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| Bill | Cannabis: medicinal and adult use. | (1) The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act makes various acts involving marijuana a crime except as authorized by law. Under the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and existing law commonly referred to as the Medical Marijuana Program, these authorized exceptions include exemptions for the use of marijuana for personal medical purposes by patients pursuant to physician's recommendations and exemptions for acts by those patients and their primary caregivers related to that personal medical use. The Medical Marijuana Program also provides immunity from arrest to those exempt patients or designated primary caregivers who engage in certain acts involving marijuana, up to certain limits, and who have identification cards issued pursuant to the program unless there is reasonable cause to believe that the information contained in the card is false or fraudulent, the card has been obtained by means of fraud, or the person is otherwise in violation of the law. Under existing law, a person who steals, fraudulently uses, or commits other prohibited acts with respect to those identification cards is subject to criminal penalties. Under existing law, a person 18 years of age or older who plants, cultivates, harvests, dries, or processes more than 6 living cannabis plants, or any part thereof, may be charged with a felony if specified conditions exist, including when the offense resulted in a violation of endangered or threatened species laws. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20172018 | SB 94 | California SB 94 (20172018) |
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California SB 94 (20172018) — Cannabis: medicinal and adult use.
(1) The California Uniform Controlled Substances Act makes various acts involving marijuana a crime except as authorized by law. Under the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and existing law commonly referred to as the Medical Marijuana Program, these authorized exceptions include exemptions for the use of marijuana for personal medical purposes by patients pursuant to physician's recommendations and exemptions for acts by those patients and their primary caregivers related to that personal medical use. The Medical Marijuana Program also provides immunity from arrest to those exempt patients or designated primary caregivers who engage in certain acts involving marijuana, up to certain limits, and who have identification cards issued pursuant to the program unless there is reasonable cause to believe that the information contained in the card is false or fraudulent, the card has been obtained by means of fraud, or the person is otherwise in violation of the law. Under existing law, a person who steals, fraudulently uses, or commits other prohibited acts with respect to those identification cards is subject to criminal penalties. Under existing law, a person 18 years of age or older who plants, cultivates, harvests, dries, or processes more than 6 living cannabis plants, or any part thereof, may be charged with a felony if specified conditions exist, including when the offense resulted in a violation of endangered or threatened species laws.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 01/11/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 06/09/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 06/27/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- SB94 (committee substitute) — source
- 06/20/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Unfinished Business SB94 B. & F.R. (Mitchell) Concurrence — 31–7 (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB94 B. & F.R. — 26–9 (pass) · upper
- SB 94 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By TING — 73–2 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-11 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction, reading-1 - 2017-01-12 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 11.
- 2017-01-19 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
referral-committee - 2017-05-08 Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 982.)
- 2017-05-08 Ordered to second reading.
- 2017-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-2, reading-1 - 2017-05-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 1033.) Ordered to the Assembly.
reading-3, passage, reading-1 - 2017-05-11 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1 - 2017-06-05 Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
referral-committee - 2017-06-09 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.
reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1 - 2017-06-12 Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 21. Page 2161.)
- 2017-06-12 Withdrawn from committee.
- 2017-06-12 Ordered to second reading.
- 2017-06-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-2, reading-1 - 2017-06-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 2207.) Ordered to the Senate.
reading-3, passage, reading-1 - 2017-06-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- 2017-06-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 1567.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage - 2017-06-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- 2017-06-27 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2017-06-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 27, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/eda07b54-07f4-4623-a1f8-b4a943699157. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).