Relating to the licensure of medical cannabidiol dispensaries

Where it is now

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   Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2025
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   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 16, 2025
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   Done: Senate committeeFebruary 20, 2025
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   Done: Passes the SenateApril 16, 202642–5
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   Skipped: House committeeSkipped
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   Done: Passes the HouseApril 17, 202590–2
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   Done: To the GovernorMay 6, 2026
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   Done: Signed into lawJune 2, 2026

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What’s in it

This bill relates to the licensure of medical cannabidiol dispensaries. The bill increases the maximum number of medical cannabidiol dispensary licenses in the state from to 10. The bill allows a licensee to hold no more than three medical cannabidiol dispensary licenses. The bill strikes a provision in current law requiring a medical cannabidiol dispensary to agree to begin supplying medical cannabidiol by December 1, 2018.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Changed since by amendments S-5028, H-1247; see Amendments. Full bill text · What changed before it passed

Senate subcommittee

Named January 16, 2025. On January 23, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.

• Sen. Scott Webster REmail
• Sen. Kerry Gruenhagen REmail
• Sen. Izaah Knox DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§124E.8

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

Family tree

Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

• SF 2335 Relating to the licensure of medical cannabidiol dispensaries
  90th General Assembly · Passed Senate · same title
  Passed a chamber
• HF 2659 Relating to the licensure of medical cannabidiol dispensaries
  90th General Assembly · In committee · same title
  Cleared committee

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.