republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-199.md

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Bill	Marijuana License Applications and Renewals	A person applying for a marijuana license is required to pay both an application fee and a licensing fee. The act clarifies that the state licensing authority may issue a refund of a licensing fee if the marijuana license application is denied. Furthermore, the act states that the state licensing authority must retain the applicant's application fee, but a local licensing authority can choose to retain or refund an applicant's application fee.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-199	Colorado SB 23-199 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Kevin Van Winkle Nick Hinrichsen Ron Weinberg William Lindstedt	10	15	4	2023-03-20T06:00:00+00:00	2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/61ff6105-9ef5-4279-a17a-4c269ee224a1	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-199	1c93807ab24906c256c6415f413db4a7b6d01ef4daa18b45eb9a5203a0880922	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-199 (2023A) — Marijuana License Applications and Renewals

A person applying for a marijuana license is required to pay both an application fee and a licensing fee. The act clarifies that the state licensing authority may issue a refund of a licensing fee if the marijuana license application is denied. Furthermore, the act states that the state licensing authority must retain the applicant's application fee, but a local licensing authority can choose to retain or refund an applicant's application fee.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/14/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/20/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (04/12/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/25/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (04/17/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/05/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• REPASS — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 54–11 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kevin Van Winkle — primary (person)
• Nick Hinrichsen — primary (person)
• Ron Weinberg — primary (person)
• William Lindstedt — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-05T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-17T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee, Floor
• 2023-04-26T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-24T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2023-04-17T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-14T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2023-04-11T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage
• 2023-03-20T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/61ff6105-9ef5-4279-a17a-4c269ee224a1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).