Title: Industrial Hemp Water Rights Act
Policy area: Agriculture and Food

Summary:
Industrial Hemp Water Rights Act
This bill specifies that the owner of an absolute or conditional water right (including a federally recognized tribe), or an entity that receives or distributes water contracted from the federal government, may, pursuant to applicable water law, use or sell the water for the cultivation of industrial hemp if the growth or cultivation of industrial hemp is otherwise authorized under the laws of the state or tribe in which the use occurs. The bill applies regardless of whether the water has passed through a federal water project.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4164 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4164

 To provide that the owner of a water right may use the water for the 
 cultivation of industrial hemp, if otherwise authorized by State law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 27, 2017

Mr. Polis (for himself, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. Peterson, Ms. Gabbard, 
  Mr. Pocan, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Garrett, and Ms. DeGette) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on 
the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that the owner of a water right may use the water for the 
 cultivation of industrial hemp, if otherwise authorized by State law.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Industrial Hemp Water Rights Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF WATER FOR INDUSTRIAL HEMP CULTIVATION.

    (a) Definition of Industrial Hemp.--In this section, the term 
``industrial hemp'' has the meaning given the term in section 7606(b) 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940(b)).
    (b) Use for Industrial Hemp Cultivation.--Notwithstanding the 
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), chapter 81 of title 
41, United States Code, or any other Federal law, an owner of an 
absolute or conditional or reserved water right, including a federally 
recognized Tribe, or an entity that receives or distributes water 
contracted from the Federal Government, may, pursuant to applicable 
water law, use or sell for use by another person the water subject to 
the water right or the contract, as applicable, for the cultivation of 
industrial hemp, regardless of whether the water has passed through a 
Federal water project, if the growth or cultivation of industrial hemp 
is otherwise authorized under the laws of the State or Tribe in whose 
jurisdiction in which such use occurs.
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