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
- Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
- Proposed Text of Regulations
- Initial Statement of Reasons
- Notice of Modifications to Proposed Regulation Text
- Proposed Modified Regulation Text
- Notice of Extension of Written Comment Period and Rescheduling of Public Hearing
- Second Proposed Modified Regulation Text (November 6, 2025)
- Notice of Modifications to the Proposed Regulation Text (November 6, 2025)
- Third Proposed Modified Regulation Text (December 30, 2025)
- Notice of Modifications to the Proposed Regulation Text (December 30, 2025)
- Fourth Proposed Modified Regulation Text (January 23, 2026)
- Notice of Modifications to the Proposed Regulation Text (January 23, 2026)
Public comments process
If you wish to comment on the proposed regulations, submit your comment in writing to DCC during the public comment period. Verbal comments cannot be accepted.
DCC Legal Affairs Division
2920 Kilgore Road
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
publiccomment@cannabis.ca.gov
