3.0.0 2227 2022-11-01T13:50:27Z 2022-11-01T13:50:27Z Senate S 2019-07-23 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-07-23T20:43:55Z Ensuring Safe Capital Access for All Small Businesses Act of 2019 116 3540 HR 2019-07-30 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Related bill CRS Ensuring Access to Counseling and Training for All Small Businesses Act of 2019 116 3543 HR 2019-06-27 Referred to the House Committee on Small Business. Related bill CRS Homegrown Act of 2019. 116 3544 HR 2019-07-30 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Related bill CRS MORE Act of 2020 116 3884 HR 2020-12-07 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Identical bill CRS 2019-07-23 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2019-07-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001075 Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] Kamala Harris D CA D. N B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2019-07-23 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2019-07-23 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2019-07-23 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2019-07-23 True M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2019-09-26 False G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2020-09-09 False S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2020-09-10 False H001046 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] Martin Heinrich D NM T. 2020-12-16 False Crime and Law Enforcement Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Adult education and literacy Business records Correctional facilities and imprisonment Department of Justice Drug trafficking and controlled substances Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Employment and training programs Executive agency funding and structure Government trust funds Immigration status and procedures Judicial review and appeals Juvenile crime and gang violence Lawyers and legal services Licensing and registrations Minority and disadvantaged businesses Retail and wholesale trades Sales and excise taxes Small business Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Women in business Crime and Law Enforcement 00 2019-07-23 Introduced in Senate 2020-08-19T13:14:54Z Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019 or the MORE Act of 2019

This bill decriminalizes marijuana.

Specifically, it removes marijuana from the list of scheduled substances under the Controlled Substances Act and eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who manufactures, distributes, or possesses marijuana.

The bill also makes other changes, including the following:

  • replaces statutory references to marijuana and marihuana with cannabis,
  • requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics to regularly publish demographic data on cannabis business owners and employees,
  • establishes a trust fund to support various programs and services for individuals and businesses in communities impacted by the war on drugs,
  • imposes a 5% tax on cannabis products and requires revenues to be deposited into the trust fund,
  • makes Small Business Administration loans and services available to entities that are cannabis-related legitimate businesses or service providers,
  • prohibits the denial of federal public benefits to a person on the basis of certain cannabis-related conduct or convictions,
  • prohibits the denial of benefits and protections under immigration laws on the basis of a cannabis-related event (e.g., conduct or a conviction), and
  • establishes a process to expunge convictions and conduct sentencing review hearings related to federal cannabis offenses.
]]> MORE Act of 2019 Display Title MORE Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced MORE Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to decriminalize and deschedule cannabis, to provide for reinvestment in certain persons adversely impacted by the War on Drugs, to provide for expungement of certain cannabis offenses, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2227is/xml/BILLS-116s2227is.xml 2019-07-23 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.