A bill to legalize marijuana in New Hampshire is going back to the House floor after a second committee passed the legislation with amendments on Monday.
The proposal, which is being sponsored by Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R) and Minority Leader Matthew Wilhelm (D), cleared the House Ways & Means Committee in a 16-4 vote.
The full chamber already approved the legislation last month, but it needed to be sent back to the finance-focused committee because of its fiscal provisions. It must pass the House again before potentially being sent to the Senate for consideration.
Previously, members of the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee had spent weeks working the proposal over a series of meetings, going back and forth about a variety of provisions and making amendments to the original measure.
Now, the Ways & Means Committee has approved a number of additional changes during Monday’s executive session as part of an all-encompassing amendment. That was adopted in a 16-4 vote.
While the bill previously set a 15 percent tax on marijuana flower at the wholesale level, the panel changed that to a 12.5 percent tax on the price of products in their final form at
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