What You Need to Know
- The SAFE Banking Act could help financial services companies sell IRAs, employer-sponsored retirement plans and insurance to cannabis-related companies and workers.
- IRI says the House added the SAFE Banking bill to the must-pass defense authorization package.
- The Senate will get a chance to draft its own version of the defense legislation.
The Insured Retirement Institute says the House added a cannabis-related measure to a big defense spending bill.
The House amended H.R. 7900, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, to include the text of H.R. 1996, the Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act, according to IRI.
The House Rules Commission put the version of the SAFE Banking Act bill that was folded into the NDAA package in a 1,382-page amendment packet that was posted on the web last week.
Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., proposed the amendment.