This bill is part of the 2019 Cannabis Bills section of our ongoing update on California Cannabis Legislation – see the full California Cannabis Law Legislative Update which includes information on cannabis bills from other years.
AB 1569 (Jones-Sawyer D) Sales and use tax: medicinal cannabis: veterans.
Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers. AUMA provides an exemption from those taxes for retail sales of certain medicinal cannabis and medical cannabis products when a qualified patient or primary caregiver for a qualified patient provides a specified medicinal cannabis identification card and a valid state government-issued identification card.
This bill, on or after January 1, 2020, and until January 1, 2030, would provide an exemption from those taxes for the sale of, or the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product purchased by a qualified patient or a primary caregiver of a qualified patient from a medicinal cannabis licensee if that qualified patient or primary caregiver provides an attending physician’s recommendation, a valid state government-issued identification card, and a specified Veteran Health Identification Card.
[Note: This bill exempts veterans from having to obtain a state issued medical marijuana identification card in order to get a sales tax exemption on the purchase of medical cannabis (based primarily on the concern that some veterans fear losing their VA benefits if they acquire a medical marijuana identification card).]
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