CA AB 2537

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Cannabis Enforcement Accountability and Public Health Prioritization Act of 2026.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. Existing law gives the Department of Cannabis Control the power, duty, purpose, responsibility, and jurisdiction to regulate commercial cannabis activity in the state. Existing law authorizes the department to take disciplinary actions against a licensee, as provided. Existing law requires the department to prepare and disseminate, as specified, an annual report relating to the department's activities, including, among other things, the amount of funds allocated and spent by the department for cannabis licensing, enforcement, and administration, and the number of state licenses issued, renewed, denied, suspended, and revoked. This bill, the Cannabis Enforcement Accountability and Public Health Prioritization Act of 2026, would require the department, beginning January 1, 2028, to prioritize its enforcement of MAUCRSA in a manner consistent with an enforcement prioritization policy, as defined, based on specified categories, that are listed from highest to lowest priority, based on conduct or conditions, as specified, that create a risk of harm, as described. The bill would define "risk of harm" as the likelihood of, among other things, interference with enforcement of state law. Beginning January 1, 2028, the bill would require the department to adopt and publish an enforcement prioritization policy, as specified, and would require the department to include in the above-described annual report the number, geographic distribution, and, as applicable, dollar amount of specified enforcement activities in relation to the risk-based enforcement framework, as provided.

Introduced: 2026-03-19
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-06-24 — Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

CannabisEnforcementAccountabilityandPublicHealthPrioritizationActof2026

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2026-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-03-19
Referred to Com. on B. & P.
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2026-03-19
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
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2026-03-23
Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
referral-committee
2026-04-06
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2026-04-09
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
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2026-04-13
Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
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2026-04-14
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 14).
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2026-04-15
Read second time and amended.
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2026-04-16
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-05-06
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2026-05-14
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
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2026-05-18
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-28
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5529.)
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2026-06-01
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-06-10
Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
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2026-06-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 22).
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2026-06-24
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Versions

02/20/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-20Compare
03/19/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-19Compare
04/09/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-09Compare
04/15/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-15Compare
06/24/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-24Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-14 · pass · 19-0
Member-level votes (19)
- Jackson: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Chen: yes
- Haney: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Addis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Bains: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Hart: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
Do pass.
2026-05-14 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ta: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Mark González: yes
AB 2537 Chen Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-28 · pass · 76-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Tangipa: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Soria: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Flora: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Krell: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Solache: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Haney: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Bains: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Davies: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ta: yes
- Addis: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ward: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Patel: yes
- Fong: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Chen: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Papan: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Jackson: other
- Quirk-Silva: other
- Lee: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-22 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Niello: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Choi: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: other

Related bills

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