republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2017a/hb-17-1203.md

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Bill	Local Government Special Sales Tax On Retail Marijuana	The Colorado court of appeals has held that current law does not authorize counties to levy and collect a sales tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products in addition to any sales tax imposed by the state and the standard sales tax imposed by the county (special sales tax). Current law is also silent regarding the authority of a statutory municipality (municipality) to collect a special sales tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products. The bill authorizes counties and municipalities to levy, collect, and enforce a special sales tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products; except that a county may levy, collect, and enforce a special sales tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products only under the following circumstances:	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2017A	HB 17-1203	Colorado HB 17-1203 (2017A)	bill		enacted	Beth Martinez Humenik Larry Crowder Steve Lebsock	12	20	4	2017-02-23T07:00:00+00:00	2017-05-04T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/bcaa1d31-3add-4881-b0c4-ba23703aeeab	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1203	6c4e7799d4bb95000b2db9cba121605fba8d9a474dc2331328e685607770367c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 17-1203 (2017A) — Local Government Special Sales Tax On Retail Marijuana

The Colorado court of appeals has held that current law does not authorize counties to levy and collect a sales tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products in addition to any sales tax imposed by the state and the standard sales tax imposed by the county (special sales tax). Current law is also silent regarding the authority of a statutory municipality (municipality) to collect a special sales tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products. The bill authorizes counties and municipalities to levy, collect, and enforce a special sales tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products; except that a county may levy, collect, and enforce a special sales tax on retail marijuana and retail marijuana products only under the following circumstances:

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Amendment L.001 (committee substitute) — source
2. Amendment L.009 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed (03/23/2017) (committee substitute) — source
5. Final Act (04/27/2017) (committee substitute) — source
6. Introduced (02/23/2017) (committee substitute) — source
7. PA1 (03/09/2017) (committee substitute) — source
8. PA2 (04/05/2017) (committee substitute) — source
9. Reengrossed (03/24/2017) (committee substitute) — source
10. Rerevised (04/11/2017) (committee substitute) — source
11. Revised (04/10/2017) (committee substitute) — source
12. Signed Act (05/04/2017) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Refer House Bill 17-1203, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 13-0. — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Refer House Bill 17-1203, as amended, to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 4-1. — 4–1 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.001 The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature
• Adopt amendment L.009. The motion passed without objection. — 0–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Beth Martinez Humenik — primary (person)
• Larry Crowder — primary (person)
• Steve Lebsock — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2017-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2017-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2017-04-13T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over to 04/17/2017
• 2017-04-12T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2017-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
• 2017-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-10T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2017-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-04-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government introduction
• 2017-03-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-23T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2017-03-22T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2017-03-10T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over to 03/22/2017 - No Amendments
• 2017-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2017-02-23T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bcaa1d31-3add-4881-b0c4-ba23703aeeab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).