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119-s-3576119th Congress

PREPARE Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Senator Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]

Introduced

Summary

create a federal commission to design a regulatory pathway for cannabis. The commission would map an alcohol-style federal framework while focusing on social justice, banking access, research expansion, product safety, and trade rules.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Commission to study federal cannabis rules

If enacted, the Attorney General would create a Commission on the Federal Regulation of Cannabis within 30 days. The Commission would meet first within 90 days, then quarterly. It would solicit public comments starting within 60 days, hold a public hearing within 180 days, publish an initial report within 120 days, and publish final recommendations within one year. The Commission would be advisory only, could not make rules, and members would not receive extra pay. It would study remedies for criminal-record harms, banking and financial access, federal revenue frameworks, product safety and labeling, medical research and training, and agriculture and trade coexistence.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO]

CO • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

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