HB12-1001 Rule Review Evaluation Of Educator Effectiveness 
Sponsors: MURRAY / JOHNSTON
Summary: Committee on Legal Services. Senate Bill 10-191, enacted in 2010, requires the general assembly to review and approve the rules adopted by the state board of education implementing a statewide system to evaluate the effectiveness of licensed personnel employed by school districts and boards of cooperative services (statewide system). The bill contains the recommendations of the committee on legal services to approve the rules of the state board of education, department of education, adopted on November 9, 2011, to implement the statewide system. The bill postpones the scheduled expiration of the rules on the statewide system, thereby continuing the rules.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Legal Services
01/23/2012 House Committee on Legal Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/26/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
01/27/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
01/30/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
02/08/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered
02/14/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/14/2012:43 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/14/2012:30 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1001
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1001
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1001
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 16: HB12-1001
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 35: HB12-1001
Senate Legislative Day 35: HB12-1001
Senate Legislative Day 34: HB12-1001
House Legislative Day 20: HB12-1001
House Legislative Day 16: HB12-1001

HB12-1002 The CLEAR Act & Application Permit Rules 
Sponsors: SONNENBERG / JAHN
Summary: H.B. 12-1002 Rules - permits - applicability of existing or new rules and written statements of agency interpretation - exceptions. The act creates the "CLEAR Act", which stands for "Creating Level Expectations For Application Review". The act amends the "State Administrative Procedure Act" (APA) to state that the rules and any written statements of agency interpretation of the statutes of a state agency in effect on the date that a person applies for a new or renewed permit govern the application for a new permit or for renewal of the permit. If the rules or any written statements of agency interpretation governing the agency's permit process or the requirements to qualify for a permit have been amended, the agency must grandfather in the application under the rules and any written statements of agency interpretation in effect on the date of the application, unless the agency determines in writing that: The new rules materially affect the health and safety of the public and that use of the rules in effect on the date of application is likely to result in an unsafe situation if the applicant does not comply with new rules; or New rules or new requirements are necessary to ensure that the agency and the permit will be in compliance with the requirements of federal law and federal regulations; or New rules or new requirements are necessary to ensure that the agency and the permit will not be in conflict with state statutes; or New rules or new requirements are necessary to ensure that the agency and the permit will be in compliance with the requirements of a court order. If the agency determines that one of these four exceptions will occur, the agency must treat the application as pending, provide a written notice to the person that states the reasons the application is incomplete, and give the person a reasonable opportunity to comply with the new law or new requirements. The act states that if an agency adopts or amends rules that govern or impact the application process or any permit eligibility requirements after a person has applied for a permit or renewal of a permit and while the application is pending with the agency, the person shall have the option to have the application processed under the rules in existence at the time of the filing of the application or under the new rules. The act defines "permit" as a grant of authority by an agency that authorizes the holder of the permit to do some act not forbidden by law but not allowed to be performed without such authority. "Permit" does not include a professional license issued by a licensing board or agency to conduct a profession or occupation. "Permit" does not include a registration or certification issued by a board or state agency to an individual to pursue a profession, practice, or occupation. "Permit" does not include a water well permit issued by the state engineer. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/26/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/01/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/02/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
02/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology + Finance
02/22/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Amended to Finance
03/08/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/19/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/22/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/22/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
04/04/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
04/24/2012 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
04/30/2012 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
05/08/2012 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
05/15/2012:33 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:37 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/04/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1002
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1002
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 85: HB12-1002
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1002
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1002
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 23: HB12-1002
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 22: HB12-1002
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 21: HB12-1002
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1002
Video Center: House Legislative Day 119: HB12-1002
Senate Legislative Day 111: HB12-1002
House Legislative Day 85: HB12-1002
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1002
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1002
Senate Legislative Day 69: HB12-1002
House Legislative Day 23: HB12-1002
House Legislative Day 22: HB12-1002
House Legislative Day 21: HB12-1002

HB12-1003 Authorize Graywater Use 
Sponsors: FISCHER / NICHOLSON
Summary: Except in connection with individual septic systems, current law is unclear regarding whether, and under what conditions, graywater may be used. Section 1 of the bill declares the importance of water conservation to the economy of Colorado and the well-being of its citizens. Section 2 defines "graywater" as wastewater from sources other than toilets, urinals, kitchen sinks, nonlaundry utility sinks, and dishwashers collected within a residential, commercial, or industrial building that meets certain standards established by the water quality control commission. Section 3 authorizes the commission to adopt a control regulation establishing use standards and specifies that: Graywater may be applied only to uses that are allowed by the water sources' well permits and water rights; and, if so used, the use of the graywater is deemed to not cause injury. Graywater can be used only if the commission has adopted a control regulation and a local government authorizes the use. The local government has exclusive enforcement authority regarding compliance with the commission's control regulation. Section 5 allows counties to authorize graywater use, and section 6 allows municipalities to authorize graywater use. Section 4 repeals an obsolete provision authorizing local boards of health to adopt rules regarding graywater use with individual septic systems.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/01/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1004 Colorado Timber Act 
Sponsors: BRADFORD / KING S.
Summary: The bill requires county and municipal building codes to allow the use of lumber milled from lodgepole pine and Englemann spruce trees having a grade of "stud" or better as building framing material. County and municipal building codes must also encourage the use of lumber milled from these trees for this purpose.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
03/29/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Unamended to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
04/18/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1004
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HB12-1005 Legal Investments For Public Funds 
Sponsors: PABON / HARVEY
Summary: H.B. 12-1005 Public funds - legal investments. The act clarifies that it is legal to invest public funds in any nonsubordinated corporate or bank security that: Is denominated in United States dollars; Matures within 3 years from the date of settlement; At the time of purchase carries at least 2 credit ratings from any of the nationally recognized statistical rating organizations; and Is not rated below "A1, P1, or F1" or their equivalents by either rating if the security is a money market instrument such as commercial paper or bankers' acceptance or is not rated below "AA- or Aa3" or their equivalents by either rating if the security is any other kind of security. The act also prohibits the investment of public funds in a subordinated security issued by or guaranteed by one of several specified federally created and controlled entities and prohibits investment in a security issued by a corporation or bank that is not organized and operated within the United States unless the governing body of the public entity authorizes investment in such securities. APPROVED by Governor March 7, 2012 EFFECTIVE March 7, 2012
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/02/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/29/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/05/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/05/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
03/07/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012:42 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/07/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/07/2012:27 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/07/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 57: HB12-1005
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1005
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1005
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1005
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1005
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 57: HB12-1005
Senate Legislative Day 56: HB12-1005
House Legislative Day 55: HB12-1005
House Legislative Day 52: HB12-1005

HB12-1006 American Red Cross Colorado Chapters Tax Checkoff 
Sponsors: TODD / SPENCE
Summary: The bill creates the American Red Cross Colorado disaster response, readiness, and preparedness fund (fund) in the state treasury. For the 5 income tax years following the year in which the executive director of the department of revenue certifies to the revisor of statutes that there is a space on the income tax return form and that the American Red Cross Colorado disaster response, readiness, and preparedness fund voluntary contribution is next in the queue, the bill requires a voluntary contribution designation line for the fund to appear on state individual income tax return forms. The department of revenue (department) must determine annually the total amount designated to the fund and report that amount to the state treasurer and the general assembly. The state treasurer shall credit that amount to the fund. Finally, the general assembly must appropriate annually from the fund to the department its costs of administering contributions to the fund. All moneys remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall be transferred to the American Red Cross Colorado Chapters.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/09/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
02/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
03/22/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/03/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/10/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/19/2012:27 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/19/2012:39 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/26/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 91: HB12-1006
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 90: HB12-1006
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1006
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 91: HB12-1006
Senate Legislative Day 90: HB12-1006
House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1006
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1006

HB12-1007 Regulatory Analysis Requirement For Rules 
Sponsors: SZABO / GRANTHAM
Summary: Under current law, if any person so requests, a state administrative agency must issue a regulatory analysis of any proposed rule at least 15 days prior to a rule-making hearing. The bill requires agencies to conduct the analysis for every proposed rule, regardless of whether an analysis has been requested. The bill also requires each regulatory analysis to include information on the effect of the proposed rule on jobs in Colorado. If the agency specifies that the proposed rule only makes grammatical, format, or organizational changes and makes no substantive changes, an analysis is not required. The bill also states that the general assembly determines that amendments to the law made by this bill can be implemented within existing appropriations and, therefore, no separate appropriation of state moneys or allocation of full time equivalent state employees is necessary to carry out the purposes of the bill.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development + Appropriations
01/31/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
02/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/27/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/28/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
03/20/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1007
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1007
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1007
Video Center: House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1007
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1007

HB12-1008 GA & Public Input Proposed Agency Rules & Fees 
Sponsors: ACREE / JAHN
Summary: H.B. 12-1008 Rules - notice to representative groups of proposed rule-making - notice to general assembly of increases in fees and fines - departmental regulatory agendas. An executive branch agency of state government considering adopting rules shall establish a representative group of participants with an interest in the subject of the rule-making to submit views or otherwise participate in conferences or to participate in the rule-making hearing on the proposals under consideration. If the agency convenes a representative group prior to issuing a notice of proposed rule-making, the agency shall include the group participants in the notice of the actual rule-making hearing. If an agency proposes a rule to increase fees or fines, at the time of giving notice of proposed rule-making under the State Administrative Procedure Act or within 10 days following the adoption of an emergency or temporary rule that increases fees or fines, the agency shall send a written or electronic notification to each member of the general assembly notifying the members about the proposed rule or about the adoption of an emergency rule and specifying the amount of the increase in the fees or fines. Principal departments of state government shall submit a departmental regulatory agenda each November 1 to the legislative council staff for distribution to the applicable oversight committee of reference of the general assembly. The departmental regulatory agenda shall include: A list of new rules or revisions to existing rules that the department expects to propose during the next calendar year; The statutory or other basis for adoption of the proposed rules; The purpose of the proposed rules; The contemplated schedule for adoption of the rules; An identification and listing of persons or parties that may be affected positively or negatively by the rules; and An update and brief summary of all permanent and temporary rules actually adopted since the previous departmental regulatory agenda was filed. Each principal department shall present its departmental regulatory agenda to the applicable oversight committee of reference of the general assembly during the departmental presentations on strategic plans and performance-based budgeting held during the first 15 days of the legislative session. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2012 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2012
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development + Appropriations
01/24/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/23/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/02/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/12/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/01/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/07/2012:25 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/08/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/08/2012:19 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/17/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 112: HB12-1008
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1008
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1008
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1008
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1008
Video Center: House Legislative Day 112: HB12-1008
Senate Legislative Day 62: HB12-1008
Senate Legislative Day 59: HB12-1008
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1008
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1008

HB12-1009 Federal Funds Transparency Act 
Sponsors: GEROU / LAMBERT
Summary: H.B. 12-1009 Federal moneys - annual reporting requirements - departments and agencies. The act modifies the information that each department and agency of the executive branch is required to provide in an annual report to the state controller regarding all federal moneys received by the department or agency. A state institution of higher education is excluded from the new reporting requirements. APPROVED by Governor April 16, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily with Amendments
02/14/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/15/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/12/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/05/2012:08 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/10/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/10/2012:43 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/16/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1009
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1009
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1009
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1009
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1009
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1009
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1009
Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1009
Senate Legislative Day 78: HB12-1009
House Legislative Day 36: HB12-1009
House Legislative Day 35: HB12-1009
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1009

HB12-1010 Reissue Lost Mutual Ditch Share Cert 
Sponsors: BAUMGARDNER / GIRON
Summary: H.B. 12-1010 Mutual ditch company - share certificate - reissuance. If a person loses a mutual ditch share certificate, the person may file with the mutual ditch company a request for reissuance of the certificate, but current law requires the company to wait for 3 years before issuing a replacement certificate. The act eliminates the 3-year period and specifies that a person who is named in the books of the company as a lienholder on the lost certificate is also entitled to file a request for reissuance of a lost certificate. APPROVED by Governor March 15, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/23/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
01/26/2012 House Second Reading Passed
01/27/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
01/30/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
02/23/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012:03 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/07/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/07/2012:43 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1010
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1010
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 16: HB12-1010
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 50: HB12-1010
Senate Legislative Day 49: HB12-1010
House Legislative Day 20: HB12-1010
House Legislative Day 16: HB12-1010

HB12-1011 15-year Rule For State Controlled Maint Funding 
Sponsors: BROWN / BACON
Summary: Capital Development Committee. The bill codifies the 15-year rule for requesting controlled maintenance funding for:
* Any new construction of, addition to, renovation of, or corrective repair or replacement of any state-owned, general-funded building or other physical facility; and
* Any acquisition of a state-owned, general-funded building or other physical facility. If a state agency or state institution of higher education requires a waiver of these eligibility requirements, the state agency or state institution of higher education must submit in writing a justification of special consideration to the state architect, and the capital development committee must approve the justification. The bill allows the state architect to use moneys in the newly created emergency controlled maintenance account for emergency controlled maintenance funding when the need for such funding is communicated in writing to the state architect by a state agency or state institution of higher education. The state architect must annually provide a status report to the capital development committee that shows spending for emergency controlled maintenance projects from that account.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/02/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1012 Increase Agency Displacement Expenses Payment Cap 
Sponsors: WILLIAMS A. / GUZMAN
Summary: The bill increases from $10,000 to $50,000 the maximum amount of actual reasonable expenses to be paid by a state agency in connection with the reestablishment at a new site of a farm, nonprofit organization, or small business displaced by the agency.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Appropriations
02/02/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
03/13/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/02/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/01/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/02/2012:00 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/03/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012:17 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/03/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 112: HB12-1012
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1012
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1012
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1012
Video Center: House Legislative Day 112: HB12-1012
Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1012
Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1012
Senate Legislative Day 78: HB12-1012
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1012
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1012
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1012

HB12-1013 Interventions For Middle School Students 
Sponsors: FIELDS / HUDAK
Summary: H.B. 12-1013 Middle-school grades - interventions - parent involvement. The act directs school districts to consider adopting procedures by which the public schools of the school district use available data to identify and provide intervention services to students in grades 6 through 9 who are exhibiting behaviors that indicate the students are at increased risk of dropping out of school. Institute charter schools are also directed to consider adopting procedures to identify and provide intervention services to this population of students. If the school district or institute charter school that adopts the procedures identifies a student who is at increased risk of dropping out of school, it must notify the student's parent and explain the interventions it intends to implement. The parent may approve or reject the interventions, and, following approval, may direct the school district or institute charter school to terminate the interventions at any time. A parent may contact a school district or institute charter school and request interventions for his or her child. APPROVED by Governor March 16, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
01/25/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/30/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/01/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
02/29/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/06/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:45 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:53 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/16/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1013
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1013
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 22: HB12-1013
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 21: HB12-1013
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 56: HB12-1013
Senate Legislative Day 55: HB12-1013
House Legislative Day 22: HB12-1013
House Legislative Day 21: HB12-1013

HB12-1014 Modify Late Vehicle Registration Fee 
Sponsors: BAUMGARDNER
Summary: Effective July 1, 2012, the bill changes the fee for late registration of a vehicle from a fee of $25 per month to a flat fee of $20 and repeals an exemption from the late fee for a vehicle that has expired temporary registration number plates, tags, or certificates. The bill also repeals authorization for the department of revenue or a county clerk and recorder acting as an authorized agent of the department to waive or reduce the late fee for an idled commercial or farm vehicle.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Appropriations
02/02/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/04/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
04/26/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1014
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1014
Video Center: House Legislative Day 79: HB12-1014
House Legislative Day 78: HB12-1014

HB12-1015 Modifications DORA Sunrise Review Process 
Sponsors: HOLBERT / NEVILLE
Summary: Under current law, persons proposing the regulation of a currently unregulated professional or occupational group must submit the proposal to the department of regulatory agencies (department), and the department normally must conduct a sunrise review and analysis of, and issue a sunrise report and recommendations on, the proposed regulation within 120 days after the proposal was submitted. However, the department need not conduct a sunrise review of a proposal if the department finds that:
* The proposed regulatory scheme would regulate less than 250 people;
* The department previously reviewed the same professional or occupational group and determines it would not change its recommendations contained in the prior review;
* A majority of states regulate the same profession or occupation; or
* The unregulated profession or occupation poses an imminent threat to public health, safety, or welfare, in which case the department is to promptly notify the proponents and the general assembly and recommend regulation of the profession or occupation. When the department declines to conduct a review, current law requires the department to notify the proponents and the general assembly of its decision, and the proponents may pursue legislation to regulate the profession or occupation during the next 2 regular legislative sessions of the general assembly or, if the notice is issued during a regular legislative session, legislation may be presented during that legislative session as well. The bill modifies the sunrise review process for analyzing proposals to regulate an unregulated professional or occupational group submitted on or after July 1, 2012, as follows:
* Requires regulation proponents to submit a proposal by December 1 of any given year in order to obtain a review and report by October 15 of the following year;
* Requires the department to issue sunrise reports no later than October 15 on proposals submitted by December 1 of the prior year;
* Eliminates the ability of the department to decline to review a proposal in all cases except when the department finds the profession or occupation poses an imminent threat, or has previously reviewed the same proposal, issued a report less than 36 months before the current proposal was submitted, and finds that its conclusions would be the same as in the initial report, in which case the department may reissue its original report by October 15 of the year following the year in which the proposal was submitted;
* When the department declines a sunrise review because it finds the profession or occupation poses an imminent threat, the department must notify the legislative council of the general assembly of its finding and the basis for its finding, and requires the legislative council to conduct a hearing to examine the department's findings and determine whether it concurs; and
* If a report is issued or reissued or an imminent threat finding is made and concurred in by the legislative council during a legislative session, eliminates the ability of proponents to pursue legislation to regulate the profession or occupation during that same legislative session. The changes to the sunrise process do not affect proposals to regulate a profession or occupation that are submitted prior to July 1, 2012.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/19/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
01/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed
01/25/2012 House Third Reading Passed
01/31/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
02/22/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012:16 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/07/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/07/2012:58 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1015
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1015
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 15: HB12-1015
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 14: HB12-1015
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1015
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 50: HB12-1015
Senate Legislative Day 49: HB12-1015
House Legislative Day 15: HB12-1015
House Legislative Day 14: HB12-1015

HB12-1016 PUC Ex Parte Communications 
Sponsors: BALMER
Summary: The bill allows a party to a proceeding before the public utilities commission (PUC) to file a motion seeking the disqualification of a public utilities commissioner or an administrative law judge for failure to be impartial. A district court may stay or suspend the proceedings of the PUC if the PUC fails to disqualify a commissioner from the proceedings. If the disqualification of a commissioner results in the loss of a quorum, the decision rendered by a commissioner designated as a hearing officer or by an administrative law judge is the final decision of the PUC. The rule of necessity, which states that under some circumstances an adjudicator must hear a case even if the adjudicator has an interest in the case, does not apply. The bill specifies that the standards contained in the Colorado code of judicial conduct apply to commissioners and PUC administrative law judges. The bill requires the director to post memoranda regarding ex parte communications by commissioners and administrative law judges on the PUC's web site within 5 business days. Discussions by commissioners or administrative law judges on pending legislative proposals will no longer be exempted from disclosure as an "adjudicatory proceeding".
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/25/2012 House Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1017 Extend Local Access Health Care Pilot 
Sponsors: SWERDFEGER / GIRON
Summary: H.B. 12-1017 Local access to health care pilot - Pueblo county - extension. Under current law, the authority of the board of county commissioners (board) of Pueblo county to operate, either itself or through a contractor, a local access to health care pilot program in the county expires on July 1, 2012. The act extends the repeal date for the pilot program and the board's authority for another 5 years, through July 1, 2017. APPROVED by Governor April 26, 2012 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2012
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/30/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/02/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed
03/05/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
03/27/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/30/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/10/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/19/2012:42 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/19/2012:54 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/26/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 91: HB12-1017
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 90: HB12-1017
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1017
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1017
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 91: HB12-1017
Senate Legislative Day 90: HB12-1017
House Legislative Day 55: HB12-1017
House Legislative Day 52: HB12-1017

HB12-1018 FPPA Social Security Pension Modifications 
Sponsors: LABUDA / TOCHTROP
Summary: H.B. 12-1018 Fire and police pension association - social security supplemental plan - repeal of optional affiliation. The act modifies the social security supplemental plan by repealing provisions related to optional affiliation by any employer (social security employer) that covers members under the federal "Social Security Act", as amended, or any county that covers salaried employees whose duties are directly involved with the provision of law enforcement or fire protection, as certified by the county under the federal "Social Security Act", as amended. With one exception, any social security employer is limited to electing affiliation with the fire and police pension association only as to coverage under the statewide defined benefit plan. A social security employer is allowed to elect coverage under the statewide death and disability plan if the social security employer files with the board of directors of the association a resolution to that effect by the governing body of that social security employer. APPROVED by Governor March 19, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/01/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
02/28/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/06/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:04 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:10 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/19/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1018
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1018
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1018
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 56: HB12-1018
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1018
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1018

HB12-1019 Transfer Ports Of Entry To State Patrol 
Sponsors: VAAD / KING S.
Summary: Transportation Legislation Review Committee. Section 1 of the bill abolishes the motor carrier services division (division) of the division of motor vehicles of the department of revenue (department) and transfers the powers, duties, and functions of the division by type 3 transfers as follows:
* It transfers the ports of entry section of the division to the Colorado state patrol of the department of public safety.
* It transfers the powers, duties, and functions of the division relating to commercial driver's licenses to the department.
* It transfers the powers, duties, and functions of the division relating to the international registration plan to the department. Section 11 of the bill defines the term "port of entry officer". Section 26 of the bill makes the bill effective July 1, 2012. Sections 2 to 10 and 12 to 25 of the bill make conforming amendments.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Appropriations
01/25/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/09/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/16/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/19/2012 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments
03/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
03/22/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/03/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/10/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/13/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/20/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
04/24/2012:01 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/24/2012:20 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/24/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/26/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 101: HB12-1019
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 91: HB12-1019
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 90: HB12-1019
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1019
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 66: HB12-1019
Video Center: House Legislative Day 101: HB12-1019
Senate Legislative Day 91: HB12-1019
Senate Legislative Day 90: HB12-1019
House Legislative Day 69: HB12-1019
House Legislative Day 66: HB12-1019

HB12-1020 Nonacceptance US Cash Money 
Sponsors: SOPER
Summary: For debts less than $5,000, the bill specifies that if any person to whom money is owed refuses to accept payment in the form of United States currency or coin, the person owing the money, at that person's option, may deduct from the amount owed, or demand from the person to whom the money is owed, a sum covering the cost of obtaining a medium of exchange acceptable to the person to whom the money is owed.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/02/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1021 Coordinated And Rational Transp Planning 
Sponsors: VAAD
Summary: Sections 1 to 4 of the bill amend existing statutory provisions regarding transportation planning in order to coordinate such planning for any area of the state that is outside the jurisdiction of a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) by:
* Eliminating non-MPO transportation planning regions and regional transportation plans and requiring the department of transportation (CDOT) to include all non-MPO areas of the state in its comprehensive statewide transportation plan using an appropriate level of planning and analysis to incorporate the needs of the areas in an equitable and consistent manner;
* Eliminating the state transportation advisory committee and the special interim transit and rail advisory committee;
* Emphasizing the importance of coordinated and rational CDOT and state transportation commission transportation planning relative to local government and regional transportation planning in the legislative declaration that pertains to the statutory provisions. Sections 5 to 16 of the bill make conforming amendments.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/08/2012 House Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1022 Establish Mines Water Replacement Reqmnt 
Sponsors: SONNENBERG / SCHWARTZ
Summary: Water Resources Review Committee. Some mining operations construct impermeable areas that capture precipitation and eliminate preexisting natural evapotranspiration. Current law requires that the portion of the captured precipitation that historically reached the stream must be replaced to prevent injury to senior water rights. However, capturing the amount of water that was lost through plant transpiration or evaporation does not increase the actual stream depletions caused by the mining operation because the evapotranspiration did not historically reach the stream. Current law does not give the mine operator any credit for this reduction in evapotranspiration when calculating the obligation to replace stream depletions unless it is a sand and gravel mine. The bill specifies that for all permitted mining operations, there will be no requirement to replace the amount of historic natural depletion to the waters of the state that was caused by the preexisting natural evapotranspiration on the surface of an area that will be, or that has been, eliminated or made impermeable.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/23/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
01/26/2012 House Second Reading Passed
01/27/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
01/30/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
02/23/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012:30 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/07/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/07/2012:10 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1022
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1022
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 16: HB12-1022
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 50: HB12-1022
Senate Legislative Day 49: HB12-1022
House Legislative Day 20: HB12-1022
House Legislative Day 16: HB12-1022

HB12-1023 Fallen Heroes Vehicle License Plate 
Sponsors: NIKKEL / KING S.
Summary: The bill creates the fallen heroes license plate. A person becomes eligible to use the plate by donating $50 to the Colorado chapter of the concerns of police survivors. In addition to the normal motor vehicle fees, the plate requires 2 one-time fees of $25. One of the fees is credited to the highway users tax fund and the other to the licensing services cash fund.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Appropriations
02/01/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Appropriations
02/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
03/20/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Finance
03/29/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/03/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/10/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/19/2012:54 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/19/2012:07 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/26/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 91: HB12-1023
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 90: HB12-1023
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1023
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 91: HB12-1023
Senate Legislative Day 90: HB12-1023
House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1023
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1023

HB12-1024 Plain Language For Ballot Titles 
Sponsors: SZABO
Summary: Section 1 of the bill requires the title board, when setting a title for a proposed initiated law or constitutional amendment, to write the title, to the extent possible, in plain, nontechnical language and in a clear and coherent manner using words with common and everyday meaning that are understandable to the average reader. Section 2 requires the same standard for the ballot title of a statewide referred measure.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/02/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/10/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
02/29/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1024
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 31: HB12-1024
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1024
Video Center: House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1024
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1024

HB12-1025 Regulator Navigator To Provide Regulatory Info 
Sponsors: TYLER
Summary: The bill requires the director of research of legislative council to provide a regulator navigator to the public. The regulator navigator will provide the public with easy access to information about any state, local, or federal government rule or regulation, including the name and telephone number of the person to contact or the correct web site link regarding the rule or regulation at issue. The regulator navigator is not expected to be a problem solver, but is expected to be an expert in providing the public with quality contact information for the appropriate state, local, or federal government agency.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/08/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1026 Municipal Prosecuting Attorney Peace Officers 
Sponsors: CORAM / ROBERTS
Summary: H.B. 12-1026 Local government prosecuting attorneys - peace officer status. The act confers peace officer status on a city attorney, town attorney, senior assistant city attorney, assistant city attorney, chief deputy city attorney, deputy city attorney, special deputy city attorney, prosecuting attorney, senior prosecuting attorney, senior prosecutor, or special prosecutor employed or contracted by a municipality, city, town, statutory city or town, or city and county. The attorney may be certified by the peace officers standards and training board. However, the peace officer status will not be conferred if the attorney also practices criminal defense or contracts with the local government on less than a full-time basis. APPROVED by Governor April 6, 2012 EFFECTIVE April 6, 2012
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/02/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/05/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/20/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/26/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:55 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:51 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1026
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 73: HB12-1026
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1026
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1026
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1026
House Judiciary : HB12-1026
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 76: HB12-1026
Senate Legislative Day 73: HB12-1026
House Legislative Day 55: HB12-1026
House Legislative Day 52: HB12-1026

HB12-1027 Home Kitchen Nonpotentially Hazardous Food 
Sponsors: BRADFORD / SPENCE
Summary: The bill permits a person to produce nonpotentially hazardous food in a home kitchen for sale directly to consumers for consumption off premises. County or district public health agencies may register persons who produce nonpotentially hazardous food in a home kitchen for sale directly to consumers for consumption off premises. These food products are subject to inspection by local or state public health agencies.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/26/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/01/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
03/22/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 22: HB12-1027
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 21: HB12-1027
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 21: HB12-1027
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1027
Video Center: House Legislative Day 22: HB12-1027
House Legislative Day 21: HB12-1027
House Legislative Day 21: HB12-1027

HB12-1028 Continue Low-income Energy-related Assistance 
Sponsors: GEROU / STEADMAN
Summary: The bill extends the funding from the operational account of the severance tax trust fund used for providing energy-related assistance to low-income households through direct bill payment assistance and home energy-efficiency improvements from only state fiscal year 2012-13 to state fiscal years 2012-13 through 2018-19.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
01/18/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
01/24/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over to 01/26/2012
01/26/2012 House Second Reading Passed
01/27/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
01/30/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/08/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/21/2012:54 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:56 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 64: HB12-1028
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1028
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1028
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 20: HB12-1028
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 16: HB12-1028
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 64: HB12-1028
Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1028
House Legislative Day 20: HB12-1028
House Legislative Day 16: HB12-1028

HB12-1029 Economic Stimulus Personal Property Tax Exemption 
Sponsors: HOLBERT / SCHEFFEL
Summary: H.B. 12-1029 Incentive payment or credit for property taxpayer - local government authority - new business facility - expand existing business facility. Counties, municipalities, and special districts currently have statutory authority to negotiate for an incentive payment or credit with a taxpayer who establishes a new business facility or expands an existing business facility. The maximum amount of the payment or credit is 50% of the amount of taxes levied by the respective local government upon the taxable business personal property located at or within the business facility and used in connection with the operation of the business facility for the current property tax year. The act increases the maximum amount of the payment or credit to the total amount of the taxes levied by the respective local government upon such taxable business personal property. APPROVED by Governor March 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/16/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
03/08/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/21/2012:05 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:17 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 64: HB12-1029
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1029
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1029
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 64: HB12-1029
Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1029
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1029
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1029

HB12-1030 Repeal Transportation-related Reporting Reqmnts 
Sponsors: LOOPER / WILLIAMS S.
Summary: Transportation Legislation Review Committee. The bill repeals requirements that the following transportation and energy-related reports or other information be provided to various committees of the general assembly:
* An annual capital construction request submitted by the transportation commission to the capital development committee for state highway reconstruction, repair, and maintenance projects to be funded from money transferred to the capital construction fund for those purposes;
* 3-year plans and annual activity reports submitted by the Colorado clean energy development authority to the house and senate committees with jurisdiction over energy-related matters;
* An annual report submitted by the executive director of the department of revenue to the transportation legislation review committee (TLRC) on the effectiveness of motor vehicle emissions program quality assurance and enforcement measures and additional related matters;
* An annual report from the department of public health and environment to the TLRC on the cost and effectiveness of the high emitter program currently provided by the department of public health and environment, in cooperation with the program contractor;
* A prioritized list submitted by the executive director of the department of transportation to the TLRC with recommendations concerning railroad rights-of-way or rail lines proposed to be acquired by the state and their proposed uses;
* An annual report submitted by the office of transportation safety to the TLRC on the nature and purpose of the programs funded by, and distribution and expenditure of law enforcement assistance fund moneys appropriated to, the department of public health and environment for drunken driving prevention and law enforcement improvement by counties; and
* Notice of the boundaries of a public highway authority to be created or of a value capture area to be created within the boundaries of a public highway authority submitted by the board of the authority to the TLRC.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/16/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/27/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/28/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
03/13/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1030
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1030
Video Center: House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1030
House Legislative Day 45: HB12-1030

HB12-1031 FPPA Board Authority To Amend Plans 
Sponsors: PENISTON / TOCHTROP
Summary: H.B. 12-1031 Fire and police pension association - board authority to make amendments to plans. The board of the fire and police pension association is authorized to make amendments to plans for the administration of benefits, so long as the amendments do not result in an actuarial cost to the plans and the board deems the amendments prudent and necessary in order to consistently and uniformly manage the plans under the board's administration. APPROVED by Governor March 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/01/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
02/28/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/14/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/21/2012:19 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:33 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1031
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1031
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1031
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1031
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1031
Video Center: House Legislative Day 65: HB12-1031
Senate Legislative Day 59: HB12-1031
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1031
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1031
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1031

HB12-1032 Continue Forest Restoration Programs 5 Years 
Sponsors: HAMNER / NICHOLSON
Summary: H.B. 12-1032 Colorado state university - state forest service - forest restoration program - appropriation. The act continues the forest restoration program, and its associated funding from severance taxes, for 5 years and specifies that the program is no longer a pilot program. The act also extends for 5 years the annual transfers from the operational account of the severance tax trust fund of $1.45 million to the healthy forests and vibrant communities fund and $50,000 to the wildland-urban interface training fund, and the $50,000 is appropriated to the department of public safety. APPROVED by Governor March 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE March 24, 2012
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources + Appropriations
01/23/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy + Appropriations
02/23/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/02/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
03/14/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/21/2012:28 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:46 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1032
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1032
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1032
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1032
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1032
Video Center: House Legislative Day 65: HB12-1032
Senate Legislative Day 59: HB12-1032
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1032
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1032
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1032

HB12-1033 Workers' Comp Admin Audit Fines 
Sponsors: SWALM / NEWELL
Summary: The bill specifies that the director of the division of workers' compensation may not impose an administrative fine on an insurer or self-insured employer as a result of a compliance audit for late reporting of an injury, occupational disease, or fatality when the late reporting resulted from the insurer or self-insured employer not having notice or knowledge of the injury, occupational disease, or fatality in sufficient time to comply with the reporting period. The bill permits the director to impose a fine if the director finds that the late reporting constituted a knowing and repeated pattern of noncompliance with the reporting requirements and was not caused by the insurer or self-insured employer's lack of notice or knowledge of the injury, occupational disease, or fatality.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/19/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
01/25/2012 House Third Reading Passed
01/31/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
01/31/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology + Appropriations
02/22/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/02/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012:39 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:12 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1033
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1033
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 15: HB12-1033
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 14: HB12-1033
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1033
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1033
Senate Legislative Day 62: HB12-1033
House Legislative Day 15: HB12-1033
House Legislative Day 14: HB12-1033

HB12-1034 Waste Tire Processor End User Fund 
Sponsors: LOOPER / SPENCE
Summary: Transportation Legislation Review Committee. Currently, the processors and end users fund, which allocates money to encourage recycling, is scheduled to repeal on July 1, 2012. The fund is extended to July 1, 2020.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Appropriations
01/18/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/10/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
02/28/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/09/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/16/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
05/01/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/07/2012:20 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/08/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/08/2012:43 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/09/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 112: HB12-1034
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 64: HB12-1034
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1034
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 31: HB12-1034
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1034
House Transportation : HB12-1034
Video Center: House Legislative Day 112: HB12-1034
Senate Legislative Day 64: HB12-1034
Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1034
House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1034
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1034

HB12-1035 Repeal Veterans Identifier Fee 
Sponsors: YOUNG / SPENCE
Summary: Transportation Legislation Review Committee. The bill repeals the fee currently charged to a member of the armed services for the branch of service identifier on a Colorado driver's license.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs + Appropriations
01/26/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1036 Open Records Act Clarification 
Sponsors: KERR J.
Summary: The bill clarifies that the current exemption from the "Colorado Open Records Act" for investigative files applies to those files compiled for any civil, administrative, or criminal law enforcement purpose.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/31/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
02/09/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
02/23/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/05/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/21/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
04/24/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
05/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/03/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/03/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
05/07/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
05/09/2012 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
05/09/2012 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
05/09/2012 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
05/24/2012:08 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/25/2012:15 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/25/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/07/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1036
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 114: HB12-1036
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 113: HB12-1036
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 108: HB12-1036
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1036
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1036
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1036
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1036
House Judiciary : HB12-1036
House Judiciary : HB12-1036
House Judiciary : HB12-1036
Video Center: House Legislative Day 115: HB12-1036
Senate Legislative Day 114: HB12-1036
Senate Legislative Day 113: HB12-1036
Senate Legislative Day 113: HB12-1036
Senate Legislative Day 108: HB12-1036
House Legislative Day 55: HB12-1036
House Legislative Day 52: HB12-1036

HB12-1037 Classify Certain Ag Products Wholesale Sales 
Sponsors: BECKER
Summary: The bill classifies the sales of certain agricultural items as wholesale sales rather than retail sales. The effect of such a classification is that the following sales will not be subject to sales tax:
* Sales of agricultural compounds to be consumed by, administered to, or otherwise used in caring for livestock;
* Sales of semen for agricultural or ranching purposes; and
* Sales of pesticides that are registered by the commissioner of agriculture for use in the production of agricultural and livestock products.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources + Finance
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources + Finance + Appropriations
01/30/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Finance
02/02/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/05/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
04/10/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/18/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/18/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy + Finance + Appropriations
04/26/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
05/01/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Unamended to Finance
05/03/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Re-Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Orders - Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/17/2012:38 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:48 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/04/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1037
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1037
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 99: HB12-1037
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 98: HB12-1037
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1037
Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1037
Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1037
House Legislative Day 99: HB12-1037
House Legislative Day 98: HB12-1037

HB12-1038 Multi-year Class A Trailer Registration 
Sponsors: LOOPER / WILLIAMS S.
Summary: Transportation Legislation Review Committee. Section 1 of the bill makes a legislative declaration. Section 2 creates an alternate registration for interstate, commercial trailers and semitrailers if the owner is based in a jurisdiction other than Colorado or, if the owner is based in Colorado, the trailer or semitrailer is at least 10 years old. The registration does not expire until the trailer is sold or transferred. The owner notifies the department when the trailer is sold or transferred. The department will issue a report in 2014, including the cost-effectiveness of this system of registration. Section 3 sets the specific ownership tax at $95.50. Section 4 sets the registration fee at $24.50. Of the fee, the department or authorized agent that registers the vehicle retains $2.00, the county gets $1.50 for the county road and bridge fund, the statewide bridge enterprise special revenue fund is credited with $5.00, the Colorado state titling and registration account is credited with $0.50, the license plate cash fund is credited with $2.50, and the highway users tax fund is credited with $13.00.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Appropriations
02/16/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/10/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Amended
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/20/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/24/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/25/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
05/01/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Orders - Passed with Amendments
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/24/2012:49 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/25/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/25/2012:22 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
06/08/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1038
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1038
Senate Transportation: HB12-1038
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1038
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1038
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1038
Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1038
House Legislative Day 104: HB12-1038
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1038

HB12-1039 Pay-as-you-go Requirements 
Sponsors: HULLINGHORST
Summary: For each regular or special session of the general assembly, prior to the passage of the long appropriation bill, the bill prohibits the appropriations committee in either house from favorably passing out a bill that requires a tax expenditure or that results in either a decrease in revenue to the state or an increase in general fund spending unless the bill either specifically identifies equivalent decreases in such expenditures or offsets to the general fund or specifically identifies sufficient increases in revenue for the next state fiscal year and for any other fiscal year that new tax expenditures or changes in tax expenditures would be implemented. The bill defines "tax expenditure" to mean a deduction from taxable income, tax credit, tax exemption, the lowering of a tax rate, the elimination of a tax, or the elimination or reduction of a fee.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/08/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1040 Designate September 11 As State Holiday 
Sponsors: CASSO
Summary: Each 10th and 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, is designated as a legal holiday in Colorado. In all other years, the bill recognizes September 11, also known as "Patriot Day", as an optional holiday. In such years, a state agency may allow an employee to substitute Patriot Day for another legal holiday, but is required to remain open on September 11.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
01/26/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/01/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/07/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1040
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1040
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 21: HB12-1040
Video Center: House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1040
House Legislative Day 21: HB12-1040

HB12-1041 Electronic Death Registration System 
Sponsors: LABUDA / GUZMAN
Summary: The bill directs the department of public health and environment to create an electronic death registration system for purposes of allowing persons responsible for reporting death information to the office of the state registrar of vital statistics to do so electronically.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Finance
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Finance + Appropriations
01/31/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Amended to Finance
02/08/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
02/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/14/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Amended to Finance
03/20/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/03/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/30/2012 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily
05/01/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/03/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/03/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012:14 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:17 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1041
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 112: HB12-1041
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1041
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 108: HB12-1041
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1041
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1041
House Health and Environment: HB12-1041
Video Center: House Legislative Day 115: HB12-1041
Senate Legislative Day 112: HB12-1041
Senate Legislative Day 111: HB12-1041
Senate Legislative Day 108: HB12-1041
House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1041
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1041

HB12-1042 Income Tax Credit For Estate Taxes On Ag Land 
Sponsors: PACE
Summary: The bill establishes an income tax credit for a person who inherits agricultural land located within the state that is equal to the portion of Colorado estate taxes attributable to the transfer of the land. The tax credit is subject to the following requirements:
* If more than one person inherits the land, the credit is apportioned among all beneficiaries;
* If the credit exceeds the income taxes owed, the excess is refundable to the taxpayer; and
* If the land is reclassified in the 10 years after the credit is claimed, the taxpayer is required to repay the credit, with interest, to the state as part of an amended income tax return.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/08/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/24/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/25/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
05/01/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Orders - Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/17/2012:52 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:03 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/17/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/21/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1042
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1042
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1042
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1042
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1042
Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1042
House Legislative Day 104: HB12-1042
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1042

HB12-1043 Concurrent Enrollment For Early High School Grads 
Sponsors: CONTI
Summary: H.B. 12-1043 Concurrent enrollment - students who graduate early. Under the act, each public school, in developing an individual career and academic plan for each student, will inform the student and the student's parent or legal guardian concerning concurrent enrollment and, at the student's or parent's or legal guardian's request, assist the student in course planning to enable him or her to concurrently enroll. In considering applications for concurrent enrollment, a district superintendent, the superintendent's designee, or the chief administrator of a charter school or high school of a board of cooperative services must give priority consideration to qualified students who, by the time they would concurrently enroll, will have completed the high school graduation requirements. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
02/08/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/13/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/14/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily with Amendments
02/27/2012 House Second Reading Re-referred w/Amend. to Education
03/26/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/03/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/04/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/09/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education + Appropriations
04/26/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/01/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
05/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/03/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/07/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/17/2012:10 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:20 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1043
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 114: HB12-1043
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 113: HB12-1043
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 85: HB12-1043
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 83: HB12-1043
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1043
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1043
Video Center: House Legislative Day 115: HB12-1043
House Legislative Day 115: HB12-1043
Senate Legislative Day 114: HB12-1043
Senate Legislative Day 113: HB12-1043
House Legislative Day 85: HB12-1043
House Legislative Day 83: HB12-1043
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1043

HB12-1044 Start-up Colo Technology Transfer Grant Program 
Sponsors: FERRANDINO
Summary: The bill establishes the start-up Colorado technology transfer grant program (program). The purpose of the program is provide grants of up to $750,000 to offices of technology transfer to help further the commercialization of technology projects and discoveries in Colorado, which will, in turn, lead to the creation of Colorado jobs. The start-up Colorado technology transfer cash fund, not to exceed $5 million, is also created. The program is repealed, effective July 1, 2015.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development + Appropriations
01/31/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1044
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HB12-1045 Spruce Beetle Kill Wood Products Tax Exemption 
Sponsors: BRADFORD / KING S.
Summary: Wood and wood products from trees killed or infested in Colorado by the mountain pine beetle are currently exempt from sales and use tax. The exemption expires on July 1, 2013. The bill specifies that the current exemption includes trees killed or infested in Colorado by the spruce beetle and extends the expiration of the exemption to July 1, 2020.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/08/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/10/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
04/12/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed
04/18/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/18/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy + Finance
04/26/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
05/01/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Unamended to Finance
05/03/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Orders - Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/15/2012:51 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/16/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/16/2012:01 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/21/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1045
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 99: HB12-1045
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 98: HB12-1045
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1045
House Legislative Day 99: HB12-1045
House Legislative Day 98: HB12-1045

HB12-1046 Colorado Works Program Drug Testing Requirement 
Sponsors: SONNENBERG / BROPHY
Summary: The bill requires a person applying for assistance through the Colorado works program (works program) to take a drug test for the presence of controlled substances as a condition of eligibility for assistance. If an applicant fails the drug test, the applicant may reapply for assistance 1 year after the date of the drug test. However, a person may reapply after 6 months if the person successfully completes a substance abuse treatment program. The applicant is required to pay the cost of the drug test. If the applicant passes the drug test, the applicant's initial assistance will be increased by the cost of the drug test. The dependent child of an applicant who fails the drug test shall still be eligible to receive assistance, but the county department of human services will be required to approve a protective payee to receive the assistance on behalf of the dependent child. The protective payee will also need to pass the drug test.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Appropriations
02/09/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/28/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/29/2012 House Second Reading Lost with Amendments
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1046
House Health and Environment: HB12-1046
Video Center: House Legislative Day 79: HB12-1046

HB12-1047 Non-safety Licensing Standards Kinship Foster Care 
Sponsors: KEFALAS / NEWELL
Summary: The bill allows a county director of social services, or his or her designee, to waive certain non-safety licensing standards for kinship foster care if certain conditions are met and to limit or restrict a license for kinship foster care. The state board of human services is directed to promulgate rules to define "kinship foster care" and for the waiver of certain non-safety licensing standards for kinship foster care.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
02/02/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/10/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/01/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/12/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012:51 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:07 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1047
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1047
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1047
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1047
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 31: HB12-1047
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1047
House Health and Environment : HB12-1047
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 62: HB12-1047
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1047
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1047
House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1047
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1047

HB12-1048 End CBI Instacheck Duty For Firearm Transfers 
Sponsors: WALLER
Summary: Current federal law requires a licensed transferor of firearms to complete a background check of a prospective transferee through the national instant criminal background check system before transferring a firearm to him or her. Current state law requires the Colorado bureau of investigation (CBI) to perform such background checks as a point of contact for the federal bureau of investigation. The bill eliminates this requirement of the CBI and makes conforming amendments as necessary.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Finance
02/09/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Finance
02/29/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily with Amendments
04/16/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/17/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/18/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/18/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
04/23/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1048
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 99: HB12-1048
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 97: HB12-1048
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1048
House Judiciary : HB12-1048
Video Center: House Legislative Day 99: HB12-1048
House Legislative Day 97: HB12-1048
House Legislative Day 78: HB12-1048

HB12-1049 Parental Rights Regarding Statewide Ed Assessment 
Sponsors: SOLANO / AGUILAR
Summary: The bill prohibits a public school from penalizing a student whose parent does not allow the student to take all or part of a statewide student assessment. Further, the department of education shall not lower a public school's attainment level on the accreditation performance indicators or otherwise penalize a public school due to a parent's refusal to allow his or her child to participate in statewide student assessments.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/09/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1050 Extend Nongame & Endangered Wildlife Tax Checkoff 
Sponsors: WILSON / NICHOLSON
Summary: The bill extends the period for which state income tax return forms shall include a line whereby individual taxpayers may make a voluntary contribution to the nongame and endangered wildlife fund.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
01/18/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
01/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed
01/25/2012 House Third Reading Passed
01/31/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
02/21/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/24/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/27/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012:47 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/07/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/07/2012:25 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/16/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1050
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1050
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 15: HB12-1050
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 14: HB12-1050
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 45: HB12-1050
Senate Legislative Day 48: HB12-1050
House Legislative Day 15: HB12-1050
House Legislative Day 14: HB12-1050

HB12-1051 Older Motor Vehicles Rebuilt From Salvage 
Sponsors: SCOTT / JAHN
Summary: Currently, a motor vehicle rebuilt from salvage must comply with several requirements to qualify for a certificate of title, such as stamping on the vehicle's frame the phrase "REBUILT FROM SALVAGE" and obtaining a VIN inspection. The bill changes the definition of "salvage vehicle" to include vehicles that are over 6 years old and applies the requirements to those vehicles.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/09/2012 House Committee on Transportation Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
02/15/2012 House Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1052 Health Care Work Force Data Collection 
Sponsors: SUMMERS / BOYD
Summary: The bill requires the director of the division of registrations in the department of regulatory agencies (director) to implement a system to collect health care work force data from health care professionals who are eligible for the Colorado health service corps, from practical and professional nurses, and from pharmacists. The bill requires a voluntary advisory group designated by the director of the primary care office to recommend the structure of the data elements to be collected regarding specific information about each health care professional and his or her practice. The director is authorized to accept and expend any gifts, grants, or donations that may be available from any private or public sources for the implementation of the data collection system.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Economic and Business Development
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Economic and Business Development + Finance
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Economic and Business Development + Finance + Appropriations
01/24/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Unamended to Economic and Business Development
02/02/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to Finance
02/08/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
02/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/14/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Amended to Finance
03/20/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/02/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/02/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
05/02/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012:33 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:37 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/29/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 113: HB12-1052
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1052
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1052
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1052
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1052
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1052
House Health and Environment: HB12-1052
Video Center: House Legislative Day 113: HB12-1052
Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1052
Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1052
Senate Legislative Day 78: HB12-1052
House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1052
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1052

HB12-1053 Victims' Rights Changes 
Sponsors: GARDNER B. / GIRON
Summary: The bill adds the following crimes to those that are included in the victims' rights statute: Trafficking in adults, trafficking in children, first degree burglary, retaliation against a judge, and retaliation against a juror. The definition of victim is expanded to include a grandchild. The bill requires those responsible for criminal justice records to use reasonable efforts to redact social security numbers of victims and witnesses from criminal justice records. In addition, a victim or a witness has the right to have his or her address redacted and the right to be informed about protection services such as the witness protection program and the address confidentiality program. Under current law, a victim must be notified by mail and telephone of all critical stages of a criminal proceeding. Electronic communication is added as a communication option. The bill clarifies that a victim has the right to know when the defendant is released from county jail. The bill clarifies the public records about which a victim has a right to be informed, including a victim impact statement. Under current law, a victim has the qualified right to be present at the trial of the defendant. The bill changes the standard for when the victim is not allowed to be present so that a court may prohibit a victim from being present if it finds by clear and convincing evidence that the victim's presence would violate the defendant's right to a fair trial. The bill gives a victim the right to know if a subpoena is requested for records of the victim and to be heard before the ruling is made on the subpoena. A victim also has the right to be informed when the offender is transferred to a nonresidential setting or is terminated from a community corrections program. If a victim is unable to attend a critical stage of the criminal justice process at which the victim has a right to be heard, the victim may request that the court make reasonable arrangements for the victim to provide input beyond a victim impact statement. The bill adds postconviction DNA testing for purposes of establishing innocence to the definition of "critical stages" of the criminal proceeding about which a victim must be notified. The bill clarifies when a victim must be notified of sentence modification matters, including probation modifications or a modification of a protection order. A victim who turns 18 years of age may request that he or she become a point of contact for victim notification, but the victim's designee may continue to receive notification as well, unless there are extenuating circumstances. A victim of a crime that was committed before 1993 whose offender is still serving a sentence for the crime may request notification of future critical stages. A victim will be permitted to provide a victim impact statement when the offender is referred to community corrections, and the victim has the right to provide a written statement. For transition cases, the victim has a right to make an oral statement to the community corrections board.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/31/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
02/22/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
03/12/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/15/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/26/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/27/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/04/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
05/01/2012 First Conference Committee Result was to Committee Recessed
05/08/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/08/2012 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Recede
05/15/2012:10 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:13 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/04/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1053
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 85: HB12-1053
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 77: HB12-1053
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1053
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1053
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1053
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1053
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1053
House Judiciary : HB12-1053
Video Center: House Legislative Day 119: HB12-1053
House Legislative Day 85: HB12-1053
Senate Legislative Day 77: HB12-1053
Senate Legislative Day 76: HB12-1053
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1053
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1053

HB12-1054 Simplify Procurement DHCPF Health Care Providers 
Sponsors: FIELDS / BOYD
Summary: The bill simplifies the procurement process by exempting the department of health care policy and financing (department) and a health care provider from certain state fiscal rule requirements concerning standard state contracts and commitment vouchers when the department has regulatory authority over the program and when the provider has already signed a department-approved provider application to provide services under department-administered programs or to bill for services provided under those programs. Applicable programs include medicaid, the children's basic health plan, the Colorado indigent care program, the school health services program, services funded by the primary care fund, and the health and medical care program for old age pensioners. Eligible providers include health care providers, mental health care providers, pharmacists, home health agencies, and other providers authorized under the applicable department-administered programs who provide health care, health care coordination, or outreach, enrollment, or administrative support services.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
01/24/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/27/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
01/30/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
02/23/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012:04 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/07/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/07/2012:38 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1054
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1054
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1054
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 17: HB12-1054
House Health and Environment: HB12-1054
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 50: HB12-1054
Senate Legislative Day 49: HB12-1054
House Legislative Day 20: HB12-1054
House Legislative Day 17: HB12-1054

HB12-1055 DORA Div Registrations Name Change Rule Authority 
Sponsors: SCHAFER S. / WHITE
Summary: Under current law, the division of registrations (division) in the department of regulatory agencies (department) is tasked with providing supervision and control of boards that examine and license professions and occupations. The division also provides management support to other autonomous licensing boards. The division is headed by a director of registrations, who is appointed by the executive director of the department. Section 1 of the bill renames the division as the division of professions and occupations and directs the revisor of statutes to correct all references to the division within the next 3-year period. Section 1 also authorizes the executive director to adopt rules necessary to administer the functions of the division. Additionally, section 1 requires the department to conduct periodic reviews of the division and its functions in the same manner it conducts reviews of other governmental entities under the sunset process but does not subject the division to automatic termination under that process. Section 2 renames the division of registrations cash fund as the division of professions and occupations cash fund and directs the revisor of statutes to correct all references to the cash fund within the next 3 years.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/24/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/27/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/30/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/01/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
02/20/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/24/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/28/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/16/2012:32 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:47 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1055
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1055
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 22: HB12-1055
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 21: HB12-1055
Video Center: House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1055
Senate Legislative Day 45: HB12-1055
House Legislative Day 22: HB12-1055
House Legislative Day 21: HB12-1055

HB12-1056 Regional Tourism Project Application Requirements 
Sponsors: KERR A. / HODGE
Summary: Section 1 of the bill:
* Clarifies the scope of analysis to be conducted by a third-party analyst who is analyzing a regional tourism project application under the "Colorado Regional Tourism Act" (application) by requiring the analyst to:
* Assess the assumptions used in the application to estimate net new tourism revenues to Colorado;
* Calculate the total anticipated sales tax increment in the proposed regional tourism zone;
* Calculate the amount and percentage of the total regional tourism zone sales tax increment that each county or municipality that is part of a multi-party application is eligible to receive; and
* Assess the probability of the proposed project moving forward without funding from tax increment financing;
* Requires the Colorado economic development commission to consider the third-party analyst report, the data submitted by the applicant, and comments and testimony received when reviewing an application for approval or disapproval; and
* Changes the requirement that a significant portion of the sales tax revenue to be generated by a proposed regional tourism project be attributable to transactions with nonresidents of the regional tourism zone to a requirement that a significant portion of the revenue be attributable to transactions with nonresidents of the state. Section 2 of the bill clarifies the extent to which the director of the Colorado office of economic development initially reviews an application for compliance with statutory requirements and requires the director to consider input provided by the director of the Colorado tourism office and counties and municipalities regarding an application.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government + Appropriations
02/15/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1057 Homeowner's Insurance Additional Protections 
Sponsors: LEVY / NICHOLSON
Summary: The bill requires the insurance commissioner (commissioner) to adopt rules on the following related to the sale of homeowner's insurance in Colorado:
* Criteria and requirements for estimates of replacement value of insured property; and
* An educational requirement for insurance producers related to homeowner's insurance, including estimating replacement value. The bill also puts into place the following with respect to homeowner's insurance policies in this state:
* Minimum requirements for additional living expense coverage for a period of time of no less than 24 months after a loss requiring additional living arrangements;
* Requirements that insurers make available to policyholders copies of homeowner's insurance policies, including declaration pages, within 48 hours after a loss or a request;
* Standards for paying contents loss claims in the event of total loss;
* Additional arbitration requirements for disputes between insured homeowners and insurers relating to policy coverage;
* A requirement to provide summary disclosure forms to homeowner's insurance policyholders at least annually; and
* Potential disciplinary action by the commissioner against insurance producers that fail to:
* Accurately describe to an insured the relationship of the producer to an insurer as the representative of the insurer and not a representative of, or advocate for, the insured policyholder; or
* Accurately represent the adequacy of policy limits in a homeowner's insurance policy to cover total loss of the property.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government + State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/08/2012 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1058 Health Department Infant Eye Prophylaxis 
Sponsors: JOSHI / NICHOLSON
Summary: Currently, the department of public health and environment is required to name, approve, and provide, free of charge, a prophylaxis to be used in treating the eyes of newly born infants. The bill deletes these requirements and requires the health care provider in charge of the birth to treat an infant with a prophylaxis that is in accordance with the current medical standard of care. The bill also deletes the penalty provision for a health care provider who violates the statutes relating to infant eye prophylaxis.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
01/31/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/03/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/01/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/07/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/08/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
03/12/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/21/2012:39 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:05 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1058
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1058
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1058
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1058
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1058
House Health and Environment: HB12-1058
Video Center: House Legislative Day 65: HB12-1058
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1058
Senate Legislative Day 57: HB12-1058
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1058
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1058

HB12-1059 Military Spouse Practice Occupation Profession 
Sponsors: LOOPER
Summary: The bill authorizes military spouses to practice in a regulated profession or occupation other than real estate for one year if the spouse is licensed, registered, or certified to practice in another state; there is no other reason to deny the license; and the person consents to be governed by Colorado law. If applying for authority to continue to practice in Colorado, the applicant must notify the agency that the person is practicing in Colorado and include the contact information for the applicant's employer. If the agency denies the application, the agency notifies the employer. The director of the division of registrations may promulgate rules to implement the bill. The bill also directs agencies to exempt regulated persons who are on active duty for more than 120 days from the requirement to pay certification fees and complete continuing education that became due during the period of active duty, with the exemption continuing for 6 months after the period of active duty. An agency may accept continuing medical education, training, or service from the armed services in satisfaction of Colorado continuing education requirements. A service member or spouse who is an emergency medical service provider certified or licensed in another state is exempt from certification in Colorado. The term "emergency medical technician" is changed to "emergency medical service provider" to align with the trend in other states.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development + Appropriations
01/31/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/09/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/12/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily
03/16/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
04/02/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/10/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/24/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/25/2012 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/26/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
05/02/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/08/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012:37 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:40 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/08/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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News: Release: Looper’s measure to help military spouses find employment to go in effect
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1059
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 107: HB12-1059
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1059
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1059
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1059
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1059
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1059
Video Center: House Legislative Day 119: HB12-1059
Senate Legislative Day 107: HB12-1059
Senate Legislative Day 105: HB12-1059
House Legislative Day 70: HB12-1059
House Legislative Day 69: HB12-1059

HB12-1060 Sunrise Dietitian Regulation 
Sponsors: MASSEY / BOYD
Summary: The bill creates the state board of dietitians, consisting of 3 licensed dietitians and 2 members of the public, to oversee the regulation of dietitians. Dietitians must be licensed. To get a license, an applicant must have a baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate degree with a major course of study in human nutrition, nutrition education, public health nutrition, food and nutrition, dietetics, or food systems management or an equivalent major course of study as approved by the board, including a practice experience component in dietetics of not less than 1,200 hours, and have successfully completed the examination for dietitians administered by the commission on dietetic registration. A dietitian from a state that has analogous requirements can be licensed by endorsement, and provisional permits, valid for one year and renewable a single time for 6 months, are also available for dietitians from such states. Standard disciplinary and procedural provisions are included. The regulation of dietitians sunsets in 2019.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
02/06/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1061 The Skills For Jobs Act 
Sponsors: KAGAN
Summary: H.B. 12-1061 Higher education - report - credential production - workforce projections. The act requires the department of higher education (department), in consultation with the department of labor, the department of regulatory agencies, and any other entity the department deems appropriate, to produce, within the limits of available resources and data, an annual report regarding state workforce projections and education credential production. The report will show the workforce needs that are not being met by state degree and certificate programs and identify institutions, public or private, that may be able to address those workforce needs through new programs or expansion of existing ones. The department will send the report to every public postsecondary governing board in the state and will work with the department of education to provide the report to the state's public school districts, the Colorado charter school institute, and Colorado private elementary, middle, and high schools. The act repeals July 1, 2016. APPROVED by Governor April 2, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
01/25/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/30/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over with Amendments
02/02/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily with Amendments
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/10/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
03/05/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/09/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/21/2012:49 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:25 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/02/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 64: HB12-1061
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1061
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 31: HB12-1061
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1061
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 21: HB12-1061
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 64: HB12-1061
Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1061
House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1061
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1061
House Legislative Day 21: HB12-1061

HB12-1062 Employment Protections For Colorado Peace Officers 
Sponsors: BARKER
Summary: The bill declares that rights and protections afforded to peace officers are a matter of statewide concern. An agency that employs a peace officer (employing agency) shall not enter into a peace officer's personnel file any comment or material that is adverse to the peace officer unless the peace officer is given an opportunity to:
* Review the comment or material;
* Receive a copy of the comment or material; and
* Respond to the comment or material in writing. If a peace officer reviews any such comment or material, he or she may sign it upon completing his or her review. The signature indicates only that the peace officer is aware of the comment or material and does not constitute a confirmation by the peace officer of the accuracy of the comment or material. If the peace officer refuses to sign the comment or material, the employing agency shall include with the comment or material an acknowledgment of the peace officer's refusal. If the peace officer prepares a written response, the employing agency shall place it in the peace officer's personnel file. A peace officer shall have the same right to engage in political activities as is afforded to each resident of the state so long as he or she is not on duty or in uniform. Neither an employing agency nor any person may coerce or require a peace officer to engage in political activity. A peace officer may form, join, support, or participate in an employee organization or its lawful activities. An employing agency shall not retaliate or discriminate against a peace officer for joining or advocating for any employee organization or for advocating for the formation thereof. A peace officer, other than a peace officer who has not yet completed a reasonable initial new-hire probationary period, is subject to disciplinary action only for just cause. A peace officer who is accused of a violation of law or of a policy of his or her employing agency (violation) is presumed innocent, and an investigation into such an allegation shall be conducted in a fair and impartial manner. Before an employing agency imposes any disciplinary action upon a peace officer, the peace officer has the right to be heard during a meeting with a designated representative of the employing agency. A peace officer who is accused of a violation is entitled to have a peace officer representative present during any meeting with one or more members of the employing agency, or with a representative of the employing agency, if the peace officer reasonably believes the meeting may result in disciplinary action against him or her. Each employing agency shall establish a fair and just appeal process to allow a peace officer who is subjected to disciplinary action to challenge the disciplinary action or to assert that the employing agency lacked just cause to impose the disciplinary action. The appeal process includes a hearing that provides the disciplined peace officer with due process, including but not limited to the right to have a peace officer representative present, offer live testimony, offer documentary evidence, and cross-examine any witness who offers testimony against him or her. The hearing is confidential unless the disciplined peace officer waives such confidentiality. Any document generated or presented in connection with the hearing shall be treated as a personnel record and is subject to the legal protections afforded to personnel records. An employing agency shall not adopt any regulation, ordinance, policy, or procedure preventing a peace officer from filing a civil suit arising from the performance of his or her duties as a peace officer. An employing agency shall not discharge, demote, or discipline; or deny promotion, transfer, or reassignment to; or otherwise discriminate against; or threaten any such action against a peace officer as retaliation for the peace officer's lawful exercise of his or her rights.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/06/2012 House Committee on Local Government Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
02/27/2012 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1063 Military Veterans Cemetery At Homelake Expansion 
Sponsors: RAMIREZ
Summary: The bill authorizes the military veterans' cemetery at Homelake, Colorado, (cemetery) and directs the state department of human services (department) to prepare, develop, construct, and maintain the cemetery. The bill establishes within the state treasury the Homelake military veterans cemetery fund (fund) and authorizes the department to accept gifts, grants, and donations for the fund. The bill requires the department to adopt procedures whereby persons who are eligible for burial and interment at the Colorado state veterans center in Homelake (center) may reserve plots in the cemetery.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs + Finance
02/09/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Finance
02/29/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
03/06/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/21/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Finance
03/29/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/03/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/10/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/12/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/20/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
04/24/2012:16 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/24/2012:48 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/24/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 101: HB12-1063
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 91: HB12-1063
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 90: HB12-1063
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1063
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1063
Video Center: House Legislative Day 101: HB12-1063
Senate Legislative Day 91: HB12-1063
Senate Legislative Day 90: HB12-1063
House Legislative Day 56: HB12-1063

HB12-1064 Firearm Possession During State Of Emergency 
Sponsors: STEPHENS
Summary: The bill prohibits the state or any political subdivision of the state (state), during a declared state of emergency, from prohibiting or restricting the otherwise lawful possession, use, carrying, transfer, transportation, storage, or display of a firearm or ammunition; seizing or confiscating a lawfully possessed firearm, except in specific, described circumstances; or requiring registration of a firearm or ammunition for which registration is not otherwise required by law. An exception is made for the commercial sale of firearms if an authorized authority has ordered an evacuation or a general closure of business. An individual whose rights are violated by the state in conflict with these prohibitions has legal recourse against the state.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/09/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over to 02/20/2012
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/05/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1064
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1064
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1064
House Judiciary : HB12-1064
Video Center: House Legislative Day 35: HB12-1064

HB12-1065 Deadline Advan Prac Nurse Retain Prescriptive Auth 
Sponsors: GARDNER D.
Summary: Pursuant to legislation in 2009, the standards for advanced practice nurses (APNs) to obtain prescriptive authority were modified to require APNs, in addition to obtaining specified levels of education and experience, to develop an articulated plan for safe prescribing that documents how the APN will collaborate with physicians and other health care professionals in his or her practice of prescribing medications. Under the 2009 legislation, APNs who were granted prescriptive authority prior to July 1, 2010, were permitted to retain that authority but were required to develop an articulated plan of safe prescribing within one year, or by July 1, 2011. The bill allows the state board of nursing, on a case-by-case basis, to extend the deadline by which APNs with prescriptive authority granted before July 1, 2010, are required to develop an articulated plan, but in no case is the board allowed to extend the deadline beyond July 1, 2012. An APN seeking a deadline extension must submit to the board, prior to July 1, 2012, an application and fee and an attestation that he or she has developed an articulated plan. The board is to adopt rules establishing the criteria for granting a deadline extension. A decision of the board regarding a deadline extension request is not appealable.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Finance
02/02/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Amended to Finance
02/15/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/08/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/21/2012:59 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:40 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/02/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 64: HB12-1065
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1065
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1065
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1065
House Health and Environment : HB12-1065
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 64: HB12-1065
Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1065
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1065
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1065

HB12-1066 Titling And Registering ATVs 
Sponsors: PRIOLA
Summary: The bill authorizes off-highway vehicles to be operated on the road with the following limitations:
* The rider must be licensed;
* The vehicle must be registered with the department of revenue;
* The vehicle must be insured;
* The vehicle cannot be driven on a road with a speed limit greater than 45 miles per hour except to cross the road;
* The vehicle cannot be operated on a limited-access highway or state highway; except that the Colorado department of transportation may authorize the use of off-highway vehicles on state highways outside of municipalities;
* The vehicle cannot be driven in certain counties or municipalities with larger populations unless the local government has authorized it;
* The driver cannot carry more people than the vehicle is designed for;
* The vehicle cannot exceed 40 miles per hour; and
* The vehicle must meet equipment standards, including: Seats, seatbelts, brakes, stoplights, red reflectors, mirrors, and headlamps. Drivers of off-highway vehicles must obey the rules of the road. A dealer may act as the agent of the department of revenue to issue temporary registrations of off-highway vehicles. The department issues license plates to registered vehicles, but the plates do not need to be renewed. The owner pays a registration fee of $10, a county fee of $4, and the motorist insurance database fee of $0.50. "Powersports vehicles" include snowmobiles and off-highway vehicles. A repair shop that is entitled to a lien on a powersports vehicle and has released the vehicle for a promise of payment may restore the lien if a person's check is dishonored, in the same manner as with motor vehicles. Powersports vehicles must be titled in the same manner as motor vehicles when sold by a powersports dealer except with regard to statutory provisions that assume the vehicle will be registered with the department of revenue. Powersports vehicles may be registered by an owner.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Finance
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Finance + Appropriations
02/01/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Finance
02/09/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/29/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/30/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/24/2012 House Third Reading Lost
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1066
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1066
Video Center: House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1066
House Legislative Day 98: HB12-1066
House Legislative Day 79: HB12-1066

HB12-1067 Contribution Limits School Dist & RTD Directors 
Sponsors: MCCANN / AGUILAR
Summary: Current law regulating campaign finance does not set limits on contributions to candidates for school district director and members of the board of directors of the regional transportation district (RTD). The bill sets aggregate limits on contributions from persons that are not small donor committees for any primary, general, or other specific election as follows:
* RTD director, $500; and
* School district director, $500. The bill also sets aggregate limits on contributions from small donor committees for any primary, general, or other specific election as follows:
* RTD director, $5,000; and
* School district director,$5,000. Additionally, the bill subjects the new contribution limits to existing statutory provisions governing the disclosure of campaign contributions. Finally, the bill contains requirements applicable to when a candidate for school district director is required to provide disclosure of information concerning campaign contributions and clarifies that candidates for RTD and school district director are required to file their disclosure with the secretary of state.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
01/19/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
01/26/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1068 Nonprofit Cemetery Corporation Board Directors 
Sponsors: MCKINLEY
Summary: H.B. 12-1068 Special purpose corporations - cemetery companies - oversight - directors - records. The act requires the board of directors of a nonprofit cemetery to include at least one owner of a lot, grave space, niche, or crypt. A nonprofit cemetery is required to make an annual written report of its financial situation and governance and to keep copies of annual reports and other specified records. The report must be available for inspection and copying and be attested and verified. An owner of a lot, grave space, niche, or crypt may attend meetings of the board of directors. The board must provide reasonable notice of board meetings. APPROVED by Governor May 29, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/18/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/24/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over to 01/26/2012
01/24/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/26/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over to 01/31/2012
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/01/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily with Amendments
02/01/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over with Amendments
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over with Amendments
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/13/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/13/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/13/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/14/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/15/2012 House Third Reading Referred w/Amend. to Appropriations
02/15/2012 House Third Reading Referred to Appropriations
02/27/2012 House Third Reading Referred w/Amend. to Appropriations
03/09/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/14/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/23/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/26/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/27/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
04/10/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
04/24/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/30/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/01/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/01/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
05/03/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/08/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012:05 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:08 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/29/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1068
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 112: HB12-1068
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1068
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 77: HB12-1068
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 73: HB12-1068
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 73: HB12-1068
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1068
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1068
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 22: HB12-1068
Video Center: House Legislative Day 119: HB12-1068
Senate Legislative Day 112: HB12-1068
Senate Legislative Day 111: HB12-1068
House Legislative Day 77: HB12-1068
House Legislative Day 73: HB12-1068
House Legislative Day 73: HB12-1068
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1068
House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1068
House Legislative Day 22: HB12-1068

HB12-1069 Sales & Use Tax Holiday For Back-to-school Items 
Sponsors: MIKLOSI
Summary: Section 1 of the bill creates a state sales and use tax exemption for back-to-school items. The exemption only applies for 3 days in the beginning of August for a period of 5 years beginning in 2012. A "back-to-school item" is defined to mean clothing, shoes, school supplies, or computers. Clothing includes sports and recreational equipment, but does not include clothing accessories. The exemption applies to all noncommercial purchasers. Section 2 of the bill permits a town, city, or county to create a sales tax exemption that is identical to the state exemption.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/08/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/20/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/23/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
04/24/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/25/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
05/03/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
05/07/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1069
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1069
Video Center: House Legislative Day 104: HB12-1069
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1069

HB12-1070 Harmonize Gov Ethics Statutes & Constitution 
Sponsors: PENISTON
Summary: The bill makes modifications to statutory provisions concerning the reporting of gifts and honoraria, lobbyist disclosure, the statutory rules of conduct for governmental officials and employees, and campaign contributions to members of the general assembly and the governor during the regular legislative session to harmonize those provisions with the requirements of article XXIX of the state constitution, which article is more familiarly known and referred to as "Amendment 41".
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/01/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/13/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/14/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/12/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/15/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/16/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/20/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/02/2012:20 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/03/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012:20 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/09/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1070
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 66: HB12-1070
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1070
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1070
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 42: HB12-1070
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1070
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1070
Video Center: House Legislative Day 111: HB12-1070
Senate Legislative Day 66: HB12-1070
Senate Legislative Day 65: HB12-1070
House Legislative Day 35: HB12-1070
House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1070

HB12-1071 Portable Electronics Insurance 
Sponsors: LISTON / JAHN
Summary: The bill requires a vendor of portable electronics to hold a limited license to sell or offer portable electronics insurance. The limited license authorizes an employee or authorized representative of the vendor to sell or offer coverage to customers at each vendor location. Each vendor is required to make written materials available to customers that:
* Disclose that portable electronics insurance may provide duplicate coverage;
* State that the purchase of coverage is not required;
* Summarize the material terms of the insurance;
* Summarize the process for filing a claim; and
* State that the coverage may be cancelled at any time. The bill outlines the criteria that a person must meet in order to sell portable electronics insurance without a limited license. The bill outlines the billing and collections procedures for vendors. Each vendor who violates the terms for selling portable electronics insurance is subject to fines and suspension or revocation of the privilege of selling the insurance. A vendor is permitted to terminate coverage with the required notice upon discovery of fraud or misrepresentation by the customer, for nonpayment of the premium, if the customer no longer has active service with the vendor, or if the customer exhausts the aggregate limit of liability. The bill outlines notice requirements for correspondence between the vendor and the customer. The commissioner of insurance is required to prescribe an application for insurance and accept applications from the vendors. Each vendor is required to pay a fee to the commissioner for a limited license.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/02/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/10/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
02/27/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/01/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/05/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:21 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:26 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/19/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1071
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1071
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 31: HB12-1071
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1071
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1071
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 55: HB12-1071
Senate Legislative Day 52: HB12-1071
House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1071
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1071

HB12-1072 Higher Ed Prior Learning Assessments 
Sponsors: MASSEY / BACON
Summary: H.B. 12-1072 Higher education - institutions - academic credit for prior learning. Beginning with the 2013-14 academic year, the act requires each public institution of higher education to adopt and make public a policy or program to determine academic credit for a student's prior learning. Additionally, the act permits a nonpublic institution of higher education that is accredited by an accrediting agency or association approved by the United States department of education to participate in the review conducted by the department of higher education (department) to determine if the institution's core course requirements comply with the department's general education course guidelines. APPROVED by Governor March 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
02/08/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/13/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/14/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
03/08/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/21/2012:10 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:56 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 64: HB12-1072
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1072
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1072
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1072
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 64: HB12-1072
Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1072
House Legislative Day 35: HB12-1072
House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1072

HB12-1073 Number Of Judges In Judicial Districts 
Sponsors: BROWN / ROBERTS
Summary: H.B. 12-1073 Judges - first and sixth judicial districts. The act decreases the number of judges in the first judicial district from 14 to 13 and increases the number of judges in the sixth judicial district from 3 to 4. APPROVED by Governor March 9, 2012 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2012
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/31/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
02/20/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/02/2012:17 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/09/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1073
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1073
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1073
House Judiciary : HB12-1073
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 45: HB12-1073
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1073
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1073

HB12-1074 Judicial Oversight Of Guardians & Conservators 
Sponsors: KERR J. / KING S.
Summary: Legislative Audit Committee. The bill authorizes the court with jurisdiction over a guardianship of an incapacitated person or over a conservatorship of a protected person to have access to data maintained by other state agencies in order to conduct an investigation when a guardian or conservator has failed to file required reports with the court or has failed to respond to court orders. The court will also have access to this data with respect to the incapacitated person or protected person. The bill specifies which types of data may be accessed. The court may access the data only to obtain contact information for the guardian, conservator, incapacitated person, or protected person. The bill requires the court to preserve the confidentiality of the data obtained from state agencies and use the data only for the purposes of conducting the investigation of the guardian, conservator, incapacitated person, or protected person. Notwithstanding the provisions of the open records law, documents and information obtained by the court pursuant to an investigation are not public records and shall be open to public inspection only upon an order of the court based on a finding of good cause. The judicial department and other state agencies may enter into agreements for the sharing of this data with the applicable court. Under current law, prior to appointment as a guardian or conservator, a nominee signs an acceptance of office. The bill amends the acceptance of office to include an acknowledgment that the nominee understands that Colorado law allows the court to access personal contact information held by state agencies if the nominee fails to file required reports or fails to respond to a court order.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/09/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/15/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
02/29/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/06/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/06/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
03/08/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/16/2012:42 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:05 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1074
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1074
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1074
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1074
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1074
House Judiciary : HB12-1074
Video Center: House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1074
Senate Legislative Day 56: HB12-1074
House Legislative Day 36: HB12-1074
House Legislative Day 35: HB12-1074

HB12-1075 Six Percent General Fund Appropriations Limit 
Sponsors: BEEZLEY / BROPHY
Summary: Currently, the maximum allowable amount of total state general fund appropriations for a given fiscal year is equal to 5% of Colorado personal income. Beginning with the 2012-13 state fiscal year, the bill establishes a new limit for total state general fund appropriations that is equal to 6% over the total general fund appropriations for the previous fiscal year. The end-year surplus in the general fund, which is moneys above the new appropriation limit, is transferred as follows:
* 50% to the newly created state reserve fund;
* 25% to the highway users tax fund; and
* 25% to the capital construction fund. During economic downturns, the general assembly may appropriate or transfer moneys from the state reserve fund for any purpose by the enactment of a bill approved by a 2/3 majority vote of all of the members elected to each house. The moneys transferred to the highway users tax fund are allocated as follows:
* 60% to the state highway fund;
* 22% to counties; and
* 18% to municipalities.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/09/2012 House Committee on Finance Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
02/15/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/24/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/25/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
04/30/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1075
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1075
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1075
Video Center: House Legislative Day 104: HB12-1075
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1075

HB12-1076 Additional Voluntary Info On Initiative Petitions 
Sponsors: COURT / STEADMAN
Summary: The bill permits an initiative or referendum petition to include space for a registered elector to voluntarily include his or her telephone number, electronic mail address, or both. If a space for the information is included, a petition must clearly indicate that the information is not required in order for a registered elector to sign the petition.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
03/08/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1077 FPPA Inv Confidentiality Revisions 
Sponsors: GARDNER B. / TOCHTROP
Summary: H.B. 12-1077 Fire and police pension association - investment confidentiality - modification of definitions. With respect to provisions addressing investment confidentiality, the definition of "investment information" is modified to include information whose release might cause competitive harm to an investment vehicle, investment manager, general partner, fund sponsor, or investment fiduciary. The term "portfolio company" is replaced with the term "investment vehicle" and includes sponsored funds, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. APPROVED by Governor March 19, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/01/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
02/28/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/06/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:37 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:41 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/19/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1077
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1077
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1077
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 56: HB12-1077
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1077
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1077

HB12-1078 Exempt Drinking Water Cert Designation 
Sponsors: VIGIL / SCHWARTZ
Summary: H.B. 12-1078 Solid wastes - disposal site and facility - certificate of designation - exemption for drinking water treatment facilities. Current law requires a drinking water treatment facility that stores, treats, or processes solid wastes originating at the facility to get a certificate of designation from the local municipality or board of county commissioners. Such facilities are regulated by both the solid and hazardous waste commission and the water quality control commission. The act exempts these facilities from the requirement to get a certificate of designation as a solid wastes disposal site and facility regardless of when the solid wastes were handled, and allows a drinking water treatment facility to dispose of drinking water treatment residuals that were generated on-site on the facility's property in compliance with the rules of the solid and hazardous waste commission for waste impoundments and solid wastes disposal. APPROVED by Governor March 22, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/18/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
01/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
01/25/2012 House Third Reading Passed
01/31/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
02/09/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/15/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/16/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/20/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
02/20/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/16/2012:54 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:19 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1078
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 37: HB12-1078
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1078
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 15: HB12-1078
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 14: HB12-1078
Video Center: House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1078
Senate Legislative Day 37: HB12-1078
Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1078
House Legislative Day 15: HB12-1078
House Legislative Day 14: HB12-1078

HB12-1079 CDPS Peace Officer Designations 
Sponsors: BARKER / KING S.
Summary: H.B. 12-1079 Department of public safety - peace officer status - appoint deputy director. The act designates the deputy executive director of the department of public safety and the director of the division of criminal justice in the department of public safety as peace officers who may be certified by the peace officer standards and training board. The act specifically gives the executive director of the department of public safety the authority to appoint a deputy department director. APPROVED by Governor March 16, 2012 EFFECTIVE March 16, 2012
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/02/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/08/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/13/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/14/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
02/29/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/06/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:54 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:57 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/16/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1079
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1079
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1079
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1079
House Judiciary : HB12-1079
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 56: HB12-1079
House Legislative Day 35: HB12-1079
House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1079

HB12-1080 Adams State College Name Change 
Sponsors: VIGIL / SCHWARTZ
Summary: H.B. 12-1080 Adams state college - Adams state university. The act changes the name of Adams state college to Adams state university. APPROVED by Governor May 19, 2012 EFFECTIVE May 19, 2012
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/29/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Education
03/14/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/19/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/26/2012 House Second Reading Passed
03/27/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
04/04/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/10/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/11/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/01/2012:04 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/02/2012:41 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/19/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 92: HB12-1080
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 91: HB12-1080
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 77: HB12-1080
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1080
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 92: HB12-1080
Senate Legislative Day 91: HB12-1080
House Legislative Day 76: HB12-1080
House Legislative Day 77: HB12-1080

HB12-1081 Operations Auraria Higher Education Center 
Sponsors: DURAN / STEADMAN
Summary: H.B. 12-1081 Auraria higher education center. The act clarifies numerous statutory sections that concern the operations of the Auraria higher education center, including, among others, capital construction, risk management, and lease-purchase agreements. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
01/25/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
01/30/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/01/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
03/14/2012 Senate Committee on Education Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
04/04/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/10/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/24/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/25/2012 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/26/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/02/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/08/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012:39 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:43 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1081
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 107: HB12-1081
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1081
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 22: HB12-1081
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 21: HB12-1081
Video Center: House Legislative Day 119: HB12-1081
Senate Legislative Day 107: HB12-1081
Senate Legislative Day 105: HB12-1081
House Legislative Day 22: HB12-1081
House Legislative Day 21: HB12-1081

HB12-1082 Prevailing Compensation On Public Works Projects 
Sponsors: SOPER
Summary: The bill requires a contractor awarded a contract for a public works by a state agency in excess of $100,000, and each subcontractor that works thereon, to:
* Pay workers at least the prevailing wages and fringe benefits, as established pursuant to federal law. The requirement for the payment of prevailing wages and fringe benefits must be included in a contract for a public works.
* Post the prevailing wages and fringe benefits;
* Pay workers at least once a week;
* Furnish payroll records to the director of the division of labor in the department of labor and employment (director); and
* File a written statement to the state agency certifying the amount of unpaid prevailing wages and fringe benefits. With respect to any failure to pay prevailing wages and fringe benefits, the bill:
* Establishes penalties, including termination of the contract, withholding contract payments, and civil penalties;
* Establishes a private right of action;
* Requires the director to publish a list of contractors and subcontractors who willfully fail to make such payments and to debar a contractor or subcontractor for multiple violations within a 3-year period; and
* Prohibits a contractor or subcontractor from discriminating against a worker for asserting rights or for participating in an action by the director. The director is authorized to investigate whether workers on a public works are being paid prevailing wages and fringe benefits. Appropriations for these investigations shall be made from moneys in the newly created prevailing wage enforcement fund, which shall include revenue from certain penalties paid by contractors or subcontractors. The bill specifies that the prevailing wage and fringe benefits requirement will not interfere with workers' right to bargain collectively.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/25/2012 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1083 Continue Environmental Agriculture Program Fees 
Sponsors: SONNENBERG / SCHWARTZ
Summary: In 2009, the general assembly increased the maximum annual fee that the water quality control agency in the division of administration of the department of public health and environment may impose upon concentrated animal feeding operations and housed commercial swine feeding operations dischargers under the "Colorado Water Quality Control Act" until July 1, 2012. The bill maintains the current fee structure until July 1, 2015, in order to continue the environmental agriculture program.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources + Finance
01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources + Finance + Appropriations
01/30/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Finance
02/15/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/02/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
03/06/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
03/15/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/05/2012:31 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/10/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/10/2012:10 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/16/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1083
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1083
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1083
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1083
Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1083
Senate Legislative Day 78: HB12-1083
House Legislative Day 56: HB12-1083

HB12-1084 Penalty For Leaving The Scene Of Traffic Accident 
Sponsors: FIELDS / JAHN
Summary: Under current law, a driver of any vehicle directly involved in an accident resulting in injury or worse to any person is required to remain at the scene of the accident until the driver has fulfilled certain statutory requirements. The penalty for leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury to any person is increased from a class 5 felony to a class 4 felony.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Appropriations
02/16/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/24/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
04/25/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/26/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
04/30/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/02/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/04/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/07/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/15/2012:15 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:17 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 118: HB12-1084
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 115: HB12-1084
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1084
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 106: HB12-1084
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1084
House Judiciary : HB12-1084
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 118: HB12-1084
Senate Legislative Day 115: HB12-1084
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1084
House Legislative Day 106: HB12-1084

HB12-1085 Hearsay Exception For Developmentally Disabled 
Sponsors: FIELDS
Summary: H.B. 12-1085 Evidence - hearsay exception for statements of persons with developmental disabilities. The act creates a statutory exception to the hearsay rule of evidence to admit an otherwise inadmissible out-of-court statement made by a person with a developmental disability in: Any criminal or delinquency proceeding in which the person is alleged to have been a victim; Instances in which the person's statement describes all or part of any of certain sexual offenses performed with, by, on, or in the presence of the person in a criminal or civil proceeding in which a person is charged with committing a sexual assault, unlawful sexual contact, or sexual assault on a client by a psychotherapist; Instances in which the person's statement describes any act of child abuse in any criminal, delinquency, or civil proceeding in which a child is alleged to be a victim of child abuse or alleged to be neglected or dependent; and Instances in which the person's statement describes all or part of an offense involving homicide or a related offense or describing an act of domestic violence in any criminal, delinquency, or civil proceeding in which a child is alleged to be a victim of an offense involving homicide or a related offense or a victim of an act of domestic violence. The new hearsay exception shall apply only if: The court finds in a hearing conducted outside the presence of the jury that the time, content, and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient safeguards of reliability; and Either (1) the statement is a nontestimonial statement or (2) the declarant testifies at the proceedings or, if the declarant is unavailable to testify, the defendant has had an opportunity to cross-examine the declarant in a previous proceeding and there is corroborative evidence of the act that is the subject of the statement. If such a statement is admitted, the court shall instruct the jury in the final written instructions that during the proceeding the jury heard evidence repeating an out-of-court statement by a person with a developmental disability, that it is for the jury to determine the weight and credit to be given the statement, and that, in making the determination, the jury shall consider the nature of the statement, the circumstances under which the statement was made, and any other relevant factor. APPROVED by Governor April 3, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/16/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/12/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/15/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/16/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:23 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:21 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/03/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 66: HB12-1085
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1085
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1085
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1085
House Judiciary : HB12-1085
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 66: HB12-1085
Senate Legislative Day 65: HB12-1085
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1085
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1085

HB12-1086 Rule Review Bill 
Sponsors: GARDNER B. / MORSE
Summary: Committee on Legal Services. Based on the findings and recommendations of the committee on legal services, the bill extends all state agency rules and regulations that were adopted or amended on or after November 1, 2010, and before November 1, 2011, with the exception of the rules and regulations specifically listed in the bill. Those specified rules and regulations will expire as scheduled in the "State Administrative Procedure Act" on May 15, 2012, on the grounds that the rules and regulations either conflict with statute or lack or exceed statutory authority.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Legal Services
02/09/2012 House Committee on Legal Services Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/13/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/14/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Legal Services
04/27/2012 Senate Committee on Legal Services Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/03/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/07/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/14/2012:17 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/14/2012:20 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 114: HB12-1086
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1086
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1086
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 114: HB12-1086
House Legislative Day 35: HB12-1086
House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1086

HB12-1087 On-line Animal Abusers Registry 
Sponsors: LABUDA
Summary: The bill creates within the department of public safety (department) the on-line animal abusers registry (registry), which shall make available to the general public on an internet web site the identities of persons who have been convicted of cruelty to animals, cruelty to a service animal, aggravated cruelty to animals, or animal fighting (an animal abuse crime). A person 18 years of age or older who is convicted of, or who enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, an animal abuse crime shall submit to the registry electronically or in person within 5 business days following his or her conviction: (a) His or her name; (b) Any aliases he or she is known to have; (c) His or her residential address; and (d) A photograph of his or her head and shoulders from the front. Upon receipt of the information, using procedures established by rules promulgated by the executive director of the department (executive director) or his or her designee, the administrator of the registry (administrator) shall immediately confirm that the information describes a person who has been convicted of an animal abuse crime. Upon acquiring such confirmation, the administrator shall add the person, including all of the information submitted by the person, to the registry and include the person in the registry for a period of 5 years. If a person who is registered as a convicted animal abuser in the registry changes his or her residential address, he or she shall notify the registry of the change within 3 business days. The executive director or his or her designee shall promulgate rules to implement the registry, including but not limited to rules for the confirmation of registrants' personal information. The executive director, or his or her designee, shall contract with a nonprofit agency for the creation and maintenance of the registry. The terms of the contract shall ensure that the nonprofit agency bears the entire cost of the creation and maintenance of the registry. If the executive director or his or her designee is unable to identify a nonprofit agency with which to contract for the creation and maintenance of the registry, the requirements described in the bill shall not apply to any person.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/30/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1088 Deadly Force Against Intruder At Place Of Business 
Sponsors: HOLBERT / GRANTHAM
Summary: The bill extends the right to use deadly force against an intruder under certain conditions to include owners, managers, and employees of businesses.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/02/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/10/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/13/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/05/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1088
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1088
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1088
House Judiciary : HB12-1088
Video Center: House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1088
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1088

HB12-1089 Specific Wording Of Statewide Ballot Title 
Sponsors: COURT / STEADMAN
Summary: H.B. 12-1089 Initiative - referred measure - ballot title language - responses. For a statewide ballot title for an initiated or referred measure, section 2 of the act requires a proposition to be described in a ballot title as a "change to the Colorado Revised Statutes" and an amendment to be described as an "amendment to the Colorado constitution". Section 3 of the act expands the "yes" and "no" responses to a ballot title that are currently used on the ballot to "YES/FOR" and "NO/AGAINST". APPROVED by Governor March 24, 2012 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE March 24, 2012 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE January 1, 2013
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/02/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/10/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/13/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
02/29/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/14/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/21/2012:40 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:15 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1089
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1089
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1089
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1089
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1089
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 31: HB12-1089
Video Center: House Legislative Day 65: HB12-1089
Senate Legislative Day 59: HB12-1089
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1089
House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1089
House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1089

HB12-1090 No School Pupil Enrollment Counts On Holidays 
Sponsors: PACE
Summary: H.B. 12-1090 Pupil enrollment count day - defined - exceptions. For the purpose of determining the pupil enrollment count of each public school of the state, the act defines "pupil enrollment count day" as October 1 of each year, with the following exceptions: In any year in which October 1 is a Saturday, a Sunday, or any other day on which school is not in session, the pupil enrollment count day is the Monday following that Saturday, Sunday, or other day; and In any year in which a day of a major religious holiday occurs upon October 1 or upon the Monday directly following October 1 if October 1 falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or other day on which school is not in session, the pupil enrollment count day is the first school day immediately following the conclusion of the holiday. The act replaces existing statutory references to "October 1" with "pupil enrollment count day" as needed. APPROVED by Governor March 22, 2012 EFFECTIVE March 22, 2012
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
02/01/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
03/01/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012:05 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:34 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1090
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1090
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1090
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1090
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 59: HB12-1090
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1090
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1090
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1090

HB12-1091 Reduce Student Assessments To Federal Requirements 
Sponsors: SOLANO / BACON
Summary: The bill removes the provisions of the Colorado student assessment program that require the department of education (department) to administer statewide assessments in certain subject matters to students in certain grades. Statewide assessments administered by the department shall not exceed federal requirements for the administration of assessments of students. The bill states that for the 2012-13 budget year and for each budget year thereafter, the general assembly intends to appropriate to the department, for the purposes of the Colorado preschool program, the general fund savings realized in implementing the provisions of the bill.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/23/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
02/29/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1092 Concealed Handgun Carry Without Permit 
Sponsors: PRIOLA / BROPHY
Summary: The bill creates exceptions to the offenses of carrying a concealed weapon and unlawful possession of a weapon on school, college, or university grounds if the person is at least twenty-one years of age and may legally possess a handgun under the laws of Colorado and of the United States. A person who carries a concealed handgun under the exception has the same carrying rights and is subject to the same limitations as apply to a person who holds a permit to carry a concealed handgun, including but not limited to the existing limitations concerning the carrying of a concealed handgun on the real property, or in any improvements erected thereon, of a public elementary, middle, junior high, or high school.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/09/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/15/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over to 02/20/2012
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Referred to Judiciary
02/23/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
05/07/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1092
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1092
House Judiciary : HB12-1092
Video Center: House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1092
House Legislative Day 35: HB12-1092

HB12-1093 Replace Defective Home Appliances 
Sponsors: SOPER
Summary: This bill adds provisions to the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act" to require as part of a homeowner's insurance subrogation action to recover damages to a dwelling unit caused by a defective appliance that was purchased new and used for less than 5 years and where damages sought exceed $5,000, that the final judgement in the case, if the insurer prevails, or the final settlement of the case, include provision for replacement of the defective appliance, unless the insured homeowner in writing waives total replacement of the defective appliance.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/26/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1093
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HB12-1094 Parking In Front Of Fire Hydrant Penalty 
Sponsors: KERR A.
Summary: The bill increases the fine for parking in front of a fire hydrant in an unincorporated area of a county to a range of $150 to $200.
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/15/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/21/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
03/13/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/16/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/19/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:41 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:35 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1094
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1094
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1094
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1094
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1094
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1094
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1094
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1094
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1094
Senate Legislative Day 69: HB12-1094
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1094
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1094

HB12-1095 Verification Of Electronic Court Documents 
Sponsors: WALLER
Summary: H.B. 12-1095 Court procedure - electronic warrants. The act conforms statutory language related to electronic warrants to the language in court rules. APPROVED by Governor March 22, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause
Status: 01/17/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/17/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/22/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/27/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/28/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/07/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012:05 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:52 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1095
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1095
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1095
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1095
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1095
Senate Legislative Day 62: HB12-1095
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1095
House Legislative Day 45: HB12-1095

HB12-1096 Extend Make-A-Wish Foundation Of CO Tax Checkoff 
Sponsors: KERR A. / BROPHY
Summary: The bill extends the period for which state income tax return forms include a line whereby individual taxpayers may make a voluntary contribution to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado fund.
Status: 01/18/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/01/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
02/21/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/24/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/07/2012:01 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/07/2012:04 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1096
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1096
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1096
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1096
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1096
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1096
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 50: HB12-1096
Senate Legislative Day 50: HB12-1096
Senate Legislative Day 45: HB12-1096
Senate Legislative Day 49: HB12-1096
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1096
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1096

HB12-1097 Food Protection Act Civil Penalties 
Sponsors: SUMMERS / JAHN
Summary: The bill specifies that proceedings to suspend or revoke the license of a retail food establishment may be commenced only after the imposition of other civil penalties.
Status: 01/18/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
02/14/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/15/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/20/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/26/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:52 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:49 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1097
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 73: HB12-1097
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1097
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 38: HB12-1097
House Health and Environment: HB12-1097
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 76: HB12-1097
Senate Legislative Day 73: HB12-1097
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1097
House Legislative Day 38: HB12-1097

HB12-1098 Salvage Vehicle Sale Certificate Title Warning 
Sponsors: BALMER / JAHN
Summary: Section 2 of the bill prohibits a salvage vehicle pool from selling a salvaged vehicle unless it is sold to a licensed dealer or recycler. Section 3 requires that specific warnings be placed on each certificate of title for a salvage vehicle. A person who fails to obtain a salvage title is subject to punishment of a fine of $10 to $500, imprisonment for 10 days to 6 months, or both.
Status: 01/18/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/08/2012 House Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1099 Phytoremediation Hemp Remediation Pilot Program 
Sponsors: MCKINLEY
Summary: The chair of the agriculture, livestock, and natural resources committee in the house of representatives and the chair of the agriculture, natural resources, and energy committee in the senate will appoint 7 members to the industrial hemp remediation pilot program committee (committee). The committee will establish an industrial hemp remediation pilot program (pilot program) to study how soils and water may be made more pristine and healthy by phytoremediation, removal of contaminants, and rejuvenation through the growth of industrial hemp. The committee consists of members with various scientific backgrounds and with knowledge about the growth of industrial hemp. The growth of industrial hemp is prohibited until the commissioner of agriculture (commissioner) approves the site chosen by the committee, the security measures that have been put in place by the committee at the pilot program location, and the cleanup plan for the site at the conclusion of the pilot program. The committee will make a final report of its findings and submit the report to the commissioner. The committee may accept gifts, grants, and donations for the pilot program. The pilot program is repealed on July 1, 2022.
Status: 01/18/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/18/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government + Appropriations
02/13/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/10/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/12/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/18/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/24/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/25/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
05/02/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Unamended to Legislative Council
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Legislative Council Refer Unamended to Finance
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Re-Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/07/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered
05/17/2012:43 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:53 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/04/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1099
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1099
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1099
Legislative Council Committee: HB12-1099
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1099
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 98: HB12-1099
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1099
Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1099
Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1099
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1099
House Legislative Day 99: HB12-1099
House Legislative Day 98: HB12-1099

HB12-1100 Pregnancy & Evidence Of Substance Use 
Sponsors: SUMMERS / AGUILAR
Summary: The bill makes the results of any information related to substance use obtained as part of a screening or test performed for the purpose of determining pregnancy or providing prenatal care inadmissible in any criminal proceeding.
Status: 01/18/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/31/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
02/20/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/29/2012 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/02/2012:57 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/09/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1100
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 44: HB12-1100
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1100
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1100
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1100
House Judiciary : HB12-1100
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 45: HB12-1100
Senate Legislative Day 44: HB12-1100
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1100
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1100

HB12-1101 Use Of Personal Info To Defraud 
Sponsors: BARKER
Summary: The bill clarifies certain statutory language describing the offenses of identity theft. To commit identity theft, it is not necessary that a person be aware that the personal identifying information, financial identifying information, or financial device involved in the commission of the offense belongs to another person.
Status: 01/18/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/18/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Appropriations
02/02/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/24/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/25/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate Judiciary : HB12-1101
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1101
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1101
House Judiciary : HB12-1101
Video Center: House Legislative Day 104: HB12-1101
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1101

HB12-1102 Cap Clean Air Clean Jobs Electricity Rate Impact 
Sponsors: SWALM / TOCHTROP
Summary: House Bill 10-1365 created the "Clean Air - Clean Jobs Act" (act), which directs rate-regulated electric utilities (utilities) to create plans to achieve reduced emissions from coal-fired power plants (plans). The act specifies the extent to which costs in implementing plans are recoverable by utilities. This bill directs the public utilities commission to establish a maximum retail rate impact of 1% of the annual total base rate electric bill for each customer, beginning in 2013 and ending in 2023.
Status: 01/19/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/15/2012 House Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1103 Exclude Clean Counties From Enhanced Emission Area 
Sponsors: VAAD
Summary: The bill allows a board of county commissioners for a particular county to exclude, by resolution, any or all parts of the county from the enhanced motor vehicle emissions program area if the excluded part of the county does not violate any national ambient air quality standard for carbon monoxide or ozone as established by the environmental protection agency.
Status: 01/19/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
01/19/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Appropriations
02/09/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/02/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/12/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/16/2012 House Second Reading Passed
03/19/2012 House Second Reading Passed
03/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
04/02/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
04/23/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1103
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1103
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1103
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1103
House Health and Environment: HB12-1103
Video Center: House Legislative Day 70: HB12-1103
House Legislative Day 69: HB12-1103

HB12-1104 CO Cancer Fund Tax Checkoff Name Change 
Sponsors: SWERDFEGER / GIRON
Summary: The bill changes a voluntary contribution on the state income tax return form from the Colorado breast and women's reproductive cancers voluntary contribution to the Colorado Cancer Fund voluntary contribution.
Status: 01/19/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/01/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/08/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/21/2012:53 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:35 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 64: HB12-1104
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1104
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1104
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1104
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1104
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 64: HB12-1104
Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1104
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1104
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1104

HB12-1105 Wind Energy Property Rights 
Sponsors: BECKER
Summary: The bill establishes a nonseverable wind energy right in real property.
Status: 01/19/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/30/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/02/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/29/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/01/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
04/03/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/10/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/12/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/12/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
05/02/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012:03 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:06 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/29/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 113: HB12-1105
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 91: HB12-1105
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 90: HB12-1105
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 51: HB12-1105
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1105
Video Center: House Legislative Day 113: HB12-1105
Senate Legislative Day 91: HB12-1105
Senate Legislative Day 90: HB12-1105
House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1105
House Legislative Day 51: HB12-1105
House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1105

HB12-1106 Court-ordered Driver Improvement School Surcharge 
Sponsors: PENISTON
Summary: The bill directs the department of revenue to transmit to each court that refers students to driver improvement schools a table of the schools with the schools' evaluations and notice of whether the schools are collecting and remitting the penalty surcharge paid by students. The department is to notify a school of noncompliance, and the school has 30 days to come into compliance. If a school refuses to allow an evaluation, the department then notifies each court and publishes the fact on its web site until the school complies. If a school receives an unsatisfactory evaluation, it has 90 days to raise its standards. If it does so, it may receive a new evaluation.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/15/2012 House Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1107 Grand Valley Drainage Dist Excavation Exemption 
Sponsors: SCOTT
Summary: The bill allows the board of directors of the grand valley drainage district to adopt a resolution exempting the district and the district's maintenance efforts from excavation requirements.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
02/15/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1108 Dept Transportation Urban Logo Signs 
Sponsors: KAGAN / SCHEFFEL
Summary: The bill repeals restrictions on the placement of department of transportation logo signs in urbanized areas on the interstate system.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
03/21/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/26/2012 House Second Reading Passed
03/27/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
04/26/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/30/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/01/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/15/2012:53 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:55 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/18/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 112: HB12-1108
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 77: HB12-1108
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1108
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 112: HB12-1108
House Legislative Day 76: HB12-1108
House Legislative Day 77: HB12-1108

HB12-1109 Budget Cuts To Provide More Public School Funding 
Sponsors: MCKINLEY
Summary: For the fiscal year 2012-13, the bill requires the general assembly to reduce the total state general fund appropriations to the legislative branch, the judicial branch, and each executive department, excluding the department of health care policy and financing and the department of education, by an amount equal to the general fund appropriations to the respective branch or department for the fiscal year 2011-12 multiplied by the current rate of unemployment as of March 1, 2012. The bill also requires the state treasurer on January 1, 2013, to transfer an amount equal to the total reduction in general fund appropriations to the state education fund.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1109
Video Center: House Legislative Day 104: HB12-1109

HB12-1110 Regulation Of Appraisal Management Companies 
Sponsors: WILLIAMS A. / CARROLL
Summary: In compliance with federal law, Colorado currently requires the licensing of real estate appraisers. In order to promote enhanced consumer protection, recently adopted federal guidelines now require mortgage lenders to use entities known as appraisal management companies, which hire licensed real estate appraisers, to value property for lending purposes. Appraisal management companies are not currently subject to regulation under Colorado law. The bill authorizes the board of real estate appraisers in the division of real estate in the department of regulatory agencies to regulate appraisal management companies. Necessary terminology is defined and the registration of appraisal management companies is required. Section 5 of the bill sets forth the requirements for registration and exemptions for certain types of activities. Section 3 of the bill amends the section creating the board of real estate appraisers by adding a member who is an officer or employee of an appraisal management company and subtracting one public member. Requirements for owners and controlling persons of appraisal management companies are established, including a requirement that certain persons submit information, including fingerprints, for criminal history record checks. The bill sets forth prohibited activities and grounds for disciplinary action against appraisal management companies and owners and controlling persons. Administrative and criminal penalties for violations are established, and the board of real estate appraisers is granted the power to administer the provisions of the bill. The bill requires real estate appraisers to maintain errors and omissions insurance. Appraisal management companies are required to post with the board a surety bond in the amount of $25,000. Sections 12 through 15 of the bill make conforming amendments to existing statutes to make them consistent with the changes made in the bill.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/23/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to Finance
03/07/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/03/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/04/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/09/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
04/23/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Unamended to Finance
05/01/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Orders - Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered
05/17/2012:11 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:57 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/08/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1110
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1110
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1110
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 85: HB12-1110
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 83: HB12-1110
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1110
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1110
Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1110
Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1110
House Legislative Day 85: HB12-1110
House Legislative Day 83: HB12-1110

HB12-1111 Photo Identification For Voting 
Sponsors: SZABO
Summary: One of the following is required to be used as identification for election-related purposes:
* A valid Colorado driver's license;
* A valid identification card issued by the department of revenue;
* A valid United States passport;
* A valid employee identification card with a photograph of the eligible elector issued by a governmental entity;
* A valid pilot's license issued by the federal aviation administration or other authorized federal agency;
* A valid United States military identification card with a photograph of the eligible elector;
* A valid medicare or medicaid card issued by the United States health care financing administration that has been issued to an eligible elector who is a resident of a state-licensed facility; or
* A valid student identification card with a photograph of the eligible elector issued by an institution of higher education established and existing as an agency of the state of Colorado. The following documentation is removed from the list of identification that may be used for election-related purposes:
* A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the elector;
* A certified copy of a birth certificate for the elector issued in the United States; and
* Certified documentation of naturalization.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs + Appropriations
02/22/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/13/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/15/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/19/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
04/04/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1111
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1111
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1111
Video Center: House Legislative Day 70: HB12-1111
House Legislative Day 69: HB12-1111

HB12-1112 State Economic Impact As Procurement Factor 
Sponsors: RYDEN
Summary: The bill creates the economic impact rating system advisory board (advisory board) in the office of economic development (office). The board consists of 11 voting members with specific qualifications appointed by the governor and 5 ex officio nonvoting members. The advisory board is charged with analyzing the feasibility of establishing an economic impact rating system (system), which measures a company's economic impact in the state. The advisory board is required to annually report to legislative committees on the status of the system. If the system is feasible, the advisory board will assist the office in the development of the system. The system must be designed to allow a company to input information about its operations and connections to the state, and the information will be used to generate a state economic impact rating. To the extent possible, the office is required to design the system so that a company may access it on-line. The office is required to notify the executive director of the department of personnel when an operational system has been developed. Once the system is operational, the state economic impact rating is to be used for proposals solicited through a request for proposals. A state purchasing director or the head of the purchasing agency is required to use the state economic impact rating as an evaluation factor in determining which offeror's proposal is most advantageous to the state. An offeror that responds to a request for proposals is not required to submit its state economic impact rating. The only source of funding for the system is from the newly created economic impact rating system cash fund, which consists of gifts, grants, or donations. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the office for the system.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/15/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1113 Preferences In State Public Contracts 
Sponsors: LEE
Summary: Preference where contract to be performed by mostly Colorado residents. On and after July 1, 2012, if a state agency (agency) or governmental body (body) issues an invitation for bids or a request for proposals for a construction contract for a public project (construction contract) or for a services contract that is, in either case, worth more than $500,000, the agency or body must grant a 3% preference to the bidder or offeror (contractor) if the contractor certifies that at least 90% of the employees who will perform the requirements of the contract are Colorado residents. With respect to a construction contract, an agency or body must also grant a contractor who receives the 3% preference:
* An additional 1% preference if the contractor certifies that it offers health care and retirement benefits to the employees who will perform the contract requirements; and
* An additional 1% preference if the contractor certifies that the employees who will perform the contract requirements have access to a federally qualified apprenticeship training program. With respect to a services contract, an agency or body must also grant a contractor who receives the 3% preference an additional 2% preference if the contractor certifies that it offers health care benefits and retirement benefits to the employees who will perform the requirements of the contract. An agency or body may not allow any of the preferences to a noncompliant contractor, and the contractor may not use the preference to satisfy a minimum requirement of a contract. A contractor that seeks a preference for a bid or offer must certify its eligibility for the preference to the agency or body that issued the invitation for bids or request for proposals. The agency or body may rely on the certification but may also require the contractor to submit substantiating documentation or other information needed to verify the contractor's eligibility for the preference. The executive director of the department of personnel (department) must promulgate rules for the administration of each preference, including processes for a contractor to certify and an agency or body to verify the contractor's eligibility for the preference. Veterans' preference. When a contract for supplies or services is to be awarded though competitive sealed bidding or through competitive sealed best value bidding, the bill requires an amount equal to 2.5% of the bid price to be subtracted from the bid of each bidder that is a veteran or a veteran business. When a contract for supplies, services, or professional services is to be awarded through a request for competitive sealed proposals, the bill requires that one of the evaluation factors stated in the request is whether the offeror is a veteran or a veteran business. The relative weight assigned to the offeror's status as a veteran or as a veteran business is 2.5%. The bill defines "veteran" to mean a person who is a resident of the state of Colorado, who was separated under honorable conditions, and who, other than for training purposes, served in any branch of the armed forces of the United States, including, without limitation, service in the armed forces reserve or National Guard, and "veteran business" to mean a continuing independent, for-profit business located in the state in which one or more veterans hold an ownership interest of at least 51%. The bill requires any person that requests a veterans' preference to complete an application for the purpose of certifying the person's status as a veteran or a veteran business. Upon the satisfaction of the department of personnel (department) that the person is entitled to the preference, the department is required to issue the person a distinctive identification number that, when submitted as part of a bid, offer, or other purchasing documents, entitles the person to the preference. Any person who has obtained the necessary certification is required to notify the department within 30 days after the occurrence of any event that affects the person's ability to qualify as a veteran business, including, without limitation, a change in the ownership of the business. If the department determines that a person that received a preference no longer satisfies the requirements applicable to a veteran business at any time during the pendency of the contract, the executive director of the department (executive director) may reject the bid or offer submitted by the person or assess a civil penalty against the person. The department is required to revoke the certification of a veteran business for a period of not less than 12 months upon making a determination that the business has failed to notify the department of a change in the status of the business. During the 12-month revocation period, a veteran business whose certification has been revoked may submit a bid or offer on a state contract but is not eligible for the preference. The bill specifies the manner in which certification may be restored after the completion of the revocation period. The bill specifies penalties that are applicable if the department determines that a person has made a material misrepresentation or otherwise committed a fraudulent act in obtaining a veterans' preference. Any person against whom the department has imposed a sanction may apply to the executive director for a review of the decision. The executive director or the executive director's designee has the authority to promulgate rules to implement the veterans' preference.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/22/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1114 Stalking Mandatory Arrest Protection Order 
Sponsors: HAMNER / SCHWARTZ
Summary: H.B. 12-1114 Stalking - protection order required - hearing to modify protection order. When a defendant is arrested for stalking, the court must enter a protection order and state the terms of the protection order and the defendant must acknowledge the order. In a stalking case, the prosecutor can request a hearing to modify the protection order. APPROVED by Governor May 11, 2012 EFFECTIVE May 11, 2012
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/16/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/27/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/28/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/07/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/13/2012 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/02/2012:40 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/03/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012:08 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/11/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1114
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 64: HB12-1114
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1114
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1114
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1114
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1114
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1114
House Judiciary : HB12-1114
Video Center: House Legislative Day 111: HB12-1114
Senate Legislative Day 64: HB12-1114
Senate Legislative Day 62: HB12-1114
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1114
House Legislative Day 45: HB12-1114

HB12-1115 Business Fiscal Impact Statements New Laws 
Sponsors: LISTON / JAHN
Summary: The bill requires the staff of the legislative council to designate a 5-day period following the introduction of new legislation during which Colorado businesses may submit comments regarding the business fiscal impact of the new legislation. Upon the expiration of the 5-day period, the staff of the legislative council is required to compile and summarize the comments and prepare a business fiscal impact statement. The statement will accompany the fiscal note.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/14/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/27/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/28/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/19/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1115
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1115
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1115
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1115
Video Center: House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1115
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1115

HB12-1116 Deceptive Practices Resale Time Share Transactions 
Sponsors: MURRAY / NICHOLSON
Summary: The bill amends provisions of the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act" relating to time share transactions and, in particular, transactions involving resale time shares. Section 3 of the bill requires entities that provide time share resale services to disclose the following information to the owner of the resale time share, and makes failure to disclose the information a deceptive trade practice:
* Contact information for the time share resale entity and any agent or third-party service provider who will perform any time share resale services for the entity;
* A legal description of the resale time share;
* A description of the method or documentation by which the transfer of the resale time share will be completed;
* If the owner of the resale time share will retain any interest in the resale time share, a description of the interests retained by the owner of the resale time share;
* A listing of any fees, costs, or other consideration that the owner of the resale time share must pay or reimburse for performance of the time share resale service;
* A statement that the time share resale entity and its affiliates and agents will not collect from the owner of the resale time share any fees, costs, or other consideration until the entity provides the owner a copy of the recorded deed clearly demonstrating the transfer of the resale time share and a written acknowledgment from the association of time share owners or other responsible person that the time share resale entity has complied with the association's policies governing the transfer of resale time shares, if any;
* The date by which all acts sufficient to transfer the resale time share in accordance with the time share resale transfer agreement are estimated to be completed, which should be within 180 days after entering the agreement;
* A statement as to whether any person, including the owner of the resale time share, may occupy, rent, exchange, or otherwise exercise any form of use of the resale time share during the term of the time share resale transfer agreement;
* The name of any person, other than the owner of the resale time share, who will receive any rents, profits, or other consideration or thing of value, if any, generated from the transfer of the applicable resale time share or the use of the applicable resale time share during the term of the time share resale transfer agreement;
* A statement detailing the owner's responsibilities in the event the entity does not transfer ownership of the resale time share within 180 days after entering the agreement;
* A statement that the time share resale entity will notify the specified persons or entities, in writing, when ownership of the resale time share is transferred. Section 2 of the bill defines the following activities as deceptive trade practices in the advertisement or sale of a time share or the provision of a resale time share service:
* Making false or misleading statements in connection with a time share resale service;
* Making false or misleading statements concerning the method or source from which the name, address, telephone number, or other contact information of the owner was obtained;
* Making false or misleading statements concerning the identity of the time share resale service entity or that entity's affiliates or the terms and conditions upon which the time share or the time share resale services are offered. Section 1 defines the following terms: "Resale time share", "time share resale entity", "time share resale service", and "time share resale transfer agreement".
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/09/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
02/21/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/12/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/15/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/21/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate Judiciary : HB12-1116
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1116
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1116
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1116
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1116
Video Center: House Legislative Day 62: HB12-1116
House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1116

HB12-1117 Local Gov Allow Charitable Giving From Motorists 
Sponsors: BALMER / NICHOLSON
Summary: H.B. 12-1117 Solicitation occurring adjacent to roadways - charitable organizations permitted - conditions. The act gives state approval for a local government, in its discretion, to allow charitable organizations to solicit contributions from motorists for charitable purposes on a maximum of 5 days per charitable organization per calendar year. APPROVED by Governor March 22, 2012 EFFECTIVE March 22, 2012
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/13/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/16/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
02/28/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/06/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:11 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:11 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1117
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1117
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1117
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1117
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 38: HB12-1117
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 56: HB12-1117
Senate Legislative Day 55: HB12-1117
Senate Legislative Day 52: HB12-1117
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1117
House Legislative Day 38: HB12-1117

HB12-1118 School Collective Bargaining Open To Public 
Sponsors: CONTI
Summary: A meeting of members of a board of education (local board) or school administration personnel with one or more representatives of employees at which the terms of a collective bargaining agreement are negotiated are open to the public, and the local board or school administration personnel shall give any prior notice of the meeting that is required by law. A local board may conduct an executive session to determine its position on matters subject to negotiations so long as a representative of employees is not present during the executive session. When a local board enters into the terms of a written collective bargaining agreement, the local board shall make available for public inspection any document that:
* Has been presented to a representative of the employees who are a party to the agreement, by any member of the local board or school administrative personnel that is a party to the agreement; or
* Has been presented to any member of the local board or school administrative personnel that is a party to the agreement to a representative of the employees who are a party to the agreement. For the purposes of the "Colorado Sunshine Act of 1972", "local public body" includes members of a local board, school administration personnel, or a combination thereof, who are involved in a meeting with one or more representatives of employees at which a collective bargaining agreement is discussed. For the purposes of the "Colorado Open Records Act", "public records" includes documents relating to the conduct of collective bargaining negotiations between a local board, school administration personnel, or a combination thereof, and a representative of employees.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
03/08/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/16/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
04/04/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1118
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1118
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1118
Video Center: House Legislative Day 70: HB12-1118
House Legislative Day 69: HB12-1118

HB12-1119 Success Act To Limit State Agency Fines 
Sponsors: CORAM / GIRON
Summary: The bill limits the discretion of a state executive branch agency to impose a fine for a minor violation of a state law or a state agency rule by prohibiting an agency from:
* Imposing a fine for a minor violation that is an inspection-related violation if the violator made a reasonable good faith effort to comply with the state law or state agency rule that it violated unless:
* The state agency provides written notice of the violation to the violator within 20 business days of the date of the inspection; and
* The violator fails to remedy the violation within 20 business days of receiving the notice.
* Imposing a fine for a minor violation that is a paperwork violation unless:
* The state agency provides written notice of the violation to the violator within 90 business days after the violator committed the violation by missing a filing deadline or filing an erroneous form or other filing; and
* The violator fails to remedy the violation within 90 business days of receiving the notice of the violation.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
03/08/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to Finance
03/22/2012 House Committee on Finance Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
03/28/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
05/01/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/03/2012 House Third Reading Passed
05/04/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended to Finance
05/07/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/17/2012:15 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:26 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1119
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1119
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 114: HB12-1119
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 114: HB12-1119
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 113: HB12-1119
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1119
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1119
House Legislative Day 114: HB12-1119
House Legislative Day 114: HB12-1119
House Legislative Day 113: HB12-1119

HB12-1120 Create Unemployment Insurance Division In DOLE 
Sponsors: SWERDFEGER / TOCHTROP
Summary: The division of employment and training (E&T division) in the department of labor and employment (department) is currently tasked with administering both the unemployment compensation program and the work force development program within the department. The bill creates a new division of unemployment insurance (UI division) within the department and tasks the UI division with administering the unemployment compensation program. The E&T division is relocated to a new article in the statutes and is tasked with administering the work force development program.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/09/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/14/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/14/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/15/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
02/29/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/06/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:26 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:23 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/19/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1120
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1120
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 35: HB12-1120
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1120
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 56: HB12-1120
House Legislative Day 36: HB12-1120
House Legislative Day 35: HB12-1120

HB12-1121 PUC Hearings Utility Ratepayers' Bill Of Rights 
Sponsors: SCOTT
Summary: In statutes governing the conduct of rate-making proceedings by the Colorado public utilities commission (commission), the bill lists basic principles to be followed by the commission and by investor-owned public utilities seeking approval of rate increases. The principles include:
* Keeping in mind that investor-owned utilities exist for the benefit of consumers as well as utility shareholders, and that the interests of consumers should always be among the utility's highest priorities;
* Requiring utilities to share rate increase information with the public in a transparent and understandable form, including illustrating the cost impact to specific customers in addition to the hypothetical average customer;
* A prohibition on charging ratepayers for research and development costs or for complying with environmental regulations that have not yet been imposed; and
* A prohibition on recovering, from ratepayers, the utility's legal fees and costs incurred in seeking rate increases.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/15/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/12/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/16/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over to 5/10/2012
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HB12-1122 Medication Take-back Divert From Water Disposal 
Sponsors: WILSON
Summary: Current law allows for the disposal of unwanted medication in landfills and state waters. The bill creates a locally run medication take-back program to divert this waste from water disposal and to minimize the inadvertent or inappropriate use of medications. The division of administration in the department of public health and environment will use gifts, grants, and donations to make grants to local public or private entities that wish to offer a medication take-back program. The collected medication must be disposed of safely. Immunity is provided for the sponsors of the local program. The solid and hazardous waste commission may promulgate rules for the program, including for public education. Effective January 1, 2017, the disposal of medication in water is prohibited. The general assembly's legislative service agencies will conduct a post-enactment review of the bill by July 1, 2017.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
02/13/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1123 PUC Report To GA On Rate Case Hearings 
Sponsors: CONTI
Summary: The bill requires the director of the public utilities commission (PUC) or the director's designee to report annually to the joint house and senate transportation committees regarding matters discussed on the record in energy rate case hearings that were decided by the commission during the immediately preceding 2 years. For all rate cases included in the report, the bill directs the commission to estimate the economic impact of the rates involved, including the average increase or decrease in ratepayers' monthly bills.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/16/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/21/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1123
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1123
Video Center: House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1123
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1123

HB12-1124 Colorado Digital Learning Study 
Sponsors: MASSEY
Summary: H.B. 12-1124 Digital learning in Colorado - study. The act directs the department of education (department) to commission a study of the issues surrounding integration of digital learning into the statewide system of public education in Colorado. The department will select a Colorado-based entity to complete the study. The study is funded by gifts, grants, or donations. If the department does not receive sufficient moneys to complete the study, it will not commission the study. The study will be completed and submitted to the state board of education, the governor, and the education committees of the general assembly by January 31, 2013. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE May 24, 2012
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
02/13/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/16/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
03/07/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/13/2012 Senate Third Reading Referred to Legislative Council
04/25/2012 Senate Committee on Legislative Council Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/30/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/03/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/08/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012:22 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:24 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1124
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1124
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 108: HB12-1124
Legislative Council Committee: HB12-1124
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1124
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1124
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 38: HB12-1124
Video Center: House Legislative Day 119: HB12-1124
Senate Legislative Day 111: HB12-1124
Senate Legislative Day 108: HB12-1124
Senate Legislative Day 62: HB12-1124
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1124
House Legislative Day 38: HB12-1124

HB12-1125 Modify Procedures Regarding Impounded Animal Costs 
Sponsors: RAMIREZ / STEADMAN
Summary: H.B. 12-1125 Impounded animals - payment of costs for impoundment, care, and provision of animals - hearing - procedures - refund of moneys paid for costs - when - independent veterinary exam. The act modifies procedural requirements related to the payment of impoundment, care, and provision costs for an animal that has been impounded because of alleged neglect or abuse or other criminal acts involving the animal. Currently, the owner or custodian (owner) of the impounded animal may request a hearing to contest the reasonableness of those costs. The act specifies that the owner must make that request within 10 days after the date of impoundment. Because costs associated with caring for the animal continue to accrue during the pendency of an animal's impoundment, the act requires the hearing to be conducted in a criminal court of competent jurisdiction no later than 10 days after the request. The act also: Upon request by the owner of an impounded animal, requires an impound agency to allow a licensed veterinarian of the owner's choosing and at his or her expense to examine the animal; For an owner requesting a hearing, delays the payment of costs until the date of the hearing; Expands the scope of the hearing to include a judicial determination as to whether probable cause existed to justify the impoundment; Describes circumstances under which a payment for impoundment, care, and provision costs must be refunded to an owner; and Clarifies that the criminal law procedures governing impoundments do not apply to matters solely brought in an administrative context. In order to increase clarity, the act also reorganizes the existing statute governing impounded animals and makes corresponding nonsubstantive amendments to conform current law to that reorganization. APPROVED by Governor April 12, 2012 EFFECTIVE September 1, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources + Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Appropriations
02/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/29/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/01/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/14/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/19/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/22/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/23/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/30/2012:08 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:04 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/12/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 73: HB12-1125
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1125
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1125
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1125
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 51: HB12-1125
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1125
Video Center: House Legislative Day 73: HB12-1125
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1125
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1125
Senate Legislative Day 69: HB12-1125
House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1125
House Legislative Day 51: HB12-1125
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1125

HB12-1126 On-site Wastewater Treatment Systems 
Sponsors: GEROU
Summary: The bill modernizes and simplifies the laws related to individual sewage treatment systems. Section 1 of the bill:
* Replaces the terms "individual sewage disposal system" (or "ISDS") with "on-site wastewater treatment system" (or "OWTS") and updates other OWTS-related terms and definitions;
* Eliminates references to disposal of sewage to more accurately convey that sewage is treated;
* Explicitly authorizes performance-based approaches to the regulation of OWTSs;
* Requires the division of administration in the department of public health and environment (department) to periodically advise the water quality control commission (commission) in the department regarding whether the commission should consider adopting new rules to reflect scientific advances in OWTSs;
* Removes specific topics and parameters for which the commission and local boards of health are required to promulgate rules, thus allowing those entities greater regulatory flexibility to regulate OWTSs;
* Reorganizes existing law for increased clarity, including relocating provisions pertaining to the issuance of variances from OWTS rules;
* Withdraws from local boards of health, and places within the purview of the commission, the authority to specify by rule mandatory tests that must be performed on OWTSs and allows local boards of health to adopt rules requiring additional studies;
* Strikes references to a distinct "emergency use permit" and instead incorporates the ability of a local public health agency to allow use of a malfunctioning OWTS under the terms of, and concurrent with, a repair permit;
* Condenses language pertaining to fees that a local board of health may collect for OWTS-related services, and allows the amount of such fees to be sufficient to offset the indirect costs (in addition to direct costs) incurred; and
* Repeals specific provisions relating to, while reaffirming, the authority of a local board of health to prohibit permits for an OWTS when the OWTS will constitute a hazard to public health or water quality. Sections 2 through 8 contain conforming amendments.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Appropriations
02/16/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/02/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
03/06/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/22/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/03/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/10/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/19/2012:13 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/19/2012:24 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/26/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 91: HB12-1126
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 90: HB12-1126
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1126
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1126
House Health and Environment : HB12-1126
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 91: HB12-1126
Senate Legislative Day 90: HB12-1126
House Legislative Day 56: HB12-1126

HB12-1127 Unemployment Ins Rate Reduction New Employers 
Sponsors: LISTON
Summary: The current unemployment insurance premium rate for new employers is 0.0170. In legislation enacted in 2011 (House Bill 11-1088), once solvency in the unemployment insurance fund is achieved, the rate for new employers would increase. This bill eliminates this rate increase and keeps the rate at 0.0170 after solvency in the unemployment insurance fund is reached.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/31/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/03/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
02/29/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/06/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:51 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:39 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/19/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1127
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1127
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1127
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1127
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 56: HB12-1127
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1127
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1127

HB12-1128 No Discrimination Based On Unconventional Attire 
Sponsors: MIKLOSI
Summary: The bill adds "unconventional attire" as grounds on which discrimination in places of public accommodation may not be based. "Unconventional attire" means dress that indicates a person's participation in motorcycling or status as a veteran.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
03/07/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1129 Moneys For Small Business Development Centers 
Sponsors: TYLER / JAHN
Summary: For the 2012-13 and 2013-14 state fiscal years, the bill requires the general assembly to appropriate moneys, in amounts to match federal funds but not to exceed $300,000 each year, to the Colorado office of economic development (office). The state director of small business development centers (SBDCs) in the office may expend up to 15% of the appropriated moneys to increase awareness of SBDCs and shall equitably distribute the remainder to SBDCs across the state and, where possible, to reestablish SBDCs that have closed since January 1, 2007. The office is required to report to the general assembly regarding the disbursement and the measurable results of the use of those moneys.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development + Appropriations
02/21/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1130 First Degree Murder Of Unborn Child 
Sponsors: JOSHI
Summary: The bill creates a new article for offenses against pregnant women and their unborn children. The new offenses are unlawful termination of a pregnancy in the first degree, unlawful termination of a pregnancy in the second degree, unlawful termination of a pregnancy in the third degree, unlawful termination of a pregnancy in the fourth degree, vehicular unlawful termination of a pregnancy, and aggravated vehicular unlawful termination of a pregnancy. The bill excludes from prosecution medical care for which the mother provided consent. The penalty for criminal abortion in which the woman does not die is increased from a class 4 felony to a class 3 felony. The bill makes conforming amendments.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Appropriations
02/21/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/09/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/16/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/19/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
04/02/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Lay Over Amended
04/11/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate Judiciary : HB12-1130
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1130
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1130
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 66: HB12-1130
Video Center: House Legislative Day 69: HB12-1130
House Legislative Day 66: HB12-1130

HB12-1131 Child Loss Awareness Vehicle License Plate 
Sponsors: LABUDA
Summary: The bill creates the child loss awareness license plate. In addition to the normal motor vehicle fees, the plate requires 2 one-time fees of $25. One of the fees is credited to the highway users tax fund and the other to the licensing services cash fund.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Finance
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Finance + Appropriations
02/16/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Finance
02/22/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/09/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/12/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
03/13/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/19/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
03/27/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Finance
04/10/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/20/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/24/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/27/2012:31 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/27/2012:34 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/27/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1131
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1131
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1131
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1131
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 105: HB12-1131
Senate Legislative Day 104: HB12-1131
House Legislative Day 65: HB12-1131
House Legislative Day 62: HB12-1131

HB12-1132 Creative District Tax Incentives 
Sponsors: MIKLOSI / WILLIAMS S.
Summary: Section 2 of the bill:
* Defines a creative business activity as an activity that generates income for the person conducting it and that the creative industries division of the Colorado office of economic development (division) determines involves the design, creation, production, sale, exhibition, or performance of artistic, literary, musical, architectural, design, or other creative work product or otherwise directly relates to such work product; and
* For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2013, but before January 1, 2018, allows a person who earns income from engaging in creative business activities within a creative district certified by the division to claim a 50% income tax credit against the income tax liability attributable to income derived from the activities. Section 3 of the bill reduces the rate of sales tax imposed on sales made within a creative district on and after January 1, 2013, but before January 1, 2018, from 2.9% to 1.45%; except that, for a creative district certified on or after November 1, 2012, the reduced rate does not apply until the first day of the third month following the month of certification.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/22/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1133 Econ Gardening Business Assistance Pilot Program 
Sponsors: LEE
Summary: The bill creates an economic gardening pilot program (pilot program) in the Colorado office of economic development (office). Under the pilot program, the office contracts with entities that will provide management and technical assistance to the eligible businesses participating in the pilot program. The participating businesses are selected by the entities from among nominees forwarded by economic gardening partnerships. The number of participating businesses in the state is capped at 49, or 7 in each of 7 economic gardening regions in the state, in equal allotments per region. The office is authorized to accept gifts, grants, and donations to finance costs incurred in establishing the pilot program. The pilot program terminates in 2020, and the office's duty to report annually on the results of the pilot program to the general assembly expires in 2022.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/16/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Committee Vote - Tie Vote
02/24/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1134 Prohibit Job Discrimination Against Unemployed 
Sponsors: PABON
Summary: The bill prohibits an employer, employer's agent, employer's representative, or employer's designee (referred to as "employer") from publishing, in print or on the internet, an advertisement for any job vacancy that contains a provision that states:
* The qualifications for a job include current employment;
* An application for employment will not be considered if the applicant is currently unemployed; or
* Only applications submitted by job applicants who are currently employed will be considered. An employer who violates the provisions of the bill is subject to a civil penalty. The bill also clarifies that the prohibitions regarding advertising do not establish a private cause of action by an aggrieved person.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/21/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1135 Teacher Involvement Teacher Preparation Programs 
Sponsors: MURRAY
Summary: The bill instructs the state board of education (board) to promulgate rules concerning a method to include in educator evaluations the work of teachers who serve as cooperating teachers in field work or student teaching for teacher candidates (cooperating teachers). A timeline is established concerning the use of effective and highly effective teachers as cooperating teachers, leading to 100% of cooperating teachers as having had an effective or highly effective rating for the previous school year by the 2017-18 school year.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
02/27/2012 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1136 Prohibit Use Of Public Land For Retail Sales 
Sponsors: RAMIREZ / ROBERTS
Summary: The bill prohibits a public entity from operating, or contracting with a private entity to operate, for public use any truck stop, fueling station, or convenience store on or near public land, state highways, toll roads, or any other similar infrastructure supported by any state revenues. The bill does not prohibit a public entity from maintaining existing interstate public rest areas or constructing new interstate public rest areas as allowed by law. The bill also specifies that the prohibition is not retroactive and does not apply to restaurants or service centers related to a golf course or any souvenir shops that are on or near such public land, state highways, toll roads, or such similar infrastructure.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
04/18/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Lay Over Amended
04/19/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/24/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
04/25/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/26/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
05/02/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1136
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 106: HB12-1136
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 106: HB12-1136
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1136
Video Center: House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1136
House Legislative Day 106: HB12-1136

HB12-1137 DORA Registration Music Therapists 
Sponsors: TODD / BOYD
Summary: The bill establishes the "Music Therapy Practice Act" (act), which requires music therapists to register with the division of registrations (division) in the department of regulatory agencies in order to provide music therapy services in Colorado on or after July 1, 2013. To register, a music therapist must be at least 18 years of age; have at least a bachelor's degree in music therapy and have completed a minimum number of hours of clinical training; and have passed a national examination. The director of the division is authorized to discipline a music therapist who violates the act. The regulation of music therapists is subject to sunset review and repeal on September 1, 2017.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/16/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
02/22/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1138 Poverty Impact Statements For Bills 
Sponsors: KEFALAS / HUDAK
Summary: The bill allows a member of the general assembly to request the staff of the legislative council preparing the review of the fiscal impact of legislative measures introduced during any legislative session, regular or special, commencing on or after January 1, 2013, to prepare, within existing resources, a poverty impact statement if the legislative measure has a potential impact on child, individual, or family poverty in relation to individual or community asset development domains such as:
* Household income, assets, and financial security;
* Early childhood development and preschool through postsecondary education development;
* Employment and workforce development;
* Taxes and tax credits; or
* Child and dependent care, housing, health care, nutrition, transportation, and utilities assistance. The bill specifies that the poverty impact statement is intended to be a brief narrative and further sets forth specific information that must be included. The bill also gives guidance as to when the poverty impact statement must be prepared and released.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/15/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1139 Pretrial Detention Of Children Tried As Adults 
Sponsors: LEVY / GUZMAN
Summary: H.B. 12-1139 Juveniles tried as adults - pretrial detention - presumption juvenile facility - hearing and factors for detention. The act prohibits a juvenile who is to be tried as an adult from being held in an adult jail or pretrial facility unless the district court, after a hearing, finds that an adult jail or pretrial facility is the appropriate place of confinement for the juvenile. The act sets forth the following factors the district court must consider in making its decision: The age of the juvenile; Whether, in order to provide physical separation from adults, the juvenile would be deprived of contact with other people for a significant portion of the day or would not have access to recreational facilities or age-appropriate educational opportunities; The juvenile's current emotional state, intelligence, and developmental maturity, including any emotional and psychological trauma, and the risk to the juvenile caused by his or her placement in an adult jail, which risk may be evidenced by mental health or psychological assessments or screenings made available to the district attorney and to defense counsel; Whether detention in a juvenile facility will adequately serve the need for community protection pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings; Whether detention in a juvenile facility will negatively impact the functioning of the juvenile facility by compromising the goals of detention to maintain a safe, positive, and secure environment for all juveniles within the facility; The relative ability of the available adult and juvenile detention facilities to meet the needs of the juvenile, including the juvenile's need for mental health and educational services; Whether the juvenile presents an imminent risk of harm to himself or herself or others within a juvenile facility; The physical maturity of the juvenile; and Any other relevant factors. If the juvenile is held at a juvenile facility and poses an imminent danger to the other juveniles or staff of the facility, the division of youth corrections can petition the court for a hearing to transfer the juvenile to an adult jail. If the juvenile is ordered held in an adult jail, the juvenile may move for a review hearing at least 30 days after the decision to place the juvenile in an adult jail. The court may set the matter for hearing if the juvenile has alleged facts or circumstances that would warrant reconsideration of the juvenile's placement. APPROVED by Governor March 15, 2012 EFFECTIVE March 15, 2012
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/14/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
02/27/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/01/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/05/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:06 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:57 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1139
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1139
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1139
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1139
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 38: HB12-1139
House Judiciary : HB12-1139
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 55: HB12-1139
Senate Legislative Day 52: HB12-1139
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1139
House Legislative Day 38: HB12-1139

HB12-1140 Suicide Prevention For Minors Family Education 
Sponsors: JONES / NEWELL
Summary: The Colorado department of public health and environment (department) is designated in statute as the coordinator for suicide prevention programs throughout the state. The bill adds as a duty of the department, in its coordinator role, that the department require all hospitals that it licenses or certifies to educate parents, relatives, or friends to whom a minor who attempts suicide or displays suicidal gestures will be released from the hospital regarding the warning signs of suicide and suicide prevention.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Appropriations
02/16/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/05/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/15/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
04/12/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/17/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/24/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/25/2012 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/26/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/02/2012:53 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/03/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012:36 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/11/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 107: HB12-1140
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1140
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1140
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1140
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1140
House Health and Environment : HB12-1140
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 107: HB12-1140
Senate Legislative Day 105: HB12-1140
House Legislative Day 55: HB12-1140
House Legislative Day 52: HB12-1140

HB12-1141 Health Care Professionals Acudetox 
Sponsors: LEVY / NICHOLSON
Summary: Five-point auricular acudetox is acupuncture done on the ear that is often used to treat substance abuse, mental health, and behavioral health disorders. The bill allows mental health professionals and psychiatric technicians to perform five-point auricular acudetox if they have successfully completed the proper training.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Appropriations
02/16/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/09/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1142 New PERA Employee Defined Contribution Plan Choice 
Sponsors: DELGROSSO
Summary: In addition to its defined benefit plan, the public employees' retirement association (PERA) administers a defined contribution retirement plan. The law currently allows only specified state employees to participate in PERA's defined contribution plan. The bill would allow all employees who are members of PERA to participate as well. Newly eligible employees would be given an initial period to elect to join the defined contribution plan. Thereafter, the existing law governing participation and termination of membership in the defined benefit and contribution plans would control.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
03/01/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1143 Adjust County Reimbursement Rate For Elections 
Sponsors: FERRANDINO
Summary: H.B. 12-1143 State reimbursement of counties - cost of conducting election in which ballot measure on county ballot - appropriation. The act adjusts the rate at which the state is required to reimburse a particular county for the cost of the duties performed by the county clerk and recorder in conducting an election in which a state ballot issue or state ballot question is on the ballot of the county as follows: For counties with 10,000 or fewer active registered electors, the act increases the reimbursement rate from 80 cents to 90 cents for each active registered elector as of the time of the election; and For counties with more than 10,000 active registered electors, the act increases the reimbursement rate from 70 cents to 80 cents for each active registered elector as of the time of the election. The act appropriates, out of moneys in the department of state cash fund, to the department of state, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, the sum of $233,128, for allocation to the special purpose section for local election reimbursement related to the implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor May 29, 2012 EFFECTIVE May 29, 2012
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs + Appropriations
02/08/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/24/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/25/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
05/01/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Refer Unamended to Appropriations
05/02/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Orders - Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/17/2012:44 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:54 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/29/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1143
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1143
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1143
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1143
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1143
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1143
Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1143
House Legislative Day 104: HB12-1143
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1143

HB12-1144 Employment Contracts Non-tenure-track Professors 
Sponsors: FISCHER / BACON
Summary: H.B. 12-1144 Higher education - institutions - employment contracts - non-tenure-track faculty. The act authorizes each system of higher education and each campus of each state institution of higher education to employ, with the approval of its chief executive officer, an unlimited number of non-tenure-track, half-time or longer classroom teachers under renewable 3-year employment contracts. The employment contract must include a provision that renders the contract unenforceable if the employing system or campus ceases to be an enterprise and does not have sufficient financial reserves to satisfy the contract. APPROVED by Governor April 12, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/15/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
03/15/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/20/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/26/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/27/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:25 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:17 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/12/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 77: HB12-1144
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1144
Senate Education: HB12-1144
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1144
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 77: HB12-1144
Senate Legislative Day 76: HB12-1144
House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1144
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1144

HB12-1145 State Personnel Total Compensation Policies 
Sponsors: BRADFORD
Summary: The bill makes the following changes to the total compensation laws affecting state employees:
* A statutory provision specifying that state employees are typically hired at the minimum rate in a pay grade unless there is a showing of recruiting difficulty or other unusual condition is amended to specify that employees are typically hired at the mid rate.
* References to the "annual compensation report" and "annual compensation survey" are changed to the "total compensation report" and "total compensation survey". The total compensation report of the state personnel director is required to be published every 2 years instead of every year.
* A provision governing the manner in which holidays and paid leave are counted for certain employees performing essential services is repealed.
* The children of employees are considered dependents for group benefit purposes up to the age of 26, unless the United States supreme court finds the federal "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" to be unconstitutional, in which case the current statutory provisions defining children as dependents will be reinstated.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
03/01/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1146 Funding For Dropout Recovery Programs 
Sponsors: NIKKEL / GIRON
Summary: H.B. 12-1146 Concurrent enrollment - dropout recovery programs. The act authorizes a community college, including a junior district college, to agree with a local education provider to create a dropout recovery program through which a student who has dropped out of high school or who is at risk of dropping out of high school can concurrently enroll in the community college and the local education provider to complete his or her high school graduation requirements. The student attends classes exclusively at the community college, and all of the credits he or she earns count toward high school graduation. The dropout recovery program differs from the usual concurrent enrollment program with regard to the student's age and the number and type of course credits authorized. The community college and the local education provider enter into an agreement that specifies many aspects of the dropout recovery program, including the tuition rate the local education provider will pay on the student's behalf, which rate cannot exceed the student's share of tuition at a community college. The local education provider will include the student in its pupil enrollment, and the community college, and the local education provider may include additional financial provisions in the agreement. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2012 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2012
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations
02/13/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
03/02/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/12/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/15/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
03/29/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/03/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/10/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/12/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/02/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/07/2012:42 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/08/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/08/2012:00 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/17/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 113: HB12-1146
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 91: HB12-1146
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 90: HB12-1146
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1146
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1146
Video Center: House Legislative Day 113: HB12-1146
Senate Legislative Day 91: HB12-1146
Senate Legislative Day 90: HB12-1146
House Legislative Day 62: HB12-1146
House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1146

HB12-1147 Western Tiger Salamander State Amphibian 
Sponsors: WILLIAMS A. / FOSTER
Summary: The bill designates the western tiger salamander as the state amphibian of the state of Colorado.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
02/06/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/09/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/10/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/13/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
02/23/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/07/2012:25 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/07/2012:27 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/16/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1147
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1147
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1147
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 31: HB12-1147
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 50: HB12-1147
Senate Legislative Day 49: HB12-1147
House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1147
House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1147

HB12-1148 Neighborhood Revitalization Areas 
Sponsors: SONNENBERG
Summary: The bill authorizes the governing body of a municipality (governing body) to designate any area within such municipality as a neighborhood revitalization area if the area satisfies certain requirements and the rehabilitation, conservation, or redevelopment of the area is necessary to protect the health, safety, or welfare of the residents of the municipality. The governing body may also declare a building that is located outside the boundaries of a neighborhood revitalization area to be a dilapidated structure if the structure satisfies certain requirements. Prior to designating an area as a neighborhood revitalization area or a structure as a dilapidated structure, the bill requires the governing body to adopt a plan for the revitalization of the area or designation of a dilapidated structure. The bill includes the required components of the plan. The bill also specifies certain actions the governing body must undertake in order to designate a building as a dilapidated structure. Prior to adopting a plan, the governing body must call and hold a hearing on the proposal. Following the hearing, the governing body may adopt the plan. Following adoption of a plan, the bill requires the governing body to create a neighborhood revitalization fund to finance the redevelopment of designated revitalization areas and dilapidated structures and to provide property tax rebates authorized by the bill. Any incremental increase in property taxes levied by the municipality resulting from improvements by a taxpayer to property in a neighborhood revitalization area or to a dilapidated structure may be credited to the municipality's neighborhood revitalization fund for the purpose of returning all or a part of the property tax increment to the taxpayer in the form of a rebate. Upon approval of an application for a rebate, the municipality is required to credit to the taxpayer all or a part of the property tax increment resulting from the improvements. The bill specifies that no portion of the increment that may be claimed as a rebate by a taxpayer may include any portion of such increment that would otherwise be credited to a school district in the absence of the creation of a neighborhood revitalization area. Nothing in the bill is intended nor shall it be construed to affect the state's share of a school district's total program for any particular budget year as such share may be set in the absence of the creation of a neighborhood revitalization area. The bill authorizes any 2 or more municipalities or a municipality and another local government to enter into an intergovernmental agreement to exercise jointly the powers and duties authorized by the bill. The bill clarifies that its provisions are not intended to be construed to prevent municipalities from enacting and enforcing additional laws and rules on the same subject that are not in conflict with those contained in the bill.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/20/2012 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1149 Parents Request Action On Low-performing Schools 
Sponsors: BEEZLEY
Summary: Under existing law, if a public school fails to improve under a turnaround plan or operates under a priority improvement or turnaround plan for more than 5 consecutive school years, the state board of education (state board) directs the board of education of the school district (local school board) or the state charter school institute (institute) to take action to reconfigure the public school. The bill authorizes the parents of students enrolled in a public school that has operated under a priority improvement or turnaround plan for 2 consecutive years to submit a petition to the state board requesting the state board to direct the local school board or the institute to take action to reconfigure the public school immediately. The petition must be signed by more than 50% of the families of the students enrolled in the public school, and the parents must submit the petition by November 1 of the year preceding the year in which the public school would be reconfigured. If the state board receives such a petition, it must place consideration of the request on the agenda of the next regularly scheduled public state board meeting. The state board may choose to deny the petition, direct an action to take effect in the next school year, or reconsider the petition in the next school year. If the state board chooses to direct an action, it may ask the commissioner of education to convene the state review panel to evaluate the public school and make recommendations or it may direct the local school board or the institute to take action.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/29/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/01/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/28/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 51: HB12-1149
Video Center: House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1149
House Legislative Day 51: HB12-1149

HB12-1150 PERA Seven Year Highest Average Salary Calculation 
Sponsors: PRIOLA / LAMBERT
Summary: Current law averages the 3 highest annual salaries of a member of the public employees' retirement association when calculating that member's retirement benefit amount. The bill increases the number of highest annual salaries used from 3 to 7 for members who are first eligible to retire on or after January 1, 2013.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/23/2012 House Committee on Finance Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
03/01/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/12/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/19/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
04/12/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1150
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1150
Video Center: House Legislative Day 65: HB12-1150
House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1150

HB12-1151 Human Trafficking And Prostitution 
Sponsors: MCCANN / KING S.
Summary: H.B. 12-1151 Offenses against the person - human trafficking and slavery. The act repeals the interagency task force on trafficking in persons. A person is entitled to recover damages and to obtain injunctive relief from any person who commits trafficking in adults, trafficking in children, or coercion of involuntary servitude (a human trafficking crime). A conviction for a human trafficking crime is not a condition precedent to maintaining a civil action. A building or part of a building, including the ground upon which it is situated and all fixtures and contents thereof, every vehicle, and any real property that is used for a human trafficking crime shall be deemed a class 1 public nuisance and thereby subject to seizure, confiscation, and forfeiture. Each escort bureau shall provide to each employee of the escort bureau a written notice that includes a statement that human trafficking and coercion of involuntary servitude are prohibited and the name, telephone number, and internet web site address of a local, statewide, or national organization that provides assistance to victims of human trafficking and slavery. Current law requires each massage parlor to display at all times in a prominent place on the licensed premises a printed card stating that it is illegal for any person under 18 years of age to be on the premises, or for any person to allow any person under 18 years of age to be on the premises, unless he or she is accompanied by his or her parent or has a physician's prescription for massage services. The act requires the card to also state that human trafficking crimes are prohibited and that courts may impose fines or imprisonment for violations of human trafficking crimes. The act also requires each massage parlor to display a card that provides the name and contact information of a state or local organization that provides services or other assistance to victims of human trafficking. A court shall order expunged all juvenile delinquency records in the custody of the court and any records in the custody of any other agency or official that pertain to a petitioner's conviction for prostitution, soliciting for prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, public indecency, soliciting for child prostitution, or any corresponding municipal code or ordinance if, at the hearing, the court finds that the petitioner has established by a preponderance of the evidence that, at the time he or she committed the offense, he or she had been sold, exchanged, bartered, or leased by another person for the purpose of performing the offense; or that he or she was coerced by another person to perform the offense. A person is eligible to petition for such an expungement order at any time. A defendant may petition the district court of the district in which any conviction records pertaining to the defendant's conviction for prostitution, soliciting for prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, public indecency, or any corresponding municipal code or ordinance are located for the sealing of the conviction records, except for basic identifying information. If such a petition is filed, the court shall order the record sealed after the petition is filed, the filing fee is paid, and the defendant establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that, at the time he or she committed the offense, he or she had been sold, exchanged, bartered, or leased by another person for the purpose of performing the offense; or that he or she was coerced by another person to perform the offense. An order entered to seal such conviction records shall be directed to each custodian who may have custody of any part of the conviction records that are the subject of the order. Whenever a court enters an order sealing such conviction records, the defendant shall provide the Colorado bureau of investigation (bureau) and each custodian of the conviction records with a copy of the order and shall pay to the bureau any costs related to the sealing of his or her criminal conviction records that are in the custody of the bureau. Thereafter, the defendant may request and the court may grant an order sealing the civil case in which the conviction records were sealed. An order sealing such conviction records shall not deny access to the criminal records of a defendant by any court, law enforcement agency, criminal justice agency, prosecuting attorney, or party or agency required by law to conduct a criminal history record check on an individual. An order sealing such conviction records does not vacate a conviction. A conviction sealed may be used by a criminal justice agency, law enforcement agency, court, or prosecuting attorney for any lawful purpose relating to the investigation or prosecution of any case, including but not limited to any subsequent case that is filed against the defendant, or for any other lawful purpose within the scope of his, her, or its duties. If a defendant is convicted of a new criminal offense after an order sealing such conviction records is entered, the court shall order the conviction records to be unsealed. A party or agency required by law to conduct a criminal history record check is authorized to use any sealed conviction for the lawful purpose for which the criminal history record check is required by law. A petition to seal such conviction records shall include a listing of each custodian of the records to whom the sealing order is directed and any information that accurately and completely identifies the records to be sealed. Upon the entry of an order to seal the conviction records, the defendant and all criminal justice agencies may properly reply, upon an inquiry in the matter, that public conviction records do not exist with respect to the defendant. Inspection of the records included in an order sealing conviction records may thereafter be permitted by the court only upon petition by the defendant. Employers, state and local government agencies, officials, landlords, and employees shall not, in any application or interview or in any other way, require an applicant to disclose any information contained in sealed conviction records. An applicant need not, in answer to any question concerning conviction records that have been sealed, include a reference to or information concerning the sealed conviction records and may state that the applicant has not been criminally convicted. The bar committee of the Colorado state board of law examiners (bar committee) is not precluded from making further inquiries into the fact of a sealed conviction that comes to the attention of the bar committee through other means. The bar committee has a right to inquire into the moral and ethical qualifications of an applicant, and the applicant does not have a right to privacy or privilege that justifies his or her refusal to answer a question concerning sealed conviction records that have come to the attention of the bar committee through other means. The department of education (department) may require a licensed educator or an applicant for an educator's license who files a petition to seal a criminal record to notify the department of the pending petition to seal. The department has the right to inquire into the facts of the criminal offense for which the petition to seal is pending. The educator or applicant has no right to privacy or privilege that justifies his or her refusal to answer any questions concerning the arrest and criminal records information contained in the pending petition to seal. Any member of the public may petition the court to unseal any file that has been previously sealed upon a showing that circumstances have come into existence since the original sealing, and, as a result, the public interest in disclosure now outweighs the defendant's interest in privacy. The office of the state court administrator shall post on its web site a list of all petitions to seal conviction records that are filed with a district court. A district court may not grant a petition to seal conviction records until at least 30 days after the posting. After the expiration of 30 days following the posting, the petition to seal conviction records and information pertinent thereto shall be removed from the web site of the office of the state court administrator. In regard to any conviction of a defendant resulting from a single case in which the defendant is convicted of more than one offense, records of the conviction for prostitution, soliciting for prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, public indecency, or any corresponding municipal code or ordinance may be sealed only if the records of every conviction of the defendant resulting from that case may also be sealed. Court orders sealing records do not limit the operations of the Colorado rules of civil procedure related to discovery, the Colorado rules of evidence, certain statutory provisions concerning witness testimony, or any state or federal court. A person less than 18 years of age who has been trafficked or coerced into involuntary servitude by an offender is eligible to receive restitution from the offender as part of the offender's sentence for such an offense. APPROVED by Governor May 11, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/14/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/07/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/14/2012 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/19/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/02/2012:03 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/03/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012:10 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/11/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1151
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1151
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1151
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1151
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1151
House Judiciary : HB12-1151
Video Center: House Legislative Day 111: HB12-1151
Senate Legislative Day 65: HB12-1151
Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1151
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1151
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1151

HB12-1152 Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force 
Sponsors: KEFALAS / BOYD
Summary: The economic opportunity poverty reduction task force (task force) was created in 2009 with a repeal date of 2014. The bill requires the senate president and speaker of the house of representatives to jointly appoint a vice-chairperson to the task force in addition to appointing the chairperson and clarifies the time frame for filling vacancies on the task force. The bill clarifies that the task force may annually seek approval as a legislative study committee receiving general fund appropriations or the task force may be funded through gifts, grants, and donations credited to the legislative department cash fund. If the task force does not receive approval by legislative council as a legislative study committee and legislative council has not received sufficient gifts, grants, and donations to cover the full cost of an interim committee, the bill clarifies that the task force shall still meet during the interim if the chairperson and vice-chairperson determine that the task force has sufficient resources to carry out the duties of the task force. If the task force meets, the task force may recommend legislation to legislative council that will be treated as interim committee bills. However, task force members will not be entitled to reimbursement, and the task force will not have staff support from legislative council staff or the office of legislative legal services, except for the drafting of legislation. The bill extends the repeal date of the task force by one year.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/16/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1153 Distinguished Flying Cross License Plate 
Sponsors: SOPER
Summary: The bill creates a special license plate to identify that an owner of a motor vehicle has received the distinguished flying cross. Current law requires 2 one-time fees of $25 in addition to the normal motor vehicle fees for the license plate. One of the fees is credited to the highway users tax fund and the other to the licensing services cash fund.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Appropriations
02/23/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/09/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/12/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
03/13/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/19/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
04/03/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/10/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/24/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/27/2012:58 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/27/2012:00 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/27/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1153
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1153
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1153
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 105: HB12-1153
House Legislative Day 65: HB12-1153
House Legislative Day 62: HB12-1153

HB12-1154 Regional Economic Development Through Partnerships 
Sponsors: CORAM / JAHN
Summary: The bill tasks the Colorado office of economic development (office) with fostering a regional approach to economic development. A region is defined as a state planning and management region utilized by the department of local affairs. Currently, there are 14 such regions in the state. The office must create a new, or assist in expanding an existing, regional development partnership (partnership) in each region. A partnership consists of representatives of the region's businesses and industries, economic and workforce development entities, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, local governmental bodies, and federal, tribal, and state regulatory authorities. The bill designates regional economic development partnership boards (partnership boards) as the entities that will develop 3-year regional economic development plans, work with partnerships to implement the plans, and provide annual progress reports regarding such implementation to the newly created state regional economic development council (council). The council, which consists of one representative from each partnership and the regional development director of the office, meets periodically with the office and the Colorado economic development commission and annually reports to the governor regarding the progress reports.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
04/20/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1155 Improvements In College Completion 
Sponsors: MASSEY / BACON
Summary: H.B. 12-1155 Admissions - basic skills - performance contracts - authorization of private postsecondary institutions - private occupational schools board - appropriation. Under the act, the Colorado commission on higher education (commission) in establishing academic admission standards for state institutions of higher education (institutions) may take into account the rigor of a student's high school courses. The act clarifies the commission's authority to adopt a policy concerning basic skills courses (policy) and directs the commission to ensure the policy is aligned with the academic admission standards. The policy sets the procedures for identifying students who need basic skills courses and procedures by which institutions offer those courses. In setting the standards for basic skills requirements, the commission may differentiate the mathematics requirements based on a student's chosen area of study. While only certain institutions may provide basic skills courses, the commission may authorize other institutions to provide supplemental academic instruction for students who enroll in general education, college-level courses but are identified as having limited skill deficiencies. A student who requires basic skills courses must complete the courses by the time the student completes 30 college-level credit hours. The commission will ensure that the student receives written notice identifying the state institutions that offer the basic skills courses and the approximate cost and availability of the courses. Under the act, the department of higher education (department) will provide its annual report concerning higher education student enrollment and persistence to the department of education, which will post the report on its web site, and the department will distribute student records to the appropriate school districts. The commission has authority to establish each institution's role and mission and to enter into performance contracts with each institution. The act clarifies that the commission must refer to an institution's role and mission and service area as necessary to interpret, with the institution's governing board, the implications of the role and mission and service area for the institution's performance contract. The act directs the commission, in preparing its recommendations on a performance funding model for institutions, to analyze the effects of differentiated Colorado opportunity fund stipend amounts and of limiting the funding for credit hours taken in excess of a certain limit. The act extends the performance contract for the Colorado school of mines (contract) expiration date to the date on which the governor signs a joint resolution passed during the 2013 legislative session to approve a renegotiated contract. The new contract will take effect the day after the joint resolution is signed and will continue in effect until the date on which the governor signs a joint resolution passed during the 2023 legislative session to approve the next contract. For guidelines for general education courses for all public institutions of higher education in the state, the act allows the department and the commission, in consultation with the institutions, to make allowances for baccalaureate programs that have additional degree requirements. The act makes several changes to the existing statutes concerning authorization of private colleges and universities and seminaries and bible colleges (private institutions) in the state, including changing the term "bible college" to "religious training institution". The changes generally clarify the types of institutions that are subject to authorization and specifically require the commission and the department to set procedures for authorizing, renewing, and revoking the authorizations for private institutions. The commission must also set the amount of the fees that a private institution pays for the administration of the authorization process, including a separate fee if a private institution seeks approval of an educator preparation program. Each private institution must also report specified student information. Each private institution must obtain authorization for each campus, branch, or site that is separately accredited and operates in Colorado. Authorizations for private colleges and universities are based on the institution's accreditation and are subject to renewal every 3 years or on the same schedule that applies for renewing the institution's accreditation, whichever is longer. Authorizations for seminaries and religious training institutions are based on whether the institution continues to meet the definition for seminary or religious training institution. The act clarifies the process and standards for renewing authorizations and the conditions and procedures under which the commission may revoke a private institution's authorization or place the authorization on probationary status. The act requires a private institution that ceases operation to turn its records over to the department, authorizes the commission to seek a court order to seize the records in certain circumstances, and makes the records subject to the open records statutes. The department must keep the records for specified periods. Private colleges or universities that meet specified criteria are not required to file a surety or to otherwise demonstrate financial integrity. Each private college or university that does not meet the criteria must demonstrate financial integrity based on evidence that it meets other criteria. If the private college or university cannot demonstrate financial integrity, it must post surety in a specified amount, which surety may be in the form of a bond, that the commission can use to reimburse students for a loss of tuition or fees or to provide services if the institution ceases to operate in Colorado or a student files a claim against the institution. If a private college or university that does not post surety ceases operations in the state, the attorney general may file a claim on behalf of students to recover any unearned, prepaid tuition. Seminaries and religious training institutions are not required to meet any of the criteria, demonstrate financial integrity, or file a surety. The department must maintain a list of authorized private institutions and establish a process for reviewing and acting on complaints against a private institution. The commission may negotiate reciprocal agreements with other states to assist in implementing authorizations for private institutions. The act changes the terms of members appointed to the private occupational schools board (board) so that fewer members will be appointed at one time. Under the act, a student enrolled in a private occupational school who has a complaint against the school must first exhaust any complaint procedures that the school has in place before filing a complaint with the board. For the 2012-13 fiscal year, the act appropriates to the department $75,500 cash funds from fees paid by private institutions. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
03/14/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/20/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/25/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
04/26/2012 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments
04/26/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
05/03/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012:55 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:58 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/04/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1155
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1155
Senate Education: HB12-1155
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Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1155
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HB12-1156 Public Trustee Foreclosure Document Requirements 
Sponsors: MCCANN / JOHNSTON
Summary: Current law allows a "holder of an evidence of debt" (holder), generally, a bank or other financial institution, to foreclose on real property under a deed of trust even if the holder's interest is based on an assignment from the original lender and the assignment or other intermediate documents are not produced, simply by providing a statement from the holder's attorney that the holder's interest in the property is valid. Sections 1 and 3 of the bill remove this provision and otherwise tighten the rules for documentation of the holder's interest that must be filed with the public trustee before a foreclosure sale is authorized. Section 2 amends provisions governing the court order authorizing sale by a public trustee (rule 120 order, referring to C.R.C.P. 120) to place the burden of proof on the holder in all cases to demonstrate that the holder does in fact have a valid assignment or other basis for its assertion that it is entitled to foreclose on the property. Section 2 also explicitly states that the rule 120 order is not a final judgment adjudicating all claims of rights and interests in the property, as a judgment under rule 105 (a "quiet title judgment") would be. Section 4 suspends any eviction proceeding if the rule 120 order has been challenged, until the challenge is resolved.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
03/13/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1157 Special District Org Petition Procedures 
Sponsors: VIGIL / GUZMAN
Summary: If a service plan for a proposed special district is approved by a board of county commissioners, current law requires any interested party who appeared and objected to the plan to be given notice and have the right to appear at a court hearing on the petition to organize the district. Section 1 of the bill would require the party to also be a taxpayer or eligible elector of the proposed district in order to be given notice and have the right to appear at the hearing. Section 2 requires the notice of court hearing to be sent by certified mail rather than registered mail. Current law allows the court, in the order authorizing the organizational election, to name an eligible elector as the designated election official. Section 3 allows the court, by any order of the court, to name a person experienced in conducting special district elections to serve as the designated election official.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/13/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/16/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
02/28/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1157
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 38: HB12-1157
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House Legislative Day 38: HB12-1157

HB12-1158 Commercial Livestock Feed Reg By Commr Of Ag 
Sponsors: BAUMGARDNER / GIRON
Summary: H.B. 12-1158 Livestock - commercial feed - rendering and processing - authority of commissioner of agriculture. The act repeals the "Colorado Inedible Meat Rendering and Processing Act of 1967" and grants rule-making authority to the commissioner of agriculture to specify labeling and operating requirements for the production of commercial feed under the existing "Colorado Feed Law". APPROVED by Governor March 15, 2012 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2012
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
02/06/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/09/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/10/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/13/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
02/23/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/07/2012:42 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/07/2012:45 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1158
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1158
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1158
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 31: HB12-1158
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Senate Legislative Day 49: HB12-1158
House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1158
House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1158

HB12-1159 Elect County Commissioners By Districts 
Sponsors: BROWN / NICHOLSON
Summary: In a county with a population of less than 70,000, the board of county commissioners currently consists of 3 members from 3 separate HO US E 3r d R ead i ng U n am en d e d Fe b r ua r y 1, 2012 HO US E 2 nd R ead i ng U n am en d e d J a nua r y 31, 2012 districts, with one commissioner elected from each district by the voters of the whole county. The bill allows the voters of a county to change the method of election so that a commissioner is elected only by voters residing in the district from which the commissioner runs for election. The change can be made either by the board of county commissioners referring a question to the voters or by the qualified electors filing a petition to have the question placed the ballot. Terms of current commissioners are not affected and the change only affects newly elected commissioners.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/25/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
01/30/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
01/31/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/01/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/01/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
02/29/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
03/19/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1159
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1159
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 22: HB12-1159
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 21: HB12-1159
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House Legislative Day 21: HB12-1159

HB12-1160 Captured Methane From Coal Mines 
Sponsors: BAUMGARDNER / SCHWARTZ
Summary: The bill adds methane gas captured from active and inactive coal mines to the definition of "biomass" for purposes of the renewable energy standard.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
02/13/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/16/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over to 02/24/2012
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over with Amendments to 02/23/2012
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over with Amendments
02/27/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/28/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
03/27/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/30/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
05/09/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 05/10/2012
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1160
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1160
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1160
Video Center: House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1160
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1160
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1160

HB12-1161 Nutrients Scientific Advisory Bd Water Quality 
Sponsors: LOOPER / KING K.
Summary: The bill establishes a nutrients scientific advisory board, appointed by leadership of the general assembly, to review proposed numeric water quality nutrient standards regulating nitrogen and phosphorus to determine how the proposed rules comply with an executive order; reflect active stakeholder participation; fully consider a cost-benefit study; are structured to avoid unnecessary regulation and minimize the fiscal impact to state agencies and local governments; and are designed to address basin-specific conditions. The advisory board will deliver a report to the water quality control commission and the general assembly by February 1, 2013. The commission cannot adopt the proposed rule until the rule is approved by the general assembly acting by bill.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
03/12/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/29/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/30/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/18/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/18/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy
05/03/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 99: HB12-1161
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1161
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House Legislative Day 79: HB12-1161

HB12-1162 Operation Desert Storm Vehicle License Plate 
Sponsors: TODD / HEATH
Summary: The bill creates the operation desert storm license plate to identify that the owner of the motor vehicle is a veteran of operation desert storm. In addition to the normal motor vehicle fees, the plate requires 2 one-time fees of $25. One of the fees is credited to the highway users tax fund and the other to the licensing services cash fund.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation + Finance
02/23/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Finance
02/29/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/16/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/20/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/23/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/26/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/27/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
04/10/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Finance
04/12/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/20/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/24/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/27/2012:26 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/27/2012:29 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/27/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1162
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1162
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 77: HB12-1162
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 73: HB12-1162
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 105: HB12-1162
Senate Legislative Day 104: HB12-1162
House Legislative Day 77: HB12-1162
House Legislative Day 73: HB12-1162

HB12-1163 Conditional & Provisional Peace Officer Status 
Sponsors: WALLER
Summary: The bill repeals the peace officers standards and training board's authority to grant conditional peace officer status. A peace officer may be granted provisional peace officer status if he or she has been a certified peace officer in good standing in another jurisdiction in the last 3 years.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/17/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/22/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/27/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/28/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/05/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012:17 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:13 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1163
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1163
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1163
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1163
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1163
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 59: HB12-1163
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1163
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1163
House Legislative Day 45: HB12-1163

HB12-1164 Require Disclosure Severed Mineral Estate 
Sponsors: LOOPER
Summary: Beginning in 2013, listing contracts, contracts of sale, and sellers' property disclosures for real estate must include a notice regarding whether the mineral estate has been severed from the surface estate and a surface owner's right of first refusal to purchase the mineral estate when the taxes on the mineral estate have not been paid. The seller must provide to the buyer a copy of each instrument that severed the mineral estate, the name and contact information of the owner of the mineral estate, and the name and contact information of any known current lessees of the mineral estate, if that information is available. The seller must also indicate whether mineral exploration or development on the real property is or will be using water that would otherwise be available to the buyer as an incident of ownership of the real property.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/14/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1165 Disclose Radon Hazards Information 
Sponsors: SCHAFER S. / JAHN
Summary: On and after January 1, 2013, in connection with the resale and subsequent conveyance of private residential real property, the bill requires the seller of the property to conduct a test of the property for radon hazards prior to sale in accordance with testing procedures approved for such use by the Colorado department of public health and environment. The bill further requires the seller to timely disclose the findings of the test to the potential purchasers of the property and provide documentation to such purchaser evidencing the completion of the test and the test results. Any presence of a radon hazard above the safety level may constitute cause for the mitigation of the hazard. The bill specifies that the cost of any such mitigation is a matter to be privately negotiated between the seller and the potential purchaser of the property. Nothing in the bill is intended nor shall be construed to require any mitigation on the part of the seller of the property. The bill provides a property owner, an authorized agent of a property owner, or a person in possession of real property immunity from liability for any damages resulting from the operation, maintenance, installation, or effectiveness of any mitigation undertaken pursuant to the bill.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/23/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1166 Track Utility Data High Performance State Building 
Sponsors: JONES / BACON
Summary: The bill requires each state agency or department to use commercial utility tracking software to monitor, track, and verify utility vendor bill data pertaining to its state-assisted facilities and annually report to the office of the state architect any necessary information, as determined by the state architect, that the state agency or department uses to ensure that the increased initial costs of the high performance standard certification are recouped. The annual report must also include information related to building performance based on the state-assisted facility's utility consumption. The bill also removes existing law that allows a state-assisted facility to be exempted from complying with the high performance standard requirements for extenuating circumstances that might exist.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/22/2012 House Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1167 Special Fuel Inspection & Revenues 
Sponsors: FISCHER
Summary: The bill modifies the regulation of the fuel products by the division of oil and public safety (division) in the department of labor and employment as follows:
* Section 1 of the bill broadens the duties of the director of the division (director) to include the regulation of fuel products other than liquids.
* Section 2 includes "natural gas" in the definition of "fuel products".
* Section 3 specifies that natural gas is subject to inspection.
* Section 4 requires liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas to comply with certain national standards.
* Section 5 requires a person who ships natural gas into the state to notify the director.
* Section 6 requires natural gas to be subject to the same environmental response surcharge as liquefied petroleum gas and modifies how the surcharge is levied on liquefied petroleum gas. Section 6 also permits the fees to be used for inspections related to natural gas.
* Sections 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13 make conforming amendments related to the fact that natural gas is not a liquid measured in gallons.
* Section 9 establishes labeling standards for natural gas. The bill also modifies the collection of the tax on special fuel as follows:
* Section 14 modifies the definition of "special fuel" to include "electricity". As a result, "electricity" used to propel a motor vehicle on a highway will be subject to the tax on special fuel. Section 14 also modifies the definition of "distributor" to include certain persons who sell or use natural gas and electricity, but exclude a person who sells to a home user.
* Section 15 repeals the annual license tax fee that is charged in lieu of the special fuel tax and the related decal system, so that liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas will be subject to the special fuel tax.
* Section 16 makes a conforming amendment to accommodate the elimination of the decal system.
* Section 17 requires a person who is not a licensed distributor to pay the special fuel tax, based on a metered reading, and file a return related to liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, or electricity if such tax has not been paid by a distributor. This requirement will apply to a person who receives the special fuel in his or her home. Section 17 also requires the division to establish minium standards for the meters.
* Section 18 clarifies how a person who pays sales tax on special fuel that is subject to the special fuel tax may apply for a refund.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
02/22/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1168 Ignition Interlock Device Recodification 
Sponsors: YOUNG / MORSE
Summary: The bill repeals and reenacts, with amendments, the statute authorizing the department of revenue to require ignition interlock devices for persons driving with an interlock-restricted license. The bill also relocates statutory provisions regarding crimes related to ignition interlock devices to the interlock statute.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/16/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
02/21/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/19/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/22/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/26/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/27/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/28/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/28/2012 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered
03/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/04/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
05/07/2012 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Reengrossed w/ Amendments
05/08/2012 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
05/08/2012 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
05/24/2012:48 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/25/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/25/2012:58 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
06/08/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1168
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 85: HB12-1168
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1168
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 77: HB12-1168
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1168
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1168
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1168
House Judiciary : HB12-1168
Video Center: House Legislative Day 119: HB12-1168
House Legislative Day 118: HB12-1168
House Legislative Day 85: HB12-1168
Senate Legislative Day 78: HB12-1168
Senate Legislative Day 77: HB12-1168
Senate Legislative Day 76: HB12-1168
House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1168
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1168

HB12-1169 Open Meetings & Secret Ballot Leadership Elections 
Sponsors: GARDNER B. / BROPHY
Summary: The bill prohibits a state or local public body from adopting any proposed policy, position, resolution, rule, or regulation or from taking formal action by secret ballot unless otherwise authorized in accordance with the provisions of the state open meetings law. The bill permits a state or local public body to elect the leadership of that same public body by secret ballot but requires the outcome of the vote to be recorded contemporaneously in the minutes of the body. The bill is not to be construed to affect the existing powers of a school board to use a secret ballot.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/15/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/27/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/28/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/07/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/21/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/21/2012:07 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:59 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1169
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1169
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1169
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1169
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1169
Senate Legislative Day 62: HB12-1169
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House Legislative Day 45: HB12-1169

HB12-1170 Limit Minors' Access Artificial Tanning Devices 
Sponsors: PENISTON
Summary: The bill requires parental consent for minors under 18 years of age to use an artificial tanning device on and after July 1, 2012. For minors under 14 years of age, the parent must remain on-site at all times while the minor is using an artificial tanning device. A consent form is valid for 6 months unless the parent withdraws his or her consent. The department of public health and environment is to develop a consent form that details the health risks associated with the use of artificial tanning devices. Owners, operators, and employees of artificial tanning devices are subject to penalties of up to $200 per day for failing to comply with the requirements of the bill.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/21/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1171 Limit Public Hwy Authorities Noncompete Agreements 
Sponsors: TYLER
Summary: The bill prohibits a public highway authority from entering into a noncompete agreement with a public entity if the agreement would degrade an existing roadway or delay or prevent the construction or upgrading of a road or highway that is included in a fiscally constrained regional transportation plan or in the fiscally constrained statewide transportation plan.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/22/2012 House Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1172 Electric Utility No Imputed Carbon Tax 
Sponsors: SWALM
Summary: The 2004 voter initiative known as "Amendment 37" committed Colorado to a policy of increasing the portion of the state's electricity generated from renewable sources. Subsequent legislation allows the Colorado public utilities commission (PUC) to impute the cost of a carbon tax imposed at the federal level when calculating an electric utility's investments and comparing the cost of maintaining existing infrastructure with the cost of replacing existing power plants with more energy-efficient power plants. Section 1 of the bill conditions the PUC's imputation of the carbon tax on the actual adoption of a carbon tax as part of federal law. Section 2 prohibits an investor-owned electric utility from charging residential customers tiered rates according to their monthly consumption.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
02/15/2012 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/27/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/28/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
03/21/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1172
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1172
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1172
Video Center: House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1172
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1172
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1172

HB12-1173 Protect Pub Health Oil & Gas Hydraulic Fracturing 
Sponsors: WILSON
Summary: On or after July 1, 2014, an oil and gas operator may not use, store, or dispose of hydraulic fracturing fluids or flow-back from a hydraulic fracturing treatment in an open pit and must use a closed-loop system for hydraulic fracturing treatments. However, the oil and gas conservation commission may approve the use of open pits where the commission determines there is no risk to occupied structures or water sources, and operators can use open pits if the fluids are clean enough to discharge directly into state waters without a permit.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/06/2012 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1174 Prohibit Sale Children's Products Containing BPA 
Sponsors: KAGAN
Summary: Bisphenol A (BPA) is a hardening agent used in some plastic products. Effective July 1, 2012, the bill prohibits the sale by a manufacturer or wholesaler of a children's product, defined as a pacifier or empty container intended for use by children under age 3 to consume food or liquids, containing BPA. Effective July 1, 2013, no person may sell or provide a children's product containing BPA. A used children's product containing BPA is excluded from the prohibitions.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/21/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1175 Colorado-specific Solutions Instead Of Fed Regul 
Sponsors: STEPHENS / CADMAN
Summary: For newly adopted federal laws, rules, and regulations (regulations) that expressly or implicitly allow a state to opt out of the regulations, the bill encourages a Colorado state agency (agency) that is potentially impacted by, subject to, or charged with administering the rule to seek such waiver. An agency is required to report annually to the general assembly regarding the agency's opportunities for and attempts at obtaining such waivers.
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/28/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/02/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/05/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
03/06/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/22/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1175
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1175
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1175
Video Center: House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1175

HB12-1176 Oil Gas Surface Owner Horizontal Drilling Setbacks 
Sponsors: RYDEN
Summary: Section 1 of the bill specifies that the Colorado oil and gas conservation commission has authority to require:
* Increased setbacks from wells that will be treated with hydraulic fracturing. The commission must require setbacks of at least 1,000 feet from any school or residence but allow a surface owner who is not located in an urban area to request a shorter setback than would otherwise apply.
* That best management practices for new technologies be established by rule prior to use of the new technologies. Section 2 includes the owners of land overlying that portion of a geologic formation within which horizontal hydraulic fracturing is conducted within the term "surface owner".
Status: 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/06/2012 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1177 Dev Disab Home Care Allowance Grant Program 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: Joint Budget Committee. Effective January 1, 2012, persons were prohibited from receiving both home care allowance benefits and benefits under a home- and community-based waiver. The bill establishes a new grant program (program) in the department of human services (department) to provide to certain individuals with developmental disabilities receiving benefits under either the home- and community-based supported living services or the children's extensive support waiver a home care allowance benefit consistent with benefits received by persons under the home care allowance program. It authorizes the state board of human services to adopt rules to implement the program. The bill directs the department to submit a written report to certain committees of the general assembly on the program and to solicit feedback from individuals receiving grants under the program and from their families. The program is repealed, effective July 1, 2017, unless extended by the general assembly.
Status: 01/24/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
01/24/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/02/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/08/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
02/23/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/01/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/16/2012:27 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:28 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1177
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1177
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1177
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1177
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1177
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 29: HB12-1177
Video Center: House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1177
Senate Legislative Day 50: HB12-1177
Senate Legislative Day 49: HB12-1177
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1177
House Legislative Day 29: HB12-1177

HB12-1178 Notice For Tax Refund Of Lost Gas Or Special Fuel 
Sponsors: VIGIL / SCHWARTZ
Summary: Under current law, a distributor or transporter is entitled to a refund or credit for the tax paid or accrued on gasoline or special fuel that is lost or destroyed by fire, lightning, flood, windstorm, explosion, accident, or other cause beyond the control of the distributor or transporter of the gasoline or special fuel. In order to claim this refund or credit, the distributor or transporter is required to notify the department of revenue (department) within 7 days of the loss or destruction. The bill increases the deadline for notifying the department to 30 days from the loss or destruction.
Status: 01/25/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/15/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/21/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
03/13/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/16/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/19/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:40 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:33 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1178
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1178
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1178
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1178
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1178
Senate Legislative Day 69: HB12-1178
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1178
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1178

HB12-1179 Composition Of PERA Board 
Sponsors: KERR J.
Summary: Currently, the board of trustees (board) of the public employees' retirement association (PERA) is comprised of the following 15 trustees:
* The state treasurer;
* 3 elected members of the state division;
* 4 elected members of the school division;
* One elected member of the local government division;
* One elected member of the judicial division;
* 2 elected retirees; and
* 3 trustees appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate who are not PERA members or retirees and who are experts in certain fields. In addition, there is one ex officio trustee from the Denver public schools division. The bill modifies the composition of the board by:
* Eliminating one elected member trustee position from the state division;
* Eliminating 2 elected member trustee positions from the school division;
* Requiring at least one elected member from both the state division and the school division to be at least 15 years from retirement eligibility;
* Eliminating one elected retiree trustee position;
* Requiring the remaining elected retiree to be elected by all members who have retired from the local government division, the judicial division, the state division, or the school division; and
* Adding 4 more trustees appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate who are not PERA members or retirees and who are experts in certain fields to replace the eliminated elected member trustee positions. The bill does not change the inclusion on the board of the state treasurer or the elected members from the local government division and the judicial division on the board, nor does it affect the ex officio trustee from the Denver public schools division.
Status: 01/26/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/23/2012 House Committee on Finance Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
05/08/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1180 Suppl Approp Dept Of Agriculture 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1180 Supplemental appropriation - department of agriculture. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total appropriation to the department of agriculture. The cash funds portion of the appropriation are increased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1180
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1180
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1180
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1180
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1180
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1180

HB12-1181 Suppl Approp Dept Of Corrections 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1181 Supplemental appropriation - department of corrections. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total appropriation to the department of corrections. The general fund, cash funds, reappropriated funds, and federal funds portions of the appropriation are increased. APPROVED by Governor April 6, 2012 EFFECTIVE April 6, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/15/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/24/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/02/2012
03/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/07/2012
03/07/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/12/2012
03/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 03/19/2012
03/19/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:54 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:48 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1181
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1181
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1181
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1181
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1181
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1181
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1181
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1181
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1181
Senate Legislative Day 69: HB12-1181
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1181
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1181

HB12-1182 Suppl Approp Dept Of Education 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1182 Supplemental appropriation - department of education. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total appropriation to the department of education. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased and the federal funds portion is decreased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012:58 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012:02 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1182
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1182
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1182
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1182
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1182
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1182

HB12-1183 Suppl Approp Office To Governor, Lt Gov, OSPB 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1183 Supplemental appropriation - offices of the governor, lt governor, and state planning and budgeting. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total appropriation to the offices of the governor, lt governor, and state planning and budgeting. The general fund portion of the appropriation is decreased and the cash funds and federal funds portions are increased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:35 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:32 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1183
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1183
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1183
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1183
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1183
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1183

HB12-1184 Suppl Approp Dept Of Health Care Policy & Financing 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1184 Supplemental appropriation - department of health care policy and financing. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to decrease the total amount appropriated to the department of health care policy and financing. The general fund and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are decreased and the cash funds and federal funds portions are increased. The adjustments made to the 2011 general appropriation act by Senate Bill 11-177, concerning the teen pregnancy and dropout prevention program, is amended to clarify that cash funds are from local funds and not from certified public expenditures. The 2010 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated for the payment of overexpenditures of line item appropriations. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:03 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:00 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1184
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1184
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1184
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1184
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1184
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1184

HB12-1185 Suppl Approp Dept Of Higher Education 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1185 Supplemental appropriation - department of higher education. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total appropriation made to the department of higher education. The cash funds and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:29 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:25 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1185
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1185
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1185
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1185
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1185
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1185

HB12-1186 Suppl Approp Dept Of Human Services 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1186 Supplemental appropriation - department of human services. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to decrease the total amount appropriated to the department of human services. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased and the federal funds portion is decreased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:16 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:13 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1186
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1186
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1186
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1186
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1186
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1186

HB12-1187 Suppl Approp To Judicial Dept 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1187 Supplemental appropriation - judicial department. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated to the judicial department. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased. The appropriation made by House Bill 11-1300, concerning the resolution of a disputed claim for a state income tax credit for a donation of a perpetual conservation easement that includes a process that allows a taxpayer to waive an expedited administrative hearing for the purpose of appealing directly to a district court, is amended. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:17 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:14 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1187
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1187
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1187
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1187
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1187
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1187

HB12-1188 Suppl Approp Dept Of Labor & Employment 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1188 Supplemental appropriation - department of labor and employment. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated to the department of labor and employment. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased and the federal funds portion is decreased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:35 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:31 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1188
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1188
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1188
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1188
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1188
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1188

HB12-1189 Suppl Approp Dept Of Law 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1189 Supplemental appropriation - department of law. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to decrease the total amount appropriated to the department of law. The general fund, cash funds, reappropriated funds, and federal funds portions of the appropriation are decreased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:58 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012:01 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1189
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1189
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1189
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1189
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1189
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1189

HB12-1190 Suppl Approp Dept Of Local Affairs 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1190 Supplemental appropriation - department of local affairs. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to decrease the total amount appropriated to the department of local affairs. The general fund and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are decreased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:15 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:11 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1190
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1190
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1190
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1190
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1190
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1190

HB12-1191 Suppl Approp Dept Of Military & Veterans Affairs 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1191 Supplemental appropriation - department of military and veterans affairs. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated to the department of military and veterans affairs. The general fund portion of the appropriation is increased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:28 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:25 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1191
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1191
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1191
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1191
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1191
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1191

HB12-1192 Suppl Approp Dept Of Natural Resources 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1192 Supplemental appropriation - department of natural resources. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to decrease the total amount appropriated to the department of natural resources. The general fund and federal funds portions of the appropriation are increased and the cash funds portion is decreased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:44 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:41 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1192
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1192
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1192
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1192
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1192
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1192
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1192

HB12-1193 Suppl Approp Dept Of Personnel & Administration 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1193 Supplemental appropriation - department of personnel and administration. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated to the department of personnel and administration. The general fund and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are decreased and the cash funds portion is increased. The 2010 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated to the department of personnel and administration. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:08 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:05 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1193
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1193
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1193
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1193
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1193
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1193

HB12-1194 Suppl Approp Dept Of Public Health & Environment 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1194 Supplemental appropriation - department of public health and environment. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated to the department of public health and environment. The general fund and federal funds portions of the appropriation are decreased and the cash funds and reappropriated portions are increased. The appropriation made in House Bill 10-1018, concerning increased authority to regulate waste tires, is amended. The adjustments made to the 2011 general appropriation act in Senate Bill 11-211, concerning the use of tobacco tax revenue for health-related purposes during a state fiscal emergency, is amended. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:23 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:19 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1194
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1194
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1194
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1194
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1194
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1194

HB12-1195 Suppl Approp Dept Of Public Safety 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1195 Supplemental appropriation - department of public safety. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated to the department of public safety. The general fund, cash funds, reappropriated funds, and federal funds portions of the appropriation are increased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:37 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:33 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1195
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1195
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1195
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1195
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1195
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1195

HB12-1196 Suppl Approp Dept Of Regulatory Agencies 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1196 Supplemental appropriation - department of regulatory agencies. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated to the department of regulatory agencies. The general fund and cash funds portions of the appropriation are increased. The appropriation made in Senate Bill 11-187, concerning the continuation of the regulation of mental health professionals, is amended. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:50 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:48 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1196
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1196
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1196
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1196
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1196
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1196

HB12-1197 Suppl Approp Dept Of Revenue 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1197 Supplemental appropriation - department of revenue. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total appropriation to the department of revenue. The general fund portion of the appropriation is decreased and the cash funds portion is increased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:07 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:04 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1197
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1197
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1197
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1197
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1197
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1197

HB12-1198 Suppl Approp Dept Of State 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1198 Supplemental appropriation - department of state. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total appropriation made to the department of state. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased. APPROVED by Governor March 8, 2012 EFFECTIVE March 8, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/15/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/29/2012 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/02/2012:56 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/08/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1198
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 44: HB12-1198
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1198
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1198
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 45: HB12-1198
Senate Legislative Day 44: HB12-1198
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1198
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1198

HB12-1199 Suppl Approp Dept Of The Treasury 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1199 Supplemental appropriation - department of the treasury. The 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total appropriation to the department of the treasury. The cash funds portion of the total appropriation is increased. APPROVED by Governor February 23, 2012 EFFECTIVE February 23, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:21 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:19 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
02/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1199
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1199
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1199
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1199
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1199
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1199

HB12-1200 Suppl Approp Capital Construction 
Sponsors: GEROU / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1200 Supplemental appropriation - capital construction. The capital construction portion of the 2003 general appropriation act is amended to extend the time in which the capital to the university of Colorado health sciences center, center bioethics and humanities, is available. The capital construction portion of the 2008 general appropriation act is amended to add a new footnote to specify the date in which the appropriation to the university of Colorado at Boulder, visual arts complex, expires. The capital construction portion of the 2009 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total amount appropriated to the department of higher education and to decrease the amount appropriated to the department of natural resources. The amount appropriated to the Colorado school of mines, Weaver Tower renovation is increased. The amount appropriated to the division of wildlife for various capital construction and controlled maintenance projects are decreased. The capital construction portion of the 2010 general appropriation act is amended to decrease the amount appropriated to the department of natural resources, division of wildlife for motorboat access on lakes and streams, infrastructure and real property maintenance, and asset development or improvements. The capital construction portion of the 2011 general appropriation act is amended to increase the total appropriation to several departments for capital construction projects. A new line is added to the department of higher education, Colorado state university at Fort Collins, for the critical care unit at the veterinary teaching hospital. The Ralph L. Carr Colorado judicial center capital construction project is added. Projects in the department of natural resources, division of wildlife, were repealed or modified. APPROVED by Governor March 1, 2012 EFFECTIVE March 1, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/20/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
02/20/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:55 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:53 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/01/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:
News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1200
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1200
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1200
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1200
Video Center: House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1200
Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1200
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1200
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1200

HB12-1201 Mid-year School Finance Adjustments 
Sponsors: GEROU / STEADMAN
Summary: H.B. 12-1201 School finance - total program funding - 2011-12 fiscal year adjustments. The general assembly recognizes that increases in the funded pupil count and the number of at-risk students have increased the amount of total program funding for the 2011-12 budget year. Increases in the amount of property tax and specific ownership tax revenues available to school districts have also decreased the amount of the state share for total program funding for the 2011-12 budget year. Based on these circumstances, the act increases the minimum level of total program funding for the 2011-12 budget year and sets the minimum level of total program funding for the 2012-13 budget year. The act adjusts the appropriations in the 2011-12 long bill for total program funding and hold-harmless full-day kindergarten funding. APPROVED by Governor March 1, 2012 EFFECTIVE March 1, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:08 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:06 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/01/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:

Fiscal Note

News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1201
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1201
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1201
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1201
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1201
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1201

HB12-1202 Allow HCPF Approps For Quitline Matching Funds 
Sponsors: LEVY / LAMBERT
Summary: Joint Budget Committee. For fiscal year 2011-12 or any subsequent fiscal year, the bill authorizes the general assembly to appropriate moneys from the tobacco education programs fund to the department of health care policy and financing in order to allow the department to obtain federal matching funds for the Colorado quitline program.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/20/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
02/20/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:33 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:30 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/01/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:

Fiscal Note

News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1202
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1202
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1202
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1202
Video Center: House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1202
Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1202
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1202
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1202

HB12-1203 Reenact Comprehensive Primary Care Serv Statutes 
Sponsors: GEROU / STEADMAN
Summary: Joint Budget Committee. In the 2011 legislative session, the statutes authorizing expenditures from the primary care fund for comprehensive primary care services were erroneously repealed. This bill recreates and reenacts those repealed statutes, which will reauthorize the department of health care policy and financing to expend funds from the primary care fund for the purpose of providing grants to providers who provide comprehensive primary care and who are either a community health center or who serve a large percentage of people who are uninsured or medically indigent patients, patients receiving medicaid, or patients enrolled in the children's basic health plan. The bill defines terms used in the recreated statutes, including "comprehensive primary care", which means the basic, entry-level health care provided by health practitioners or non-physician health care practitioners that is generally provided in an outpatient setting.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/06/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/08/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
02/09/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/10/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
02/13/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/14/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/15/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Sent to the Governor
02/23/2012:46 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
02/23/2012:43 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/01/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:

Fiscal Note

News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 36: HB12-1203
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 30: HB12-1203
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 28: HB12-1203
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 36: HB12-1203
House Legislative Day 30: HB12-1203
House Legislative Day 28: HB12-1203

HB12-1204 Sunset Regulation Hemodialysis Technicians 
Sponsors: MCCANN / BOYD
Summary: Sunset Process - House Health and Environment Committee. The bill continues the regulation of hemodialysis technicians until 2019. The bill also clarifies that:
* The department of public health and environment may verify the qualifications of hemodialysis technicians each time it conducts a routine survey of a licensed dialysis clinic; and
* Physicians and nurses who supervise dialysis technicians must be licensed.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment
02/21/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/27/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/28/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/15/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/05/2012:50 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/10/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/10/2012:29 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/13/2012 Governor Action - Signed
Fiscal Notes:

Fiscal Note

News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1204
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1204
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1204
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 45: HB12-1204
House Health and Environment : HB12-1204
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1204
Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1204
Senate Legislative Day 78: HB12-1204
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1204
House Legislative Day 45: HB12-1204

HB12-1205 Sunset Continue Audiologist & Hearing Aid Provider 
Sponsors: FIELDS / TOCHTROP
Summary: Sunset Process - House Local Government Committee. The bill implements the recommendations made by the department of regulatory agencies (DORA) pursuant to DORA's 2011 sunset review report of the audiology and hearing aid provider licensure program (program). The program is administered by the director (director) of DORA's division of registrations. In order to implement DORA's third recommendation, which advocates reducing statutory redundancy by consolidating identical program laws under a "general provisions" heading, sections 2 and 3 of the bill reorganize the existing statutes related to the licensure of audiologists and hearing aid providers. This reorganization includes designating a new article number for the program so that it is grouped with other laws regulating health-related professions and occupations. Under the new "general provisions" segment, previously distinct grounds for discipline are combined so as to apply to both audiologists and hearing aid providers. Furthermore, the following are added as new grounds for discipline:
* Engaging in a deceptive trade practice;
* Committing abuse of health insurance;
* Aiding and abetting a violation of a law governing the program, or a rule promulgated or order issued by the director; and
* Failing to respond in an honest, materially responsive, and timely manner to a complaint letter sent by the director. Other specific substantive amendments to the laws governing the program include:
* Requiring audiologists to report malpractice judgments and settlements;
* Amending the laws relating to deceptive trade practices committed specifically by hearing aid providers, including expanding those laws to include all persons dispensing hearing aids; explicitly designating as a ground for discipline the commission of a deceptive trade practice; and granting the director specific authority to promulgate rules related to deceptive trade practices;
* Exempting federally employed dispensers who do not provide services to the general public;
* Authorizing audiologists to use certain titles under certain conditions;
* Eliminating the temporary audiologist and intermediate (associate) hearing aid provider license categories, which have been rendered obsolete;
* Broadening the universe of acceptable accrediting bodies;
* Harmonizing and clarifying definitions related to hearing aid provision and placing licensure qualification provisions under a more appropriate statutory section;
* Permitting the director to identify appropriate entry-level examinations for applicants for hearing aid provider licensure, specifying that trainee licenses expire after 2 years, and granting the director the authority to deny trainee licenses to applicants who have failed, or failed to take, the examination for licensure as a hearing aid provider;
* Qualifying for hearing aid provider licensure a candidate who either completes at least 6 months of training or acquires an associate's degree in hearing aid fitting and dispensing (in addition to passing an examination approved by the director);
* Allowing licensure as an audiologist or hearing aid provider by endorsement;
* Imposing a 2-year waiting period before a person who has had his or her license revoked, or who has surrendered his or her license in lieu of discipline, is eligible to apply for a new license; and
* Authorizing the director to delegate program duties to a division staff member. The bill also makes various grammatical and other nonsubstantive changes in order to modernize the program laws, including employing a "people first" approach when alluding to persons with hearing impairments, and sections 4 through 9 of the bill make conforming amendments. Section 3 continues the program through September 1, 2019.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government + Appropriations
02/22/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/09/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/13/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/16/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/19/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
04/04/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/09/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Amended to Finance
04/09/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Reconsider to Business, Labor and Technology
04/24/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Committee Vote - Final Action Failed
04/26/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
Fiscal Notes:

Fiscal Note

News:
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1205
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 66: HB12-1205
Video Center: House Legislative Day 69: HB12-1205
House Legislative Day 66: HB12-1205

HB12-1206 Sunset Review Cold Case Task Force 
Sponsors: ACREE / MORSE
Summary: Sunset Process - House Judiciary Committee. In 2007, the general assembly created the cold case task force (task force) and put a sunset date of July 1, 2012, on the task force. The task force sunset date is extended to September 1, 2019. A forensic pathologist is added to the task force membership. The governor will appoint the forensic pathologist to the task force, and the appointee will serve a 3-year term.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/21/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/27/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/28/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/12/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/15/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/16/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:06 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:04 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/12/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 66: HB12-1206
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 66: HB12-1206
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1206
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1206
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1206
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1206
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 66: HB12-1206
Senate Legislative Day 65: HB12-1206
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1206
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1206

HB12-1207 Sunset Cover All Children Advisory Committee 
Sponsors: LABUDA / AGUILAR
Summary: Sunset Process - House Local Government Committee. The bill repeals the advisory committee on covering all children in Colorado.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/13/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/16/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/23/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/07/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/21/2012:18 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:23 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1207
Senate Health and Human Services : HB12-1207
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1207
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 38: HB12-1207
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1207
Senate Legislative Day 62: HB12-1207
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1207
House Legislative Day 38: HB12-1207

HB12-1208 Method Of Recodifying CO Revised Statutes 
Sponsors: LEE
Summary: Historically, Colorado's statutes were recodified in 1953, 1963, and 1973. Due to changes in drafting protocols, statutory compilation methods, and comprehensive publications procedures, as well as the publication of the law in replacement softbound volumes, many of the necessary corrective and technical changes since 1973 have been, and continue to be, achieved through revision changes and the authority of the revisor of statutes. Commencing in 2012, however, the committee on legal services (committee) will identify and direct the office of legislative legal services to conduct a comprehensive review of one to 5 statutory titles over the course of each year and make appropriate technical recodification recommendations to the committee regarding those titles for the purpose of achieving the technical recodification of the titles through committee-sponsored legislation. The committee may designate a subcommittee from among its membership to study the titles for recodification. In determining which titles to address in a particular year and in identifying appropriate changes to be made, the committee, the subcommittee, and the office may solicit comments from affected state agencies, the bar association, the judicial department, and other interested persons and organizations.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/21/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1209 Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act 
Sponsors: GARDNER B. / CARROLL
Summary: Section 1 of the bill enacts the "Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act" (act) drafted by the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws (commissioners). "Legal material" is defined to mean the constitution of this state, the session laws of Colorado, the Colorado Revised Statutes, and a state agency rule. If legal material is only published electronically, the official publisher is required to designate the record as official, but if it is published in another format, the publisher may make such designation. In either case, if electronic legal material is designated as official, the publisher is required to meet requirements related to the authentication and preservation of the electronic record and the availability of the preserved electronic record. Electronic legal material in an electronic record that is authenticated by the official publisher is presumed to be an accurate copy of the legal material. This presumption applies to electronic legal material from states that have adopted a law that is substantially similar to the act. Section 2 of the bill requires the official comments issued by the commissioners to be published with the act.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Appropriations
02/23/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/16/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/20/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/21/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/23/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/28/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/10/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/13/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/19/2012:29 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/19/2012:46 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/26/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 94: HB12-1209
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 93: HB12-1209
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1209
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1209
House Judiciary : HB12-1209
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 94: HB12-1209
Senate Legislative Day 93: HB12-1209
House Legislative Day 70: HB12-1209

HB12-1210 Recognition Out-of-state Professionals To Practice 
Sponsors: BEEZLEY / JAHN
Summary: The bill allows a person with a currently valid license, certificate, or registration in good standing from another state to practice his or her profession in this state for up to one year before the person has to meet the licensing, certification, or registration requirements in Colorado. For the person to be eligible to practice in this state, he or she shall have no other basis for disqualification from practice other than the lack of a license, certificate, or registration and shall apply for a license, certificate, or registration within 30 days after engaging in practice in Colorado.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/14/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Health and Human Services
03/15/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1210
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1210
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1210
House Economic and Business Development : HB12-1210
Video Center: House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1210
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1210
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1210

HB12-1211 Title Insurance Agent Physical Office In State 
Sponsors: JONES / NICHOLSON
Summary: The bill requires a title insurance agent doing business in this state to maintain a physical office within this state for its employees, including the designated responsible insurance producer. An attorney who is licensed to practice law in Colorado and who is a licensed title insurance agent is exempt from the requirement.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
03/21/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1212 BOCES Multi-district On-line Education Programs 
Sponsors: BECKER / HODGE
Summary: H.B. 12-1212 On-line education programs - authorization of on-line education programs by a BOCES. Under current law, a board of cooperative services (BOCES) may authorize either a single-district or a multi-district on-line educational program. The act permits a BOCES to authorize only a multi-district program. APPROVED by Governor March 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
02/06/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/09/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/10/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/13/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/14/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
02/22/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/01/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Adhere
03/21/2012:45 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:26 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 63: HB12-1212
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1212
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 50: HB12-1212
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1212
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 34: HB12-1212
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 31: HB12-1212
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 63: HB12-1212
House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1212
Senate Legislative Day 50: HB12-1212
Senate Legislative Day 49: HB12-1212
House Legislative Day 34: HB12-1212
House Legislative Day 31: HB12-1212

HB12-1213 Escape From Community Corrections Program 
Sponsors: FIELDS / KING S.
Summary: H.B. 12-1213 Sentencing - habitual criminals - inapplicability of habitual criminal adjudication to certain persons convicted of escape. Under current law, a person convicted of any class 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 felony who has been convicted of two felonies within the previous 10 years, or who has been convicted of three or more felonies within any time frame, may be adjudged a habitual criminal. The act renders such an adjudication inapplicable to a person who is convicted of escape or attempt to escape from a place other than a county jail or a correctional facility. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2012 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2012
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Appropriations
02/23/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/10/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
04/12/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/16/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/17/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/18/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/18/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
04/23/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/26/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/30/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/07/2012:01 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/08/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/08/2012:22 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/17/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1213
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 108: HB12-1213
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1213
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 99: HB12-1213
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 97: HB12-1213
House Judiciary : HB12-1213
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 111: HB12-1213
Senate Legislative Day 108: HB12-1213
House Legislative Day 99: HB12-1213

HB12-1214 Community College Two-year Degree Programs 
Sponsors: BECKER / NICHOLSON
Summary: H.B. 12-1214 Community colleges - two-year dental hygiene degree programs. The act allows a Colorado community college to offer a two-year degree program with academic designation in dental hygiene even though there is not a valid student transfer agreement for the degree program. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 01/30/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
04/16/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/19/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
04/24/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/25/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
05/03/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Orders - Passed
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/17/2012:36 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:45 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1214
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1214
Senate Education: HB12-1214
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1214
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1214
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1214
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1214
Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1214
House Legislative Day 104: HB12-1214
House Legislative Day 104: HB12-1214
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1214

HB12-1222 Recreate CDOT Renovation Fund 
Sponsors: BECKER / HODGE
Summary: Joint Budget Committee. The department of transportation renovation fund was repealed in 2007 with a balance still remaining in the fund. The bill recreates the fund and specifies that it consists of the prior remaining balance. The moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the department of transportation to pay for the renovation of property of the department and to make payments under any lease-purchase agreement authorized pursuant to House Bill 04-1456.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/22/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/27/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/28/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
03/16/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/20/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/21/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/22/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:43 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:50 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 72: HB12-1222
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 71: HB12-1222
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1222
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1222
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 72: HB12-1222
Senate Legislative Day 71: HB12-1222
Senate Legislative Day 71: HB12-1222
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1222
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1222

HB12-1223 Inmates Eligibility For Earned Time 
Sponsors: LEVY / STEADMAN
Summary: H.B. 12-1223 Inmate and parole time computation - earned time - appropriations. The act renders an offender who is sentenced and paroled for a felony offense committed after July 1, 1993, eligible to receive earned time while he or she is reincarcerated after a parole revocation. An offender who successfully completes a milestone or phase of an educational, vocational, therapeutic, or reentry program, or who demonstrates exceptional conduct that promotes the safety of correctional staff, volunteers, contractors, or other persons under the supervision of the department of corrections, may be awarded as many as 60 days of achievement earned time per program milestone or phase or per instance of exceptional conduct, at the discretion of the executive director of the department of corrections, in addition to any earned time that is already authorized by law. An offender shall not be awarded more than one hundred twenty days of achievement earned time. The act makes and reduces the following appropriations: Decreases the appropriation for the external capacity subprogram by $331,766. Decreases the appropriation for the medical services subprogram by $24,972. Decreases the appropriation for the community services division by $22,139. Appropriates to the department of corrections, for the implementation of the act, the sum of $378,877 to be allocated as follows: $84,337 and 2.0 FTE for the offender services subprogram; $100,640 for the information systems subprogram; and $193,900 for the education subprogram. Appropriates the sum of $100,640 for allocation to the office of information technology, for the provision of computer center services for the department of corrections related to the implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2012 EFFECTIVE May 24, 2012
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
04/03/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/20/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/24/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
04/25/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/26/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
04/30/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations
05/02/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/04/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/07/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/17/2012:12 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:23 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 118: HB12-1223
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 115: HB12-1223
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1223
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 106: HB12-1223
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1223
House Judiciary : HB12-1223
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 118: HB12-1223
Senate Legislative Day 115: HB12-1223
House Legislative Day 105: HB12-1223
House Legislative Day 106: HB12-1223

HB12-1224 Creation Of A Consolidated Communications System 
Sponsors: BECKER / LAMBERT
Summary: Joint Budget Committee. The bill creates the consolidated communications system authority (authority). The bill defines the membership of the authority as the following entities that use the statewide digital trunked radio system (system) as their primary means of public safety wireless communication:
* Law enforcement agencies and fire departments;
* A licensed ambulance or emergency medical service;
* School districts or schools;
* Agencies of a city, county, city and county, special district or other political subdivision of the state;
* Agencies of an Indian tribe;
* Agencies of the state or federal government; and
* Persons or entities eligible to hold an authorization in the public safety radio pool pursuant to rules of the federal communications commission. The bill defines the purposes of the authority to include:
* Advising the governor and the general assembly of the development, maintenance, upgrade, and operation of the system;
* Representing its members in matters concerning technology, rules, spectrum allocations, and radio frequency licensing;
* Identifying and reporting on operational and capital infrastructure and technology needs of the system;
* Identifying and reporting on funding options for system sustainability; and
* Soliciting and receiving appropriations, grants, and other moneys to expand, upgrade, and operate the system. The bill also creates the consolidated communications fund to hold moneys received by the authority. The authority may invest or deposit moneys in the fund. The bill also specifies that the income and property of the authority are exempt from all state and local taxes and assessments.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
02/22/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/27/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/28/2012 House Third Reading Passed with Amendments
03/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
03/16/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/20/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/26/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/28/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/02/2012:21 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/03/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012:14 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/09/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1224
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1224
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 73: HB12-1224
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1224
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1224
Video Center: House Legislative Day 111: HB12-1224
Senate Legislative Day 76: HB12-1224
Senate Legislative Day 73: HB12-1224
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1224
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1224

HB12-1225 Model Charter School Authorizer Designation 
Sponsors: RAMIREZ / STEADMAN
Summary: The bill creates a process by which a school district board of education or the state charter school institute (authorizer) may seek designation as a model authorizer. An authorizer may apply for model authorizer designation by submitting an application with supporting information and a fee. Model authorizer designation must be renewed annually. A model authorizer is not subject to statutory provisions concerning charter applications and authorizing and renewing charters but will establish its own requirements and procedures. If the decision of a model authorizer is appealed, there is a rebuttable presumption that the model authorizer's decision is valid and the state board of education (state board) will uphold the decision unless the appealing entity provides sufficient evidence to overcome the presumption. The state board will adopt rules establishing the procedures for applying for model authorizer designation; the practices an applicant must demonstrate, including minimum practices stated in the bill; a rubric for scoring an application; and the fee for initial and renewal applications. The department of education (department) will review each application and recommend to the state board whether to grant or renew model authorizer designation. The charter schools that are authorized by the applicant may submit written comments on the applicant's practices. The state board will decide whether to grant or renew model authorizer designation in a public meeting at which it allows public testimony on the issue. The state treasurer will credit the application fees to the model authorizer cash fund. The moneys in the fund are subject to annual appropriation for the department's costs incurred in implementing the model authorizer process.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
03/12/2012 House Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1226 Surcharge On Crimes Against At-risk Persons 
Sponsors: BARKER / AGUILAR
Summary: H.B. 12-1226 Crimes against at-risk adults and at-risk juveniles - surcharge - respite services - appropriation. The act imposes a surcharge on persons convicted of crimes against at-risk adults and at-risk juveniles. Once collected, the surcharge is transferred to the crimes against at-risk persons surcharge fund (fund) created by the act. The state office on aging (state office) shall distribute moneys from the fund to a fiscal agent who will oversee the award of moneys to programs that provide respite services for caregivers of at-risk adults or at-risk juveniles. The state office shall not expend any moneys until the fund has sufficient moneys to pay the expenses necessary to administer the fund. Programs receiving moneys from the fund must comply with provisions concerning the use of funds and reporting requirements. The court is permitted to waive some or all of the surcharge if the person convicted of the crime is indigent or unable to pay the surcharge. The act appropriates $5,650 from the crimes against at-risk persons cash fund to the department of human services for distribution to the state office. APPROVED by Governor June 8, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 15, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary + Appropriations
02/16/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/02/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/12/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/15/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/26/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Finance
04/12/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/27/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/01/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/02/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/04/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/08/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/17/2012:18 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:35 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/08/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1226
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 113: HB12-1226
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 112: HB12-1226
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1226
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1226
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1226
House Judiciary : HB12-1226
Video Center: House Legislative Day 119: HB12-1226
Senate Legislative Day 113: HB12-1226
Senate Legislative Day 112: HB12-1226
House Legislative Day 62: HB12-1226
House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1226

HB12-1227 Integrated Basic Educ & Skills Training Cert Prog 
Sponsors: YOUNG
Summary: The bill directs the state board of community colleges and occupational education (board), conditional on the availability of moneys, to design a certificate program through which persons who are identified as needing basic skills remedial course work or who are eligible for adult literacy education may obtain a career and technical education certificate within 12 months by taking courses that integrate basic skills training with college-level occupational skills training. The board will collaborate with and may enter into memorandums of understanding with the department of education and the department of labor in designing the certificate program to ensure that it can be implemented locally in collaboration with the family literacy education grant program and the work force investment program. A community college or local district junior college that chooses to implement the certificate program shall collaborate with the local entities that provide family literacy education and work force investment programs, if any. The board shall report annually to the general assembly concerning implementation of the certificate programs.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/22/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1228 Neighborhood Youth Organizations Background Checks 
Sponsors: DELGROSSO / STEADMAN
Summary: The bill expands the list of methods by which a neighborhood youth organization that is seeking to obtain a license can satisfy the requirements of criminal history background checks for its employees and volunteers. Each acceptable method must be able to determine whether the person being investigated has been convicted of felony child abuse or a felony offense involving unlawful sexual behavior. The neighborhood youth organization shall not hire a person as an employee or approve a person as a volunteer after confirmation of such a criminal history.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development
02/23/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/28/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed
03/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/05/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
03/28/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/03/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/11/2012:16 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/12/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/12/2012:58 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/23/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 84: HB12-1228
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 83: HB12-1228
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1228
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1228
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 83: HB12-1228
House Legislative Day 55: HB12-1228
House Legislative Day 52: HB12-1228

HB12-1229 Publication Requirements Legal Notice In Newspaper 
Sponsors: MURRAY / SCHEFFEL
Summary: H.B. 12-1229 Legal notices - publication requirements. The act defines the term "published" for purposes of publishing legal notices and specifies that, in circumstances where there is no newspaper published in a particular county or an adjoining county, a legal notice may be published in a newspaper having general circulation within the county. APPROVED by Governor April 6, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/15/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/20/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
02/21/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
03/13/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/16/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/19/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/20/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012:01 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/02/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/02/2012:05 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1229
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 69: HB12-1229
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1229
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1229
Senate Legislative Day 70: HB12-1229
Senate Legislative Day 69: HB12-1229
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1229
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1229

HB12-1230 Study Redesign Of Dev Disab Services 
Sponsors: YOUNG / AGUILAR
Summary: Subject to the receipt of sufficient gifts, grants, and donations, the bill directs the department of health care policy and financing (department) to contract for one or more studies of redesigning the systems of providing long-term services and supports to persons with a developmental disability. The department will forward copies of reports of the studies to certain committees of the general assembly. If a study finds that the redesign of the systems will result in cost savings or increased recipient satisfaction, the department is authorized to seek federal authorization to implement the changes and to seek changes in appropriations during the next budget cycle. The bill repeals the new provision, effective July 1, 2015.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs + Appropriations
02/23/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1231 Access To Driver's Info Private Investigators 
Sponsors: RYDEN / SPENCE
Summary: The bill allows for access to information on driver's licenses and motor vehicle registrations to licensed private investigators, licensed private investigative agencies, and licensed security services. This change conforms state law to the federal "Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994".
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/14/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
02/27/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/01/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/05/2012 Senate Third Reading Reconsidered
03/05/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/05/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012:24 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/13/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/13/2012:25 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/16/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1231
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1231
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1231
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1231
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1231
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 38: HB12-1231
House Judiciary : HB12-1231
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 55: HB12-1231
Senate Legislative Day 55: HB12-1231
Senate Legislative Day 52: HB12-1231
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1231
House Legislative Day 38: HB12-1231

HB12-1232 Health Care Costs For Persons In Custody 
Sponsors: GARDNER B. / NICHOLSON
Summary: Current law provides that a person in a county jail is primarily responsible for payment for medical care related to a self-inflicted injury or for a preexisting medical condition. The bill expands this provision to include a person in a municipal jail or in the custody of a county or municipal law enforcement agency.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
03/08/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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Audio, Floors and Committees: House Judiciary : HB12-1232
House Judiciary : HB12-1232
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HB12-1233 Legal Separation Court Appearance Procedure 
Sponsors: LABUDA / CARROLL
Summary: H.B. 12-1233 Court entry of decree of legal separation - upon affidavit. The act allows a court to enter a decree of legal separation, by affidavit, without the appearance of the parties, in circumstances where there are no children of the marriage and the parties have entered into a written agreement concerning the division of marital property. The act takes effect July 1, 2012, and applies to petitions for legal separation filed on or after that date. APPROVED by Governor March 22, 2012 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2012
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/14/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/17/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/20/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/22/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/05/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012:05 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:22 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 59: HB12-1233
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1233
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1233
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 41: HB12-1233
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 38: HB12-1233
House Judiciary : HB12-1233
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 59: HB12-1233
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1233
House Legislative Day 41: HB12-1233
House Legislative Day 38: HB12-1233

HB12-1234 Allow Customers To Be Heard In PUC Proceedings 
Sponsors: TYLER
Summary: The bill clarifies that, for purposes of the rules governing intervention in administrative hearings before the Colorado public utilities commission (PUC), customers of a business regulated by the PUC qualify as persons who "will be interested in or affected by" the PUC's order.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
03/01/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1235 Energy Efficient Public Schools 
Sponsors: KERR A. / JOHNSTON
Summary: After January 1, 2013, each school district and each district charter school shall ensure that each project to construct or significantly redesign a building or structure, at a minimum, satisfies one of the following conditions:
* The design and construction plans for the project ensure that the resulting building or structure will qualify for the federal energy star label and, upon completion of the project, the school district or district charter school shall acquire such a rating for the resulting building or structure;
* The school district or district charter school shall perform the project to achieve the highest performance certification attainable as certified by an independent third party pursuant to the high performance standard certification program adopted by the state architect;
* The school district or district charter school shall consult with the governor's energy office concerning the best building practices for the construction or redesign project, which consultation shall commence before the commencement of any actual building or construction and shall continue until the completion of the project; or
* The school district or district charter school shall designate the execution of the project to a design and construction team that includes at least one person who possesses a professional accreditation in energy-efficient design practices and who provides professional technical assistance to the school district or district charter school to facilitate the project.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/29/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1236 Modify Regulation Charitable Solicitations 
Sponsors: SUMMERS / JAHN
Summary: H.B. 12-1236 Charitable solicitations - regulation - appropriation. The act makes several changes to the laws governing charitable solicitations. Section 1 of the act excludes grant writers from the definition of "paid solicitor" unless the grant writer's compensation is computed on the basis of funds raised from the grant. Section 2 specifies that fundraising on behalf of a named individual is not a charitable appeal and therefore the fundraiser does not have to register with the secretary of state. In addition, section 2 eliminates the need for a charity to request a 3-month extension for the filing of its initial or annual financial report with the secretary of state if the charity has filed for an extension with the internal revenue service. Section 3 clarifies that only monetary contributions must be deposited with a financial institution. Section 4 requires paid solicitors, near the beginning of a telephone solicitation, to disclose that a contribution is not tax-deductible, if that is the case, before soliciting the donation and to state their full and complete name. Section 5 appropriates $41,440 to the department of state from the department of state cash fund for implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor April 26, 2012 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2013 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see page vi of this digest.
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/15/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/02/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
03/06/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/13/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
03/15/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/10/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/12/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/13/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/19/2012:08 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/19/2012:03 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/26/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 94: HB12-1236
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 93: HB12-1236
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 56: HB12-1236
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 94: HB12-1236
Senate Legislative Day 93: HB12-1236
House Legislative Day 56: HB12-1236

HB12-1237 Common Interest Community HOA Records Copies 
Sponsors: WILLIAMS A.
Summary: The bill adopts, with some revisions, suggested language from the commission on uniform state laws concerning the records required to be kept by a unit owners' association concerning the finances, board meeting minutes, and other affairs of a common interest community under the "Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act".
Status: 02/06/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/20/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/22/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/23/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/24/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/29/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/01/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
03/27/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/30/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
05/03/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/04/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/05/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Lay Over Daily
05/08/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/17/2012:01 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:09 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/29/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1237
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 115: HB12-1237
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 114: HB12-1237
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 114: HB12-1237
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 51: HB12-1237
Video Center: House Legislative Day 115: HB12-1237
Senate Legislative Day 115: HB12-1237
Senate Legislative Day 114: HB12-1237
Senate Legislative Day 114: HB12-1237
House Legislative Day 50: HB12-1237
House Legislative Day 51: HB12-1237

HB12-1238 Ensuring K-3 Literacy Education 
Sponsors: MASSEY / JOHNSTON
Summary: H.B. 12-1238 Early literacy education - READ plans - advancement to next grade level - early literacy fund - appropriations. The act repeals the"Colorado Basic Literacy Act" on July 1, 2013, and replaces it with the "Colorado READ Act". Each school district, charter school, and board of cooperative services (local education provider) that enrolls students in kindergarten or first, second, or third grade (early grades) must provide instructional programs and support in reading to ensure that, by the time a student finishes third grade, the student's reading skills are high enough to enable the student to achieve the standards and expectations for fourth grade and beyond. The state board of education (state board) will promulgate rules that establish the minimum reading competency skill levels for each of the early grades. The department of education (department) will adopt a procedure to collect and review reading assessments, instructional programming in reading, and professional development programs. The department will review the assessments and recommend assessments that meet specified criteria to the state board for approval. The department will create a list of the approved reading assessments that local education providers will use to measure students' reading skills in the early grades and diagnose students' reading skill deficiencies. The department will also create an advisory list of recommended instructional programming in reading that meets specified criteria and a list of recommended professional development programs. The department must have the list of approved assessments available by April 1, 2013, and the advisory lists of recommended instructional programming and professional development programs available by July 1, 2013. The department will continue to review assessments, instructional programming, and professional development programs and add the assessments that the state board approves to the approved assessment list and add appropriate items to the lists of recommended instructional programming and recommended professional development programs. Beginning in the spring semester of the 2012-13 school year, each local education provider will begin assessing students in each of the early grades and diagnosing students' specific reading skill deficiencies. If a student's reading skills are below the minimum reading competency skill level, the student has a significant reading deficiency. Beginning in the 2013-14 school year, if a student has a significant reading deficiency in one of the early grades, the student's teacher and any other personnel selected by the local education provider will, if possible, meet with the student's parent to communicate and discuss specified information and create a reading to ensure academic development plan (READ plan) for the student. The information will include notice that, if the student continues to have a significant reading deficiency at the end of the school year, state law requires the parent, the teacher, and other personnel to meet and consider retention as an intervention strategy and determine whether the student, despite the significant reading deficiency, will be able to maintain adequate academic progress at the next grade level. The local education provider will ensure the parent receives a copy of the READ plan. A student's READ plan must include a description of the student's specific reading skill deficiencies, goals and benchmarks for achieving reading competency, the specific intervention instruction the teacher will use to help the student progress, and the specific strategies the parent is encouraged to use at home to help the student progress. The READ plan and documentation supporting the READ plan and the student's progress in implementing the plan will be included in the student's permanent academic record. If a student's reading skills are below grade level, but the student does not have a significant reading deficiency, the local education provider must provide interventions to the student through the response to intervention framework. If a student has a significant reading deficiency, the student's READ plan will include intervention instruction provided through the response to intervention framework. If the student is identified as having a disability, the local education provider will integrate into the student's individualized education program (IEP), as appropriate, the intervention instruction to address the student's reading issues, in lieu of creating a READ plan. The teacher will continue to implement and update the READ plan until the student achieves reading competency. A student who continues to have a significant reading deficiency in second or subsequent consecutive school years must receive increased reading intervention instruction and supports to improve his or her reading competency. If, at the end of an early grade school year, a student has a significant reading deficiency, state law requires the parent, the teacher, and other personnel to meet and consider retention as an intervention strategy and determine whether the student, despite the significant reading deficiency, will be able to maintain adequate academic progress at the next grade level. The student's teacher will send the student's parent written notice that the teacher, the parent, and other personnel from the local education provider must meet to decide whether the student will advance. After sending the notice, the personnel from the local education provider will schedule, or make documented attempts to schedule, the meeting. If the parent does not attend a meeting, the teacher and personnel from the local education provider will decide whether the student will advance. If there is a meeting, the student's parent and teacher and personnel from the local education provider will communicate and discuss specified information with the parent and decide, based on the student's body of evidence and the likelihood that the student will be able to make adequate academic progress, whether the student will advance to the next grade level. The parent will have the final decision as to whether the student advances; except that, beginning in the 2016-17 school year, if the student is finishing third grade and the parent, or the teacher and other personnel if the parent does not attend the meeting, decide the student will advance to fourth grade even though the student has a significant reading deficiency, the superintendent of the school district or a designee, or the school principal if the student is enrolled in a charter school or a school operated by a board of cooperative services, will decide whether the student advances. The local education provider will ensure that the parent and the superintendent or principal receive a written statement of the decisions made concerning whether the student advances and that the written statement is included in the student's academic record. The local education provider will remove the statement from the student's academic record when the student achieves reading competency. A student is not subject to a decision about whether to advance to the next grade level if the student has an IEP and is eligible to take the alternative statewide assessment or has a disability that substantially impacts the student's progress in developing reading skills; is an English language learner, and the student's significant reading deficiency is due primarily to language; or has already been in the same grade for 2 years. The act repeals the read-to-achieve fund and replaces it with the early literacy fund (ELF). The ELF consists of any moneys remaining in the read-to-achieve fund as of June 30, 2012; 5% of the tobacco settlement moneys up to $8 million per year; and, beginning in the 2013-14 fiscal year, up to $16 million of the interest received on the permanent school fund. In the 2012-13 budget year, the department will expend the ELF moneys on the read-to-achieve grants that are outstanding as of July 1, 2012, and may use any remaining moneys to provide technical support to local education providers. Beginning in the 2013-14 budget year, the department will annually expend the ELF moneys as follows: $1 million to provide literacy support in the form of professional development delivered by experts in literacy on a regional basis to local education providers; $4 million for grants awarded through the early literacy grant program; Up to 1% of the moneys in the ELF to offset the costs incurred by the department in administering the act; The remaining moneys allocated to local education providers on a per-pupil basis, based on the number of enrolled early grade students with significant reading deficiencies, to provide specified interventions (per-pupil intervention moneys). The department will administer an early literacy grant program to provide money to applying local education providers to implement literacy support and intervention instruction programs, including professional development, to assist students in early grades to achieve reading competency. Each local education provider may use its per-pupil intervention moneys to provide a full-day kindergarten program, a summer school literacy program, tutoring services for students with significant reading deficiencies, or other intervention services, as approved by the department, for students with significant reading deficiencies. Each local education provider must ensure that each early grade student with a significant reading deficiency has access to at least one of the interventions provided using per-pupil intervention moneys. Each local education provider will annually report to the department data that enables the department to determine whether students who receive READ plans achieve reading competency, how long it takes for them to do so, and whether prohibiting a student from advancing to the next grade level has a positive effect on the student's reading skill level. The local education providers will also report the uses of the early literacy grant moneys and per-pupil intervention moneys and the results achieved. The department will report its analysis of the data and the information concerning the use of moneys to the state board, the governor, and the general assembly and will make it available on the department's web site. Accreditation of school districts and public schools is based partially on student achievement on the statewide assessments. The department, working with the technical advisory panel in the department, will determine the calculation of additional credit for schools, school districts, and the state charter school institute for students who are identified as having significant reading deficiencies while enrolled in the early grades and who score partially proficient, proficient, or advanced on the statewide reading assessment in third or fourth grade. Each public school, each school district, and the institute will include in its performance, improvement, priority improvement, or turnaround plan provisions to address the needs of students enrolled in the early grades who are identified as having significant reading deficiencies. Prior to the act, a student enrolled in kindergarten was always counted as a half-time student for purposes of school finance. Under the act, a student who is enrolled in kindergarten and who is retained for a second year of kindergarten due to a significant reading deficiency will be counted as a full-time student for purposes of school finance. For the 2012-13 fiscal year, the act appropriates $5,411,989 and 9.8 FTE from the ELF to the department for implementation of the act. The act also appropriates a total of $120,418 from the state education fund to the department for allocation to school districts for the costs of providing education services to students who are held in adult jails. These moneys were previously appropriated from the read-to-achieve fund, which was repealed in the act. The act adjusts the 2012-13 long bill accordingly. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2012 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2012
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
03/12/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/14/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/16/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/20/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/21/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/28/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans & Military Affairs
04/25/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Appropriations
05/01/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/03/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/04/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/08/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/15/2012:58 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/15/2012:01 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/15/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/17/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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News: New literacy law, campaign
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1238
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 115: HB12-1238
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 114: HB12-1238
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 114: HB12-1238
Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs : HB12-1238
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 70: HB12-1238
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 115: HB12-1238
Senate Legislative Day 114: HB12-1238
Senate Legislative Day 114: HB12-1238
House Legislative Day 70: HB12-1238

HB12-1239 Special District Approval Requirements 
Sponsors: VAAD
Summary: H.B. 12-1239 Domestic water or sanitary sewer service - provision by special district - requirement of county approval for expansion of service area. The act prohibits a special district from furnishing domestic water or sanitary sewer service directly to residents and property owners in unincorporated territory of a county that has not approved the district's service plan unless the district notifies the board of county commissioners of the county of its plan to furnish the service and the board approves the plan. The board may hold a public hearing and reasonably require the district to provide information and data before approving such a plan. The board must also provide public notice of such a plan in the district's proposed expanded service area and allow any owner of property in the proposed expanded service area to request to be excluded from the area. The requirements of the act do not apply if: A district provides domestic water or sanitary sewer service only to private property owners who have agreed in writing to receive such service; A district provides domestic water or sanitary sewer service within the boundaries of another governmental entity pursuant to an intergovernmental agreement; A district provides storm drainage or storm sewer services within the county into which expansion is proposed; or As of May 11, 2012, the district is providing or has been approved to provide domestic water service or sanitary sewer service within the unincorporated area of the county into which expansion is proposed. APPROVED by Governor May 11, 2012 EFFECTIVE May 11, 2012
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/27/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/01/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/02/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/05/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/09/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
03/19/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/22/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/26/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/27/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/02/2012:33 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/03/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012:33 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/11/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1239
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 77: HB12-1239
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1239
Senate Judiciary : HB12-1239
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 55: HB12-1239
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 52: HB12-1239
Video Center: House Legislative Day 111: HB12-1239
Senate Legislative Day 77: HB12-1239
Senate Legislative Day 76: HB12-1239
House Legislative Day 55: HB12-1239
House Legislative Day 52: HB12-1239

HB12-1240 Statutory Changes To K-12 Education 
Sponsors: KERR A.
Summary: H.B. 12-1240 K-12 education - statutory amendments. The act contains the following statutory changes concerning K-12 education: A requirement on the office of legislative legal services to report any introduced legislation concerning education data to the education data advisory committee. The date for the adoption of graduation guidelines by the state board of education is extended from December 15, 2011, to May 15, 2013. The provision that the state board of education (board) receive, maintain, and post copies of collective bargaining agreements is repealed. The pool of potential sources for gifts, grants, and donations for S.B. 10-191 is expanded by allowing the department of education (department) to accept moneys outside of federal moneys. The date for the inclusion of diploma endorsements in performance indicators is extended. The criteria for awarding the John Irwin Schools of Excellence Award is changed to include those schools with the highest level of attainment on the performance indicator concerning student achievement levels. Clarification of the difference between an "on-line program" and an "on-line school". The military dependent supplemental pupil enrollment aid program is repealed. The number of charter school food authorities is increased from 6 to 10 and the deadline for authorizing charter school food authorities is extended to 2016. "Ongoing deficit" is defined as it pertains to school district budgets. The department will notify a school district board of education if it approves a letter of intent on emergency reserves. Removal of the requirement that a school district receiving an impact assistance grant must certify the amount of that grant to the board. If a charter school or institute charter school offers a full-day kindergarten program, the supplemental funding will be passed to the charter school or institute charter school. If a charter school is permitted by its charter authorizer to operate a kindergarten program, it may also plan, develop, and operate a public preschool program. The internet safety policy in schools is updated to include "technology devices", which includes any computer, hardware, software, or other technology that is used for learning purposes and has the ability to connect with the internet. The inclusion of Colorado in a consortium of states that focuses on the readiness of students for college and careers through the development of a common set of assessments. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2012 EFFECTIVE June 4, 2012
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Finance + Appropriations
02/27/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Finance
03/15/2012 House Committee on Finance Re-Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/29/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/04/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
05/02/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/07/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
05/07/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Orders - Passed with Amendments
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Orders - Passed with Amendments
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed with Amendments
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Not Concur - Request Conference Committee
05/09/2012 First Conference Committee Result was to Adopt Rerevised w/ Amendments
05/09/2012 Senate Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
05/09/2012 House Consideration of First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass
05/24/2012:10 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/25/2012:01 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/25/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/04/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1240
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1240
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1240
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1240
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 120: HB12-1240
Senate Legislative Day 119: HB12-1240
House Legislative Day 79: HB12-1240
House Legislative Day 78: HB12-1240

HB12-1241 Review Enterprise Zone Designations 
Sponsors: FERRANDINO
Summary: The bill requires any new enterprise zone designation to meet at least 2 of the criteria currently listed in statute, rather than at least one. Additionally, the bill requires the director of the Colorado office of economic development (director) and the Colorado economic development commission (commission) to review the enterprise zone designations at least once every 5 years to ensure that the existing zones continue to meet those criteria. As a part of each 5-year review, the director and the commission are required to analyze the annual documentation of efforts required by law. The bill allows the director and the commission to make changes or terminate existing enterprise zone designations based on the review. If it is determined that existing enterprise zone designations need to change or be terminated, the change or termination shall not be undertaken in a high unemployment period. The bill requires any changes or terminations to be reported to the legislative audit committee and the finance committees of the house of representatives and the senate. The bill allows the director and the commission to make recommendations for improved or different criteria to be used for the designation of an enterprise zone. Any recommendations are required to be presented to the legislative audit committee in conjunction with the annual presentation already required by law and reported to the finance committees of the house of representatives and the senate. The bill requires the director of the Colorado economic development commission to notify the state auditor when the review is completed. The state auditor is then required to commence a performance audit of the review undertaken and to submit a report to the governor and general assembly. The bill also requires all enterprise zones to comply with the requirement to submit annual documentation of efforts to improve economic conditions.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/22/2012 House Committee on Finance Lay Over Amended
02/29/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/05/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/09/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/12/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
03/13/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/19/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
03/22/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Legislative Council
04/25/2012 Senate Committee on Legislative Council Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/30/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
05/01/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/07/2012:19 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/08/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/08/2012:39 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
06/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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News: Task force named to reshape Colorado enterprise zones
Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 112: HB12-1241
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1241
Legislative Council Committee: HB12-1241
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1241
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 62: HB12-1241
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 112: HB12-1241
Senate Legislative Day 111: HB12-1241
House Legislative Day 65: HB12-1241
House Legislative Day 62: HB12-1241
House Legislative Day 59: HB12-1241

HB12-1242 Biometric System Monitor Prescription Drugs 
Sponsors: MASSEY / BOYD
Summary: The bill requires the division of registrations (division) in the department of regulatory agencies, by January 1, 2013, to develop an electronic system to monitor and store in a secure database information pertaining to:
* The prescribing of prescription drugs;
* The dispensing or delivery of prescription drugs by a prescription drug outlet (PDO) or health care practitioner (practitioner); and
* The dispensing or delivery of restricted over-the-counter substances, also known as methamphetamine precursor drugs, by a PDO or practitioner. Practitioners and PDOs are required to maintain biometric scanning devices and to use those devices to obtain a biometric scan of a person's biometric identifier, such as a fingerprint or retinal scan, and to submit the scan to the database. Practitioners and PDOs are also required, prior to prescribing or dispensing a prescription drug or dispensing a restricted over-the-counter substance, to submit specified information to the database, including:
* The date of the prescription order;
* The name of the substance prescribed or dispensed, including strength, quantity, and directions for use;
* The name and address of the practitioner or PDO, as applicable; and
* The name and address of the person receiving the substance, as applicable, in an encrypted format. Once the information is received, the database assigns a unique identifying number to the particular prescription order or restricted over-the-counter substance and immediately transmits to the practitioner or PDO, as applicable, the following:
* The identifying number for the substance;
* The names of the substances prescribed or dispensed in connection with the biometric scan that may conflict with or overlap the practitioner's prescription order or the restricted over-the-counter substance; and
* The name and address of the practitioner whose prescription order may conflict with or overlap the prescribing practitioner's prescription or restricted over-the-counter substance and the name and address of the practitioner or PDO that dispensed or delivered the conflicting or overlapping prescription or restricted over-the-counter substance. Before dispensing or delivering a prescription drug or restricted over-the-counter substance, the practitioner or PDO is to submit the biometric scan to the database, and the database is to immediately transmit to the practitioner or PDO the following:
* The names of the substances that have been prescribed in connection with the biometric scan that may conflict with or overlap the substance to be dispensed or delivered;
* The name and address of the practitioner whose order may conflict with or overlap the prescription drug or restricted over-the-counter substance to be dispensed or delivered and the full name and address of the practitioner or PDO that dispensed or delivered the conflicting or overlapping prescription or restricted over-the-counter substance;
* A graduated alert system indicating the potential dangers related to dispensing or prescribing the substances as they relate to any conflicting or overlapping prescriptions;
* A warning or critical alert relating to the severity of the conflict or overlap, requiring the practitioner to biometrically acknowledge receipt of the conflict or overlap; and
* A warning or critical alert relating to the severity of the conflict or overlap to additional practitioners who provided or delivered the conflicting or overlapping substances. The bill makes exceptions for practitioners who administer a substance directly to the patient and for substances dispensed in an inpatient or residential facility. A person who fails to comply with the requirements of the bill commits a class 1 misdemeanor.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health and Environment + Economic and Business Development
03/15/2012 House Committee on Health and Environment Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1243 Appointment Process State Bds & Commns 
Sponsors: TODD
Summary: In connection with the various state boards and commissions for which the governor possesses the power to make appointments of the members, section 1 of the bill requires the office of the governor to review the process by which the governor makes such appointments to determine whether and to what extent the process allows for sufficiently diverse representation among the persons serving on such boards and commissions considering such factors as geographic and political background, expertise, and life and work experience of potential appointees. As part of the review, the bill also requires the governor's office to review the process by which the governor makes appointments to state boards and commissions in general to determine whether any action could be taken to make the appointment process more uniform and consistent. The office of the governor is further required to develop recommendations for soliciting the broadest possible applicant pool for making gubernatorial appointments to state boards and commissions. In performing this task, the office of the governor is to consider the use of all available media that would advertise open appointments and mechanisms that would increase the awareness of appointments among the public generally and within various groups with persons representing their interests on the various boards and commissions more particularly. Not later than December 15, 2013, the bill requires the office of the governor to report any findings and recommendations it has made to the general assembly. Section 2 of the bill requires the legislative council of the general assembly to undertake the same kind of review with respect to legislative appointments to state boards and commissions that section 1 of the bill requires the office of the governor to undertake for gubernatorial appointments. As part of the review, not later than December 15, 2013, the legislative council is required to assemble any findings and recommendations it has made into a report for the use of the council, the executive committee of the legislative council, the full membership of the general assembly, and the public.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
03/29/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1244 SOS Create Inventory Of Local Govs & Agents 
Sponsors: SCOTT / FOSTER
Summary: The bill directs the secretary of state to create an inventory of local governmental entities and describes the information that must be included in the inventory. The inventory must be available electronically, but the secretary of state shall charge users a fee to access the data related to agents authorized to receive notices of claims under the "Colorado Governmental Immunity Act" (act). Filing a notice of a claim arising under the act with a person listed as an agent in the inventory is deemed to satisfy requirements for filing such notice. Service to the most recently listed registered agent is deemed valid if the local governmental entity failed to timely update its registered agent information.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/22/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/27/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
02/28/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/02/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
03/20/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/26/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/27/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
04/30/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/02/2012:53 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/03/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012:48 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/11/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 111: HB12-1244
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 77: HB12-1244
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1244
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 49: HB12-1244
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 48: HB12-1244
Video Center: House Legislative Day 111: HB12-1244
Senate Legislative Day 77: HB12-1244
Senate Legislative Day 76: HB12-1244
House Legislative Day 49: HB12-1244
House Legislative Day 48: HB12-1244

HB12-1245 Health Care Options Gov Employees 
Sponsors: FIELDS
Summary: The bill creates a 13-member group purchase of health care insurance by government employees task force (task force) to meet in the 2012 interim to study issues involving the pooling of resources among state and local government employees in the state to purchase health care insurance and related products, report its findings and recommendations, and, if appropriate, propose statutory modifications. The bill specifies the required qualifications of the members of the task force and additional requirements governing the appointing authorities and procedures of the task force. The task force is required to study, make recommendations, and report findings on all matters relating to the group purchase of health care insurance by government employees, including, without limitation, innovative solutions and strategies for leveraging the purchasing power of state and local governments to expand health care coverage for the employees of such governments and their families at the lowest cost to the taxpayer while addressing any impediments to such goals provided by federal or state law. The task force is required to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the relevant committees of the general assembly by December 15, 2012. The task force is required to meet at least 4 times, with the first meeting occurring no later than August 1, 2012. Meetings of the task force are public meetings. The task force is required to solicit and accept reports and public testimony and may request other sources to provide testimony, written comments, and other relevant data to the task force. Members of the task force will serve without compensation and will not be reimbursed for their expenses. Any staff assistance required by the task force shall be performed by existing employees of the department of personnel within existing appropriations.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
03/22/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Lay Over Amended
03/28/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1246 Reverse Payday Shift State Employees Paid Biweekly 
Sponsors: BECKER / HODGE
Summary: Joint Budget Committee. As a result of the payday shift effected by Senate Bill 03-197, payment to state employees who are paid on a biweekly basis is delayed from late June to the first working day in July each year. Commencing with the 2012-13 state fiscal year, the bill reverses the payday shift for state employees who are paid on a biweekly basis so that such employees will be paid in June in accordance with their regular 2-week payment schedule.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/15/2012 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
02/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance
03/08/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/29/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/05/2012:28 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/10/2012 Sent to the Governor
04/10/2012:02 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/16/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 79: HB12-1246
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1246
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1246
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1246
Senate Legislative Day 79: HB12-1246
Senate Legislative Day 78: HB12-1246
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1246
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1246

HB12-1247 Reduce Tobacco Settlement Accelerated Payments 
Sponsors: GEROU / STEADMAN
Summary: Joint Budget Committee. Current law requires over 90% of the allocations of tobacco litigation settlement moneys (settlement moneys) for tobacco programs to be made through payments of settlement moneys received in the same fiscal year in which they are allocated (accelerated payments). Because the state receives settlement moneys in the last quarter of each fiscal year, it uses general fund moneys as working capital to operate tobacco programs until it receives each year's settlement moneys. This de facto loan of general fund moneys creates a risk of loss to the general fund if the settlement moneys received in any given fiscal year are substantially lower than anticipated, which might occur if, for example, the state lost an ongoing legal dispute with tobacco manufacturers. To reduce the risk of loss to the general fund, the bill annually reduces the amount of accelerated payments. The bill offsets the reduction by repealing the short-term innovative health program grant fund, which currently receives 6% of Tier 2 settlement program allocations, and requiring the additional tobacco litigation settlement cash fund moneys made available by the elimination of the grant fund to be used to supplement annual allocations of settlement moneys.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
03/02/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/07/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/08/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012:21 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:58 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/22/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1247
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1247
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1247
Senate Legislative Day 57: HB12-1247
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1247
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1247

HB12-1248 Create Fund For Dept Of Law & Auth Grant Spending 
Sponsors: GEROU / LAMBERT
Summary: Joint Budget Committee. The bill creates the legal services cash fund (fund), which consists of moneys paid by state agencies for legal services provided by the department of law (department). Moneys in the fund are annually appropriated for the costs of providing legal services. The bill also authorizes the department to accept and expend, consistent with its duties and the laws of the state, gifts, grants, and donations.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
03/02/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/07/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/08/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/16/2012:32 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/19/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/19/2012:08 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/19/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1248
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1248
Video Center: Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1248
Senate Legislative Day 57: HB12-1248
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1248
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1248

HB12-1249 State Auditor's Office Tobacco Settlement Funding 
Sponsors: GEROU / STEADMAN
Summary: Joint Budget Committee. Current law requires the general assembly to annually appropriate 0.1% of the tobacco litigation settlement moneys received by the state (settlement moneys) to the office of the state auditor for the costs of conducting program reviews and evaluations of the performance of tobacco settlement programs. The funding comes out of and proportionally reduces the amount of settlement moneys received by all tier 1 tobacco settlement programs reviewed and evaluated during a fiscal year. Beginning with the 2012-13 fiscal year, the bill replaces the 0.1% appropriation with an annual allocation to the state auditor's office of $89,000 of settlement moneys. The new funding comes out of and reduces by $89,000 the amount of settlement moneys annually received by the short-term innovative health program grant fund.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
02/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
02/21/2012 House Second Reading Passed
02/22/2012 House Third Reading Passed
02/24/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Appropriations
03/02/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/07/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
03/07/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/08/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/12/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/15/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/21/2012:30 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/22/2012 Sent to the Governor
03/22/2012:48 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 65: HB12-1249
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 58: HB12-1249
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 43: HB12-1249
Video Center: House Legislative Day 65: HB12-1249
Senate Legislative Day 58: HB12-1249
Senate Legislative Day 57: HB12-1249
House Legislative Day 43: HB12-1249
House Legislative Day 42: HB12-1249

HB12-1250 PERA Health Care Trust Fund Employer Contributions 
Sponsors: HOLBERT / HARVEY
Summary: The public employees' retirement association (PERA) administers a health benefits program for governmental employers within PERA who elect to belong to the program. Currently, a portion of the employer's share of contributions to PERA equal to 1.02% of its employees' salaries is paid into the PERA health care trust fund (trust fund). These moneys, along with interest and investment income in the trust fund, are used to provide a premium subsidy for retirees to purchase health care coverage through the program. Retirees pay the difference between the amount of the subsidy and the premium for the particular health plan they select. The amount of the subsidy increases for each year of service credit the retiree earned as an employee, with a full subsidy provided to retirees with 20 or more years of service credit. The full subsidy currently specified in law is $230 for retirees who are not eligible for medicare and $115 for retirees who are eligible for medicare. The PERA board is authorized to change the amount of the subsidy by rule. Beginning January 1, 2013, the bill modifies the way employers contribute towards the premium subsidy for PERA retirees. Instead of contributing based on the amount of current employees' salaries, the bill requires employers to contribute an amount equal to the subsidies paid out on behalf of retirees each year. The amount of the subsidy continues to be specified in statute; however, it cannot be modified by the PERA board and any future changes to the subsidy may only be made by the general assembly acting by bill. The premium subsidy for retirees who are eligible for medicare is also eliminated.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/23/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1251 Reforms To Urban & Rural Enterprise Zone Act 
Sponsors: HULLINGHORST / HEATH
Summary: The bill:
* For the income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2014, limits the amount of an income tax credit that may be claimed in an income tax year for qualified investments in an enterprise zone to the sum of the taxpayer's actual tax liability for the income tax year up to $5,000, plus 50% of any portion of the tax liability for the income tax year that exceeds $5,000 up to a maximum of $500,000.
* Allows a taxpayer to appeal to the Colorado economic development commission (commission) for permission to claim a credit in excess of the limit specified in the bill.
* Requires the commission to annually post information regarding claimed investment tax credits on its web site or the Colorado office of economic development's web site.
* Requires the commission to provide the department of revenue with information related to taxpayers receiving any credits allowed under the "Urban and Rural Enterprise Zone Act".
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/22/2012 House Committee on Finance Lay Over Amended
02/29/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1252 Transparency Of Higher Ed Financial Information 
Sponsors: NIKKEL / SPENCE
Summary: Currently, the state's revenues and expenditures that are included in the state's official book of record are included in a free, searchable web-based system that is known as the transparency on-line project. A state institution of higher education's transactions are not included in the state's official book of record, and, accordingly, its revenues and expenditures are not included in the web-based system. The bill requires each state institution of higher education to develop, maintain, and make publicly available a searchable, on-line revenue and expenditure database. A state institution is required to include and exclude in its database the same information relating to each revenue and expenditure transaction that the department of transportation is required to include in its revenue and expenditure database. In addition to requiring transparency of all employee salaries anonymously, for each professor, a state institution is required to include information related not only to salary, but also the number of classes the professor personally taught, benefits paid by the institution, travel-related expenses, and grants received. For purposes of the bill, a "state institution of higher education" is defined to mean a public postsecondary institution that is governed by:
* The board of governors of the Colorado state university system;
* The board of regents of the university of Colorado;
* The board of trustees of the Colorado school of mines; or
* The board of trustees of the university of northern Colorado. The web-based system is required to include a link to all on-line databases.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education
02/27/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/17/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
04/20/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
04/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
04/24/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Amended
04/27/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
05/01/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed
05/03/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
05/07/2012 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over Daily with Amendments
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HB12-1253 Low-income Property Expenses Assistance Grants 
Sponsors: KEFALAS / JOHNSTON
Summary: For grants claimed for 2013, the bill modifies the amounts of the real property tax expense and heat or fuel expenses assistance grants for low-income seniors and disabled individuals and the maximum income limits for grant qualification in a manner that:
* Increases grant amounts for individuals who earn more than $10,040 and married couples who earn more than $13,932; and
* Increases the income limits for grant eligibility from $12,313 to $28,000 for individuals and from $16,205 to $32,000 for married couples; and
* Establishes flat minimum grant amounts for any eligible individual or married couple of the lesser of $227 or the actual amount of property tax paid for the real property tax expense assistance grant and $73 for the heat or fuel expenses assistance grant.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
03/14/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1254 Metro District Conservation Trust Fund Allocations 
Sponsors: SWERDFEGER / GIRON
Summary: The bill changes the reallocation of conservation trust fund moneys to a metropolitan district that provides parks and recreation services exclusively within the unincorporated area of a county from one-half of the percentage to the full percentage which the district's population within the county is to the total population of the unincorporated area of the county. A metropolitan district may opt-out of the increased reallocation.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government + Appropriations
02/22/2012 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/16/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/20/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/26/2012 House Second Reading Lost with Amendments
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 76: HB12-1254
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HB12-1255 Ending Continuous Appropriation Of State Moneys 
Sponsors: BAUMGARDNER
Summary: Beginning on July 1, 2012, the bill ends all continuous appropriations from the general fund or any cash fund to any state agency. The general assembly is required to annually appropriate the moneys that were previously continuously appropriated, and it is prohibited from continuously appropriating moneys to a state agency in the future.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations
05/08/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
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HB12-1256 Formula For Maintenance Dissolution Of Marriage 
Sponsors: MCCANN / MITCHELL
Summary: For actions filed on or after July 1, 2012, the bill creates a new method for determining maintenance orders upon a decree of dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or other action for maintenance. For actions filed before July 1, 2012, the provisions of current law relating to the establishment, modification, and termination of maintenance apply to those actions as well as to existing maintenance orders, and the passage of this bill does not affect those actions or orders. Additionally, the bill does not change the provisions in current law relating to temporary maintenance ordered after an action is filed but prior to final orders. For actions filed on or after July 1, 2012, the court may award reimbursement, transitional, or general term maintenance. The maintenance categories are defined in the bill:
* Reimbursement maintenance and transitional maintenance may only be awarded in short-term marriages of less than 5 years and are not modifiable. Reimbursement maintenance is to reimburse a spouse for significant contributions to the economic or educational advancement of the other spouse or the enhancement of the other spouse's property. Transitional maintenance is to transition the recipient spouse to an adjusted lifestyle or location or to allow the spouse to achieve increased economic independence through entry or reentry into the workforce or by attaining education or job training. Both reimbursement maintenance and transitional maintenance are limited to 24 months.
* General term maintenance may be awarded only in marriages of at least 5 years. When the parties' combined, annual income is $240,000 or less, general term maintenance is determined pursuant to a formula set forth in the bill. The formula creates a presumptive amount of monthly maintenance, however, if the amount or duration is unfair, the court may deviate from the formula after considering certain factors. If the parties' combined, annual income exceeds $240,000, the maintenance formula does not apply. The court will make a threshold determination of need for support and will then determine both the amount and duration of maintenance that is fair and equitable after considering certain factors. General term maintenance is modifiable and the court shall apply the formula for determination of the amount of maintenance, subject to deviation based upon certain factors, in any action to modify general term maintenance. General term maintenance terminates upon the earlier of the end of the maintenance term, the death of either spouse, the remarriage of the recipient spouse, or the retirement of the payor spouse. The parties may agree to waive all categories of maintenance. The new maintenance statute created in the bill includes a section that limits its applicability to actions filed on or after July 1, 2012. Additionally, the bill amends the existing maintenance statute to clarify that the provisions of the existing statute relating to maintenance determinations at the time of permanent orders apply only to actions filed before July 1, 2012, and allows for the repeal of those provisions after a certain amount of time.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
02/21/2012 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1257 Health Care Consumer & Provider Protections 
Sponsors: KEFALAS / BOYD
Summary: The bill clarifies that an intermediary between a health insurance carrier and health care provider is a "person or entity" for purposes of complying with health care contract disclosure requirements. Each health care provider who provides outpatient health care or treatment is required to disclose to a patient the right to request the nondiscounted charge for the care or treatment and, upon request, make that information available before the scheduling of care or treatment. Each health insurance carrier shall:
* Provide notice to covered persons advising them of the relationship with the third-party administrator, the policyholder, and the insurance carrier;
* Disclose to the covered person all charges, fees, and commissions paid to the third-party administrator; and
* Prohibit a third-party administrator from altering a health care provider's charges or adding charges to any of the insurance claims submitted by a health care provider. Each carrier must disclose to each covered person any charges for administrative costs that are in addition to the charges for the care or services provided by the health care provider. The bill makes technical corrections to the law concerning the contractual relationship with a third-party intermediary. Current law uses the term "intermediary" when the proper entity is "third-party administrator".
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
03/07/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1258 Alternative Fuel Vehicle Charging Facilities 
Sponsors: DELGROSSO / JAHN
Summary: The bill specifies that sellers of electricity as fuel for alternative fuel vehicles are not regulated as public utilities. Generating electricity for sale as fuel for alternative fuel vehicles also does not make the seller subject to regulation as a public utility if the seller generates the electricity on the property where the fueling facilities are located and the electricity is generated from a renewable resource. Public utilities must make commercially reasonable efforts to provide connection of electric and natural gas service to alternative fuel vehicle charging facilities. A public utility's right to make unregulated operating expenditures and investments via an unregulated subsidiary with regard to alternative fuel vehicle charging facilities is not limited.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation
03/15/2012 House Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/20/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/23/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/26/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
03/28/2012 House Third Reading Passed
03/30/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
04/10/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/13/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/16/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/24/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/27/2012:03 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/27/2012:06 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/27/2012 Sent to the Governor
05/03/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 105: HB12-1258
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 104: HB12-1258
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 78: HB12-1258
Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 73: HB12-1258
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HB12-1259 Waive Confidentiality Unemployment Benefits 
Sponsors: MIKLOSI
Summary: The bill authorizes a veteran or a person to waive confidentially requirements applicable to the person's personal information, obtained by the division of employment and training in the department of labor and employment from the veteran's or person's claim for unemployment benefits, to enable the division to forward this information about the person to potential employers. The division is directed to offer this waiver to applicants for unemployment benefits.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
03/01/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1260 Limit Enterprise Zone Investment Income Tax Credit 
Sponsors: LABUDA
Summary: For the income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2013, the bill limits the amount of an income tax credit that may be claimed in an income tax year for qualified investments in an enterprise zone. The limit is the lesser of:
* The taxpayer's actual tax liability for the income tax year to the extent such liability does not exceed $5,000, plus 50% of any portion of the tax liability for the income tax year that exceeds $5,000; or
* $250,000.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
02/22/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
02/22/2012 House Committee on Finance Committee Vote - Tie Vote
02/29/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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HB12-1261 Effective Educators Low-performing Schools 
Sponsors: SOLANO
Summary: H.B. 12-1261 National board certification for teachers and principals - low-performing, high-needs schools - stipends - appropriation. The act extends indefinitely the program that, subject to available appropriations, provides stipends to teachers and principals who have received certification from the national board for professional teaching or principal standards and for said teachers and principals who are employed in a low-performing, high-needs schools. Principals are added to the eligible pool of stipend recipients. The act appropriates $604,800 from the state education fund to the department of education for payment of the stipends in the 2012-13 fiscal year. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2012 EFFECTIVE August 8, 2012 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause.
Status: 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education + Appropriations
03/07/2012 House Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/23/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
03/27/2012 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/29/2012 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/30/2012 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/02/2012 House Third Reading Passed
04/04/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education
04/12/2012 Senate Committee on Education Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
05/02/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
05/03/2012 Senate Committee on Education Refer Amended to Appropriations
05/03/2012 Senate Committee on Education Reconsider to Education
05/07/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
05/08/2012 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
05/09/2012 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/09/2012 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
05/17/2012:49 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
05/17/2012:57 PM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
05/18/2012 Sent to the Governor
06/04/2012 Governor Action - Signed
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Audio, Floors and Committees: Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 120: HB12-1261
Colorado Senate Audio 2012 Legislative Day 119: HB12-1261
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Colorado House Audio 2012 Legislative Day 83: HB12-1261
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