As the Delaware House voted to approve a bill to legalize marijuana possession on Tuesday, a committee in the chamber also passed a complementary measure to create regulations for an adult-use cannabis market—with a floor vote expected on Thursday.
The House Appropriations Committee cleared the regulations legislation from Rep. Ed Osienski (D), 4-0 on the merits. That marked the second panel to advance the bill and came on the same day that the full House approved the separate legalization proposal, HB 1, from the same sponsor.
HB 2, the regulations bill, will head to the floor on Thursday. Assuming passage, the next stop for both measures would be the Senate Health Committee, which would take them up next Wednesday, according to Sen. Trey Paradee (D), sponsor of the Senate companion version of the legalization legislation.
Paradee also told WRDE that he feels “strongly that I have the votes in the Senate already lined up” to not just pass the legislation but override the anti-legalization governor if he vetoes it again.
Osienski took a similar, bifurcated approach for the reform last session and saw the legislature pass the basic legalization proposal while narrowly defeating the regulatory measure. Gov. John Carney (D) vetoed
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