republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1216.md

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Bill	Marijuana Licensees Ability To Change Designation	The act allows a medical marijuana cultivation facility licensee to receive and change marijuana's designation from retail to medical and a medical marijuana products manufacturer licensee to receive and change a marijuana product from retail to medical.The act clarifies that a transfer and change of designation of the marijuana from retail to medical does not create a right to a refund of a retail marijuana excise tax imposed or paid prior to the transfer and change of designation.The act requires the state licensing authority to submit a report to the general assembly analyzing the feasibility of allowing a retail marijuana cultivation facility licensee to receive and change marijuana's designation from medical to retail and a retail marijuana products manufacturer licensee to receive and change a marijuana product from medical to retail.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1216	Colorado HB 21-1216 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Alex Valdez Julie Gonzales Kevin Van Winkle	9	20	6	2021-03-05T07:00:00+00:00	2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/15e82025-c0da-486e-95c7-b24633ab48c5	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1216	4f2dfe3669046a2928bc5b521263b12af3a6fecd0ad95ba31581ae66a85e7d21	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1216 (2021A) — Marijuana Licensees Ability To Change Designation

The act allows a medical marijuana cultivation facility licensee to receive and change marijuana's designation from retail to medical and a medical marijuana products manufacturer licensee to receive and change a marijuana product from retail to medical.The act clarifies that a transfer and change of designation of the marijuana from retail to medical does not create a right to a refund of a retail marijuana excise tax imposed or paid prior to the transfer and change of designation.The act requires the state licensing authority to submit a report to the general assembly analyzing the feasibility of allowing a retail marijuana cultivation facility licensee to receive and change marijuana's designation from medical to retail and a retail marijuana products manufacturer licensee to receive and change a marijuana product from medical to retail.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (04/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (06/21/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/05/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (05/27/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (04/06/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (06/04/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (06/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (06/23/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• CONCUR — 46–19 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 50–12 (pass) · lower
• BILL — 25–10 (pass) · upper
• AMEND — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 48–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alex Valdez — primary (person)
• Julie Gonzales — primary (person)
• Kevin Van Winkle — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-06-23T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-06-22T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-06-08T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2021-06-07T06:00:00+00:00 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered - No Amendments
• 2021-06-04T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-06-03T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Floor reading-2
• 2021-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-06-01T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-28T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2021-05-26T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-05-12T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Business, Labor, & Technology referral-committee
• 2021-04-07T06:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance introduction
• 2021-04-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-05T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Passed - No Amendments reading-2
• 2021-03-31T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs & Labor introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/15e82025-c0da-486e-95c7-b24633ab48c5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).