Virginia lawmakers have advanced a bill to legalize marijuana sales along another step in the bicameral legislative process, with a House committee approving a substitute version of a Senate-passed reform measure.
The House General Laws Committee on Tuesday took up the legislation from Sen. Lashrecse Aird (D) and replaced its contents with the text of a House-passed version that’s being sponsored by the panel chair, Del. Paul Krizek (D), with some additional changes.
The bill as revised passed 16-4, sending it to the Appropriations Committee for further consideration and setting the stage for a bicameral conference committee to hammer out differences between the chambers’ version following additional steps in the legislative process.
“They’re still not going to be exact, but we’re working towards that,” Krizek said at the hearing. “We’re getting really close.”
While the revised bill as approved in committee is nearly identical to the House version Krizek is sponsoring, the panel adopted an additional series of amendments before voting it out favorably.
The proposal now stipulates that microbusiness licensees can cultivate, process or conduct retail sales at up to two locations instead of one, so long as they’re located within 10 miles of each other and operate under
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