AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 12.020 and 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medicinal Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218A.202 require the Administrative Office of the Courts to forward all available data regarding disqualifying felony offenses for the previous five years to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218B.010 to expand the definition of "qualifying medical condition" to include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, irritable bowel disease, sickle cell disease, cachexia or wasting syndrome, neuropathies, arthritis, fibromyalgia, muscular dystrophy, Huntington's disease, HIV, AIDS, glaucoma, and terminal illnesses; amend KRS 218B.060 delete provisions related to the medicinal cannabis provisional registration receipt system; amend KRS 218B.130 prohibit a local government from prohibiting cannabis business operations in the territory of the local government once the Cabinet for Health and Family Services has issued a cannabis business license for cannabis business operations in the territory; repeal and reenact KRS 139.480, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, and 218A.1423, 218B.015, 218B.030, 218B.035, 218B.090, 218B 095, 218B.105, 218B.110, 218B.115, 218B.120, 218B.125, and 218B.155 to hasten the delayed effective date of those sections when originally enacted in 2023; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 218B.100 to establish the authority of the Office of Medical Cannabis, the office's executive director, and the executive directors representatives when inspecting or investigating cannabis businesses; state the General Assembly's intent to hasten the effective date of statutes repealed and reenacted in the Act; EMERGENCY