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Washington State Hemp in Food Task Force
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Observations
WA Legislature - Update
(April 27, 2025)
Legislators prepared to pass the final operating budget, which contained a few surprises including provisos incorporating a social equity bill, as they wrapped up the 2025 regular session on Sunday.
WSLCB - Board Meeting
(April 23, 2025) - Summary
The board denied two rulemaking petitions, placing their concepts in a ‘parking lot’ for future consideration, before approving a supplemental CR-102 and adopting lab authority transfer rules.
The Week Ahead
(April 21, 2025)
Lynnwood officials prepped another step towards retail, WSLCB regulators had a full agenda for their board meeting, and legislators would hack through the final week of the regular session.
The Week Ahead
(April 14, 2025)
As the Opposite House Cutoff approached, the WSLCB board planned to discuss reviving advisory councils and WSDA contractors would ask for input on reviving the hemp sector.
WSLCB - Board Meeting
(April 9, 2025) - Summary
Rulemaking projects and several petitions were reviewed by staff before a public hearing on the transfer of lab authority highlighted concerns about expanded test reporting.
WA Legislature - Update
(April 1, 2025)
Following two public hearings on Monday and passage of the House operating budget, seven cannabis-related bills were up for executive sessions on Tuesday ahead of the next cutoff.
WA Legislature - Update
(March 25, 2025)
An unusual omnibus bill would be presented publicly on Tuesday along with the WSLCB data dashboard legislation and the production unionization bill before hearings on the freshly proposed operating budgets.
WA Legislature - Update
(February 24, 2025)
Five more cannabis-related bills made it through the first cutoff bringing the total to 13, five of which must be moved by fiscal committees by the next gateway on Friday to continue onwards, including home grow.
WA Legislature - Update
(February 21, 2025)
The lab certification bill was passed in the House before a mishmash of amendments were published on seven cannabis-related bills up for executive sessions Friday morning in advance of the first cutoff.
WA Legislature - Update
(February 14, 2025)
Wrapping up the first five weeks of the 2025 session, committee schedules for the final week before the first cutoff were filling up prompting reshuffling and winnowing of legislative priorities.