Illinois SB3287 to amend cannabis background checks and excluded offenses
Sen. Robert Peters introduced today Senate Bill 3287, which would amend provisions for background checks and prohibit employed individuals from having been convicted of an “excluded offense.”
SB3287 would amend the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act and remove references to “excluded offense” and provisions prohibiting employed individuals from having been convicted of an excluded offense. The bill also “replaces existing provisions concerning background checks with provisions requiring the Illinois State Police to conduct a criminal history record check of the prospective principal officers, board members, and agents of a medical cannabis dispensing organization or cultivation center applying for a license or agent identification card under the Act.”
One provision deletes the following line, “An applicant shall be denied a dispensing organization agent identification card if he or she has been convicted of an excluded offense.” Designated caregivers are also included with a provision that deletes one line and redefines the term as, “a person who: (1) is at least 21 years of age; (2) has agreed to assist with a patient’s medical use of cannabis; (3) has not been convicted of an excluded offense; and (3) (4) assists no more than one registered qualifying patient with his or her medical use of cannabis.”
Another provision amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act and provides that “nothing in the Act shall be construed to prevent or otherwise inhibit an otherwise qualified individual from serving as a principal officer or agent of a cannabis business establishment on the sole basis of a nonviolent criminal conviction related to cannabis.”
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