Full Text of HR0356 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 356
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend House Resolution 356 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the heading with the following: | 4 | | "RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
| 5 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 6 | | we direct the Department of Agriculture and the Department of | 7 | | Financial & Professional Regulation to each conduct a disparity
| 8 | | study on whether minority-owned businesses face any
barriers | 9 | | that prevent the equitable participation in the
business of | 10 | | cultivating, manufacturing, delivering,
distributing, testing, | 11 | | transporting, and other avenues within
the business of | 12 | | legalized cannabis in Illinois; and be it
further | 13 | | RESOLVED, That the study should include, but not be limited
| 14 | | to, the following: | 15 | | (1) Evidence of past and present racial discrimination
| 16 | | by the government in the businesses of agriculture |
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| 1 | | (non-livestock), its delivery, its distribution, its | 2 | | testing, and its transportation; | 3 | | (2) Annual income, access to capital, cannabis
| 4 | | convictions, communities with a disproportionately high
| 5 | | amount of law enforcement with respect to cannabis of those
| 6 | | seeking to enter the field; and | 7 | | (3) The process for obtaining recreational and medical
| 8 | | permits and licensing; and be it further | 9 | | RESOLVED, That the Department of Agriculture, the | 10 | | Department of Financial & Professional Regulation, and the
| 11 | | General Assembly should use the results of this study to
| 12 | | address the inequality within the business of legalized | 13 | | cannabis and develop clear guidelines to prevent it, | 14 | | alternative remedies to prevent it, flexibility and duration of | 15 | | the relief, relationship of the numerical goals in the relevant | 16 | | labor market, and impact on third parties; and be it
further | 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | delivered to the Department of Agriculture and the Department | 19 | | of Financial & Professional Regulation."
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