SB377,29,5 50.82 Licensing. The department shall issue licenses to a pharmacist or a pharmacy to operate as a compassion center and shall decide which and how many applicants for a license receive a license based on all of the following:

SB377,29,7 (1) The ability of an applicant to provide to treatment teams a sufficient amount of medical marijuana for the medical use of tetrahydrocannabinols.

SB377,29,8 (2) The experience the applicant has running an organization or a business.

SB377,29,10 (3) The preferences of the governing bodies with jurisdiction over the area in which the applicants are located.

SB377,29,12 (4) The ability of the applicant to keep records confidential and maintain a safe and secure facility.

SB377,29,13 (5) The ability of the applicant to abide by the prohibitions under s. 50.83.

SB377,29,16 50.83 Prohibitions. The department may not issue a license to operate as a compassion center to, and must revoke a license of, any organization to which any of the following applies:

SB377,29,18 (1) The organization is located within 500 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school, including a charter school.

SB377,29,21 (2) The compassion center distributes to a treatment team a number of plants or an amount in ounces of usable marijuana that, in the period of distribution, results in the treatment team possessing more than the maximum medicinal amount.

SB377,29,25 (3) The compassion center possesses a number of plants or an amount in ounces of usable marijuana that exceeds the combined maximum medicinal amount for all of the treatment teams that are estimated to use the organization by a number or an amount determined by the department by rule to be unacceptable.

SB377,30,3 50.84 Licensing procedure. (1) The application for a license must be in writing on a form provided by the department and include the licensing application fee under sub. (2) (a).

SB377,30,4 (2) (a) A licensing application fee is $250.

SB377,30,5 (b) The annual fee for a compassion center is $5,000.

SB377,30,8 (3) A compassion center license is valid until revoked. Each license shall be issued only for the applicant named in the application and may not be transferred or assigned.

SB377,30,13 50.85 Distribution of medical marijuana. (1) A compassion center may sell, distribute, or deliver tetrahydrocannabinols or drug paraphernalia intended for the storage or use of usable marijuana to a member of a treatment team if the compassion center receives a copy of the qualifying patient's written certification or registry identification card.

SB377,30,15 (2) A compassion center may possess or manufacture tetrahydrocannabinols or drug paraphernalia with the intent to sell, distribute, or deliver under sub. (1).

SB377,30,17 (3) A compassion center may have 2 locations, one for cultivation and one for sales, distribution, or delivery.

SB377,30,23 (4) A compassion center shall have all tetrahydrocannabinols tested for mold, fungus, pesticides, and other contaminants and may not sell, distribute, or deliver tetrahydrocannabinols that test positive for mold, fungus, pesticides, or other contaminants if the contaminants, or level of contaminants, are identified by the testing laboratories under s. 50.86 (2) to be potentially unsafe to a qualifying patient's health.

SB377,30,24 (5) A compassion center may cultivate marijuana outdoors.

SB377,31,4 50.86 Testing laboratories. The department shall register entities as tetrahydrocannabinols testing laboratories. The laboratories may possess or manufacture tetrahydrocannabinols or drug paraphernalia and shall perform the following services:

SB377,31,6 (1) Test marijuana produced for the medical use of tetrahydrocannabinols for potency and for mold, fungus, pesticides, and other contaminants.

SB377,31,9 (2) Collect information on research findings and conduct research related to the medical use of tetrahydrocannabinols, including research that identifies potentially unsafe levels of contaminants.

SB377,31,12 (3) Provide training to persons who hold registry identification cards or written certifications, to treatment teams, and to persons employed by compassion centers on the following:

SB377,31,14 (a) The safe and efficient cultivation, harvesting, packaging, labeling, and distribution of marijuana for the medical use of tetrahydrocannabinols.

SB377,31,15 (b) Security and inventory accountability procedures.

SB377,31,16 (c) The most recent research on the medical use of tetrahydrocannabinols.

SB377,69 Section 69 . Subchapter VI (title) of chapter 50 [precedes 50.90] of the statutes is renumbered subchapter VII (title) of chapter 50 [precedes 50.90].

SB377,70 Section 70 . 51.49 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB377,31,22 51.49 (1) (d) “Operating while intoxicated" means a violation of s. 346.63 (1) or, (2m), or (2p) or a local ordinance in conformity therewith or of s. 346.63 (2) or (6), 940.09 (1) or 940.25.