have already voted in New Jersey. Having the governor come out when he came out, after vote-by-mail ballots arrived in New Jersey, is important."

 

BOSTON (Oct. 15, 2020)— PRESS RELEASE—Resource Innovation Institute (RII), in partnership with American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, are nearing completion of a comprehensive project to support Massachusetts cannabis cultivators with peer-reviewed resources to help them address the subjects featured in the first energy regulations placed on the energy-intensive industry.

The two non-profit organizations worked with two government agencies and eight energy efficiency program administrators to develop and deliver three projects:

1. Best practices guides – Energy Efficiency Best Practices for Massachusetts Marijuana Cultivators, the first state-level guide assembling regionally-specific advice on designing and operating efficient cultivation facilities, which pairs with RII’s LED Lighting for Cannabis Cultivation and HVAC for Cannabis Cultivation Best Practices Guides

2. Cultivation workshops – Efficient Yields workshop series, featuring experts who contributed to, and content from, the best practices guides

3. Simplified energy and water reporting – The Cannabis PowerScore benchmarking platform was upgraded to enable cultivators to comply with Cannabis Control Commission rules on providing annual resource consumption

The first eight months of adult-use cannabis sales in Illinois have generated more than $100 million in tax revenue, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Total adult-use sales have reached more than $431 million since launching in January, reaching a new monthly record of nearly $68 million in September.

Adult-use cannabis sales have generated nearly $70 million through the state’s Cannabis Regulation Fund and an additional $36 million from state and local taxes between January and August, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Nearly half of the tax revenue collected through the Cannabis Regulation Fund will be reinvested to support communities that have been disproportionately impacted by prohibition or directed to mental health and substance abuse programs, according to the news outlet. An additional $16 million will be provided to county and local governments.

D.C. councilmembers introduced a bill Oct. 9 that would allow returning citizens to work in the medical cannabis industry, according to a DCist.com report.

The legislation would repeal a rule included in the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1999 that prevents anyone with a felony conviction or misdemeanor cannabis offense from working at a medical cannabis cultivation center or dispensary, the news outlet reported.

The bill would also create a program that provides incentives for applicants seeking cultivation, dispensary and testing lab licenses when the business is more than 50% owned by returning citizens, according to DCist.com.

The Council’s Committee on Business and Economic Development will review the legislation later this month, the news outlet reported.

New Jersey has grappled with the idea of adult-use cannabis legalization for a while now, especially since Gov. Phil Murphy took office in 2018 with the promise of cannabis policy reform.

When a legalization bill stalled in the legislature last year, lawmakers placed an adult-use legalization question on the state’s 2020 ballot.

With just over two weeks until Election Day, many are surely wondering how the election will shape cannabis policy in the U.S.

“I’m excited to see what happens in New Jersey,” Rachel Gillette, partner and chair of Greenspoon Marder’s Cannabis Law Practice, tells Cannabis Business Times and Cannabis Dispensary. “I’m also excited to see what happens in states like Arizona and to see how many more states choose to legalize cannabis in this election.”

RELATED: UPDATE: 5 States Voting on Cannabis Legalization This November

Ready or not, cannabis regulators are watching you. 

What was once considered a subversive or fringe industry has blossomed into a vast, complex, multifaceted sector all its own over the past decade. And with those changes have come a much-increased regulatory presence.

Proper labeling is paramount these days, while testing for potency, pesticides, microbials and more is commonplace. But here’s the thing: Those cannabis- and hemp-specific mandates, important as they are, are barely the tip of the regulatory iceberg compared to what’s coming down the pike.

Regulations from the likes of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are essential for ensuring safety of workers and consumers and further legitimizing the hemp and cannabis industries as a whole. But unless cultivators, processors and dispensaries make some changes now, they’ll be playing catch-up for years to come—many with suboptimal consequences. 

Kim Stuck, Founder and CEO of Allay Consulting

As the world’s first cannabis and hemp specialist for a major metropolitan public health authority at Denver’s Department of Public Health and Environment, where I worked for nearly four years, I witnessed countless well-meaning operators (and their investors) get tripped-up by rules and regs that aren’t always black and white. My work as a regulator now informs everything I do in advising my cannabis and hemp clients. 

As regulatory agencies at every level are stepping up their presence in these still-new industries, here are a couple of the lessons to help you and your colleagues steer clear of trouble. 

San Diego, CA—PRESS RELEASE—Pendram, Inc. has announced the launch of its first official registered equity crowdfunding campaign in partnership with WeFunder. Pendram is raising capital to grow the brand and launch a new line of high tech “smart” storage solutions. Pendram will use the capital to complete development and go to full production with the innovative new category of products. The WeFunder campaign launches on Oct. 13, 2020, and Investment is open to the public and accepted at:  www.wefunder.com/pendram

Pendram’s proprietary patent pending smart technology called Intellisphere IAC “Creates the Perfect Atmosphere” and has the goal to set a new standard for precise storage conditions with safety and smart flexible control from anywhere. Pendram's business model is innovation and a mission to protect, preserve and optimize the long-term quality of perishables. The innovative “smart” high tech product line includes storage solutions specifically being engineered for culinary, cannabis, cigar and breast milk applications.

Mary June Makoul, founder and CEO says, “We’re raising money through crowdfunding because we want as many people as possible to be a part of our innovative, high-tech company. There was a critical need for miniaturized smart storage solutions and this is an opportunity for anyone to own part of a growing tech company on the ground floor without having to quit your job or be an experienced Investor. We’ve already proven demand with numerous pre-orders, and it is thrilling to imagine what this company can do with access to adequate funding.”

“I am delighted and excited to join Pendram as the Lead Investor in their WeFunder campaign launching today! These funds will help drive the company forward, accelerate growth and expedite the path from the current prototypes to production of their groundbreaking smart storage technology products. The time is now for these innovative solutions and Pendram is positioning to create a whole new category of products” said Mark Yoshida, lead investor for Pendram’s WeFunder campaign.

Jon Siann, CTO and founder of the company, added, “No miniaturized solutions exist on the market today that can add and subtract moisture using distilled water to maintain precise storage conditions for multiple applications. Current solutions use chemicals that interfere with the integrity of stored products and are an environmental hazard. Our patent-pending products and proprietary platform will leverage electronic and thermal breakthroughs as well as sophisticated software and cloud management to reliably and precisely control temp, airflow and humidity."

AUSTIN, Texas (October 14, 2020)—PRESS RELEASE—Fluence by OSRAM, a global provider of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions for commercial cannabis and agriculture production, has expanded its top light solutions and launched the VYPR 3x and VYPR DUO 3x2. The latest VYPR series additions feature Fluence’s diversified PhysioSpec spectra and efficacies up to 3.7 µmol/J.

“This addition to the Fluence VYPR Series is just one example of how we are creating advanced solutions to meet growers’ unique needs as they adopt LED technology into their facilities,” said Timo Bongartz, Fluence’s general manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. “By offering products with a smaller form-factor that deliver high light output, growers who previously were unable to install supplemental lighting—due to restrictions in facility dimensions—now have a solution to leverage year-round crop production. We are pleased that the first growers in the Netherlands and Scandinavia will use this new solution in the upcoming winter season.”

Featuring three new mounting options, the VYPR 3x distributes light uniformly across low-ceiling grow environments, reducing the need for additional fixtures per lit area and lowering operational expenses. The VYPR 3x2 features DUO remote and cradle mounts, disperses the same amount of light as VYPR 3p to larger areas, or doubles the photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) per truss installation.

With Fluence’s expanded PhysioSpec from broad white to high red spectra, the latest VYPR top light fixtures offer higher efficacies (up to 3.7 µmol/J) and higher PPF (up to 1200 µmol/s) per fixture over comparable lighting technologies.

“Challenging cultivation environments require a unique, creative approach to supplemental lighting,” said Lorrie Schultz, Fluence’s senior vice president of marketing. “With VYPR’s diversified spectra and greater application flexibility, our customers can now choose from a broader range of top light options, tailor lighting strategies to their specific growing environments and extend photoperiods while maximizing energy efficiency.”

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- PRESS RELEASE -- Surterra Texas, a division of the privately-held, multi-state operator cannabis company Parallel and a medical cannabis company in the Texas market, has announced the availability of the first cannabis-infused topical lotions for patients in the state of Texas. This introduction of lotions follows the company's launch of medical cannabis lozenges in September, the first in the state of Texas.

RELATED: How Surterra Texas Is Evolving with the State’s Expanding Medical Cannabis Market

Surterra Texas' lotions are being introduced in two product lines: Tranquil Lotion. with a 19:1 ratio of CBD:THC (342 mg CBD and 18 mg THC per package), and Soothe Lotion, with a 1:1 ratio of CBD:THC (180 mg CBD and 180 mg THC per package). Each child-resistant jar of lotion will be available for $60.

"We are excited to be, once again, the first to bring a new cannabis product category to our patients in the state of Texas. Regardless of if a patient wants to treat a specific area with our new lotions or get full body relief from our lozenges, we're committed to providing a variety of formats to help customers unlock the benefits of cannabis," said Marcus Ruark, president of Surterra Texas. "Surterra Texas continues to lead the Texas Compassionate Use Program in product innovation and providing Texans with the widest variety of medical cannabis products."

In addition to offering the first medical cannabis lotions, Surterra Texas continues to offer Texas' only THC-dominant product, the Relief Lozenges with a 1:9 CBD:THC ratio, as well as a variety of medical cannabis tinctures with a range of ratios and targeted terpene profiles. Each Surterra Wellness product has been formulated with specific cannabinoid ratios to help patients with approved treatable conditions under the Texas Compassionate Use Program, including terminal cancer, spasticity, autism, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and a wide range of neurological diseases.

OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- PRESS RELEASE -- Nabis, a California-based software-enabled cannabis distributor, has announced that the company has entered into an exclusive partnership with Pabst Labs to distribute Pabst Blue Ribbon Cannabis Infused Seltzer across California.

Blue Ribbon will now adorn the can of a non-alcoholic THC infused seltzer. Pabst Labs, a company founded by a group of cannabis beverage experts and former Pabst Brewing Company employees, was granted the rights to create a line of cannabis infused drinks under the Pabst Blue Ribbon Name. Pabst Labs is looking to break industry ground with the launch of its cannabis infused flavored seltzer, which includes 5 mg of THC per can.

RELATED: Pabst Blue Ribbon Cannabis Infused Seltzer Debuts in California

Through this agreement, Nabis will be the exclusive distributor of Pabst Blue Ribbon Cannabis Infused drinks in California until 2021. By partnering with an established distributor familiar with navigating the logistical constraints of a variety of cannabis products, Pabst Labs can focus on producing beverages for their consumers. It is no secret that there are many unique challenges associated with distributing beverages in the cannabis space, because the industry has yet to widely adopt the equipment necessary to store or transport beverages. However, Nabis will be investing heavily in its distribution infrastructure and software platform to ensure that the new product category becomes accessible to a larger pool of cannabis consumers.

"We are honored to power Pabst Lab's entrance into the cannabis market. As Nabis scales, we believe it is important to be a leader in providing access to newer product categories," said Jun S. Lee, president of Nabis. "This is an exciting challenge, and Nabis is thrilled to offer logistical solutions for innovative products like Pabst Lab's infused seltzers."

While implementing proper airflow at an indoor cultivation facility isn’t necessarily complicated or overly expensive, Geoff Brown, VP of Technical Solutions for Quest, says it’s a necessary part of the grow environment that is often overlooked.

“Ductwork is not fun by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s an inexpensive and important way to make sure that your grow runs optimally,” he says.

Insufficient airflow in a grow room can lead to reduced yield, overheating or plant disease, among other issues, and is often the result of poor planning when installing equipment, Brown says.

For example, if the air supply and air return are both located above the canopy, the conditioned environment is far away from the crop, which leads to poor airflow around the plants.

“In my perfect world, we would see a mismatch between supply and return,” Brown says. “If you’re going to have a high supply, you’d want a return low so that you get good mixing, or vice versa—you could supply low and return high. But doing both at the same level means that it’s going to be very difficult to mix the air and not end up with a stratified air mass that’s not interacting with the plants the way you’d expect it to.”

With the legalization of hemp in a number of U.S. states, the market recognizes new opportunity in a number of sectors from the health properties of CBD oil to renewable building materials that can result from the cultivation of this versatile plant. It’s not without its challenges, though, and primarily among them is how to dry product at scale quickly and economically without damaging its beneficial properties.

One method for drying hemp closely resembles the established “Wisconsin Method” for drying another member of the Cannabaceae family, Humulus Lupulus, also known as hops. The appeal to this process is that it excels at preserving valuable terpenes, minimizes equipment spend and lowers the operating costs compared to other methods.

Step 1: Determine your harvest rate/amount to determine your drying room/chamber capacity.

The ideal situation is to build multiple airtight chambers by whatever means possible (e.g. drywall, plastic tents, vinyl sheets) to dry your hemp in. The size of the chamber should be sufficient to hold one days’ worth of harvest.

You could build a room and continuously load it with product, but you can’t allow the hemp to sit without drying or it will rot. This means you will have hemp in multiple stages of drying, and it will be difficult to manage. Having a single, uniform loading and unloading for a single chamber will allow you to better manage product quality and dryness. 

First, determine the daily harvest rate and the volume this will take up in your barns or drying facilities. The below diagram represents your product on racks and hanging from the ceiling in some sort of plastic box erected inside your current structure. The smaller you can make the structure, the better off you will be. This will reduce the volume of air (CFM) and dehumidification capacity needed to dry the product because both will be able to focus on the product instead of drying the rest of the space around the plant. It also forces more contact between the air and the product, which is what provides the drying potential.

A new law in California will provide safe harbor for banking institutions doing business with cannabis companies. It also makes it far easier to start this process—for both the bank and the business—than ever before. 

Essentially, the law states that financial services and banking institutions are not acting criminally when engaging with a licensed cannabis business. By virtue of the license, that business is operating legally within the state of California. This clears up a fundamental issue that persists in the age of federal prohibition.

Read the full text of the bill below.

In order to get the ball rolling on a new financial relationship, California cannabis businesses may request that the state licensing authorities share information with the banking institution in question.

This has been one of the major sticking points for cannabis banking: the measure of transparency needed to conduct a financial relationship. Due to Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) guidelines issued in 2014, banking institutions are faced with onerous regulations that complicate access to a cannabis business’s license information. In short, it’s difficult to ascertain and prove whether a cannabis business is what its owners say it is, so banks have largely stayed on the sidelines of this issue.

The language in A.B. 1525 allows the state’s regulators to act as a referee, in a sense, that can help provide vital information to the banks right away.

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PRESS RELEASE--ExtractionTek Solutions and Pinnacle Stainless, two Colorado-based innovators in cannabis extraction technology, equipment design and fabrication, are have announced they are merging operations, effective Jan. 1, 2021. The company will operate under the name ExtractionTek Stainless, Powered by Pinnacle.

The merger brings together expertise in closed-loop hydrocarbon and ethanol extraction methodologies, and allows the companies to centralize all equipment design with in-house fabrication, all of which will facilitate business expansion. As a result of this merger, the company projects combined revenues of $45 million in 2021. Company leadership plans to maintain current staffing levels.

“As the cannabis space continues to grow more competitive, we understand that combining our forces is the path forward to achieve a level of synergy impossible alone. ExtractionTek Solutions brings industry-leading hydrocarbon extraction technology, and Pinnacle offers expertise in ethanol extraction, excellent fabrication capability and an advanced production facility,” said Matthew Ellis, CEO of ETS. “A merger right now is especially important as we near election time—many states may achieve legalization, and we are uniquely positioned to meet those upcoming needs and thrive in new and developing markets.”

ExtractionTek Stainless, Powered by Pinnacle is an innovative, complementary partnership that gives the two companies greater control over their supply chain and quality assurance, providing cannabis extraction professionals greater flexibility and choice in safe and compliant extraction equipment.

The two companies, which strive to provide exemplary customer support, will continue to utilize U.S. steel and American-made components in their equipment lines as part of their commitment to U.S. manufacturing. The merger also heralds the deployment of proprietary new solvent recovery technology that boosts production capability and efficiency for extract manufacturers.

“Both Pinnacle and ETS are proudly Colorado-based companies. We’ve been in this industry for years, and we’ve seen first-hand the differences that quality and innovation make every step of the way,” said Zach Harris, CEO of Pinnacle Stainless. “It’s this spirit of innovation and focus on the future that informs our decision to take this step as the cannabis industry undergoes changes and advancements on all fronts.”

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission held a meeting Sept. 29, where it rejected issuing an additional dispensary license and considered closing a loophole in the program’s reciprocity rules, according to an Arkansas Times report.

The commission briefly considered adding a fifth dispensary license in Zone 6, which spans eight counties between Pulaski County and the Oklahoma border, due to rising customer demand, the news outlet reported, but ultimately shot down the idea in a 3-2 vote.

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission voted in June to release two additional cultivation and four additional dispensary licenses.

Twenty-nine dispensaries are now open in Arkansas, while eight more are working toward becoming operational.

The commission also addressed a loophole in the medical cannabis program’s reciprocity rules at its Sept. 29 meeting, the Arkansas Times reported.

The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission awarded 11 medical cannabis cultivation and processing licenses Oct. 1 in an effort to diversify the state’s industry, according to The Baltimore Sun.

The three cultivation and eight processing licenses were issued after more than a year of delays stemming from logistical errors and allegations that the process was flawed, the news outlet reported.

Viola Maryland, Herbiculture Cultivation and MAS Alliance won “pre-approval” for the cultivation licenses, according to The Baltimore Sun, while Herbiculture Manufacturing, Organic Remedies MD, Bouquet Labs, Element MD, AHI Group, Ceres Naturals, Marileaves Extractions and Greener Good were awarded pre-approval for the processing licenses.

At least half of all the companies’ ownership qualifies as “disadvantaged,” female or minority, the news outlet reported.

Maryland has planned to issue the additional licenses since 2018, when the state legislature approved a law that required the state to expand its medical cannabis program to include more racial diversity, according to The Baltimore Sun.

COLORADO:  Gov. Jared Polis released the following statement on the final passage of the Federal Continuing Resolution including an extension of the 2014 Farm Bill which also includes the Hemp Pilot Program. “We worked closely with our federal delegation to ensure this provision to extend the 2014 Farm Bill and the hemp act was included Read the full article...

Oct. 2, 2020 – CLEVELAND, Ohio – GIE Media, the parent company of Hemp Grower, Cannabis Business Times, Cannabis Dispensary, and Cannabis Conference is pleased to announce that Stephen Langel has been named editor of Hemp Grower.

Langel will support HG’s continued rapid growth following GIE Media’s decision to transition the HG print magazine from a bimonthly to a monthly publishing schedule beginning in January 2021.

A graduate of the University of Florida School of Law and the Florida State University School of Communication and Information, Langel has more than 20 years of experience as an editor, reporter, and fundraiser.

He has written for and edited several publications in Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, such as Roll Call, Health Affairs, and Washington Drug Letter, reporting on topics including healthcare reform, environmental policy, and the fight for social justice. He has also covered several major events, such as President Obama's first inauguration and the Congressional debate over the Affordable Care Act.

Since moving to Northeast Ohio, Langel has been a freelance reporter for both the Cleveland Jewish News and the Columbus Jewish News, while working as a fundraiser for several organizations. His fundraising work included leadership positions with The Cleveland Orchestra, Andrews Osborne Academy, the NewBridge Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology and Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine.

Langel received a Juris Doctor at the University of Florida, where he served as co-editor-in-chief of the Florida Journal of International Law. Langel received his Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University, graduating magna cum laude while majoring in communication studies with a minor in African American studies.

This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a cannabis banking bill into law that will make it easier for cannabis businesses to strike up a financial relationship with a bank. Elsewhere, in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced plans to pardon more than 2,700 low-level cannabis possession convictions through an executive order.

Here, we’ve rounded up the 10 headlines you need to know before this week is over.

Federal: The U.S. House has again included the SAFE Banking Act in its latest COVID-19 relief package, newly proposed legislation that is an updated version of The HEROES Act and that initially passed the House in May. The SAFE Banking Act would allow state-legal cannabis businesses to work with banks and other financial institutions, and was also passed as a standalone bill in the House last fall. Read moreNew Jersey: The state legislature has approved a bill that would allow doctors to use telemedicine to recommend medical cannabis to their patients. The legislation would allow certain patients with limited access to in-office consultations to receive medical cannabis recommendations from their doctors via telemedicine, while other patients would be required to attend one in-office consultation but could then have future recommendations renewed using telemedicine. Read moreMissouri: The Department of Health and Senior Services has announced that a medical cannabis testing facility has passed its commencement inspection and received final approval to operate. The state’s medical cannabis supply chain is now fully operational with cultivation, dispensary and testing facilities, and sales are expected to launch soon. Read moreMassachusetts: The Cannabis Control Commission has agreed on a regulatory framework for cannabis delivery, with a proposal that would create two types of licenses and establish a timeline to implement the new rules. The first license type, a “limited delivery license,” would allow a licensee to charge a fee to deliver from licensed cannabis dispensaries, while the second license type, a “wholesale delivery license,” would allow a licensee to buy cannabis wholesale from licensed cultivators and manufacturers, store it in a warehouse and sell it to consumers. Read moreMaine: Portland received 43 cannabis dispensary applications last month for the city’s 20 available retail licenses, but a preliminary staff review has found that a dozen of the applicants could be disqualified for not meeting basic requirements. The 12 applicants could be disqualified for not having a conditional state cannabis license, being more than 30 days late on paying a local tax or fee in the last five years, having unresolved land-use violations, or planning to operate a dispensary too close to a school or in the wrong zoning district. Read moreHawaii: Gov. David Ige has signed legislation into law that allows the sale of cannabis edibles in the state, effective Jan. 1, 2021. The bill, H.B. 2097, cleared the legislature in July, and would authorize the state’s eight medical cannabis licensees to produce and sell cannabis-infused edible products for registered patients. Read moreColorado: Gov. Jared Polis announced plans this week to pardon 2,732 low-level cannabis possession convictions through an executive order. The move comes after the passage of House Bill 1424, which allows the governor to pardon convictions involving the possession of up to 2 ounces of cannabis, which is the current legal limit for those registered in Colorado’s medical cannabis program. Read moreCalifornia: A bill became law this week that will provide safe harbor for banking institutions doing business with cannabis companies. Essentially, the law states that financial services and banking institutions are not acting criminally when engaging with a licensed cannabis business. Read moreArkansas: The Medical Marijuana Commission held a meeting this week where it rejected issuing an additional dispensary license and considered closing a loophole in the program’s reciprocity rules. The commission briefly considered adding a fifth dispensary license in Zone 6, which spans eight counties between Pulaski County and the Oklahoma border, due to rising customer demand, but ultimately shot down the idea in a 3-2 vote. Read moreMaryland: The Medical Cannabis Commission awarded 11 medical cannabis cultivation and processing licenses this week in an effort to diversify the state’s industry. The three cultivation and eight processing licenses were issued after more than a year of delays stemming from logistical errors and allegations that the process was flawed. Read more

COLORADO:Governor Jared Polis today signed an Executive Order granting pardons to those who have been convicted of possessing one ounce or less of marijuana. In June, Gov. Polis signed the bipartisan H.B. 20-1424, sponsored by Rep. James Coleman, Sen. Julie Gonzales and Sen. Vicki Marble, including an amendment sponsored by Sen. Gonzales, which authorizes the Governor to grant Read the full article...