NevadaNevada’s cannabis board must set rules requiring independent cannabis testing
The law requires Nevada’s Cannabis Compliance Board to set testing rules for cannabis businesses, including how samples are collected and how much flower laboratories test.
What it does
Nevada’s Cannabis Compliance Board must set rules requiring independent testing of samples from every cannabis lot. Each lot is a group with weight limits based on its contents.
The board’s rules must follow an international sample collection standard. Flower testing must use at least 10, 15, or 20 grams of samples, depending on lot weight.
Argument forIndependent testing under shared collection standards could make test results more consistent across cannabis businesses.
Argument againstRequired collection standards and minimum sample weights could limit cannabis businesses’ flexibility in preparing flower for testing.
More detail
The Cannabis Compliance Board must adopt rules requiring independent laboratories to test samples that represent each cannabis lot. The rules cover licensed and registered cannabis businesses and testing of cannabis and cannabis products. Each lot must come from the same harvest batch, grown by a cannabis cultivation facility from the same strain and harvested on or before a specified final harvest date. A lot may contain up to 15 pounds of flowers or up to 45 pounds of leaves and other plant material, excluding full female flowers. Wet flowers, leaves, and other plant material used only for extraction may form a lot weighing up to 150 pounds within two hours of harvest.
The Cannabis Compliance Board must set sample collection standards and minimum total sample weights for cannabis flower. Collection standards apply to samples from each cannabis lot. The minimum sample weights apply specifically to flower lots. Collection standards must align with the latest version of ASTM D8334/8334M, an international standard for collecting cannabis and hemp samples for laboratory testing. Flower lots weighing less than 5 pounds need at least 10 grams of samples in total. Flower lots weighing at least 5 pounds but less than 10 pounds need at least 15 grams of samples in total. Flower lots weighing at least 10 pounds and up to 15 pounds need at least 20 grams of samples in total.
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- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 6Chapter 335.Latest
- Jun 5Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- Jun 1Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- May 30Assembly Amendment Nos. 741 and 779 concurred in. To enrollment.Major
- May 29In Senate.
- May 28From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 31, Nays: 11.) To Senate.Passed House
- Vote recorded Assembly (As Introduced). Result: pass.Lower
- May 27Taken from Chief Clerk's desk. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 779.) To printer.Minor
- May 26Taken from Chief Clerk's desk. To printer. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Chief Clerk's desk.
- May 23Waiver granted effective: May 22, 2025. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 741.) Taken from General File. Placed on Chief Clerk's desk.Minor
- Mar 31In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.Minor
- Mar 27Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 19, Nays: None, Excused: 1, Not voting: 1.) To Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (As Introduced). Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 26Read second time.Minor
- Mar 24From committee: Do pass.Minor
- Feb 4From printer. To committee.
- Feb 3Read first time. To printer.Minor
- Feb 2Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor.Introduced
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