an Arizona House committee passed a bill to expand a current law banning state and local enforcement of federal gun control to specifically include certain federal taxes on firearms.
The legislation would ban any person, including any public officer or employee of the state and its political subdivisions, from enforcing any past, present or future federal “acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders, court orders, rules, or regulations” that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms.
A bill introduced in the South Carolina Senate would legalize medical marijuana in the state despite ongoing federal cannabis prohibition. The bill would also prohibit some state cooperation with the enforcement federal acts that criminalize the use of marijuana authorized in South Carolina.
A bill filed in the Virginia House eliminate the state’s conformity with Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 280E. The enactment of this provision would represent a small, but important state tax relief for medical marijuana businesses despite ongoing federal cannabis prohibition.
The legislation would create a commercial incubator permit program. Language in the bill notes that the state medicinal cannabis program has "nullified" federal prohibition on medical marijuana.