Medical Cannabis Clarification and Non-Resident Patient Access Temporary Amendment Act of 2024

This bill temporarily amends D.C.'s medical cannabis laws to allow non-resident patients to obtain registration cards valid for up to one year and permits testing labs to accept samples from patients and licensed facilities for quality assurance or research. It also expands social equity benefits by including siblings and grandparents in the family member definition and clarifies rules for existing license holders to ensure they are not counted toward the 50% set-aside requirement for new applicants. Additionally, the legislation grants the cannabis board authority to issue conditional licenses to testing labs without an initial application fee and automatically awards manufacturer licenses to five specific cultivation center applicants who scored highly during a previous application period.