This bill amends Initiative 502 to permit marijuana processors to sell marijuana concentrates in addition to useable marijuana and marijuana-infused products to retailers and other processors, as well as to consumers. It includes transactions involving marijuana concentrates in the existing excise tax framework. The bill also exempts account information associated with marijuana producer, processor, and retailer licenses

from disclosure under the Public Records Act.

This bill excludes marijuana from existing tax breaks for agricultural products by explicitly removing the growing or producing of marijuana from the definitions of agriculture and farmer. The exclusions for marijuana include eight B&O tax preferences; 16 sales and use tax preferences; four additional excise tax preferences; and four property tax

preferences, two for real property and two for personal property.

This act replaces the current $15,000 per-producer financing mechanism for the mercury-containing lights product stewardship with an environmental handling charge applied to the retail sales of mercury-containing lights to consumers. It postpones the implementation deadline for the stewardship program from January 1, 2013 until January 1, 2015 and initiates a sunset review of the program, effective January 1, 2025. It grants limited immunity from federal and state antitrust laws to producers or an organization operating the stewardship program.

This government transparency measure requires training for members of a governing body of a public agency on the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act. It also requires training for local and statewide elected officials , public records officers, and agency records retention officers on the requirements of the Public Records Act (PRA) and

records retention and destruction procedures.

This act creates the crime of Coercion of Involuntary Servitude. It is a Class C felony if a person coerces another person to perform labor or services by withholding or threatening to withhold or destroy documents relating to a person’s immigration status; or threatening to notify law enforcement officials that a person is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws. A person may commit Coercion of Involuntary Servitude regardless of whether the person provides any sort of compensation or benefits to the person who is coerced. “Involuntary servitude” means a condition of servitude in which the victim was forced to work by the use or threat of physical restraint or physical injury,

by the use of threat of coercion through law or legal process.

This new law prohibits persons under the age of 18 years from using a UV tanning device without a written prescription for UV radiation treatment from a licensed physician. A “UV tanning device” is equipment that emits radiation used for the tanning of the skin, including a sunlamp, tanning booth, or tanning bed. It does not include a phototherapy device. Proof of age must be satisfied with a driver’s license or other government-issued identification containing

the date of birth and photograph.

The act raises the snowmobile annual registration and renewal fee from $30 to $40 for registrations until October 1, 2015, and to $50 for registrations and renewals due on or after October 1, 2015.

This law requires that ski lift safety inspections by the State Parks and Recreation Commission take place prior to each use season. It also requires that the State Parks and Recreation Commission develop a schedule prescribing ski lift plan review and inspection fees charged to lift owners or operators. It raises ski lift liability insurance requirements to $1 million per occurrence for operators of surface or

aerial ski lifts.