Cannabis legislation in California

Every bill in the California Legislature that falls inside the Cannabis Legislation Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.

Bills in Scope

Past Committee

20 August 2026

Most Recent Action

Cannabis bills in California

5Enacted

1Cleared both chambers

11Past committee

6Introduced or inactive

23 bills in scope

Enacted

SB 861Consumer affairs.10 October 2025Enacted SB 378Online marketplaces: illicit cannabis: reporting and liability.6 October 2025Enacted AB 8Cannabis: cannabinoids: industrial hemp.2 October 2025Enacted AB 564Cannabis: excise tax: rate increase suspension: report.22 September 2025Enacted AB 1170Maintenance of the codes.28 July 2025Enacted

Cleared both chambers

AB 1332Medicinal cannabis: shipments.22 January 2026Vetoed

Past committee

AB 2249Cannabis: labels, packaging, and advertising.20 August 2026Passed chamber AB 686Elections: deceptive audio or visual media.17 August 2026Passed chamber AB 2250Cannabis: cannabinoids.13 August 2026Passed chamber AB 1826Cannabis: recall, embargo, and destruction of cannabis and cannabis products.13 August 2026Passed chamber AB 2506Cannabis: tribal-state agreements.13 August 2026Passed chamber AB 2537Cannabis Enforcement Accountability and Public Health Prioritization Act of 2026.13 August 2026Passed chamber SB 1151Sales and Use Tax Law: exemptions: infant formula.2 July 2026Passed chamber AB 2532Cannabis: labels, packaging, and manufacturing.23 June 2026Passed chamber AB 2697Cannabis: drive-throughs.23 June 2026Passed chamber AB 1027Cannabis: testing: quality assurance.29 August 2025Passed chamber AB 1496Cannabis task force.9 June 2025Passed chamber

Introduced or inactive

AB 170Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025: codification.6 August 2026Dead AB 2420Cannabis: donations: seniors.13 April 2026In committee AB 2617Protecting Kids from Online Gambling Act.17 March 2026In committee AB 1209Workers' compensation: cannabis industry.2 February 2026Dead AB 1397Hemp: low-dose hemp drinks.2 February 2026Dead AB 141California Cannabis Tax Fund: Department of Cannabis Control: Board of State and Community Corrections grants.2 July 2025Dead

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Coverage depth varies by jurisdiction. How this is measured, and where it is thinner.

What's In Scope

How Cannabis Legislation bills are selected

In scope is any bill regulating the cultivation, manufacture, testing, distribution, sale, possession or taxation of cannabis and cannabis products: adult-use and medical programmes, licence classes and the agency that issues them, excise rates and revenue allocation, social equity licensing and automatic expungement, intoxicating hemp and cannabinoid products, potency limits, packaging and labelling, impaired driving, workplace and tenancy protections for lawful use, and banking and insurance access for licensees.

Scope is defined by a written topic profile that every bill is measured against. The profiles are drafted by a model and validated by retrieval measurement against a judged set of bills, not reviewed by an attorney. LawSignals is a research tool and does not provide legal advice.

Other practice areas in California

Cannabis legislation in other jurisdictions

49 more currently hold bills in this tracker

California is one of Cannabis Legislation's jurisdictions

The tracker follows this subject everywhere it is legislated, and publishes a monthly issue on what moved across all of them.

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