Type: Regular Rulemaking
Status: Public notice of modified text provided January 23, 2026. Public comments accepted through February 9, 2026.
Summary: The Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) is proposing a rulemaking action to revise existing regulations to remove redundant and duplicative provisions; streamline operational and administrative burdens for licensees and the Department; and establish minimum sanitation standards.
Specific changes include:
- Clarifying tracking and labeling of harvest batches.
- Extending the time limit for temporary events to 30 days.
- Allowing cultivation licensees to transfer immature plants and seeds to a nursery.
- Allowing cultivation licensees to transfer immature plants and seeds to another cultivation premises owned by that licensee.
- Deleting the requirement to submit a pest management plan at the time of application.
- Deleting the requirement to submit electricity reporting with a renewal application and to purchase carbon offsets.
- Establishing minimum sanitation standards for licensees that handle exposed cannabis.
View the rulemaking documents
Initial rulemaking
March 14, 2025
First modification
July 8, 2025
- Notice of Modifications to Proposed Regulation Text
- Proposed Modified Regulation Text
- Notice of Extension of Written Comment Period and Rescheduling of Public Hearing