102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB0402

 

Introduced 2/8/2021, by Rep. Martin J. Moylan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 130/93 new
410 ILCS 705/55-30

    Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act and the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Requires each Department responsible for licensing of a cannabis business establishment or registration or licensing of a cultivation center or dispensing organization under the Acts to publish on the Department's website a list of the ownership information of the applicants, registrants, or licensees under the Department's jurisdiction. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning health.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis
5Program Act is amended by adding Section 93 as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 130/93 new)
7    Sec. 93. Publishing ownership information. Each Department
8responsible for registration or licensure of a cultivation
9center or dispensing organization under this Act shall publish
10on the Department's website a list of the ownership
11information of cultivation center or dispensing organization
12applicants, registrants, or licensees under the Department's
13jurisdiction. The list shall include, but is not limited to:
14the name of the person or entity who is applying, registered,
15or licensed; and the address at which the entity is applying,
16registered, or licensed under this Act. This list shall be
17published and updated monthly.
 
18    Section 10. The Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act is amended
19by changing Section 55-30 as follows:
 
20    (410 ILCS 705/55-30)
21    Sec. 55-30. Confidentiality.

 

 

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1    (a) Information provided by the cannabis business
2establishment licensees or applicants to the Department of
3Agriculture, the Department of Public Health, the Department
4of Financial and Professional Regulation, the Department of
5Commerce and Economic Opportunity, or other agency shall be
6limited to information necessary for the purposes of
7administering this Act. The information is subject to the
8provisions and limitations contained in the Freedom of
9Information Act and may be disclosed in accordance with
10Section 55-65.
11    (b) The following information received and records kept by
12the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Public
13Health, the Department of State Police, and the Department of
14Financial and Professional Regulation for purposes of
15administering this Article are subject to all applicable
16federal privacy laws, are confidential and exempt from
17disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, except as
18provided in this Act, and not subject to disclosure to any
19individual or public or private entity, except to the
20Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, the
21Department of Agriculture, the Department of Public Health,
22and the Department of State Police as necessary to perform
23official duties under this Article and to the Attorney General
24as necessary to enforce the provisions of this Act. The
25following information received and kept by the Department of
26Financial and Professional Regulation or the Department of

 

 

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1Agriculture may be disclosed to the Department of Public
2Health, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of
3Revenue, the Department of State Police, or the Attorney
4General upon proper request:
5        (1) Applications and renewals, their contents, and
6    supporting information submitted by or on behalf of
7    dispensing organizations in compliance with this Article,
8    including their physical addresses;
9        (2) Any plans, procedures, policies, or other records
10    relating to dispensing organization security; and
11        (3) Information otherwise exempt from disclosure by
12    State or federal law.
13    Illinois or national criminal history record information,
14or the nonexistence or lack of such information, may not be
15disclosed by the Department of Financial and Professional
16Regulation or the Department of Agriculture, except as
17necessary to the Attorney General to enforce this Act.
18    (c) The name and address of a dispensing organization
19licensed under this Act shall be subject to disclosure under
20the Freedom of Information Act. The name and cannabis business
21establishment address of the person or entity holding each
22cannabis business establishment license shall be subject to
23disclosure.
24    (d) All information collected by the Department of
25Financial and Professional Regulation in the course of an
26examination, inspection, or investigation of a licensee or

 

 

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1applicant, including, but not limited to, any complaint
2against a licensee or applicant filed with the Department and
3information collected to investigate any such complaint, shall
4be maintained for the confidential use of the Department and
5shall not be disclosed, except as otherwise provided in this
6Act. A formal complaint against a licensee by the Department
7or any disciplinary order issued by the Department against a
8licensee or applicant shall be a public record, except as
9otherwise provided by law. Complaints from consumers or
10members of the general public received regarding a specific,
11named licensee or complaints regarding conduct by unlicensed
12entities shall be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of
13Information Act.
14    (e) The Department of Agriculture, the Department of State
15Police, and the Department of Financial and Professional
16Regulation shall not share or disclose any Illinois or
17national criminal history record information, or the
18nonexistence or lack of such information, to any person or
19entity not expressly authorized by this Act.
20    (f) Each Department responsible for licensure under this
21Act shall publish on the Department's website a list of the
22ownership information of cannabis business establishment
23applicants and licensees under the Department's jurisdiction.
24The list shall include, but is not limited to: the name of the
25person or entity applying to hold or holding each cannabis
26business establishment license; and the address at which the

 

 

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1entity is applying to operate or operating under this Act.
2This list shall be published and updated monthly.
3(Source: P.A. 101-27, eff. 6-25-19; 101-593, eff. 12-4-19.)
 
4    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5becoming law.