2026 SESSION

INTRODUCED

26104526D

SENATE BILL NO. 332

Offered January 14, 2026

Prefiled January 13, 2026

A BILL to direct the Department of Health to convene a work group to develop policies for the safe administration of medical marijuana to terminally ill patients.

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Patron—Favola

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Referred to Committee on Education and Health

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Department of Health (the Department) shall convene a work group including stakeholders from the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association, the Medical Society of Virginia, the Cannabis Control Authority, the Board of Pharmacy, the Virginia Society of Health-System Pharmacists, and other interested parties to develop policies for the safe administration of medical marijuana to terminally ill patients. The work group shall develop such policies and the Department shall promulgate regulations establishing such policies by January 1, 2027. If there is a delay in the federal reclassification of marijuana as a Schedule III drug, the Department may promulgate regulations establishing such policies upon the completion of any federal rulemaking regarding such reclassification. The initial promulgation of regulations pursuant to this act shall be exempt from the requirements of the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq. of the Code of Virginia).