Current through 2024 Session Acts Chapter 111 and 2024 Special Session Acts Chapter 4
Section 2-3912 - Industrial hemp testing for non-licensed persons or governmental entities; fees; test results made available to the Kansas bureau of investigation upon request(a) The Kansas department of agriculture may provide industrial hemp testing services to non-licensed persons or governmental entities, including law enforcement agencies, when such capacity is available and not required for testing industrial hemp produced by licensees subject to this act.(b) The secretary may establish a fee schedule for any testing services by rules and regulations and shall remit all moneys received from fees collected under this section to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the laboratory testing services fee fund.(c) The results of any tests performed under this section shall be made available to the Kansas bureau of investigation upon request. The Kansas department of agriculture shall coordinate any testing services provided under this section with the Kansas bureau of investigation in order to provide excess testing capacity without displacing any services that may also be provided by the Kansas bureau of investigation.(d) Nothing in this section shall limit the secretary's authority to refuse to provide testing services to any non-licensee.(e) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the commercial industrial hemp act, K.S.A. 2-3901 et seq., and amendments thereto.Added by L. 2022, ch. 69,§ 9, eff. 7/1/2022.