APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1036 Death inquiries - coroner access to mental health records, reports, or information - release to third parties - immunity from liability. Authorizes coroners, while investigating the death of a person, to obtain any information, record, or report related to the treatment, consultation, counseling, or therapy services from licensed psychologists, professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, alcohol and drug abuse counselors, or unlicensed psychotherapists who provided such services to the deceased person. Exempts such reports, records, or information from the statutory psychologist-patient privilege when relevant to the investigation of the death.
Prohibits a coroner from releasing to a third party any record or report obtained in connection with a death inquiry. Shields any person who provides information, records, or reports to a coroner pursuant to a death inquiry from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed with respect to the disclosure of confidential patient or client information.
APPROVED by Governor March 17, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1264 County commissioners - salary increase. Increases the annual salary of county commissioners in each county category, effective January 1, 2001, as follows:
APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2000
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2000
H.B. 00-1283 Fire management - responsibilities of certain governmental agencies - sheriffs' authority - county fire management plans. Modifies the responsibilities of the state board of agriculture upon receiving notice of a forest fire by requiring the board or its agent to aid and assist in controlling, as an alternative to extinguishing, such fire. Changes the state's policy of preventing and controlling forest fires to a policy of encouraging the health of forest ecosystems through responsible forest management, including the use of prescribed and natural ignition fires on state owned forest land.
Directs the state forester to determine geographic areas, including wild-urban interface areas, in which the state has a financial responsibility for managing, rather than preventing and suppressing, forest fires.
Authorizes boards of county commissioners to cooperate with certain other governing bodies and with the state forester in the management, rather than prevention and suppression, of forest fires.
Alters the duties of a sheriff, in the case of a forest fire, by allowing the sheriff in charge of a fire the option of either controlling or extinguishing the fire.
Authorizes counties to prepare and implement fire management plans that detail individual county policies on fire management for prescribed burns or natural ignition burns on lands owned by the state or county. Protects agricultural producers' ability to conduct burning on their property.
APPROVED by Governor May 26, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 26, 2000
H.B. 00-1482 Local improvement districts - formation by city authorized to become a city and county. Permits a city that has been authorized to become a city and county pursuant to an elector-approved amendment to the state constitution to form a local improvement district to make improvements within the district and to fund the improvements by assessing the costs upon the property benefitted by the improvements, by imposing a sales tax throughout the district, or by utilizing a combination of the assessments and sales tax. Requires those improvement districts to be formed prior to December 31, 2002.
Authorizes those improvement districts that impose a sales tax in the district to provide transportation services, vehicles, equipment, parking, and improvements in the district. Allows those improvement districts to provide transportation services within the regional transportation district if the regional transportation district consents.
Authorizes those improvement districts to impose a sales tax to fund services to use the tax for operational and maintenance expenses related to transportation services. Requires a district planning to provide transportation services and improvements funded by a sales tax to obtain the signatures of the owners of taxable real and personal property within the district having a valuation of not less than 50% of the valuation for assessment of all real or personal property within the district on a petition proposing the services and improvements.
Requires those improvement districts that are proposing a districtwide sales tax to refer the proposal to the electors of the district.
Authorizes the board of county commissioners or the governing body of a city that has been authorized to become a city and county in a district that will provide transportation services and improvements to appoint a board of directors to perform the functions for the district that would otherwise be required to be performed by the board or governing body.
Exempts those improvement districts that levy a sales tax to fund improvements in the district from the provisions of law relating to the assessment of property tax to fund improvements.
APPROVED by Governor June 2, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
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