Req. No. 11724 Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 STATE OF OKLAHOMA 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) HOUSE BILL 2057 By: Stinson AS INTRODUCED An Act relating to Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund; amending 63 O.S. 2021, Section 426, as last amended by Section 1, Chapter 34, 1st Extraordinary Session, O.S.L. 2023 (63 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 426), which relates to medical marijuana taxation, apportionment, assess, collect, and enforce; modifying apportionments to certain funds; adding an apportionment to a new fund ; 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 last amended by Section 1, Chapter 34, 1st Extraordinary Session, O.S.L. 2023 (63 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 426), is amended to read as follows: Section 426. A. The tax on retail medical marijuana sales shall be established at seven percent (7%) of the gross amount received by the seller. B. This tax shall be collecte d at the point of sale. Except as provided for in subsection D, tax proceeds shall be deposited into the Medical Marijuana Tax Fund created in Section 3 of this act. Req. No. 11724 Page 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 C. Pursuant to Section 255.2 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the Oklahoma Tax Comm ission shall have authority to assess, collect and enforce the tax specified in subsection A of this section including any interest and penalty thereon. D. For fiscal the year 2022 beginning July 1, 2026, and all subsequent years thereafter , proceeds from the levy authorized by subsection A of this section shall be apportioned as f ollows: 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%) to the State Public Common School Building Equalization Fund, b. thirty-four and sixty-two hundredths percent (34.62%) to the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, a division within the State Department of Health, and c. six and fifteen hundredths percent (6.15%) five percent (5%) to the State Department of Health and earmarked for drug and alcohol reh abilitation, and d. one and fifteen hundredths percent (1.15%) to the Trauma Care Assistance Revolving Fund created in Section 1-2530.9 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes ; and 2. Any surplus collections shall be apportioned to the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury. Req. No. 11724 Page 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 E. If any medical marijuana business licensee intentionally does not remit the taxes as required by the provisions of this section or the provisions of Sec tion 1354 of Title 68 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the Authority shall permanentl y revoke the medical marijuana business license of the business licensee and the business licensee shall be permanently ineligible to receive any other type of medical marijuana business license issued by the Authority, including licenses for a dispensary, commercial grower operation, processing facility, transporter, research, education facility, and waste disposal facility. SECTION 2. This act shall become effec tive July 1, 2025. SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and a fter its passage and approval. 60-1-11724 TJ 12/17/24