INDUSTRY UPDATES

June 06, 2025

Updates in Three States: New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas

Take Action Now: Use our State Action Center to contact lawmakers and protect the future of hemp in your state.

A big thank you to all hemp supporters for taking action to ensure that harmful bills, which would have been detrimental to the hemp industry in their respective states, do not become law! Let’s keep up the fight and momentum moving foward!

Texas

In Texas, the deadline for Governor Abbott to sign or veto SB 3 is growing closerand we need you to take action!  If this bill becomes law it would mean a full ban on hemp products, decimating the hemp industry in Texas. To date, thousands of Hemp Supporter emails have been sent to Governor Abbott asking him to veto the bill.  The Texas Hemp Business Council and hemp advocates, including the Roundtable’s Tara Latil, were on hand at a press conference in the State Capitol this week to ask for a veto from Governor Abbott.  You can get the latest on the battle for hemp in Texas by listening to Jonathan Miller’s latest episode of the nationally top-ranked Hemp Legally Speaking podcast.  Please use our State Action Center to add your voice to our urgent request to Governor Abbott for a veto.

Texas Action Center

New Jersey

In New Jersey, lawmakers are debating two bills regarding hemp products.  Assembly Bill A5068 proposes a comprehensive framework that integrates hemp-derived products into New Jersey’s hemp, cannabis, and public health oversight systems. It ensures consistency in testing, retail regulation, and enforcement for all hemp products.  Senate Bill S4509, while addressing some core issues such as licensing and certain intoxicating product prohibitions, omits critical measures on testing standards, product sourcing oversight, and protections for minors and medical patients.  Please use our State Action Center to add your voice to our request to lawmakers to support A5068 and oppose S4509.

New Jersey Action Center

Tennessee

Tennessee Governor Lee signed HB 1376 at the end of May.  Thanks to all of you who reached out to lawmakers in Tennessee in an attempt to stop this bill.  This law will ban both the sale and use of THCa, a very popular line of hemp products, while also prohibiting direct-to-consumer sales of all hemp products, destroying an important line of commerce for consumers and the farmers who grow the hemp crops.  For beverages, it provides a monopoly to the alcohol industry creating a regulatory structure parallel to that of liquor utilizing a three-tiered system in which all taxes are collected at the wholesale level and requires that products move through a licensed wholesaler.  These regulations and restrictions will go into effect on January 1, 2026.

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