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SECOND REGULAR SESSION
                   HOUSE CONCURRENT
                    RESOLUTION NO. 34
                           102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
                           INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PLANK.
    4775H.01I                                                  DANA RADEMAN MILLER, Chief Clerk



           WHEREAS, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, the first
 2 reports of hemp being grown in Missouri date to 1835; and
 3
 4         WHEREAS, the Federal Crop Insurance Program began in 1938; and
 5
 6         WHEREAS, the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 made the production of all
 7 cannabis, regardless of THC levels, illegal to grow and manufacture; and
 8
 9         WHEREAS, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 required the United States
10 Department of Agriculture to establish a framework for hemp production; and
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12         WHEREAS, the Missouri House of Representatives passed HB 2034 in 2018 to allow
13 the production of industrial hemp in the state; and
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15         WHEREAS, in 2020, the Risk Management Agency for the United States
16 Department of Agriculture began allowing certain industrial hemp growers to obtain crop
17 insurance to mitigate risk; and
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19         WHEREAS, in 2020, Missouri registered twenty two-thousand seven hundred sixty-
20 three acres of hemp, but farmers planted only seven hundred seventy acres of hemp; and
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22         WHEREAS, in 2021, the United States Department of Agriculture expanded the
23 program to cover additional areas but there is still no coverage for Missouri; and
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25         WHEREAS, in 2021, Missouri farmers planted one thousand four hundred acres of
26 hemp; and
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28         WHEREAS, in 2022, Missouri farmers planted one thousand nine hundred acres of
29   hemp; and
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31          WHEREAS, the Missouri Industrial Hemp Program ceased operations at the end of
32   2022 and thereafter Missouri let the United States Department of Agriculture license hemp
33   production:
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35          NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the members of the House of
36   Representatives of the One Hundred Second General Assembly, Second Regular Session, the
37   Senate concurring therein, hereby urge the United States Department of Agriculture to
38   include Missouri in the federal Industrial Hemp Crop Insurance Program; and
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40          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the Missouri House of
41   Representatives be instructed to prepare a properly inscribed copy of this resolution for the
42   United States Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas Vilsack, and all members of the Missouri
43   Congressional delegation.
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