H-1080

   Amend  the amendment, H-1074, to House File 732 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, by striking lines 2 through 27 and inserting: 
   <___.  Page 1, by striking line 31 and inserting: 
   <NEW SUBSECTION.  14.  a.  Except as otherwise provided in paragraph “b”, a medical cannabidiol dispensary shall>
   ___.  Page 1, line 32, by striking <twenty> and inserting <twenty-five>
   ___.  Page 1, line 34, by striking <The department may decrease>
   ___.  By striking page 1, line 35, through page 2, line 1.
   ___.  Page 2, before line 2 by inserting: 
   <b.  The board of medicine shall adopt rules allowing the health care practitioner who originally certified a patient to receive a medical cannabidiol registration card to apply for, and the medical cannabidiol board to expeditiously and efficiently grant, a waiver to permit the patient and the patient’s primary caregiver to receive more than a combined total of twenty-five grams of tetrahydrocannabinol in a ninety-day period if the health care practitioner submits documentation certifying all of the following:
   (1)  The health care practitioner performed a physical examination of the patient and has determined that twenty-five grams of tetrahydrocannabinol per ninety-day period is not an adequate amount to alleviate the patient’s debilitating medical condition.
   (2)  The patient’s debilitating medical condition is a terminal illness with a life expectancy of less than one year.>>
   2.  By renumbering as necessary.

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PRICHARD of Floyd