New Jersey A 3961: Dissolves New Jersey Hall of Fame Advisory Commission and New Jersey Hall of Fame corporation and transfers their functions to Foundation for New Jersey Hall of Fame.

Bill Text

A3961 

ASSEMBLY, No. 3961 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits Department of Agriculture to regulate sale 
and distribution of hemp-derived consumable products under certain 
circumstances.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act to regulate the sale and distribution of hemp-derived 
consumable products under certain circumstances, amending various sections of 
statutory law, supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes, and repealing 
various sections of statutory law.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 3 of P.L.2019, 
c.238 (C.4:28-8) is amended to read as follows:

����� 3.�� As 
used in sections 1 through 9 of P.L.2019, c.238 (C.4:28-6 et al.), unless the 
context otherwise requires:

����� "Agent" 
means an employee or contractor of a hemp producer.

����� "Applicant" 
means a person, or for a business entity, any person authorized to act on 
behalf of the business entity, who applies to the department to be a hemp 
producer in the State.

����� �Batch� 
means the hemp-derived consumable product produced during a period of time 
under similar conditions and identified by a specific code that allows the 
product to be traced.

����� "Commercial 
sale" means the sale of a product in the stream of commerce at retail, at 
wholesale, or on the Internet.

����� "Cultivate" 
means to plant, water, grow, or harvest a plant or crop.

����� "Department" 
means the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.

����� �Distributor� 
means a person or entity that delivers or sells hemp-derived consumable 
products for the purpose of distribution in commerce.

����� �Exit 
package� means an opaque bag or other similar opaque covering provided at the 
point of sale that satisfies the child resistant effectiveness standards under 
16 C.F.R. s.1700.15(b)(1) when tested in accordance with the requirements of 16 
C.F.R. s.1700.20.

����� "Federally 
defined THC level for hemp" means a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol 
concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis for hemp or in 
a hemp product.

����� "Handle" 
means to possess or store a hemp plant on premises owned, operated, or 
controlled by a hemp producer for any period of time or in a vehicle for any 
period of time other than during the actual transport of the plant between 
premises owned, operated, or controlled by hemp producers or persons or 
entities authorized to produce hemp pursuant to 7 U.S.C. s.1639o et seq. and 
any state law or rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto.� 
"Handle" does not mean possession or storage of finished hemp products.

����� "Hemp" 
means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including the 
seeds of the plant and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, 
salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a [total] 
delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol 
concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.� Hemp and 
hemp-derived cannabinoids, including cannabidiol, shall be considered an 
agricultural commodity and not a controlled substance due to the presence of 
hemp or hemp-derived cannabinoids.

����� �Hemp-derived 
beverage� means a hemp-derived consumable product that is a beverage intended 
for human ingestion.�� 

����� �Hemp-derived 
cannabinoid�� means any phytocannabinoid found in hemp, including delta-9 
tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9 THC), tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA), 
cannabidiol (CBD), cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), cannabinol (CBN), cannabigerol 
(CBG), cannabichromene (CBC), cannabicyclol (CBL), cannabivarin (CBV), 
tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV), cannabidivarin (CBDV), cannabicitran (CBT), 
delta-7 tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-7 THC), delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol 
(delta-8 THC), or delta-10 tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-10 THC).� �Hemp-derived 
cannabinoid� shall include any naturally occurring cannabinoid derived from 
hemp and contained in a hemp-derived consumable product, except �synthetic 
cannabinoid� as defined in section 2 of P.L.2013, c.35 (C.2C:35-5.3b).� 
�Hemp-derived cannabinoid� shall not include hemp products intended for topical 
applications, or seeds or seed-derived ingredients that are recognized as safe 
by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

����� �Hemp-derived 
consumable product� means a hemp product that is a good intended for human 
ingestion or inhalation that contains a delta-9 THC concentration of not more 
than three-tenths of one percent, 0.3%, on a dry weight basis, but may contain 
concentrations of other hemp-derived cannabinoids in excess of that amount.� 
�Hemp-derived consumable product� includes a hemp-derived beverage.

����� "Hemp 
producer" means a