Public Lands Legislation -- Keywords: forest, "BLM", "public land" or "state land"
Short Title: Modifications To School Finance Admin
Sponsors: MIDDLETON / ROMER
Interim Committee to Study School Finance. Section 1 requires school districts to provide funding for capital construction to each qualified charter school in the district by making a monthly payment to the qualified charter school after the school district has received the monthly payment from the department of education (department). Section 2 requires the department to provide funding for capital construction to the state charter school institute by making a monthly payment to the institute and requires the institute to promptly remit the appropriate amount to each qualified institute charter school. Both sections 1 and 2 are conforming amendments necessary due to a change, made during the 2009 legislative session, in the way capital construction moneys are distributed to charter schools. Section 3 eliminates a local board of education's authority to negotiate business incentive agreements (BIAs) with a taxpayer who establishes a new business facility in the school district. Section 5 eliminates the provision allowing any school district that has entered into a business incentive agreement with a taxpayer to receive state share of total program funding in an amount equal to the amount of the incentive payment or credit to the taxpayer pursuant to the agreement. This funding is in lieu of property taxes that are not collected by the district due to the agreement. School districts were prohibited from entering into new agreements after May 22, 2003. Only 2 districts still have an agreement in place, and those agreements will expire in the 2010-11 budget year. Money has not been appropriated for funding the agreements since the 2006-07 budget year. Sections 4 and 10 make conforming amendments necessary due to the elimination of BIAs. Section 6. During the 2009 legislative session, the amount of additional local property tax revenues that a school district may receive was increased from 20% to 25% of the district's total program. To retain the additional 5%, the statute requires a district to notify the state board of education when it plans to seek voter approval to retain and spend the additional property tax revenues and to submit a proposal of what the district will do with the additional revenues. Section 6 eliminates the notification requirements but still allows a district to receive up to 25% of the district's total program from additional local property tax revenues. Section 7 eliminates the requirement that the department reduce a school district's state share of total program funding by an amount equal to the payment that the district receives as impact assistance in lieu of taxes from the division of wildlife. Section 11 eliminates the requirement that the district certify to the department the amount it receives from impact funds. Section 8. The general assembly is required to make an annual appropriation for matching funds pursuant to the "National School Lunch Act". Prior to the budget year in which the general assembly began to appropriate moneys for the matching funds, some school food authorities used moneys from the authority's general fund to subsidize school lunches. Those authorities are prohibited from using the matching fund moneys in lieu of the general fund moneys they were already spending on school lunches. Section 8 eliminates the prohibition. Section 9. In the 2008 legislative session, the general assembly increased the charter school capital construction appropriation and required that a specific amount of the increase be distributed to a charter school for the deaf and blind for the 2008-09 budget year only. Section 9 eliminates language that was necessary in connection with the distribution of these moneys. Section 12 is a conforming amendment necessitated by the repeal in section 9.
Status
01/13/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
01/13/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations
02/04/2010 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/09/2010 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/13/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/15/2010
04/15/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/16/2010 House Third Reading Passed
04/19/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
04/19/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education + Appropriations
05/05/2010 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/07/2010 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/11/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/12/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/12/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/27/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
06/01/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
06/01/2010 Sent to the Governor
06/10/2010 Governor Action - Signed
Short Title: Gov Crime Ins Coverage Of Cnty Officers
Sponsors: SCHAFER S. / HODGE
Currently, county officers are required to execute surety bonds in varying amounts to ensure the faithful performance of duties while in office. The bill would give counties the option to purchase crime insurance coverage to protect against potential malfeasance of county employees and any of the following county officers or their deputies while in office: County commissioners, clerk and recorders, sheriffs, coroners, treasurers, assessors, and surveyors.
Status
01/13/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/21/2010 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/26/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/27/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
01/28/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
01/29/2010 House Third Reading Passed
02/04/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government and Energy
03/18/2010 Senate Committee on Local Government and Energy Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/18/2010 Senate Committee on Local Government and Energy Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/23/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/25/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/29/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/31/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
04/15/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/16/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/16/2010 Sent to the Governor
04/21/2010 Governor Action - Signed
Short Title: Land Surveys & Profl Land Surveyors
Sponsors: KERR J. / TAPIA
Section 1 of the bill takes effect on January 1, 2015, and makes the following changes to the criteria under which a person applying for licensure as a professional land surveyor (applicant) may qualify:
* For an applicant by education, experience, and examination, adds 2 sets of qualifications under which the applicant may be eligible to take the examination; and
* For an applicant by experience and education, extends the minimum number of years of progressive land surveying experience that the applicant must possess. Section 2 defines the terms "professional land surveyor of record" and "surveyor's affidavit of correction". Section 3 describes the circumstances under which a surveyor's affidavit of correction may be created. Section 4 requires a surveyor's affidavit of correction to be prepared instead of a correction plat when a technical error in a plat meets the criteria under which a surveyor's affidavit of correction is required. Section 5 updates the provisions of current law in relation to affidavits that may affect titles of real property. Section 6 requires court orders that establish corners or boundaries of disputed land boundaries to be filed in the grantor-grantee index of the county or counties in which the land lies.
Status
01/13/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Business Affairs and Labor
01/27/2010 House Committee on Business Affairs and Labor Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/01/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over to 02/03/2010
02/03/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/04/2010 House Third Reading Passed
02/09/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
03/01/2010 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2010 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/11/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/12/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/18/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/19/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/19/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
04/05/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/07/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/07/2010 Sent to the Governor
04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed
Short Title: St Land Bd Bond Convey Local Gov
Sponsors: MERRIFIELD / TAPIA
Section 2 of the bill allows the state board of land commissioners (board) to convey land to units of local government if the conveyance would add value to adjoining or nearby state trust property, benefit board operations, or comply with local land use regulations. Sections 3 and 4 credit all financial warranties collected by the board that have been forfeited or are required for remediation activities to the newly created financial warranty account of the state land board trust administration fund and continuously appropriate the warranties for the remediation or other activities on the affected property.
Status
01/22/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/09/2010 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/19/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/22/2010 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government and Energy
03/18/2010 Senate Committee on Local Government and Energy Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/23/2010 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/29/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/30/2010 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/31/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/08/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/08/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/09/2010 Sent to the Governor
04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed
Short Title: Clarify River Outfitter Navigation Right
Sponsors: CURRY / HODGE
Current law is unclear regarding the scope of the existing right of navigation. Section 1 of the bill recognizes that the state's adoption of the common law of England established the right of navigation. Section 2:
* Clarifies that a guide employed by a licensed river outfitter and the guide's passengers may float on waterways that have historically been used for commercial float trips without committing civil or criminal trespass if they gain access to the waterway from public land or from private land with consent and make only incidental contact with the beds and banks of the waterway while floating and portaging;
* Limits a landowner's liability to such persons to damages willfully or deliberately caused by the landowner unless the person is an invitee or licensee of the landowner;
* Specifies that such a person who damages private property is liable for the damage; and
* Specifies that nothing in the law regulating river outfitters affects water rights. Section 3 makes a conforming and clarifying amendment to the criminal trespass statute.
Status
01/22/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/08/2010 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/11/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/12/2010 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/15/2010 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/16/2010 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/15/2010 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/18/2010 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/19/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/22/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/24/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/29/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/23/2010 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
05/11/2010 First Conference Committee Result was to No Report
Short Title: Sunset Repeal Forestry Advisory Board
Sponsors: BAUMGARDNER / WHITEHEAD
Sunset Process - House Agriculture, Livestock, and Natural Resources Committee. The bill implements the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review of the forestry advisory board within the division of forestry in the department of natural resources by repealing the board.
Status
02/02/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
02/10/2010 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/17/2010 House Second Reading Passed
02/18/2010 House Third Reading Passed
02/19/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture and Natural Resources
03/03/2010 Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources 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: Alter Designated Groundwater Basin Area
Sponsors: BROPHY / CURRY
Under current law, the groundwater commission (commission) may alter periodically the areas contained in a designated groundwater basin. This bill will allow the commission to revise the boundaries of a designated groundwater basin to omit previously included areas only if the revision would not exclude any wells for which conditional or final permits have been issued.
Status
01/13/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture and Natural Resources
01/21/2010 Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
01/26/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
01/28/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/01/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
03/03/2010 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/08/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2010 House Second Reading Passed
03/10/2010 House Third Reading Passed
03/22/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2010 Sent to the Governor
03/31/2010 Governor Action - Signed
Short Title: Repeal S Ute Env Commn Term Limits
Sponsors: WHITEHEAD / ROBERTS
The bill repeals the term limits applicable to the members of the Southern Ute Indian tribe/state of Colorado environmental commission and repeals a moot condition relating to the repeal of the commission.
Status
01/15/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
02/04/2010 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/09/2010 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/15/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/16/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/17/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/08/2010 House Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/12/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/15/2010 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/16/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/17/2010 House Third Reading Passed
03/18/2010 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
04/23/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/23/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/23/2010 Sent to the Governor
04/29/2010 Governor Action - Signed
Short Title: State Forester Prescribed Fire Cert Stnd
Sponsors: GIBBS / FISCHER
The bill directs the Colorado state forest service to establish training and certification standards for users of prescribed fire, including certified burner and noncertified burner designations, recommended processes for certified burners to conduct a prescribed fire, recommended organizational structures for prescribed burn operations, training standards for certified burners, and identification of preexisting fees, permit requirements, liabilities, liability exemptions, and penalties for prescribed burn personnel and landowners.
Status
01/20/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture and Natural Resources
02/11/2010 Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/16/2010 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/19/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/22/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
03/10/2010 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/15/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/16/2010 House Third Reading Passed
03/18/2010 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/18/2010 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
04/07/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/08/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/08/2010 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/08/2010 Sent to the Governor
04/15/2010 Governor Action - Signed