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BILL · 2025–26 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 6204

SB 6204: Home cultivation of cannabis

Legalizing the home cultivation of cannabis by persons who are 21 years of age and older.

Summary

  • Allows a person 21 years of age or older to produce and possess up to six cannabis plants, with specified limits.
  • Creates a civil infraction when cannabis derived from those plants can be readily smelled from a public place or private property, or is visible to the public.
  • Applies penalties for exceeding plant limits.
  • Provides that the Liquor and Cannabis Board may not investigate or enforce the home cultivation provisions and authorizes law enforcement to seize and destroy plants produced or possessed in excess of the authorized amount.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 6204), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
  1. IntroducedJan 19, 2026
  2. Out of committeeFeb 4, 2026
  3. Passed Senatestopped here
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Rebecca Saldaña (D-37)
Introduced
January 19, 2026 in the Senate
Last action
February 26, 2026
Companion bill
HB 2614
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
SB 6204, SSB 6204

AN ACT Relating to legalizing the home cultivation of cannabis by persons who are 21 years of age and older;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Rebecca Saldaña (D-37)

2 co-sponsors (2 Democrats, 0 Republicans)

Noel Frame D-36T'wina Nobles D-28

Votes

No recorded floor votes.

History

  1. Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 6204)
  2. Senate Rules "X" file.
  3. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 6204)
  4. Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
  5. LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 6204)
  6. Minority; do not pass. (SSB 6204)
  7. Minority; without recommendation. (SSB 6204)
  8. Minority; without recommendation.
  9. Minority; do not pass.
  10. LC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  11. First reading, referred to Labor & Commerce.

SB 6204 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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