H165 • 2025

An Act relative to supporting sustainability in the cannabis industry

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Sponsor: Lindsay N. Sabadosa
Last action: 2025-09-25
Official status: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act relative to supporting sustainability in the cannabis industry

An Act relative to supporting sustainability in the cannabis industry By Representative Sabadosa of Northampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.

What This Bill Does

An Act relative to supporting sustainability in the cannabis industry By Representative Sabadosa of Northampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No.
165) of Lindsay N.
Sabadosa relative sustainable practices and reduce the use of natural materials in the cannabis industry.
Cannabis Policy.

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Bill History

2025-09-25 House
Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means
2025-07-09 Joint
Hearing scheduled for 07/22/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in B-2
2025-07-09 Joint
Hearing rescheduled to 07/22/2025 from 10:30 AM-01:00 PM in A-2
2025-02-27 House
Referred to the committee on Cannabis Policy
2025-02-27 Senate
Senate concurred

Official Summary Text

An Act relative to supporting sustainability in the cannabis industry
By Representative Sabadosa of Northampton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 165) of Lindsay N. Sabadosa relative sustainable practices and reduce the use of natural materials in the cannabis industry. Cannabis Policy.
Status:
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means

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Bill H.165

Section 4 of Chapter 94G of the General Laws is amended by inserting, at the end of the section, the following subsection:

(m) The commission shall convene a sustainability working group and will meet with representatives from the cannabis industry in the commonwealth to discuss measures that will increase sustainable practices and reduce the use of natural materials in the cannabis industry. The working group will address issues including, but not limited to:

(i) how cannabis cultivators, wholesalers, and the commonwealth may cooperate on a system of recollecting, sanitizing, and reusing returned packages for consumer use

(ii) the development of a manual of best practices that the CCC will issue to standardize regulations and recommendations around the legal disposal of marijuana waste and recollection of packages

(iii) the development of a recollection and reuse program for radio frequency identification tags used for seed-to-sale tracking.

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