HB13-1238 Summary

• State licensing authority must publish a report by October 31, 2013, showing application statistics for medical marijuana licenses received on or before August 1, 2010, and from July 1, 2012 through September 30, 2013, including numbers granted, denied, pending, and withdrawn.

• State license cannot be issued until local licensing authority approves the application and completes criminal history background checks, with state license conditioned on local approval and revocable if local authority denies the application.

• Applicants with conditional state licenses may continue operating while awaiting local approval, but must cease operations if the local authority denies the application.

• Both state and local licensing authorities must verify that licenses were issued and granted by the other authority for the previous license term before transferring location or renewing a license.

• Clarifies that all officers and managers (not just employees) must be Colorado residents and must complete fingerprint-based criminal history checks before being associated with a medical marijuana business.