SF 4957
Introduction - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)
Posted on 04/08/2026 09:23 a.m.
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A bill for an act
relating to commerce; modifying provisions for registered designated caregivers;
increasing patient and cannabis plant limits; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024,
section 342.09, by adding a subdivision; Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement,
section 342.52, subdivision 9.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1.
Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 342.09, is amended by adding a subdivision
to read:
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(a) Notwithstanding any
law to the contrary, a registered designated caregiver approved to assist patients enrolled
in the registry program may cultivate cannabis plants on behalf of up to eight registered
patients.
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(b) A registered designated caregiver may cultivate up to 12 cannabis plants per registered
patient, with no more than six plants per patient being mature or flowering at one time.
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(c) Cannabis cultivated under this subdivision must:
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(1) be maintained in an enclosed, locked space;
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(2) not be visible from a public place; and
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(3) be used solely for the registered patients assigned to the caregiver.
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(d) If a patient assigns cultivation rights to a registered designated caregiver under this
subdivision, the patient must not simultaneously cultivate cannabis plants for personal
medical use.
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Sec. 2.
Minnesota Statutes 2025 Supplement, section 342.52, subdivision 9, is amended
to read:
Subd. 9.
Registered designated caregiver.
(a) The office must register a designated
caregiver for a patient if the patient requires assistance in administering medical cannabis
flower or medical cannabinoid products; obtaining medical cannabis flower, medical
cannabinoid products, or medical cannabis paraphernalia from a cannabis business with a
medical cannabis retail endorsement; or cultivating cannabis plants as permitted by section
342.09, subdivision 2.
(b) In order to serve as a designated caregiver, a person must:
(1) be at least 18 years of age;
(2) agree to only possess the patient's medical cannabis flower and medical cannabinoid
products for purposes of assisting the patient; and
(3) agree that if the application is approved, the person will not serve as a registered
designated caregiver for more than deleted text begin sixdeleted text end new text begin eightnew text end registered patients at one time. Patients who
reside in the same residence count as one patient.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a registered designated caregiver
from being enrolled in the registry program as a patient and possessing and administering
medical cannabis flower or medical cannabinoid products as a patient.
(d) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a registered designated caregiver approved
to assist a patient enrolled in the registry program with obtaining medical cannabis flower
may cultivate cannabis plants on behalf of one patient. A registered designated caregiver
may grow up to eight cannabis plants for the patient household that the registered designated
caregiver is approved to assist with obtaining medical cannabis flower. If a patient enrolled
in the registry program directs the patient's registered designated caregiver to cultivate
cannabis plants on behalf of the patient, the patient must assign the patient's right to cultivate
cannabis plants to the registered designated caregiver and notify the office. A patient who
assigns the patient's right to cultivate cannabis plants to a registered caregiver is prohibited
from cultivating cannabis plants for personal use. Nothing in this paragraph limits the right
of a registered designated caregiver cultivating cannabis plants on behalf of a patient enrolled
in the registry program to also cultivate cannabis plants for personal use pursuant to section
342.09, subdivision 2.