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H.R. 3617: Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act

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H.R. 3617: Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-05-28 · Crime and Law Enforcement · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-05-28 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: 5 recorded votes in our records. Latest: House roll call 103 (2022): On Agreeing to the Amendment, HR3617 (2022-04-01), Agreed to. See all
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act

Plain summary

Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act or the MORE Act This bill decriminalizes marijuana. Specifically, it removes marijuana from the list of scheduled substances under the Controlled Substances Act and eliminates criminal penalties for an individual who manufactures, distributes, or possesses marijuana. The bill also makes other changes, including the following: replaces statutory references to marijuana and marihuana with cannabis , requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics to regularly publish demographic data on cannabis business owners and employees, establishes a trust fund to support various programs and services for individuals and businesses in communities impacted by the war on drugs, imposes an excise tax on cannabis products produced in or imported into the United States and an occupational tax on cannabis production facilities and export warehouses, makes Small Business Administration loans and services available to entities that are cannabis-related legitimate businesses or service providers, prohibits the denial of federal public benefits to a person on the basis of certain cannabis-related conduct or convictions, prohibits the denial of benefits and protections under immigration laws on the basis of a cannabis-related event (e.g., conduct or a conviction), establishes a process to expunge convictions and conduct sentencing review hearings related to federal cannabis offenses, directs the Government Accountability Office to study the societal impact of state legalization of recreational cannabis, directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to study methods for determining whether a driver is impaired by marijuana, directs the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to study the impact of state legalization of recreational cannabis on the workplace, and directs the Department of Education to study the impact of state legalization of recreational cannabis on schools and school-aged children.

Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10] · 114 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: Estimated Changes in Direct Spending and Revenues Under H.R. 3617, the MORE Act (2022-03-30)

Cosponsors on this site

Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), J. Luis Correa (D-CA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Adam Smith (D-WA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Nikema Williams (D-GA), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Peter Welch (D-VT), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Angie Craig (D-MN), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Melanie A. Stansbury (D-NM), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and 54 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-10] reported raising $258,402 (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

Recorded votes

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Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Statute
A written law passed by a legislature. A statute can be changed by a later law; changing a constitution needs an amendment.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr3617 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117