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H4261 • 2025

An Act regulating kratom sales in the Commonwealth (Ty's Bill)

An Act regulating kratom sales in the Commonwealth (Ty's Bill)

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Sponsor
Colleen M. Garry
Last action
2026-02-19
Official status
Accompanied a new draft, see H5127
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act regulating kratom sales in the Commonwealth (Ty's Bill)

An Act regulating kratom sales in the Commonwealth (Ty's Bill) By Representative Garry of Dracut, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Colleen M.

What This Bill Does

  • An Act regulating kratom sales in the Commonwealth (Ty's Bill) By Representative Garry of Dracut, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Colleen M.
  • Garry for legislation to regulate the sale of kratom.
  • The Judiciary.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 House

    Accompanied a new draft, see H5127

  2. 2025-11-18 Joint

    Hearing rescheduled to 11/18/2025 from 01:00 PM-08:00 PM in A-1 and Virtual Hearing updated to New End Time

  3. 2025-11-07 Joint

    Hearing scheduled for 11/18/2025 from 01:00 PM-05:00 PM in A-1

  4. 2025-07-10 Senate

    Senate concurred

  5. 2025-07-07 House

    Reported, referred to the committee on Joint Rules, reported, rules suspended and referred to the committee on The Judiciary

  6. 2025-03-27 House

    Referred to the committee on House Rules

Official Summary Text

An Act regulating kratom sales in the Commonwealth (Ty's Bill)
By Representative Garry of Dracut, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of Colleen M. Garry for legislation to regulate the sale of kratom. The Judiciary.

Current Bill Text

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Bill H.4261

SECTION 1. Section 31 of chapter 94C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after CLASS A, subsection (d)(8) in line 103, the following subsections:-

(9) 7-hydroxymitragynine

(10) hydroxymitrgynine

(11) mitragynine

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