Mixed - fix one clause
Food: other; regulation of distribution, sale, and manufacturing of kratom products; provide for. Creates new act.
Saying this out loud matters. A representative who hears only opposition learns nothing about what we would actually vote for.
We are not asking anyone to do nothing. Every objection below comes with the clause we would put in its place — the full text is here.
This is the one clause we would strike. Everything else in the bill makes the product knowable; the 2% cap makes part of it unavailable. Section 13 keeps the testing and the labeling and drops the ceiling - the buyer gets the number, and the decision.
If the worry is a product nobody has assessed, Section 10 handles it with premarket review for genuinely novel alkaloid products, rather than a blanket percentage that also catches products people already use.
Yours will be better than ours because it is yours. Change a word, say where you live, and stop — ninety seconds is a long call.
I am a constituent and I support most of HB 4969 - the licensing, the lab testing, the labeling and the 21 and over limit are all good. My concern is the two percent cap on 7-OH. The rest of the bill makes these products knowable; the cap makes them unavailable and sends people to sellers who do none of the testing this bill requires. Please keep the bill and amend the cap to a disclosure requirement.
