HB4134 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB101 16209 CPF 65581 b

101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB4134

Introduced 1/22/2020, by Rep. Daniel Didech

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

410 ILCS 705/10-20
410 ILCS 705/15-73 new
410 ILCS 705/15-145

Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to provide by rule for the establishment of a list of self-excluded persons who may request to be placed on the list and are prohibited from entering a dispensary or purchasing any product or service at a dispensary. Provides that the rules must establish specified procedures regarding the list and require dispensaries to establish procedures designed to remove self-excluded persons from targeted mailings or other forms of advertising or promotions and deny self-excluded persons entry and access to the dispensary and the products and services provided by the dispensary. Prohibits dispensaries from allowing entry to or serving any person who is on the self-exclusion list. Provides that the list of self-excluded persons shall be exempt from public inspection, copying, and disclosure, except for the limited purpose of assisting in the proper administration of procedures established under the amendatory Act. Allows the Department of Public Health to adopt rules requiring a dispensing organization to use a purchaser's identification to check whether the purchaser is on the self-exclusion list. Provides that allowing entry to or serving any person who is on the self-exclusion list is grounds for discipline by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning health.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act is amended by changing Sections 10-20 and 15-145 and by adding Section 15-73 as follows:

(410 ILCS 705/10-20)

Sec. 10-20. Identification; false identification; penalty.

(a) To protect personal privacy, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall not require a purchaser to provide a dispensing organization with personal information other than government-issued identification to determine the purchaser's age, and a dispensing organization shall not obtain and record personal information about a purchaser without the purchaser's consent. A dispensing organization shall use an electronic reader or electronic scanning device to scan a purchaser's government-issued identification, if applicable, to determine the purchaser's age and the validity of the identification. Any identifying or personal information of a purchaser obtained or received in accordance with this Section shall not be retained, used, shared or disclosed for any purpose except as authorized by this Act.

(b) A person who is under 21 years of age may not present or offer to a cannabis business establishment or the cannabis business establishment's principal or employee any written or oral evidence of age that is false, fraudulent, or not actually the person's own, for the purpose of:

(1) purchasing, attempting to purchase, or otherwise obtaining or attempting to obtain cannabis or any cannabis product; or

(2) gaining access to a cannabis business establishment.

(c) A violation of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor consistent with Section 6-20 of the Liquor Control Act of 1934.

(d) The Secretary of State may suspend or revoke the driving privileges of any person for a violation of this Section under Section 6-206 of the Illinois Vehicle Code and the rules adopted under it.

(e) No agent or employee of the licensee shall be disciplined or discharged for selling or furnishing cannabis or cannabis products to a person under 21 years of age if the agent or employee demanded and was shown, before furnishing cannabis or cannabis products to a person under 21 years of age, adequate written evidence of age and identity of the person. This subsection (e) does not apply if the agent or employee accepted the written evidence knowing it to be false or fraudulent. Adequate written evidence of age and identity of the person is a document issued by a federal, State, county, or municipal government, or subdivision or agency thereof, including, but not limited to, a motor vehicle operator's license, a registration certificate issued under the Military Selective Service Act, or an identification card issued to a member of the Armed Forces. Proof that the licensee or his or her employee or agent was shown and reasonably relied upon such written evidence in any transaction forbidden by this Section is an affirmative defense in any criminal prosecution therefor or to any proceedings for the suspension or revocation of any license based thereon.

(f) The Department of Public Health may adopt rules requiring a dispensing organization to use a purchaser's identification to check whether the purchaser is on the self-exclusion list established under Section 15-73 of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19.)

(410 ILCS 705/15-73 new)

Sec. 15-73. Self-exclusion list.

(a) The Department of Public Health shall provide by rule for the establishment of a list of self-excluded persons who are prohibited from entering a dispensary or purchasing any product or service at a dispensary. A person may request to be placed on the list by acknowledging in a manner to be established by the Department of Public Health that the person wishes to be excluded and by agreeing that, during any period of voluntary exclusion, the person may not enter any dispensary or purchase any product or service at a dispensary.

(b) The rules established under subsection (a) shall:

(1) establish procedures for placement on, and removal from, the list of self-excluded persons, provided that, notwithstanding any law to the contrary, prior to the removal from the list a hearing must be conducted that is not open to the general public and at which it shall be established by the person seeking removal that there is no longer a basis for the person to be maintained on the self-exclusion list;

(2) establish procedures for the transmittal to all dispensaries of identifying information concerning self-excluded persons; and

(3) require dispensaries to establish procedures designed to, at a minimum, remove self-excluded persons from targeted mailings or other forms of advertising or promotions and deny self-excluded persons entry and access to the dispensary and the products and services provided by the dispensary.

(c) A dispensary shall not allow entry to or serve any person who is on the self-exclusion list established under this Section.

(d) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the list of self-excluded persons shall be exempt from public inspection, copying, and disclosure. This subsection shall not be construed to prohibit a dispensary from disclosing the identity of a properly self-excluded person for the limited purpose of assisting in the proper administration of self-exclusion procedures established under this Section.

(410 ILCS 705/15-145)

Sec. 15-145. Grounds for discipline.

(a) The Department may deny issuance, refuse to renew or restore, or may reprimand, place on probation, suspend, revoke, or take other disciplinary or nondisciplinary action against any license or agent identification card or may impose a fine for any of the following:

(1) Material misstatement in furnishing information to the Department;

(2) Violations of this Act or rules;

(3) Obtaining an authorization or license by fraud or misrepresentation;

(4) A pattern of conduct that demonstrates incompetence or that the applicant has engaged in conduct or actions that would constitute grounds for discipline under this Act;

(5) Aiding or assisting another person in violating any provision of this Act or rules;

(6) Failing to respond to a written request for information by the Department within 30 days;

(7) Engaging in unprofessional, dishonorable, or unethical conduct of a character likely to deceive, defraud, or harm the public;

(8) Adverse action by another United States jurisdiction or foreign nation;

(9) A finding by the Department that the licensee, after having his or her license placed on suspended or probationary status, has violated the terms of the suspension or probation;

(10) Conviction, entry of a plea of guilty, nolo contendere, or the equivalent in a State or federal court of a principal officer or agent-in-charge of a felony offense in accordance with Sections 2105-131, 2105-135, and 2105-205 of the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois;

(11) Excessive use of or addiction to alcohol, narcotics, stimulants, or any other chemical agent or drug;

(12) A finding by the Department of a discrepancy in a Department audit of cannabis;

(13) A finding by the Department of a discrepancy in a Department audit of capital or funds;

(14) A finding by the Department of acceptance of cannabis from a source other than an Adult Use Cultivation Center, craft grower, infuser, or transporting organization licensed by the Department of Agriculture, or a dispensing organization licensed by the Department;

(15) An inability to operate using reasonable judgment, skill, or safety due to physical or mental illness or other impairment or disability, including, without limitation, deterioration through the aging process or loss of motor skills or mental incompetence;

(16) Failing to report to the Department within the time frames established, or if not identified, 14 days, of any adverse action taken against the dispensing organization or an agent by a licensing jurisdiction in any state or any territory of the United States or any foreign jurisdiction, any governmental agency, any law enforcement agency or any court defined in this Section;

(17) Any violation of the dispensing organization's policies and procedures submitted to the Department annually as a condition for licensure;

(18) Failure to inform the Department of any change of address within 10 business days;

(19) Disclosing customer names, personal information, or protected health information in violation of any State or federal law;

(20) Operating a dispensary before obtaining a license from the Department;

(21) Performing duties authorized by this Act prior to receiving a license to perform such duties;

(22) Dispensing cannabis when prohibited by this Act or rules;

(23) Any fact or condition that, if it had existed at the time of the original application for the license, would have warranted the denial of the license;

(24) Permitting a person without a valid agent identification card to perform licensed activities under this Act;

(25) Failure to assign an agent-in-charge as required by this Article;

(26) Failure to provide the training required by paragraph (3) of subsection (i) of Section 15-40 within the provided timeframe;

(27) Personnel insufficient in number or unqualified in training or experience to properly operate the dispensary business;

(28) Any pattern of activity that causes a harmful impact on the community; and

(29) Failing to prevent diversion, theft, or loss of cannabis; and .

(30) Allowing entry to or serving any person who is on the self-exclusion list established under Section 15-73.

(b) All fines and fees imposed under this Section shall be paid within 60 days after the effective date of the order imposing the fine or as otherwise specified in the order.

(c) A circuit court order establishing that an agent-in-charge or principal officer holding an agent identification card is subject to involuntary admission as that term is defined in Section 1-119 or 1-119.1 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code shall operate as a suspension of that card.

(Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-593, eff. 12-4-19.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.