The Florida Senate

HB 595: Medical Marijuana Employee Protection

GENERAL BILL by Polsky ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Cortes ; Eskamani ; Smith, C.

Medical Marijuana Employee Protection; Prohibits employers from taking adverse personnel action against employees or applicants who are qualified patients using medical marijuana; requires employers to provide certain written notice to employees or applicants who test positive for marijuana; provides procedures for if employee or applicant tests positive for marijuana; provides cause of action & damages.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  11/8/2019	House	• Filed
  11/25/2019	House	• Referred to Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee; State Affairs Committee -HJ 49
  1/14/2020	House	• Introduced -HJ 48
  3/14/2020	House	• Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration • Died in Oversight, Transparency and Public Management Subcommittee

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• HB 595, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/8/2019 at 3:31 PM

  Bill Text:	PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
  S 962	Medical Marijuana Employee Protection	Berman	Similar	Last Action: 3/14/2020 S Died in Governmental Oversight and Accountability

  Citations - Statutes (2)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  112.219		Page 1 (pdf)
  448.111		Page 7 (pdf)

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