Pennsylvania HB 20: An Act amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for adult use of cannabis; regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis; establishing the Keystone Cannabis Authority; providing for powers and duties of the Keystone Cannabis Authority; establishing the Community Opportunity Fund; providing for social and economic equity, for regulation of cannabis business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products; establishing the Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties; consolidating provisions relating to the medical use of cannabis; transferring certain powers and duties of the Department of Health to the Keystone Cannabis Authority; and making repeals.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 2119
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 20
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY KINKEAD, MAJOR, K.HARRIS, DAVIDSON, HOHENSTEIN,
CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, DOUGHERTY, D. WILLIAMS, CIRESI AND INGLIS,
JULY 14, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, JULY 14, 2025
AN ACT
Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, providing for adult use of cannabis;
regulating the personal use and possession of cannabis;
establishing the Keystone Cannabis Authority; providing for
powers and duties of the Keystone Cannabis Authority;
establishing the Community Opportunity Fund; providing for
social and economic equity, for regulation of cannabis
business establishments, for enforcement and immunities, for
laboratory testing, for advertising, marketing, packaging and
labeling and for preparation, destruction and regulation of
cannabis and cannabis-infused edible and nonedible products;
imposing a sales tax and excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-
infused edible and nonedible products; establishing the
Cannabis Regulation Fund; providing for cannabis clean slate
and for miscellaneous provisions; imposing penalties;
consolidating provisions relating to the medical use of
cannabis; transferring certain powers and duties of the
Department of Health to the Keystone Cannabis Authority; and
making repeals.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 35 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a part to read:
PART VII
CANNABIS
Chapter
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90. Preliminary Provisions
91. Adult Use of Cannabis
93. Medical Cannabis
CHAPTER 90
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Sec.
9001. Scope of part.
9002. Definitions.
9003. Smoking.
9004. Medical use of cannabis.
§ 9001. Scope of part.
This part relates to the regulation of cannabis in this
Commonwealth.
§ 9002. Definitions.
Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent
provisions of this part which are applicable to specific
provisions of this part, the following words and phrases when
used in this part shall have the meanings given to them in this
section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Authority." The Keystone Cannabis Authority established
under section 9131 (relating to establishment of Keystone
Cannabis Authority).
"Cannabis." As follows:
(1) Any of the following:
(i) Marijuana.
(ii) Hashish.
(iii) Other substances that are identified as
including any parts of the plant Cannabis sativa and
derivatives or subspecies, including indica, of all
strains of cannabis, whether growing or not, including
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the seeds, resin extracted from any part of the plant and
any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or
preparation of the plant.
(iv) A product intended for human consumption with a
THC concentration, however derived, greater than:
(A) three-tenths of a percent for any
intermediate or finished plant product or material,
or any product intended for consumption by inhalation
or smoking; or
(B) one half milligram per serving or individual
product unit, and 2 milligrams per package for
products sold in multiple servings or units, for any
beverage, food, oil, ointment, tincture, topical
formation or any other product that is intended for
consumption by means other than inhalation or
smoking.
(2) The term includes THC and all other naturally or
synthetically produced cannabinol derivatives, whether
produced directly or indirectly by extraction, including,
delta-7 THC, delta-8 THC, delta-9 THC or any structural,
optical or geometric isomers of tetrahydrocannabinol,
cannabis flower, concentrate and cannabis-infused edible and
nonedible products.
(3) The term does not include:
(i) The mature stalks of the cannabis plant.
(ii) Fiber produced from the stalks of a cannabis
plant.
(iii) Oil or cake made from the seeds of the
cannabis plant or any other compound, manufacture, salt,
derivative, mixture or preparation of the mature stalks.
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(iv) The sterilized seed of the cannabis plant that
is incapable of germination.
(v) Industrial hemp as defined in 3 Pa.C.S. § 702
(relating to definitions) below the THC concentrate
limits prescribed in paragraph (1)(iv).
"Cannabis-infused edible product." A product meant to be
chewed, dissolved, taken sublingually, buccally, or swallowed.
The term includes liquids, including beverages, food, oil,
tincture, capsule, tablet, gummies or other ingestible forms
containing cannabis or cannabis concentrate that are not
intended to be smoked or otherwise inhaled.
"Cannabis-infused nonedible product." A product meant to be
used topically or otherwise not intended to be ingested. The
term includes gels, creams, patches or ointments containing
cannabis or cannabis concentra