Bipartisan and bicameral Minnesota lawmakers will hold their first conference committee meeting on Friday to begin resolving differences between marijuana legalization bills that passed the House and Senate last month.
Rep. Zack Stephenson (D), sponsor of the House version, announced the meeting on Wednesday, saying legislators “are making great progress” in informal discussions ahead of the meeting.
The cannabis conference committee will have our first meeting on Friday morning. We are making great progress and @Lindsey_Port and I are excited to finish the job!
— Zack Stephenson (@zackstephenson) May 10, 2023
He and Sen. Lindsey Port (D), the Senate bill sponsor, are “excited to finish the job,” he said.
While the bills were identical as introduced earlier this year, both went through an extensive committee process in their respective chambers, with lawmakers making various amendments along the way.
After they were separately approved on the House and Senate floors, bipartisan legislators, including the sponsors, were selected as negotiators to hash out differences and reach an agreement on a final product.
The measures are still fundamentally the same, proposing to legalize marijuana and regulate an adult-use market, but there are key differences that will need to be settled in conference,
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