Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates $200 million for homelessness prevention measures and expanded shelter capacity.

Highlights:

• Prohibits the selling of synthetic hemp products (Article 12). 

• Requires that any seller, online or in-person, of a product containing kratom or kratom products must use an approved age-verification method to ensure the buyer is at least 21 years of age (Article 12). 

• Requires any individual manufacturing, processing, distributing, offering for sale, or selling kratom or kratom products have a permit (Article 12). 

• Authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner to make rules regarding the regulation of hemp-derived cannabinoid products (Article 12). 

• Specifies Kratom and Kratom products as hemp products (Article 12). 

• Establishes the tax at 11 percent of the retail sales price of the hemp-derived cannabinoid product sold (Article 12). 

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