Bill# Sponsors Title Bill Narrative History Position

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HB12-1003 / Fischer
Nicholson / Authorize Graywater Use / 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. / 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
02/01/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely / Monitor
HB12-1004 / Bradford
King S. / Colorado Timber Act / 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. / 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Economic and Business Development / Monitor
HB12-1021 / Vaad / Coordinated And Rational Transp Planning / 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. / 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation+
02/08/2012 House Committee on Transportation Postpone Indefinitely / Oppose
HB12-1056 / Kerr A.
Hodge / Regional Tourism Project Application Requirements / 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: (See bill) / 01/11/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government / Monitor
HB12-1105 / Becker / Wind Energy Property Rights / The bill establishes a nonseverable wind energy right in real property. / 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 / Monitor
HB12-1132 / Miklosi
Williams / Creative District Tax Incentives / 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. / 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance / Monitor
HB12-1136 / Ramirez
Roberts / Prohibit Use Of Public Land For Retail Sales / 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. / 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs / Research
HB12-1148 / Sonnenberg / Neighborhood Revitalization Areas / 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. / 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government / Research
HB12-1154 / Coram & Hamner
Jahn & White / Regional Economic Development Through Partnerships / 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. / 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Appropriations / Monitor
HB12-1157 / Vigil
Guzman / Special District Org Petition Procedures / 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. / 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government / Monitor
HB12-1171 / Tyler / Limit Public Hwy Authorities Noncompete Agreements / 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. / 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation / Research
HB12-1176 / Ryden / Oil Gas Surface Owner Horizontal Drilling Setbacks / 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". / 01/20/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government / Monitor
HB12-1239 / Vaad / Special District Approval Requirements / Currently, only a person who owns property within the territory or proposed expanded territory of a special district is eligible to vote in a special district election. Section 1 of the bill allows a person who owns
property within the service area or proposed expanded service area of a special district to vote in a special district election. Section 2 modifies the
process by which a special district expands its service area by: (See bill) / 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government / Monitor
HB12-1241 / Ferrandino / Review Enterprise Zone Designations / 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. / 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance / Monitor
HB12-1251 / Hullinghorst
Heath / Reforms To Urban & Rural Enterprise Zone Act / 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". / 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance
HB12-1260 / Labuda / Limit Enterprise Zone Investment Income Tax Credit / 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: (See bill) / 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance / Monitor
HB12-1279 / Fischer / South Platte Groundwater Study Augmentation / The bill authorizes a study of the interaction between the South Platte alluvial aquifer and surface streams. It also authorizes the state engineer to respond to damaging conditions caused by high groundwater
levels in water division 1 in the following manners: (See bill) / 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources / Monitor
HB12-1282 / Ramirez
Nicholson / State Geological Survey Review Of Subdivision Plan / Under current law governing the review by a board of county commissioners (board) of a map of a proposed subdivision (plan), the board or its authorized representative is required to distribute copies of
prints of the plan to, among others, the Colorado geological survey (survey) for an evaluation of the geologic factors that would have a significant impact on the proposed use of the land. The bill exempts the
survey from having to perform this function upon written request from the board or its authorized representative. / 02/07/2012 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government / Monitor
SB12-005 / Newell
Massey / Ofc Econ Dev Business Retention & Expansion Prog / In order to retain and grow existing businesses in the state, the bill directs the Colorado office of economic development (office) to develop and administer the Colorado business retention and expansion program
under the office's statewide economic development plan. The bill describes the office's specific duties under the program, including the requirement that the office annually report on the program to the general
assembly. / 01/11/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Business, Labor and Technology
01/30/2012 Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology Refer Amended to Appropriations / Monitor
SB12-013 / Schwartz
Jones / Low-speed Electric Vehicles / Transportation Legislation Review Committee. The bill allows operation of low-speed electric vehicles on roadways at speeds up to 40 miles per hour. / 01/11/2012 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
01/31/2012 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
02/02/2012 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/06/2012 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/07/2012 Senate Third Reading Laid Over Daily