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Bill Detail: SB25-268

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Title Changes to Money in the Marijuana Tax Cash Fund
Status Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor (04/02/2025)
Bill Subjects
  • State Revenue & Budget
House Sponsors S. Bird (D)
E. Sirota (D)
Senate Sponsors J. Bridges (D)
B. Kirkmeyer (R)
House Committee
Senate Committee Appropriations
Date Introduced 03/31/2025
AI Summary
Summary

Joint Budget Committee. Under current law, the general
assembly is required to annually appropriate $3 million from the
marijuana tax cash fund (fund) to the board of regents of the university
of Colorado for the implementation of the medication-assisted treatment
expansion pilot program (program). For state fiscal years commencing on
and after July 1, 2025, the bill ends the requirement to annually
appropriate $3 million but allows the general assembly to choose to
appropriate money for the implementation of the program. Accordingly,
the cash funds appropriation from the fund made in the general
appropriation act for the 2025-26 state fiscal year for this purpose is
decreased by $3 million.
Additionally, current law requires $20 million to be transferred
from the fund to the public school capital construction assistance fund on
June 1, 2026. The bill repeals this required transfer.
Finally, under current law, 10% the proceeds of all money
collected from the retail marijuana sales tax (tax revenue) are apportioned
to local governments with the state retaining 90%. Of the retained 90%,
the tax revenue is further apportioned between the general fund, the fund,
and the state public school fund. The bill changes the apportionment
between the state and local governments so that local governments
receive 5% of the tax revenue and the state retains 95% of the tax
revenue. The 5% increase of the tax revenue that the state retains is
apportioned only to the fund.

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