HB34: HB34 Professional licensing boards; continuing education tracking solution to monitor compliance of licenses with applicable continuing education requirements; establish

This bill is a Senate substitute for HB 34 that amends Georgia's Hemp Farming Act (O.C.G.A. Chapter 23 of Title 2), not the licensing-board tracking system described in the bill's original title. It defines 'intoxicating cannabinoids' broadly to include THC and HHC variants, and it bans selling or distributing any consumable hemp product in Georgia if its total concentration of intoxicating cannabinoids exceeds 0.3 percent. The bill updates the required lab testing (full panel certificate of analysis) so it must attest to intoxicating cannabinoids generally, not just THC, and it adds a new required label warning that using the product before driving could violate Georgia's DUI law (O.C.G.A. § 40-6-391). It also sets specific milligram caps: 10 milligrams of intoxicating cannabinoids per serving and 150 per container for most products, lower limits for drinks, topicals, and tinctures. Violations of the sale, labeling, or packaging rules remain misdemeanors, and products that fail inspection must be destroyed under department rules.

• Caps the total concentration of intoxicating cannabinoids in any consumable hemp product sold in Georgia at 0.3 percent, on a dry weight basis where applicable.
• Expands the required lab certificate of analysis to cover 'intoxicating cannabinoids' broadly, including hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), instead of only THC.
• Requires a new conspicuous label warning that consuming the product before driving may violate Georgia's DUI law (O.C.G.A. § 40-6-391(a)(6)).
• Sets specific milligram limits: 10 mg of intoxicating cannabinoids per serving and 150 mg per container for most products, with lower limits for drinks (5 mg per 12 oz), topicals (1,000 mg per container), and tinctures (1 mg per mL).
• Adds exceeding the 0.3 percent cannabinoid cap as a new reason the state can order a consumable hemp product destroyed after inspection.
• Keeps violations of the sale, testing, or labeling rules as a misdemeanor criminal offense.

Hemp growers, processors, and manufacturers licensed under Georgia's Hemp Farming Act; retail and wholesale consumable hemp businesses that sell products like gummies, drinks, tinctures, and topicals; testing laboratories that produce certificates of analysis; and consumers who buy hemp-derived products in Georgia.

Consumers would see new warning labels about driving risk and could find some higher-potency hemp products pulled from shelves once the 0.3 percent cannabinoid cap and milligram limits take effect. Hemp businesses would need updated lab testing and packaging to stay compliant or face misdemeanor charges.

• Section 1 revises definitions in O.C.G.A. § 2-23-3, adding 'intoxicating cannabinoids' (covering THC and HHC variants) and 'total concentration of intoxicating cannabinoids' as new defined terms.
• Section 2 amends O.C.G.A. § 2-23-9.1 to ban sale of consumable hemp products exceeding 0.3 percent total intoxicating cannabinoid concentration and to require certificates of analysis to test for intoxicating cannabinoids generally.
• Section 2 also adds a new required label warning that using the product before driving may violate Georgia's DUI statute, O.C.G.A. § 40-6-391(a)(6).
• Section 2 adds exceeding the 0.3 percent cannabinoid limit as grounds for the state to order disposal of a product after inspection, alongside existing THC and contaminant violations.
• Section 3 amends O.C.G.A. § 2-23-9.2 to set milligram caps on intoxicating cannabinoids: 10 mg per serving and 150 mg per container generally, with separate limits for drinks, topicals, and tinctures.
• Section 4 repeals any conflicting laws.

1. 2026-03-27Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute (Senate)
2. 2026-01-12Senate Recommitted (Senate)
3. 2025-03-18Senate Read Second Time (Senate)
4. 2025-03-13Senate Committee Favorably Reported (Senate)
5. 2025-02-26Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
6. 2025-02-24House Passed/Adopted By Substitute (House)
7. 2025-02-24House Third Readers (House)
8. 2025-02-11House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute (House)

• Dale Washburn (R, HD-144)Primary sponsor
• Bill Cowsert (R, SD-046)

1. PassedHouse voteFebruary 24, 2025

   171 yea, 2 nay (1 not voting, 6 absent)

   Passage: House Vote #77

• hemp products
• THC regulation
• consumer product labeling
• cannabinoid limits
• Georgia Hemp Farming Act