MONTANA - Three bills on recreational marijuana implementation are headed to the Senate, all with a different vision for the industry. One extra task: lawmakers only had until Thursday this week to vote on the bills due to a procedural deadline.
House Bills 670, 701, and 707 are all headed to the Senate after passing the House earlier this week. Representative Derek Skees discussed his bill -- HB 670 -- on the House floor. It suggests taxing recreational marijuana at 15%.
"I'm not excited to see recreational marijuana as a new source of revenue... I'm excited to see what we do with the revenue to mitigate the social impacts of what this bill does. I suggest we take two-thirds of the revenue and put it toward our pension funds... which we do have a gigantic shortfall in," Rep. Skees said.