Creates the habitat partnership program to assist the division of wildlife in reducing wildlife conflicts. Directs local habitat partnership committees to work to reduce wildlife and land conflicts as they relate to big game forage and fence issues and other management objectives.
Eliminates funding of the habitat partnership cash fund through the annual appropriations made to the division of wildlife. Funds the habitat partnership cash fund by transferring moneys annually from the wildlife cash fund in an amount equal to 5% of net sales of big game licenses in the geographic area represented by each local habitat partnership committee. Makes appropriations to the fund continuous until the funding is repealed on July 1, 2007. States that money in the fund in excess of the original transfer shall revert to the wildlife cash fund at the end of each fiscal year. Repeals the funding provisions as of July 1, 2007.
APPROVED by Governor May 30, 2001
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2002
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.
S.B. 01-54 Damage to agricultural property - limit on state liability. Limits the state's liability for damage to livestock or personal property used in the production of raw agricultural products caused by big game. Eliminates the existing reference to damage to real estate. Caps the state's liability for livestock at $5,000 per head of livestock injured or killed, and requires that such liability be limited to physical trauma resulting in injury or death.
APPROVED by Governor April 19, 2001
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2001
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.
S.B. 01-57 Department of local affairs - search and rescue fund - recreational certificates and cards - appropriation. Replaces the hiking certificate program with the Colorado outdoor recreation search and rescue card program. Authorizes vendors to sell the Colorado outdoor recreation search and rescue card for $3, one dollar of which the vender may retain. Requires the department of local affairs to charge the vender $2 for each card. Authorizes the department of local affairs to issue a multi-year Colorado outdoor recreation search and rescue card that shall be valid for a period not to exceed 5 years, which may be offered at a reduced rate to vendors with a reduced vendor fee to reflect administrative cost savings and other considerations.
Authorizes the department of local affairs to contract with a person, corporation, or entity for any elements of the administration of the program.
Removes statutory language that gives priority when expending funds from the search and rescue fund to training and equipment over otherwise uncompensated searches under the statute.
Deletes obsolete references to the transfer of the powers, duties, and functions of the wildlife commission to the department of local affairs.
Appropriates $77,647 to the department of local affairs for the implementation of the act.
APPROVED by Governor May 30, 2001
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2001
S.B. 01-228 Oil and gas - underground natural gas storage caverns - regulation. Gives the oil and gas conservation commission (commission) exclusive authority to regulate the public health, safety, and welfare aspects, including environmental protection, of the closure of underground natural gas storage caverns. Requires a certificate of closure to be issued by the commission after notice to adjacent and contiguous surface and subsurface landowners and a public hearing. Requires applicants for such a certificate to demonstrate their ability to meet financial obligations connected with closure. Allows the commission to impose monitoring, site security, and corrective action requirements on the certificate of closure.
APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2001
EFFECTIVE June 5, 2001
S.B. 01-235 Natural resources - Colorado geological survey - division status. Repeals obsolete provisions of law in order to clarify the status of the Colorado geological survey as a separate division in the department of natural resources.
VETOED by Governor June 5, 2001
H.B. 01-1012 Division of wildlife - enterprise status. Designates the division of wildlife and the wildlife commission as an enterprise for purposes of section 20 of article X of the state constitution (TABOR), so long as the commission retains the authority to issue revenue bonds and the division receives less than 10% of its total annual revenues in grants.
Clarifies that the division is authorized to continue to expend its revenues consistent with current law. Also clarifies that the division and the commission shall have all the powers and duties authorized by current law.
Specifies that, for purposes of the limits of TABOR, the term "grant" does not include moneys from the great outdoors Colorado trust fund.
Authorizes the commission to issue revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate for expenses of the division. Requires approval from both houses of the general assembly and the governor before the commission may issue revenue bonds. Sets the requirements for the issuance of revenue bonds.
APPROVED by Governor March 28, 2001
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2001
H.B. 01-1013 Wildlife - commission - fee-setting authority. Broadens the wildlife commission's authority to lower license fees, allowing discounts whenever the commission deems it proper for management of the division of wildlife or otherwise beneficial for the management of the state's wildlife resources. Allows the commission to later raise the lowered fees back up to the statutory limit.
APPROVED by Governor March 11, 2001
EFFECTIVE March 11, 2001
H.B. 01-1024 Natural resources - Colorado water conservation board - construction fund - loan authorization - fish hatcheries. Provides low-interest loans that can be used by commercial fish hatcheries that test positive for whirling disease for the purpose of becoming whirling disease negative.
APPROVED by Governor March 9, 2001
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2001
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. 01-1088 Mineral rights - severed estates - notice. Requires title companies to provide surface owners with written notice at the time of the issuance of a title commitment if a mineral estate has been severed from the surface estate. Requires surface owners to provide mineral estate owners with written notice 30 days prior to the time of any necessary public hearing regarding impending surface development, zoning changes, and subdivision. Allows surface owners to rely on real estate records and lists prepared by attorneys and title companies. Requires oil and gas operators to provide surface owners with 30 days' notice of proposed oil and gas operations.
APPROVED by Governor April 30, 2001
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2001
H.B. 01-1249 Wildlife - hunting and fishing licenses - agents. Allows the division of wildlife in the department of natural resources to utilize out-of-state agents to sell hunting and fishing licenses. Deletes the existing requirement that agents have and use only a permanent location for license sales. Authorizes the wildlife commission to establish by rule the rate of compensation that the division's agents earn on each license sold.
APPROVED by Governor March 28, 2001
EFFECTIVE March 28, 2001
H.B. 01-1375 Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) - authority to issue bonds - referral to voters. Authorizes the trust fund board of the great outdoors Colorado trust fund (GOCO) to issue bonds to finance expenditures to address urgent and permanent land acquisition priorities, including the acquisition of perpetual conservation easements, that may be made from the GOCO trust fund. Specifies that bonds may be issued only if voters approve the issuance of the bonds at the November 2001 statewide election. Provides that the bonds shall be payable solely out of all or any portion of the moneys in the trust fund as specified by the board.
Allows the board or its agents to determine the interest rate for the bonds. Specifies requirements for the form, execution, sale, delivery, payment, redemption, and other terms and conditions related to the issuance of the bonds. Provides that the directors and employees of the board shall not be personally liable for the bonds. Allows the board to purchase, hold, pledge, cancel, or resell the bonds. Specifies how bond proceeds may be invested.
Exempts bonds from all taxation and assessments in the state. Provides that the bonds are legal investments for banks, trusts, and other entities. Places a 30-day statute of limitations on any legal equitable action arising out of the issuance of bonds or any acts or proceeding relating to the issuance of bonds. Prohibits legal actions related to the issuance of the bonds after 30 days in specified circumstances. Authorizes the board to file a petition in state district court to examine and make determinations affecting the board's powers and other acts relating to the issuance of bonds.
Directs the secretary of state to submit a question to the voters at the November 2001 statewide election to approve the issuance of the bonds. Specifies that the maximum amount of debt that may be issued is $115 million, with a maximum repayment cost of $180 million. Specifies that earnings on the proceeds of the bonds shall constitute a voter-approved revenue change pursuant to the taxpayer's bill of rights (TABOR).
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2001
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2001
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