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HB5040 • 2026

Industrial Hemp: licenses; licensing and regulations for processing, brokering, and marketing industrial hemp, supplying industrial hemp seed, and engaging in wholesale of industrial hemp products; create. Creates new act & repeals 2014 PA 547 (MCL 286.841 - 286.859). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5041'25, HB 5042'25, HB 5043'25

Industrial Hemp: licenses; licensing and regulations for processing, brokering, and marketing industrial hemp, supplying industrial hemp seed, and engaging in wholesale of industrial hemp products; create. Creates new act & repeals 2014 PA 547 (MCL 286.841 - 286.859). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5041'25, HB 5042'25, HB 5043'25

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Sponsor
Donavan McKinney (District 11), Jimmie Wilson (District 32), Luke Meerman (District 89), Penelope Tsernoglou (District 75), Kimberly Edwards (District 12), Brenda Carter (District 53), Jason Hoskins (District 18), Kristian Grant (District 82), Tonya Phillips (District 7), Amos O'Neal (District 94), William Bruck (District 30), Helena Scott (District 8), Joey Andrews (District 38), Alabas Farhat (District 3)
Last action
2025-09-25
Official status
bill electronically reproduced 09/24/2025
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Industrial Hemp: licenses; licensing and regulations for processing, brokering, and marketing industrial hemp, supplying industrial hemp seed, and engaging in wholesale of industrial hemp products; create. Creates new act & repeals 2014 PA 547 (MCL 286.841 - 286.859). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5041'25, HB 5042'25, HB 5043'25

Industrial Hemp: licenses; licensing and regulations for processing, brokering, and marketing industrial hemp, supplying industrial hemp seed, and engaging in wholesale of industrial hemp products; create.

What This Bill Does

  • Industrial Hemp: licenses; licensing and regulations for processing, brokering, and marketing industrial hemp, supplying industrial hemp seed, and engaging in wholesale of industrial hemp products; create.
  • Creates new act & repeals 2014 PA 547 (MCL 286.841 - 286.859).
  • TIE BAR WITH: HB 5041'25, HB 5042'25, HB 5043'25

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. 2025-09-25 HJ 87 Pg. 0

    bill electronically reproduced 09/24/2025

  2. 2025-09-24 HJ 86 Pg. 0

    introduced by Representative Rep. Donavan McKinney

  3. 2025-09-24 HJ 86 Pg. 0

    read a first time

  4. 2025-09-24 HJ 86 Pg. 0

    referred to Committee on Regulatory Reform

Official Summary Text

Industrial Hemp: licenses; licensing and regulations for processing, brokering, and marketing industrial hemp, supplying industrial hemp seed, and engaging in wholesale of industrial hemp products; create. Creates new act & repeals 2014 PA 547 (MCL 286.841 - 286.859). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5041'25, HB 5042'25, HB 5043'25