5E Relating to health; providing for the medical use of marijuana in the treatment of certain debilitating medical conditions; providing criminal and civil penalties; setting an expiration date for medical use of marijuana provisions; providing for the classification of data by commissioner of health; defining certain terms; providing protections for the medical use of marijuana by certain qualifying patients and primary caregivers, limiting the amount allowed to be in possession; providing for dismissal of charges under certain conditions; prohibiting discrimination against qualifying patients or primary caregivers by schools, employers or landlords; providing an affirmative defense of medical use of marijuana for defense purposes; providing for reimbursement to primary caregivers for certain costs; protecting practitioners recommending the medical use of marijuana from arrest in certain situations, prosecution or penalties; protecting the marijuana from seizure; prohibiting the arrest and prosecution of persons in the presence or vicinity of the medical use of marijuana under certain conditions; authorizing licensed nursing facilities or boarding homes to adopt medical marijuana use restrictions; specifying maximum amounts of medical marijuana to be received by a qualifying patient; requiring and providing for the commissioner to issue registry identification cards to qualifying patients and primary suppliers, authorizing issuance to minors under certain conditions; specifying certain identification card content requirements and requiring rules for the consideration of applications, for renewals and fees; requiring qualifying patient or supplier notice to the commissioner of certain changes, imposing a civil penalty for violation, requiring commissioner issuance of new cards or voidance of existing cards under certain conditions; providing for the replacement of lost cards; classifying registration application and supporting data as private and requiring commissioner to maintain a list of persons and specifying conditions for release of data; authorizing certain delivery services and imposition of charges by registered organizations; requiring annual commissioner reports to the legislature on the number of applications and approvals and on the nature of the debilitating medical conditions; imposing penalties for submission of false records or documentation for organization certification purposes; requiring criminal history background checks of primary caregivers before issuance of a registry identification card; providing for construction and interpretation of the provisions; imposing certain penalties for fraudulent representation to law enforcement officials; allowing affirmative defense and dismissal for medical marijuana under certain conditions; severability clause; requiring and providing for registration of organizations supplying the marijuana for medical use, specifying certain requirements of the organizations; subjecting registered organizations to reasonable inspection by commissioner; specifying organization requirements and prohibitions, requiring organizations to be nonprofit entities; requiring implementation of security measures, prohibiting registered organizations from dispensing more than a certain amount of usable marijuana to a qualified patient or caregiver on behalf of a patient, requiring criminal background checks and specifying certain duties of the bureau of criminal apprehension; prescribing felony penalties; sunset provision; specifying certain implementation requirements for registry identification cards and registered organization licenses; appropriation to commissioner of health to implement the medical marijuana law
(je)
(Ch. 166, 2009 - VETO)