BOSTON — Treasurer Deb Goldberg is beginning to look for a new chair of the Cannabis Control Commission, despite an upcoming legislative hearing that could redefine how the regulatory agency’s leadership is appointed.

Amid a slew of controversies at the CCC, the Legislature’s Cannabis Policy Committee’s House chair, Rep. Daniel Donahue of Worcester, plans to hold a hearing at the end of October on “identifying the best path forward.”

In July, Donahue identified three areas of the CCC’s enabling statute that his committee would like to revisit, including two potentially contradictory sections delineating powers of the CCC chair — appointed by the treasurer — and the agency’s executive director, chosen by commissioners with staff input.

“Further, the committee has identified broader opportunities for reconsideration, including appointment and removal powers, as well as the structural model of the agency itself,” Donahue wrote in a July memo to House Speaker Ron Mariano.

The agency is currently without a permanent executive director and its ruling commission without a chair, as the CCC has been in the spotlight for a series of personnel disputes. The CCC’s inaugural executive director, Shawn Collins, resigned in late 2023; and Goldberg fired Chair Shannon O’Brien for “gross misconduct” last month, which O’Brien’s lawyers said she plans to appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court.