LAST UPDATED 5/8/2026
Cal NORML is tracking the following and has reached out to the authors’ offices:
AB 1826 (Lackey) To improve due process around the recall, embargo, and destruction of cannabis products. Sponsored by CCIA. Passed Assembly Business & Professions and Judiciary committees. 5/6 Appropriations committee hearing postponed by committee.
Cal NORML has joined a sign-on letter in support of this bill.
AB 1965 (Sharp-Collins) Cannabis: testing: quality assurance. Passed unanimously in Com. on B. and P. In Appropriations committee suspense file with a hearing set for 5/14. Cal NORML has sent a letter in support of this bill.
AB-2249 (Irwin) Cannabis: labels, packaging and manufacturing. Passed Com. on B. and P. with amendments. In Appropriations suspense file with hearing set for 5/14.
AB-2532 (Irwin) Cannabis: labels, packaging and manufacturing. Passed Com. on B. and P. and Appropriations. Heading to Assembly floor. A new amendment added on 5/7 says, “If the cannabis product is a cannabis beverage containing more than one serving, the bill would require a consumer to be offered, at the time of purchase and at no additional charge, a measuring instrument or measuring device that allows the consumer to measure a single serving for consumption.”
Cal NORML has taken a neutral position on this bill following the news that amendments have been worked out with the cannabis industry removing the 10 mg cap on beverages and requiring industry-wide precision dosing and product identification features on all multi-serving cannabis beverages, warning label standards, child-resistant container requirements, while prohibiting single-serve marketing and supporting a funded, statewide campaign on responsible, informed cannabis beverage consumption, potentially modeled on alcohol responsibility campaigns. We will be continuing to follow this bill as amendments are published. Thanks to all who have taken our Beverage Safety survey; you can continue to provide input there.
AB 2250 (Aguiar-Curry) Modify AB 8 to exclude CBN from the definition of cannabis concentrate. Passed Asm. Com. on B. and P. and REV. and TAX. In Appropriations suspense file with hearing set for 5/14.
AB-2420 (Caloza) Cannabis: donations: seniors. Authorizes cannabis retailers to donate cannabis or cannabis products to persons 65 years of age and older. 14-APR-26 hearing in Asm. B & P cancelled at request of author. Cal NORML supports.
AB 2506 (Hart) Cannabis: tribal government licensure. Passed Com. on B. and P. and Appropriations. Heading to Assembly floor.
AB 2537 (Chen) Cannabis Enforcement Accountability and Public Health Prioritization Act of 2026. Passed Asm. Com. on B. and P. In Appropriations suspense file; hearing set for 5/14.
Would “require the DCC to prioritize its enforcement of MAUCRSA in a manner consistent with a risk-based enforcement framework that focuses on material threats while applying less intensive and less punitive measures on minor technical or administrative violations by licensees.” Sponsored by CaCOA.
AB 2697 (Pellerin) Cannabis drive-throughs. Passed Asm. Com. on B. and P. and Appropriations. Will head to Assembly floor.
Would authorize a local jurisdiction to allow a licensed cannabis retailer to conduct sales or deliveries at a drive-through, pass-out window, or slide-out tray, if the sales and deliveries are made through a fixed-pane security window with a security drawer.
AB 2667 (Hadwick) Vape products: household hazardous waste: advertising. Passed Asm. Committees on E.S and T.M. and B. and B. and P. In Appropriations suspense file. Hearing set for 5/14.
Would allow authorize hazardous waste collection facilities to mechanically disassemble vape pens and devices, and prohibit nicotine or cannabis vapes using branding to appeal to minors, packaged to conceal the nature of their use, or including interactive videogame capabilities. Cal NORML has taken a “support if amended” position on this bill.
AB 1884 (Hadwick/Sharp-Collins) Interscholastic athletics: drug testing: suspensions: nicotine use. Passed Assembly Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, & Tourism; hearing in Education committee cancelled at request of the author.
This bill has been amended to allow schools with drug testing programs to also test for nicotine, limit it to athletics, and require diversion instead of banning participation for a positive drug test. We will continue to watch.
AB-2617 (Schiavo) NO LONGER A CANNABIS BILL. It’s now the Protecting Kids from Online Gambling Act.
AB-2246 (Wicks) NO LONGER A CANNABIS BILL. It’s now the Youth Social Media Protection Act: report.