[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1576 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1576

 To provide that the owner of a water right may use the water for the 
 cultivation of industrial hemp, if otherwise authorized by State law.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 18, 2017

   Mr. Bennet (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mr. Tester, Mr. Gardner, Mr. 
 Wyden, and Mr. Merkley) introduced the following bill; which was read 
          twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that the owner of a water right may use the water for the 
 cultivation of industrial hemp, if otherwise authorized by State law.

    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 ``Industrial Hemp Water Rights Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF WATER FOR INDUSTRIAL HEMP CULTIVATION.

    (a) Definition of Industrial Hemp.--In this section, the term 
``industrial hemp'' has the meaning given the term in section 7606(b) 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940(b)).
    (b) Use for Industrial Hemp Cultivation.--Notwithstanding the 
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), chapter 81 of title 
41, United States Code, or any other Federal law, an owner of an 
absolute or conditional water right, or an entity that receives or 
distributes water contracted from the Federal Government, may use or 
sell for use by another person the water subject to the water right or 
the contract, as applicable, for the cultivation of industrial hemp, 
regardless of whether the water has passed through a Federal water 
project, if the growth or cultivation of industrial hemp is otherwise 
authorized under the laws of the State in which such use occurs.
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