Congress just slipped a near-total federal hemp rewrite into the shutdown bill. If you blinked, you missed it.
Section 781 of the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 quietly amends the 2018 Farm Bill’s hemp definitions at 7 U.S.C. § 1639o. Effective 365 days after enactment,