S.B. 08-50 Driver's license - renewal - by mail and electronically - age restrictions. Raises from 61 to 65 the maximum age at which a person may renew a driver's license electronically if the person has had an eye exam within the last 3 years. Allows a person who is older than 65 years of age to renew a driver's license by mail if the person has had an eye exam within the last 6 months, as attested by an optometrist or ophthalmologist.
APPROVED by Governor April 25, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
S.B. 08-59 Commercial driver's licenses - testing - limits on fees. Replaces the statutory limit on the fees that may be charged for a commercial driver's license test with a limit set by the department of revenue by rule.
APPROVED by Governor April 17, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
S.B. 08-76 Bail for DUI - conditions on summons after appearance. Authorizes a court to fix bail for a person charged with certain alcohol- or drug-related driving offenses even if the person is given a summons. If a defendant charged with certain alcohol- or drug-related offenses appears before a judge, authorizes the judge to impose conditions on the defendant's summons.
APPROVED by Governor May 14, 2008
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008
S.B. 08-101 Registration - special license plates - NORAD. Creates the North American aerospace defense command commemorative special license plate for motor vehicles that do not exceed 16,000 pounds. Requires the department of revenue to stop issuing the plate on January 1, 2010.
APPROVED by Governor May 20, 2008
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008
S.B. 08-105 Multipurpose trailers - identification and classification. Identifies multipurpose trailers as a new category of vehicle. Classifies multipurpose trailers for taxation purposes. Sets registration fees for multipurpose trailers for years in which TABOR surplus revenue is sufficient and for years in which TABOR surplus revenue is insufficient. Removes the maximum length specification from the definition of "trailer coach".
APPROVED by Governor April 25, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
S.B. 08-143 Registration - special license plates - alumni associations. Authorizes an alumni association that has established special license plates to collect annual dues from a member for use of the special license plates.
Lowers from 3,000 to 500 the number of license plates that need to be issued by March 1, 2011, to avoid having the special alumni license plates retired.
APPROVED by Governor May 27, 2008
EFFECTIVE May 27, 2008
S.B. 08-178 Registration - special license plates - Colorado horse development authority. Authorizes Colorado horse development authority (CHDA) special license plates for motor vehicles that do not exceed 16,000 pounds. Requires a $30 donation to the CHDA, in addition to the standard fees.
APPROVED by Governor May 14, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
S.B. 08-186 Registration - special license plates - Colorado carbon fund. Authorizes Colorado carbon fund special license plates for motor vehicles that do not exceed 16,000 pounds, conditioned upon a donation to the Colorado carbon fund established by the governor's energy office. Integrates the new special license plates into existing provisions authorizing issuance of the special license plates to persons who pay the appropriate fees, plus 2 one-time fees equaling $50, and credits $25 to the highway users tax fund and $25 to the licensing services cash fund.
APPROVED by Governor May 21, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
H.B. 08-1010 Moving and safety violations - fines. Raises the minimum fine for a class 2 traffic misdemeanor from $10 to $150. Increases the minimum fine for a class 1 traffic misdemeanor from $100 to $300. Raises the fines for the following motor vehicle traffic infractions:
● Careless driving violation;
● Child restraint violation;
● Clinging to other vehicle from motorcycle violation;
● Coasting violation;
● Commercial restrictions on young driver violation;
● Divided or controlled access highway violation;
● Drive on right side violation;
● Driving through safety zone violation;
● Emerging or entering alley violation;
● Failure of certain vehicles to stop at railroad crossing violation;
● Failure to exercise due care violation;
● Failure to stop or yield at intersection violation;
● Failure to yield for emergency vehicle violation;
● Failure to yield to person with disability violation;
● Failure to yield to right at intersection violation;
● Failure to yield when entering roadway violation;
● Flashing signal violation;
● Following fire vehicle violation;
● Following too closely violation;
● Highway work area violation;
● Improper backing violation;
● Improper motorcycle riding violation;
● Improper overtaking on right violation;
● Improper signaling violation;
● Instruction permit violation;
● Lane violation;
● Left turn violation;
● License condition or restriction violation;
● Minimum speed and impeding traffic violation;
● Minor driver restriction violation;
● Motorcycle lane violation;
● Mountain driving violation;
● Obstruction of traffic in intersection violation;
● One-way roads and rotary traffic island violation;
● Overtaking vehicle on left violation;
● Passing lane violation;
● Passing violation;
● Pedestrian right-of-way violation;
● Railroad signal violation;
● Runaway vehicle ramp violation;
● Seat belt violation;
● Speeding and speed limit violation;
● Starting parked vehicle violation;
● Stopping or abandoning vehicle on highway violation;
● Traffic control signal violation;
● Turning around violation; and
● Turning violation.
Reduces, from 100% to 50%, the portion of seat belt violation fines that are kept by a local jurisdiction for violations occurring on state and federal highways if a peace officer employed by the local jurisdiction writes the citation. Credits the remaining amount of the fine revenue to the highway users tax fund.
Doubles the minimum fine for DUI, DWAI, UDD, and habitual user driving. Changes the percentage of the fine for such offenses that is transmitted to the highway users tax fund from 50% to 75% if the violation occurred on a state or federal highway. Doubles the minimum fines for vehicular eluding.
APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2008
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008
H.B. 08-1036 Maintenance, repair, or construction zones - violations - penalties - automated vehicle identification systems. Authorizes a public entity to designate a roadway as a maintenance, repair, or construction zone when such activities are occurring on the roadway. Applies the same standards to public entities for such designation as apply when the department of transportation makes a similar designation of a state highway. Doubles the fines for certain moving violations within such zones. Increases the fine for speeding within such zones by 20 to 24 miles per hour to $540.
Requires the department of public safety to use an automated vehicle identification system upon the request of the department of transportation. Requires the department of transportation to reimburse the department of public safety for complying with the request. Authorizes a vendor to process the tickets, but prohibits forwarding the tickets to the department of revenue.
Requires a driver approaching a vehicle applying chains or a stationary or slow-moving maintenance, repair, or construction vehicle to yield the right-of-way and exercise due care. Requires a driver to move over when approached by an emergency tow vehicle with emergency lights flashing.
APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2008
EFFECTIVE June 3, 2008
H.B. 08-1045 Registration - special license plates - retirement - obsolete statutes. Repeals obsolete statutes for special license plates. Requires that the breast cancer awareness special license plate, the Italian-American heritage special license plate, and certain other plates made by rule and regulated by statute be retired if not issued to 3,000 motor vehicles by a specified date. Repeals the issuance of personalized horseless carriage special license plates. Authorizes the issuance of personalized collector's items special license plates.
APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
H.B. 08-1050 Driver's license - endorsements - motorcycles. Divides the current motorcycle license endorsement into a general endorsement for any motorcycle and limited endorsements for a 3-wheel motorcycle or motor-driven cycle. Requires a person to demonstrate ordinary and reasonable control of the operation of the motorcycle that is subject to the endorsement. Restricts a person who possesses a limited endorsement from operating other types of motorcycles.
APPROVED by Governor March 18, 2008
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008
H.B. 08-1098 Registration - parking privileges for persons with disabilities - fee - repeal. Repeals the fee for the issuance of a placard that allows a disabled person to use parking privileges for persons with disabilities.
APPROVED by Governor March 26, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
H.B. 08-1121 Commercial driver's licenses - traffic violations - masking of convictions - permits. Prohibits the masking of convictions related to a commercial driver's license by the following:
● Prohibiting the sealing or expunging of conviction records;
● Expanding the definitions of "convicted" or "conviction" to include an adjudication of guilt, an administrative determination, a forfeiture of bail, the payment of a fine or court cost, a violation of a condition of release without bail, and a deferred sentence;
● Prohibiting deferred judgements and diversion programs.
Limits a commercial instruction permit to one year. Requires a court to notify the department of revenue of a conviction related to a commercial driver's license within 5 days of conviction.
APPROVED by Governor April 17, 2008
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008
H.B. 08-1136 Registration and titling - stolen vehicles - electronic verification. Effective July 1, 2009, when a person applies to register or title a motor vehicle, requires the department of revenue to electronically verify with the department of public safety that the motor vehicle has not been reported stolen. Exempts the department from paying the fee for using the motor vehicle verification system. Instructs the department of revenue to promulgate rules establishing procedures for notifying the local law enforcement agency when a person attempts to register or title a stolen motor vehicle.
APPROVED by Governor May 21, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
H.B. 08-1151 Registration - special license plates - boy scouts. Creates the boy scouts centennial special license plate to be issued for 2 years for motor vehicles that do not exceed 16,000 pounds. Authorizes issuance of the special license plates to persons who pay the appropriate fees.
Authorizes the issuance of military special license plates for motor vehicles owned by a trust if the beneficiary is qualified to receive the license plates. Clarifies that a trust and an estate are a person for the purposes of the motor vehicle statutes.
APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2008
EFFECTIVE January 1, 2009
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
H.B. 08-1166 Driver's license - administrative revocations - DUI. Repeals and reenacts, with amendments, the statute authorizing the department of revenue to revoke a person's driver's license due to the presence of alcohol or drugs in the person's system or the person's refusal to take a test to determine whether there is alcohol or drugs in the person's system. Relocates definitions relating to drug- and alcohol-related offenses.
APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2008
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008
H.B. 08-1175 Registration - special license plates - United States Army fourth infantry division - appropriation. Creates a United States Army fourth infantry division special license plate for motor vehicles that do not exceed 16,000 pounds. Requires applicants to pay the appropriate fees.
Appropriates, from the license plate cash fund to the department of revenue, for allocation to driver and vehicle services, license plate ordering, the sum of $5,360 for implementation of the act. Also appropriates, from the licensing services cash fund to the department of revenue, for allocation to driver and vehicle services, the sum of $25,000 for implementation of the act.
APPROVED by Governor May 21, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
H.B. 08-1194 Alcohol-related offenses - revocations - restricted licenses - high-visibility drunk driving law enforcement episodes - appropriation. Effective January 1, 2009, extends the length of time that a person's driver's license is revoked or suspended due to certain alcohol- or drug-related offenses to 9 months for a first offense and to 2 years for a third or subsequent offense.
Effective January 1, 2009, authorizes a person whose driver's license has been revoked for a first-time alcohol-related offense:
● To seek a restricted license requiring the use of an ignition interlock device after the person's license has been revoked for at least 1 month; and
● To be eligible for an unrestricted license if no possible violations are identified for 4 consecutive monthly reporting periods.
Provides that a person who obtains a restricted license prior to a hearing on the merits of any driving restraint waives the person's right to the hearing.
Effective September 1, 2008, increases the reinstatement fee following the revocation or suspension of driving privileges. Specifies that the increased fee be transferred to the first time drunk driving offender account created in the highway users tax fund to be used to pay for the costs of the act and an ignition interlock device for a person who cannot afford the device and to increase the number of high-visibility drunk driving law enforcement episodes.
Requires the department of transportation to include as a priority within the strategic transportation project investment program an increase in the number of episodes of high-visibility drunk driving law enforcement to 12 each year. Specifies that the episodes shall be independent of the drunk driving prevention and law enforcement program.
Makes a 5-year statutory appropriation to pay for the anticipated costs of housing inmates convicted of drunk-driving felonies. Appropriates from the first time drunk driving offender account $2,000,000 to the department of transportation for increasing the number of high visibility drunk driving law enforcement episodes and $614,500 to the department of revenue for the administrative costs incurred in implementing the act and for ignition interlock devices for first-time offenders who are unable to pay for the device.
APPROVED by Governor May 14, 2008
PORTIONS EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008
PORTIONS EFFECTIVE January 1, 2009
H.B. 08-1209 Registration - license plates - validating tabs or stickers. Requires the owner of a registered motor vehicle to place validating tabs or stickers on the lower left and right corners of the rear license plate. Authorizes the department of revenue to promulgate rules requiring the destruction of license plates. Requires the department, an authorized agent, or a person who receives license plates in the course of business to destroy the plate in accordance with such rules.
APPROVED by Governor April 7, 2008
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008
H.B. 08-1257 Overweight vehicles - divisible load permits - appropriation. Authorizes permits to operate a motor vehicle with an overweight, divisible load if the vehicle has a quad axle grouping, the gross vehicle weight does not exceed 110,000 pounds, and the owner and operator comply with the federal "Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999" and rules governing the distribution of weight in axles.
Imposes the following overweight permit fees for divisible loads:
● $500 per vehicle for an annual permit;
● $30 per vehicle, plus $10 per axle, for a single trip permit; and
● $2,000, plus $35 per vehicle, for an annual fleet permit.
Doubles the fines for overweight and oversize vehicle loads under a permit issued for a divisible load.
Appropriates $10,890 to the department of law for the provision of legal services to the Colorado department of transportation for the implementation of the act.
APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2008
EFFECTIVE June 3, 2008
H.B. 08-1339 Equipment - school buses. Replaces current statutory equipment standards for a school bus with the current federal regulation.
APPROVED by Governor April 10, 2008
EFFECTIVE August 5, 2008
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date,
see page vi of this digest.
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