2025 Senate Bill 599

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.

A bill to authorize certain activities involving industrial hemp and certain consumable hemp products; to require the licensing of certain people; to provide for the sampling and testing of certain consumable hemp products; to establish labeling requirements for certain consumable hemp products; to provide for the collection of fees; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to create certain funds; to require the promulgation of rules; to prohibit certain acts and prescribe civil sanctions and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

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Senate Bills 599-602 modernize Michigan’s hemp and cannabis laws by creating a unified licensing and regulatory framework for industrial hemp and consumable hemp products, consolidating oversight under the medical cannabis system, refining definitions and operational standards, repealing outdated statutes, and establishing provisions for tribal businesses and THC classification to ensure consistency, safety, and effective state regulation across the cannabis industry.

Introduced in the Senate

Oct. 2, 2025

Introduced by Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D-5) and three co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Sens. Jeremy Moss (D-7), Sue Shink (D-14) and Rosemary Bayer (D-13)

Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs

Nov. 13, 2025

Reported with substitute S-2

Dec. 2, 2025

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

Dec. 9, 2025

Reported with substitute S-3

Substitute S-3 concurred in by voice vote

Dec. 16, 2025

Amendment offered by Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D-5)

1. Amend page 8, line 9, after “contains” by inserting “greater than 1.75 milligrams per container of”.

2. Amend page 9, line 10, after “extract” by striking out the balance of the subdivision and inserting a period.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 30 to 5 (details)

Received in the House

Dec. 17, 2025

Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform