Florida SB 1270: Food and Hemp Products

Bill Text

1270 
Food and Hemp Products 
2026-01-06T11:34:13Z 
Providing conditions for the manufacture, delivery, hold, offer for sale, distribution, or sale of hemp extract; prohibiting the unpermitted business, street, or festival sale of hemp extract; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to preapprove advertisements; requiring such businesses and food establishments to keep certain records pertaining to lab results of hemp extract products and the suppliers of such products for a specified amount of time, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1270 

 By Senator Davis 

 5-01419-26 20261270__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to food and hemp products; amending s. 
 3 581.217, F.S.; revising legislative findings; revising 
 4 definitions; defining the term “total delta-9 
 5 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration”; providing 
 6 conditions for the manufacture, delivery, hold, offer 
 7 for sale, distribution, or sale of hemp extract; 
 8 prohibiting the unpermitted business, street, or 
 9 festival sale of hemp extract; prohibiting businesses 
 10 and food establishments from possessing hemp or hemp 
 11 extract products that are attractive to children; 
 12 prohibiting businesses and food establishments 
 13 permitted to sell hemp or hemp extract from being 
 14 located in specified areas; prohibiting such 
 15 businesses and food establishments from advertising in 
 16 a specified manner; requiring the Department of 
 17 Agriculture and Consumer Services to preapprove 
 18 advertisements; requiring such businesses and food 
 19 establishments to keep certain records pertaining to 
 20 lab results of hemp extract products and the suppliers 
 21 of such products for a specified amount of time; 
 22 requiring such businesses and food establishments to 
 23 establish procedures for the recall of unsafe hemp 
 24 extract; requiring such businesses and food 
 25 establishments to store hemp products in a specified 
 26 manner; providing that such businesses and food 
 27 establishments are subject to random and unannounced 
 28 inspections by law enforcement and the department; 
 29 prohibiting the sale of hemp and hemp extract in a 
 30 form for smoking; requiring the department to revoke a 
 31 business’s or food establishment’s license to sell 
 32 hemp products under specified circumstances; 
 33 prohibiting the department from granting permission to 
 34 remove or use certain hemp extract products until it 
 35 determines that such hemp extract products comply with 
 36 state law; prohibiting event organizers from 
 37 promoting, advertising, or facilitating certain 
 38 events; providing for administrative fines; requiring 
 39 the department to adopt specified rules; reenacting 
 40 ss. 500.03(1)(n), 893.02(3), 916.1085(1)(a), 
 41 944.47(1)(a), 951.22(1)(h), and 985.711(1)(a), F.S., 
 42 relating to definitions, construction, and 
 43 applicability; definitions; the unlawful introduction 
 44 or removal of certain articles; the introduction, 
 45 removal, or possession of contraband; county detention 
 46 facilities and contraband articles; and the unlawful 
 47 introduction, removal, or possession of certain 
 48 articles, respectively, to incorporate the amendment 
 49 made to s. 581.217, F.S., in references thereto; 
 50 providing an appropriation; providing an effective 
 51 date. 
 52 
 53 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 55 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2), paragraphs (a), 
 56 (e), (f), and (g) of subsection (3), and subsection (7) of 
 57 section 581.217, Florida Statutes, are amended, and paragraph 
 58 (h) is added to subsection (3) and paragraph (e) is added to 
 59 subsection (12) of that section, to read: 
 60 581.217 State hemp program.— 
 61 (2) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.—The Legislature finds that: 
 62 (b) Hemp and hemp extract Hemp-derived cannabinoids, 
 63 including, but not limited to, cannabidiol, are not controlled 
 64 substances or adulterants if they are in compliance with this 
 65 section. 
 66 (3) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term: 
 67 (a) “Attractive to children” means manufactured in the 
 68 shape of or packaged in containers displaying humans, cartoons, 
 69 or animals, toys, or other features that appeal to children; 
 70 manufactured in a form or packaged in a container that bears any 
 71 reasonable resemblance to an existing candy or snack product 
 72 that is familiar to children; manufactured in a form or packaged 
 73 in a container that bears any reasonable resemblance to a the 
 74 public as a widely distributed, branded food product marketed to 
 75 children such that the a product could be mistaken for the 
 76 branded food product, especially by children; or containing any 
 77 color additives. 
 78 (e) “Hemp” means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part 
 79 of that plant, including the seeds thereof, and all