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Economic Affairs draft cleans up marijuana licensing, tax language; committee hears broad industry support
Summary
Senate Bill 74 would make targeted changes to marijuana licensing and tax rules first established under 2021 law, including switching to "net" taxation for certain discounted retail sales and moving manufacturing license fees to a single production-tier model.
Senator Kasmier opened Senate Bill 74 to the Senate Business and Labor Committee as a set of technical and operational changes to Montana's cannabis regulatory framework that grew out of the 2021 implementation of House Bill 701.
"We're actually and, we're gonna tax the net sales instead of retail sales," Senator Kasmier said, describing three principal changes: (1) landlord approval rules for license renewal; (2) moving manufacturing license fees from a per-premises model to production-tier licensing across a licensee's sites; and (3) taxing the "net" price rather than retail gross when discounts are given.
Industry witnesses and the Cannabis Control Division largely supported the bill as problem-solving cleanup rather than…
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