AB68-SSA1,787,20 (2) The department shall award grants from the appropriation under s. 20.115 (7) (cm) to agricultural producers and eligible university entities as provided under this section.

AB68-SSA1,787,24 (3) An agricultural producer may apply for and receive a grant to implement a project with the potential to reduce nitrate loading to groundwater in the area. The agricultural producer receiving a grant under this subsection shall collaborate with one or more eligible university entities under sub. (4).

AB68-SSA1,788,5 (4) The eligible university entities shall collaborate with an agricultural producer that receives a grant under sub. (3) to monitor the grant project on-site and to use information gathered from the project to research nitrate loading reduction methods with a goal of making recommendations to agricultural producers to optimize nitrogen usage while improving water quality in this state.

AB68-SSA1,788,9 (5) The department may not make a grant to an agricultural producer and the eligible university entities collaborating with the agricultural producer in an amount that totals more than $125,000. No more than 50 percent of this total amount may be awarded to the collaborating eligible university entities.

AB68-SSA1,1606 Section 1606. 94.55 (2t) of the statutes is repealed.

AB68-SSA1,1607 Section 1607 . 94.56 of the statutes is created to read:

AB68-SSA1,788,13 94.56 Marijuana producers and processors. (1) Definitions. In this section:

AB68-SSA1,788,16 (a) “Labor peace agreement” means an agreement between a person applying for a permit under this section and a labor organization, as defined in s. 5.02 (8m), that does all of the following:

AB68-SSA1,788,19 1. Prohibits labor organizations and its members from engaging in picketing, work stoppages, boycotts, and any other economic interference with persons doing business in this state.

AB68-SSA1,788,21 2. Prohibits the applicant from disrupting the efforts of the labor organization to communicate with and to organize and represent the applicant's employees.

AB68-SSA1,788,25 3. Provides the labor organization access at reasonable times to areas in which the applicant's employees work for the purpose of meeting with employees to discuss their right to representation, employment rights under state law, and terms and conditions of employment.

AB68-SSA1,789,1 (b) “Marijuana" has the meaning given in s. 961.70 (3).

AB68-SSA1,789,2 (c) “Marijuana processor" has the meaning given in s. 139.97 (6).

AB68-SSA1,789,3 (d) “Marijuana producer” has the meaning given in s. 139.97 (7).

AB68-SSA1,789,4 (e) “Usable marijuana” has the meaning given in s. 139.97 (13).

AB68-SSA1,789,6 (f) “Permittee” means a marijuana producer or marijuana processor who is issued a permit under this section.

AB68-SSA1,789,12 (2) Permit required. (a) No person may operate in this state as a marijuana producer or marijuana processor without a permit from the department. A person who acts as a marijuana producer and a marijuana processor shall obtain a separate permit for each activity. A person is not required to obtain a permit under this section if the person produces or processes only industrial hemp and holds a valid license under s. 94.55.

AB68-SSA1,789,14 (b) This subsection applies to any of the following if they hold 5 percent or more of the stock of any corporation applying for a permit under this section

AB68-SSA1,789,15 1. Officers of the corporation.

AB68-SSA1,789,16 2. Directors of the corporation.

AB68-SSA1,789,17 3. Agents of the corporation.

AB68-SSA1,789,18 4. Stockholders of the corporation.

AB68-SSA1,789,20 (c) Subject to ss. 111.321, 111.322, and 111.335, a permit under this section may not be granted to any person to whom any of the following applies:

AB68-SSA1,789,22 1. The person has been convicted of a violent misdemeanor, as defined in s. 941.29 (1g) (b), at least 3 times.

AB68-SSA1,789,24 2. The person has been convicted of a violent felony, as defined in s. 941.29 (1g) (a), unless pardoned.

AB68-SSA1,790,2 3. During the preceding 3 years, the person has been committed under s. 51.20 for being drug dependent.

AB68-SSA1,790,7 4. The person chronically and habitually uses alcohol beverages or other substances to the extent that his or her normal faculties are impaired. A person is presumed to chronically and habitually use alcohol beverages or other substances to the extent that his or her normal faculties are impaired if, within the preceding 3 years, any of the following applies:

AB68-SSA1,790,9 a. The person has been committed for involuntary treatment under s. 51.45 (13).

AB68-SSA1,790,10 b. The person has been convicted of a violation of s. 941.20 (1) (b).