[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4779 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4779

To amend the Controlled Substances Act to prevent Federal prosecutions 
 for certain conduct, relating to CBD oil, that is lawful under State 
                      law, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 2016

   Mr. Chaffetz (for himself, Mr. Labrador, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Clay, Mr. 
 Sensenbrenner, and Mr. Grothman) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 
   Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to prevent Federal prosecutions 
 for certain conduct, relating to CBD oil, that is lawful under State 
                      law, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``CBD Oil Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN CRIMINAL PENALTIES OF CONDUCT RELATING 
              TO CBD OIL.

    (a) In General.--Part D of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
801 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

 ``bar to prosecution of certain conduct, relating to cbd oil, that is 
                         lawful under state law

    ``Sec. 424.  (a) It is a bar to prosecution under this title that 
the conduct alleged to constitute the offense--
            ``(1) consists of or is incident to qualified activity 
        relating to CBD oil; and
            ``(2) is lawful under State law in the place it occurs.
    ``(b) In this section the following definitions apply:
            ``(1) The term `qualified activity relating to CBD oil' 
        means--
                    ``(A) the production or distribution of CBD oil for 
                medical research; or
                    ``(B) the use of CBD oil for medical purposes.
            ``(2) The term `CBD oil' means a substance, not containing 
        any other psychoactive substance, that is an extract from a 
        cannabis plant composed of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol 
        in a proportion that is considered nonpsychoactive under 
        applicable State law.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for the 
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to section 423 the following new 
item:

``Sec. 424. Bar to prosecution of certain conduct, relating to CBD oil, 
                            that is lawful under State law.''.
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