Wildlife/Forest Legislation -- Keywords: wildlife or forest
Short Title: Fund Water Resources Tier 1 Operational
Sponsors: CURRY / BROPHY
Water Resources Review Committee. Authorizes the expenditure of up to 5% of the moneys in tier 1 of the operational account of the severance tax trust fund for the division of water resources, and allows this increase to supplant moneys that would otherwise be made available to the division from the general fund. Eliminates the tier 1 authorization for the division of wildlife to account for the increase.
Status
01/13/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/13/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources + Appropriations
01/26/2010 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/12/2010 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
Short Title: Forestry Eliminate Experience Reqmnt
Sponsors: LABUDA / HEATH
The bill eliminates the requirement that a person employed in a technical forestry capacity by the board of governors of the Colorado state university system possess a minimum of 2 years' experience in forest practice.
Status
01/13/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
01/21/2010 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
01/26/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/27/2010 House Second Reading Passed
01/28/2010 House Second Reading Passed
01/29/2010 House Third Reading Passed
02/04/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
03/03/2010 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/08/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/09/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/15/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/18/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/18/2010 Sent to the Governor
03/25/2010 Governor Action - Signed
03/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed
Short Title: Wolf & Wildlife Center License Plates
Sponsors: LABUDA
The bill creates the Colorado wolf and wildlife center special license plates. In addition to the normal fees for a license plate, an applicant pays a one-time fee of $50, with $25 credited to the highway users tax fund and $25 credited to the licensing services cash fund.
Status
01/19/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy
01/19/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy + Appropriations
02/02/2010 House Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Unamended to Appropriations
02/12/2010 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
Short Title: Colorado Kids Outdoors Grant Program
Sponsors: SCANLAN / GIBBS
The bill creates the Colorado kids outdoors grant program (grant program) in the department of natural resources to provide grants for Kerr A., Levy, Massey, Middleton, Miklosi, Pace, Peniston, Rice, Schafer S., Todd, Tyler, Vigil programs that allow Colorado youth to participate in outdoor activities in the state, including but not limited to programs that emphasize the environment and experiential, field-based learning. The executive director of the department of natural resources (executive director) will adopt rules to implement the grant program, including criteria for selecting grant recipients. An advisory council will assist the executive director in reviewing the applications and creating the criteria. The grant program will be funded through gifts, grants, and donations, which will be deposited in the newly created Colorado kids outdoors grant program fund. The executive director will report to certain legislative committees concerning implementation of the grant program, including the amount awarded and the activities that receive funding. The bill directs the department of education, in consultation with the department of natural resources, to create and the state board of education (state board) to adopt a state plan for environmental education (state plan). The state plan will be designed to strengthen environmental education in the state and provide to educators professional development in environmental education. The department of education and the state board will create and adopt the state plan only if the department receives gifts, grants, and donations to pay the costs of creating and adopting the plan. Any moneys received by the department of education for creating the state plan will be credited to the newly created state environmental education fund.
Status
01/19/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
01/19/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations
02/08/2010 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/26/2010 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/02/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/03/2010 House Third Reading Passed
03/09/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
03/09/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education + Appropriations
04/01/2010 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/30/2010 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/04/2010 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
05/07/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/10/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/11/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/19/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/20/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/20/2010 Sent to the Governor
05/25/2010 Governor Action - Intends to Sign
05/27/2010 Governor Action - Signed
Short Title: Boundaries Of Forest Improvement Dist
Sponsors: GIBBS / LEVY
Currently, the governing board of a county or municipality may propose the creation of a forest improvement district only if the boundaries of the proposed district will include the entire territory of the county or municipality. The bill allows the governing body of a county or municipality to propose the creation of a forest improvement district with boundaries not necessarily encompassing the entire territory of the county or municipality.
Status
01/13/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government and Energy
01/28/2010 Senate Committee on Local Government and Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/02/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/03/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/04/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/11/2010 House Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/17/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/18/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over to 02/22/2010
02/22/2010 House Second Reading Passed
02/23/2010 House Third Reading Passed
02/26/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/26/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/01/2010 Sent to the Governor
03/10/2010 Governor Action - Signed
Short Title: Allocate Moneys Conserve Nat Resources
Sponsors: TOCHTROP / SONNENBERG
Section 1 of the bill directs that, on July 1, 2010, and on or before July 1 of each calendar year thereafter, moneys in the conservation trust fund shall be transferred to the department of agriculture (department) for the purposes of assisting with the funding of state natural resource conservation and noxious weed management efforts. The amount of moneys to be transferred from the conservation trust fund on an annual basis consists of:
* $5 million to the conservation district grant fund; and
* $2.5 million to the noxious weed management fund. The amounts transferred from the conservation trust fund increase if the interest rate on moneys held in the conservation trust fund increases. Section 3 of the bill authorizes the state conservation board (board) to award grant moneys (grant program) out of moneys transferred from the conservation trust fund exclusively to conservation districts to be used for the purpose of implementing and maintaining natural resource conservation efforts. The grant moneys are awarded to conservation districts through a merit-based application process developed and administered by the board. Section 3 of the bill also deletes existing statutory language under which the grant program would be repealed in 2011. Section 5 of the bill authorizes the department to award grant moneys out of moneys transferred from the conservation trust fund only to local governments for the purpose of funding programs at the local level to address noxious weed infestations. Requires applications for grant moneys to be made to and reviewed by the state noxious weed advisory committee (committee). Requires the committee to award grant moneys to local governments through a merit-based application process developed and administered by the committee. For any state fiscal year, requires that one-half of the moneys transferred to the fund for that year shall be exclusively allocated for grant awards to county governments and the other one-half of the moneys transferred shall be allocated to all local governments, including counties. In the discretion of the committee, payment of a grant award may be made at the time of approval of the grant instead of requiring the recipient to incur expenses for reimbursement from a grant award at a later date. Prohibits a local government from receiving grant moneys unless the local government has first created a weed management plan. Section 5 of the bill also requires the department to annually prepare a report to the legislative committees of the general assembly exercising jurisdiction over agricultural and natural resource matters describing the moneys received and expended by the board in connection with the grant program. Section 6 of the bill requires the board to annually prepare a report to the legislative committees of the general assembly exercising jurisdiction over agricultural and natural resource matters describing the moneys received and expended by the board in connection with the grant program involving natural resource conservation efforts.
Status
01/20/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture and Natural Resources
02/18/2010 Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/23/2010 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/24/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/25/2010 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/26/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/02/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
03/02/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government + Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
03/04/2010 House Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
03/17/2010 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/22/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/23/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/25/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/26/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/29/2010 House Third Reading Passed
04/09/2010 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
04/22/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/22/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/23/2010 Sent to the Governor
04/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed