Arizona Medical Marijuana Program Rules Amendment (2020)

Arizona Medical Marijuana Program Rules Amendment
Election date November 3, 2020
Topic Marijuana and Taxes
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin State legislature
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The Arizona Medical Marijuana Program Rules Amendment was not on the ballot in Arizona as a LRSS on November 3, 2020.

The ballot measure would have made changes to the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, which voters approved in 2010. Some of the proposed changes included:

• levying a transition privilege tax (TPT), a type of gross receipts tax, of 5.6 percent on nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries;

• requiring the legislature to appropriate revenue from the new TPT on nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries to Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System for non-Medicaid serious mental illness services;

• requiring warning labels on medical marijuana packages based on the U.S. Surgeon General's warnings on marijuana;

• allowing the Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) to provide grants from the Medical Marijuana Fund for research related to the side effects of marijuana use and the safety and efficacy of medical marijuana;

• requiring DHS to establish a special services unit to ensure compliance with the Medical Marijuana Act;

• requiring DHS, on request, to share information regarding a dispensary's name, identification number, address, cultivation site, TPT license number, and supplier and sales data with the Arizona Department of Revenue;

• allowing DHS to inspect dispensaries during normal business hours to determine compliance, rather than needing to provide dispensaries with reasonable notice before an inspection; and

• limiting the pesticides that can be used for cultivating medical marijuana to products exempt from federal minimum risk regulations.

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the measure is available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Legislatively referred state statute

In Arizona, a referred statute requires a simple majority vote in each chamber of the Arizona State Legislature during one legislative session.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 1032

The ballot measure was introduced into the Arizona State Legislature as Senate Concurrent Resolution 1032 (SCR 1032) during the 2020 legislative session. On March 10, 2020, the Arizona State Senate passed SCR 1032 in a vote of 20-10. All 17 Senate Republicans and three Democrats voted for the proposal. The remaining 10 Democrats voted against the proposal.

Vote in the Arizona State Senate March 10, 2020
Requirement: Simple majority vote of all members in each chamber
Number of yes votes required: 16  a
	Yes	No	Not voting
Total	20	10	0
Total percent	66.67%	33.33%	0.00%
Democrat	3	10	0
Republican	17	0	0

See also

2020 measures

• 2020 ballot measures
• Marijuana on the ballot
• Taxes on the ballot

Arizona

• Arizona ballot measures
• Arizona ballot measure laws

News and analysis

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External links

• Arizona Senate Concurrent Resolution 1032 (2020)