2025 Minnesota Statutes

342.151 EMPLOYEES OF LICENSE HOLDERS.

Subdivision 1.

MS 2024 [Repealed, 2025 c 31 s 108]

Subd. 2.Criminal history check.

A cannabis business may employ or contract with as many unlicensed individuals as may be necessary, provided that the cannabis business is at all times accountable for the good conduct of every individual employed by or contracted with the cannabis business. Before hiring an individual as a cannabis worker, the cannabis business must submit to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension the individual's full set of fingerprints and written consent for the bureau to conduct a state and national criminal history check. The bureau may exchange an individual's fingerprints with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension must determine whether the individual is qualified to be employed as a cannabis worker and must notify the cannabis business of the bureau's determination. The cannabis business must not employ an individual who is disqualified from being employed as a cannabis worker.

Subd. 3.Disqualification.

(a) A cannabis business must not employ an individual as a cannabis worker if the individual has been convicted of any of the following crimes that would constitute a felony:

(1) human trafficking;

(2) noncannabis controlled substance crimes in the first or second degree;

(3) labor trafficking;

(4) fraud;

(5) embezzlement;

(6) extortion;

(7) money laundering; or

(8) insider trading;

if committed in this state or any other jurisdiction for which a full pardon or similar relief has not been granted.

(b) A cannabis business must not employ an individual as a cannabis worker if the individual made any false statement in an application for employment.

History:

2024 c 121 art 2 s 69; 2025 c 31 s 45,46