SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Deputy House Majority Leader Lou Lang (D-Skokie) today announced an agreement with Governor Bruce Rauner over a Medical Marijuana pilot project expansion.

The chief provisions of the legislation include extending the pilot program until July 1, 2020; adding Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) and terminal illness added as qualifying medical conditions; and making patient and caregiver cards valid for three years, instead of one.

Fingerprinting will no longer be required upon renewal of patient and caregiver cards; physicians will no longer be required to recommend cannabis, but only certify there is a bona fide doctor-patient relationship and that the patient has a qualifying condition; minors who are patients will be allowed to have two caregivers; and the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board will be reconstituted, along with a new procedure created for accepting patient petitions for the addition of new conditions to the program.