Texas Hemp Fees: Why $5,000 Is Per Location, Not Per Company

The adopted Texas rules attach specific fees to consumable hemp licensing and retail registration. The figures are easy to find. The structure around them is what actually changes an operating plan, and it is where the costly surprises live.

Source: 25 TAC §300.502(g) and §300.202(c), adopted rules filed with the Secretary of State March 2, 2026 (TRD-202601066). In effect March 31, 2026.

What the requirement says

Under the adopted rules:

• $10,000 per facility licence, and again at renewal (25 TAC §300.202(c))
• $5,000 per retail location registration, and again at renewal (25 TAC §300.502(g))
• $1,000 delinquency fee
• $125 for a minor amendment

Fees are not prorated.

Who it applies to

The retail registration provision attaches to retailers of consumable hemp products operating retail locations in Texas. The facility licence provision attaches to the facility.

Effective date

The adopted rules were filed with the Secretary of State on March 2, 2026 (TRD-202601066) and took effect March 31, 2026.

Operational impact

Two structural points carry more weight than the headline numbers.

The unit is the location

Retail registration attaches to the location, not to the company. An operator running three stores is registering three times. A fourth location carries a fixed regulatory cost before it sells a single unit.

This is the detail that most often lands in a financial model late. A per-company assumption produces an expansion plan that understates fixed regulatory cost by a factor equal to the store count — and it usually surfaces after a lease is signed rather than before.

Fees are not prorated

A registration taken out late in a period costs what a full period costs. Where a launch date is flexible, the absence of proration is a genuine input into when to register, not an administrative footnote.

The $1,000 delinquency fee makes the same point from the other direction: the calendar has a price attached to it.

Evidence to retain

For each location, retain the registration record and the fee payment record, filed so that they are retrievable per location rather than pooled at company level. Where an amendment has been filed, retain the amendment and the fee record alongside the original — the $125 minor-amendment fee implies a paper trail worth keeping intact.

Related requirements

The registration provisions sit alongside, and are separate from, the COA content requirements at §300.301(d). Registration is about your standing to operate; the certificate rules are about the evidence attaching to what you sell. Satisfying one says nothing about the other.

What remains open

This record covers the fee provisions as adopted. It does not address enforcement practice, discretionary treatment of late registrations, or any question of how the agency handles particular circumstances. Where you need an answer on those, the fee schedule is not the document that provides it.