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Bill:
HB24-1061
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Title: |
Marijuana Industry & Social Equity |
Position | Oppose | Intro Date | 01/10/2024 | Hearing Room | | Hearing Time | | Hearing Date | | Fiscal Notes | Fiscal Notes (05/15/2024) | Full Text | Full Text of Bill | Lobbyists | Lobbyists | Status | House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Postpone Indefinitely (03/21/2024) | Senate Committee | | House Committee | Business Affairs and Labor | Senate Sponsors | | House Sponsors | N. Ricks (D) R. English (D) | Summary | The bill creates a medical marijuana independent delivery license
and a retail marijuana independent delivery license (licenses) to deliver and sell respective marijuana and marijuana products to consumers at permissible delivery locations. A person must have a social equity license to be issued the licenses. The department of revenue (department) is required to promulgate rules concerning the licenses.
The bill creates an accelerator independent deliverer license,
accelerator hospitality business license, and accelerator transporter license for social equity licensees qualified to participate in the accelerator program.
The bill defines permissible delivery locations to establish where
licensees with delivery privileges may deliver to consumers.
The bill adds mandatory and permissive rule-making authority to
the department concerning social-equity-related matters.
The bill allows a marijuana hospitality licensee with a mobile
facility to temporarily suspend its license privileges related to mobility in order to conduct non-marijuana commercial activities. The bill adds mandatory rule-making authority to the department concerning these matters.
Beginning January 31, 2026, the bill requires the state licensing
authority to provide an annual report to the finance committees of the house of representatives and the senate concerning active social equity or accelerator licenses and licensees, recommendations for new social equity or accelerator licenses, and recommendations for new or innovative funding sources for the social equity program. The department is required to convene a new, or utilize an existing, working group of persons to develop recommendations for the annual report.
Effective April 1, 2025, the bill amends the eligibility requirements
for a person to qualify as a social equity licensee. The new eligibility
requirements do not apply to licensee applications or licenses issued before April 1, 2025, except for a limited exception.
The bill eliminates the $1 surcharge applied on deliveries. The bill requires the department of regulatory agencies, as part of
its sunset review of the Colorado Marijuana Code in 2028, to review social equity licensing and the licenses.
Under current law, there is the marijuana entrepreneur fund within
the office of economic development that provides grants and loans to support marijuana industry entrepreneurs. The bill creates a new permissible grant for local jurisdictions that establish a social equity licensing program.
The bill creates a tax credit for an accelerator-endorsed licensee
who hosts and offers technical and capital support to a social equity licensee for at least 12 consecutive months. An eligible accelerator-endorsed licensee may claim up to $50,000 and may carry it forward as a credit against subsequent years' income tax liability for a period not exceeding 5 years. The tax credit may be claimed for tax years 2026 through 2035.
The bill amends the statutory provision concerning the retail
marijuana sales tax to state that a retailer is not allowed to retain any portion of the retail marijuana sales tax collected to cover the expenses of collecting and remitting the tax.
| Custom Summary | | Category | | Description | Concerning measures related to the marijuana industry, and, in connection therewith, reforming the social equity program; creating independent delivery licenses for social equity licensees; creating accelerator licenses for social equity licensees; expanding permissible delivery locations; allowing a marijuana hospitality business that is mobile to suspend its license privileges to perform non-marijuana commercial activities; creating reporting requirements concerning social equity licenses; reforming social equity license eligibility requirements; eliminating a delivery surcharge; requiring a sunset review of the "Colorado Marijuana Code" to review certain social equity matters; providing grants to local jurisdictions that establish a social equity program; creating an income tax credit for accelerator-endorsed licensees; and clarifying marijuana retailer sales tax requirements. |
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Bill:
HB24-1069
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Title: |
Recycling of Single-Use Electronic Smoking Devices |
Position | Monitor | Intro Date | 01/10/2024 | Hearing Room | | Hearing Time | | Hearing Date | | Fiscal Notes | Fiscal Notes (07/22/2024) | Full Text | Full Text of Bill | Lobbyists | Lobbyists | Status | House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed (05/14/2024) | Senate Committee | | House Committee | Energy and Environment | Senate Sponsors | | House Sponsors | A. Valdez (D) | Summary | The bill establishes the electronic smoking device recycling
strategies advisory group (advisory group). The advisory group is tasked with conducting an analysis of methods and strategies for the recycling
of single-use electronic smoking devices (devices). The advisory group shall develop a report that:
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Evaluates the extent of pollution caused by the disposal of devices;
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Reviews existing practices and capacity for the recycling of devices;
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Considers methods and strategies for recycling devices that are protective of the public health and environment;
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Considers whether Colorado should establish a deposit and recycle program that charges consumers a fee for recycling devices;
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Recommends any state or local government policies related to the recycling of devices; and
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Identifies any existing state or federal grant programs or other programs that may be available to assist in the development of strategies for the recycling of devices.
The advisory group must submit the report to the general assembly, the department of public health and environment, and the governor's office on or before October 31, 2025.
| Custom Summary | | Category | | Description | Concerning the creation of the electronic smoking device recycling strategies advisory group to make strategy recommendations for the recycling of single-use electronic smoking devices. |
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Bill:
HB24-1178
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Title: |
Local Government Authority to Regulate Pesticides |
Position | Monitor | Intro Date | 02/01/2024 | Hearing Room | | Hearing Time | | Hearing Date | | Fiscal Notes | Fiscal Notes (06/10/2024) | Full Text | Full Text of Bill | Lobbyists | Lobbyists | Status | House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 05/09/2024 - No Amendments (05/06/2024) | Senate Committee | | House Committee | Energy and Environment | Senate Sponsors | L. Cutter (D) S. Jaquez Lewis (D) | House Sponsors | M. Froelich (D) C. Kipp (D) | Summary | Current law prohibits a local government from creating laws that
regulate the use of pesticides by pesticide applicators regulated by state or federal law. The bill allows a local government to create and enforce laws regulating the sale or use of pesticides to protect the health and safety of the community with certain exceptions.
| Custom Summary | | Category | | Description | Concerning local government authority to regulate pesticides. |
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Bill:
SB24-076
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Title: |
Streamline Marijuana Regulation |
Position | Support | Intro Date | 01/22/2024 | Hearing Room | | Hearing Time | | Hearing Date | | Fiscal Notes | Fiscal Notes (08/01/2024) | Full Text | Full Text of Bill | Lobbyists | Lobbyists | Status | Governor Signed (06/06/2024) | Senate Committee | Finance | House Committee | Finance | Senate Sponsors | K. Van Winkle (R) J. Gonzales (D) | House Sponsors | W. Lindstedt (D) | Summary | Current law allows the transfer of immature plants, seeds, and
genetic material between a medical or retail cultivation facility and certain people, including people approved by rule. Sections 1, 7, and 10 of the bill allow this transfer from or to a medical or retail marijuana cultivation facility from or to a person permitted by another jurisdiction to possess or cultivate marijuana. The medical or retail cultivation facility
must confirm that the purchaser is 21 years of age or older. The cultivation facility may accept online payments for the transfer. The state licensing authority may promulgate rules to implement the provision, but limits are placed on the rules that the state licensing authority may adopt.
Section 2 limits the frequency at which regulated marijuana and
a regulated marijuana product need to be tested to no more than once for each required test and otherwise requires the elimination of redundant testing. Section 2 also exempts the fungi in the genus aspergillus from product testing.
Current law requires beneficial owners and people who have
access to the limited access areas of a medical marijuana business or retail marijuana business to have identification cards. Section 2 repeals the requirement that beneficial owners have identification cards, but retains the requirement that people with access to the limited access areas need to have identification cards.
Section 2 also specifies that a licensee need not use radio
frequency identification tags to tag or track marijuana and marijuana products.
Current law requires the marijuana enforcement division in the
department of revenue (division) to promulgate rules requiring testing of marijuana and marijuana products for contaminants or substances that are harmful to health. Section 2 clarifies that these tests should be made to determine whether the contaminants or substances are present in amounts that are harmful to health. Current law allows a licensee to remediate marijuana or marijuana products that have failed a test. Section 2 removes a requirement that the licensee identify on the labeling that the product has failed a test when the product subsequently passed the same test. Section 2 also authorizes retesting when the marijuana or marijuana product has failed a test.
Current law authorizes the division to establish procedures to issue
a conditional employee identification card, which allows an individual to work for a license holder, after the individual has submitted an initial application and the division has conducted an investigation regarding the application but before the fingerprint record check is finished. Section 2 requires the division to promulgate rules and issue the employee identification card upon initial review of the application.
The division is required to adopt rules authorizing a licensee to
conduct fewer tests than normal upon demonstrating that the licensee's standard operating procedures and production practices result in consistent passing test results (program). Section 2 specifically authorizes this program and sets an expiration date for reduced testing under the program at 3 years.
Sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 11 extend the initial license and
license renewal periods from one year to 2 years.
Section 3 requires the division to establish a system that allows a
medical or retail marijuana business that transports marijuana or marijuana products to use an electronic manifest system.
Section 5 requires the division to retain fingerprints submitted for
initial licensure for use in a criminal history record check for license renewal. Section 5 also authorizes a person who holds multiple licenses or affiliated persons who hold multiple licenses to submit a unified application for license renewal. The license holders must elect to have one or more licenses expire in less than 2 years in order to coordinate the expiration date.
Section 12 requires the division to promulgate rules categorizing
each violation as a safety violation or a technical violation. The division will expunge technical violations from a licensee's record on the later date of one year after the violation is reported or when the license is renewed.
Section 13 reduces the amount of time for which a marijuana
licensee must retain books and records that show the business's transactions from 3 years to one year.
Current law requires that excise tax be levied on the first transfer
of unprocessed retail marijuana. Section 14 specifies that the transfer of unprocessed retail marijuana exclusively for microbial control is not the first transfer of unprocessed retail marijuana for taxation purposes.
| Custom Summary | | Category | | Description | Concerning measures to address efficiency in the regulation of existing marijuana licensees. |
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