Bill# Sponsors Title Bill Narrative History Position

* = amended strikethrough = Killed

HB13-1013 / Sonnenberg
Baumgardner / Protect Water Right Ownership Rights / Water Resources Review Committee. The bill specifies, in the contexts of rights-of-way for water rights and the basic tenets of Colorado water law, that:
! A landowner cannot demand as a condition of granting a right-of-way or special use permit, and a court cannot order as a condition of an eminent domain proceeding, that a water right or conditional water right owner assign to the landowner partial or joint ownership of the water right or limit the alienability of the water right; and
! Any such condition is void and unenforceable as against public policy. / 01/09/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources + Appropriations
01/28/2013 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Lay Over Amended
02/04/2013 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/09/2013 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
04/15/2013 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/17/2013 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/22/2013
04/23/2013 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/23/2013 House Second Reading Laid Over to 04/29/2013 / Monitor
HB13-1044 / Fischer
Schwartz / Authorize Graywater Use / Current law is unclear regarding whether, and under what conditions, graywater may be used. / 01/09/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
01/28/2013 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/01/2013 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/02/2013 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/03/2013 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/05/2013 House Third Reading Passed
04/09/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy
04/17/2013 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy Refer Unamended to Appropriations
04/24/2013 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/26/2013 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/29/2013 Senate Third Reading Passed / Support
HB13-1064 / Dore / Publish Local Government Legal Notices On-line / Currently, a board of county commissioners is required to publish certain legal notices, advertisements, and fiscal information in specified newspapers. The bill allows these items to be published on a web site
maintained by the county rather than publish them in a newspaper. / 01/09/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
01/31/2013 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely / Monitor
HB13-1186 / Vigil
Schwartz / Special District Meetings Notices & Transparency / The bill requires a special district that provides domestic water or sanitary sewer services to hold a public meeting before fixing or increasing fees or other charges for its services. Notice of the meeting
must be provided in a specified manner at least 10 days prior to the public meeting.
Special districts are required to record a public disclosure document against all property within the district. The statement must include the name of the district, the powers of the district, information
regarding the district's service plan or statement of purpose, and a statement of the methods authorized by law for the district to raise revenues for capital needs and operations costs. / 01/31/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
02/20/2013 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
02/22/2013 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
02/26/2013 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
02/27/2013 House Third Reading Passed
03/01/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
03/12/2013 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/18/2013 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/19/2013 Senate Third Reading Passed
03/21/2013 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
03/21/2013 House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
03/25/2013:37 PM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
03/26/2013 Sent to the Governor
03/26/2013:12 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/04/2013 Governor Action - Signed / Monitor
HB13-1208 / Duran
Newell / Incentives Offered By Creative Districts / The bill authorizes the creative industries division of the Colorado office of economic development to offer incentives in the form of need-based funding for infrastructure development in creative districts and to provide such funding from any moneys appropriated to the creative industries cash fund for that purpose. / 02/01/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Finance + Appropriations
02/20/2013 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/08/2013 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
03/11/2013 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
03/18/2013 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/19/2013 House Third Reading Passed
03/20/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
04/02/2013 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/05/2013 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/08/2013 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/10/2013:27 AM 04:20 Signed by the Speaker of the House
04/11/2013 Sent to the Governor
04/11/2013:34 AM 04:10 Signed by the President of the Senate
04/19/2013 Governor Action - Signed / Monitor
HB13-1212 / Moreno
Todd / Local Authority To Form Job Creation Districts / The bill creates a mechanism for a local government to create a job creation district (district) in which to support an eligible project (project) that generates jobs. The mechanism also creates a local job creation
authority (authority) with the power to receive and utilize 90% of the portion of moneys derived from the increased tax revenues collected in the district that is above a designated level of base tax revenues to be used to finance improvements related to the project.
Any public or private entity may submit to a governing body of a local government a request to form a district. The bill specifies the information that a public or private entity is required to include in the proposal for a district and the criteria that the proposal is required to
satisfy to be approved. The governing body of a local government must hold a public hearing to review and consider proposals for a district.
In connection with the formation of a district, a governing body is authorized to form an authority. The bill specifies the powers of the authority and allows the authority to issue bonds to finance improvements
in connection with a project. / 02/01/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government + Finance
02/21/2013 House Committee on Local Government Lay Over Amended
02/27/2013 House Committee on Local Government Refer Amended to Finance
04/10/2013 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/15/2013 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/16/2013 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/17/2013 House Third Reading Passed
04/18/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
04/23/2013 Senate Committee on Local Government Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
04/30/2013 Senate Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely / Monitor
HB13-1268 / Moreno
Hodge / Mineral Estate Disclosure Real Property Sale / The bill requires a seller to disclose in the sale of real property that a separate mineral estate may subject the property to oil, gas, or mineral extraction. A standard disclosure or a substantially similar disclosure is
required. A seller that provides this disclosure is not liable for any damages of the purchaser from oil, gas, or mineral extraction. / 03/18/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
04/01/2013 House Second Reading Special Order – Passed
04/02/2013 House Third Reading Passed
04/05/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to State, Veterans, & Military Affairs / Monitor
HB13-1273 / Fischer
Kefalas / New Funding Local Governments Oil Gas Dev Impacts / Current law authorizes local governments to designate a person to participate in certain proceedings before the Colorado oil and gas conservation commission, including the issuance of permits to drill a well. / 03/20/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Health, Insurance & Environment
04/11/2013 House Committee on Health, Insurance & Environment Refer Amended to Appropriations
04/17/2013 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/18/2013 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments
04/19/2013 House Third Reading Passed
04/22/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
04/30/2013 Senate Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely / Support
HB13-1293 / Rosenthal / Gov To Create Exec Branch Climate Change Position / The bill directs the governor to establish a position for climate change issues. The person appointed to that position is required to develop climate action plans and to report annually to the general assembly regarding how climate change affects the state. / 04/05/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
04/15/2013 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/18/2013 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily
04/19/2013 House Third Reading Passed
04/22/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
04/30/2013 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole / Monitor
HB13-1302 / Moreno / Special District Consolidation / Under current law, a proceeding to consolidate special districts that is already governed by certain provisions of the "Special District Act" is not subject to additional procedures referred to as the "Control Act" unless the proceeding results in the consolidation of a special district or the consolidation of services within the boundaries of any existing municipality or within a radius of 3 miles of the municipality. Under the
bill, in order for the provisions of the "Control Act" to apply to such consolidation proceedings, the proceedings will have to result in the creation of a consolidated district that will provide new or different
services within the boundaries of any existing municipality as compared to the services either being provided or that are authorized to be provided to the municipality by one or more of the consolidating special districts as of the time of the commencement of the consolidation proceedings. / 04/10/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Local Government
04/24/2013 House Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
04/25/2013 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed
04/26/2013 House Third Reading Passed
04/26/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government
04/30/2013 Senate Committee on Local Government Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole / Monitor
SB13-019 / Schwartz
Fischer / Promote Water Conservation / Section 1 of the bill declares that increasing water use efficiency by appropriators promotes the maximum utilization of Colorado's water resources and is in the public interest.
The amount of water that currently can be changed to a new type or place of use is limited by the amount of water that was historically consumed by the original type and place of use. Therefore, a water user
has no incentive to reduce the amount of water diverted. Current law encourages the conservation of water in some contexts by eliminating from the determination of abandonment the period during which water is conserved under a variety of government-sponsored programs. However, in these contexts, the water conserved through a reduction in the
application of the water to a beneficial use results in a reduction of consumptive use. Section 2 directs the water judge to disregard the decrease in use of water from such programs in its determinations of
historical consumptive use in change of water right cases and adds to the list a decrease in water use to provide for compact compliance.
Section 3 defines "conserved water", and section 4 directs water judges to allow a change of water right for conserved water. / 01/09/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy
03/07/2013 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations
03/15/2013 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
03/19/2013 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments
03/20/2013 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
03/20/2013 Senate Third Reading Passed
04/01/2013 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
04/04/2013 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily
04/08/2013 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/09/2013 House Third Reading Passed
04/10/2013 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass / Support
SB13-021 / Hodage / Pipeline Rights-of-way / Article 5 of title 38, C.R.S., governs rights-of-way for transmission
companies and grants the right of eminent domain to any domestic or
foreign electric light power, gas, or pipeline company authorized to do business in Colorado for the purpose of obtaining rights-of-way for wires, pipes, regulator stations, substations, and systems needed to conduct its business. Until May 2012, it was commonly understood that article 5 applied to and granted the right of eminent domain to all pipeline companies authorized to do business in Colorado, including companies operating pipelines that convey oil, gasoline, or other petroleum products.
In May 2012, the Colorado supreme court held that article 5 grants
the right of eminent domain only for acquisition of rights-of-way for
pipelines involved in delivering electric power or natural gas and not for pipelines that convey oil, gasoline, or other petroleum products. The bill reaffirms that article 5 grants the power of eminent domain to pipeline companies operating pipelines that convey petroleum products by defining the term "pipeline company" to include such companies and by making additional clarifying technical revisions. / 01/09/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Local Government / Monitor
SB13-027 / Todd
Priola / RTD Mass Transit Station Parking Facilities / The bill authorizes any public or private entity to lease, own, or operate a public parking lot or structure at or near a regional transportation district (RTD) mass transit station. Such a lot or structure is only an RTD facility, as defined in existing law, if it is operated under a contract with the RTD that specifies the terms of its use and operation and provides the RTD with a share of its parking revenues. / 01/09/2013 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation