Oklahoma 2022 2022 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB1848 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/20/2022

                     
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022) 
 
SENATE BILL 1848 	By: Montgomery 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to medical marijuana tax; amending 63 
O.S. 2021, Section 426, as am ended by Section 2, 
Chapter 563, O.S.L. 2021, which relates to 
apportionment; modifying apportionment; creating the 
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Revolving Fund; establishing 
purpose; providing source of funds ; providing for 
expenditures; providing for codificati on; providing 
an effective date; and declaring an emergency. 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     63 O.S. 2021, Section 426, as 
amended by Section 2, Chapter 563, O.S.L. 2021, is amended to read 
as follows: 
Section 426. A.  The tax on retail medical marijuana sales will 
be established at seven percent (7%) of the gross amount received by 
the seller. 
B.  This tax will be collected at t he point of sale.  Except as 
provided for in subsection D, tax proceeds will be applied primarily 
to finance the regulatory office. 
C.  Except as provided for in subsection D, if proceeds from the 
levy authorized by subsection A of this section exceed the budgeted   
 
 
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amount for running the regulatory office, any surplus shall be 
apportioned with seventy -five percent (75%) going to the General 
Revenue Fund and may only be expended for common education including 
funding redbud school grants pursuant to Section 3 -104 of Title 70 
of the Oklahoma Statutes.  Twenty-five percent (25%) shall be 
apportioned to the Oklahoma State Department of Health and earmarked 
for drug and alcohol rehabilitation. 
D.  For fiscal year 2022, proceeds from the levy authorized by 
subsection A of this section shall be apportioned a s follows: 
1.  The first Sixty-five Million Dollars ( $65,000,000.00) shall 
be apportioned as follows: 
a. fifty-nine and twenty-three hundredths percent 
(59.23%) sixty-four percent (64%) to the State Public 
Common School Building Equalization Fund, 
b. thirty-four and sixty-two hundredths percent (34.62%) 
thirty percent (30%) to the Oklahoma Medical Mari juana 
Authority, a division within the Oklahoma State 
Department of Health , and 
c. six and fifteen hundredths percent (6.15%) six percent 
(6%) to the Oklahoma State Department of Health and 
earmarked for drug and alcohol rehabilitation Drug and 
Alcohol Rehabilitation Fund created in Section 2 of 
this act; and   
 
 
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2.  Any surplus collections shall be apportioned to the General 
Revenue Fund of the State Treasury . 
SECTION 2.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 2-312 of Title 43A, unless there 
is created a duplication in numb ering, reads as follows: 
There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund 
for the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse 
Services to be designated the “Drug and Alcohol Abuse Revolving 
Fund”.  The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal 
year limitations, and shall consist of all monies recei ved by the 
Oklahoma Department of Mental Health an d Substance Abuse Services 
from apportionments pursua nt to Section 426 of Title 63 of the 
Oklahoma Statutes.  All monies accruing to the credit of the fund 
are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and ex pended by the 
Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services 
for the purpose of drug and alcohol rehabilitation and prevention .  
Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the 
State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the 
Director of the Office of Management and Enterpr ise Services for 
approval and payment. 
SECTION 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2022. 
SECTION 4.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation 
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby   
 
 
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declared to exist, by reason whereof thi s act shall take effect and 
be in full force from and after its passage and approval. 
 
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