Texas officials have formally adopted new rules to implement a law significantly expanding the state’s medical marijuana program.
About two months after the Department of Public Safety (DPS) posted the proposed rules—after which point a 30-day public comment period was completed—the regulations were finalized and published in the Texas Register on Friday.
This specific set of rules will increase the number of licensed dispensaries, establish security requirements for “satellite” locations and authorize the revocation of licenses for certain violations.
DPS will ultimately be issuing 12 new licenses for dispensaries across the state. Currently there are only three. The additional licensees will go through a competitive process, with officials prioritizing Texas’s public health regions to optimize access.
The first round of licenses will be awarded to nine of 139 applicants who submitted their forms during an earlier application window in 2023. DPS will select those nine licensees on December 1. The 2023 applicants that didn’t receive a license, as well as any new prospective licensees, will have another shot at getting their license during a second round where awardees will be announced on April 1, 2026.
The finalized rules also lay out security parameters for dispensaries with satellite locations approved by the
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