NOTE:  This bill has been prepared for the signature of the appropriate
      legislative officers and the Governor.  To determine whether the
      Governor has signed the bill or taken other action on it, please consult
      the legislative status sheet, the legislative history, or the Session Laws.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 01-1107
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Snook, Cloer, Rhodes, Dean, Stengel, Spence,
      Alexander, Bacon, Borodkin, Boyd, Chavez, Coleman, Daniel, Decker,
      Fairbank, Garcia, Groff, Grossman, Hefley, Hodge, Hoppe, Jahn, Jameson,
      Kester, King, Larson, Lawrence, Mace, Madden, Marshall, Miller, Plant,
      Ragsdale, Rippy, Romanoff, Saliman, Sanchez, Spradley, Stafford, Tapia,
      Tochtrop, Veiga, Vigil, Webster, Weddig, White, S. Williams, and
      T. Williams;
      also SENATOR(S) Hernandez, Andrews, Chlouber, Dennis, Dyer
      (Arapahoe), Dyer (Durango), Epps, Fitz-Gerald, Gordon, Hagedorn, Hanna,
      Linkhart, Matsunaka, May, Nichol, Pascoe, Perlmutter, Phillips, Reeves,
      Takis, Taylor, Tupa, and Windels.
      
      
           Concerning the provision of additional funding for the
           low-income energy assistance program, and making an
           appropriation therefor.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  39-29-109 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
      BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read:
      
           39-29-109.  Severance tax trust fund - created - administration -
      use of moneys - repeal.  (1) (e) (I)  Notwithstanding any provision in
      this section to the contrary, for the state fiscal year commencing
      July 1, 2000, the general assembly shall appropriate an amount not
      to exceed ten million dollars from the operational account of the
      severance tax trust fund to the department of human services for
      the purpose of increasing available funds under the low-income
      energy assistance program.
      
           (II)  This paragraph (e) is repealed, effective July 1, 2002.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation.  In addition to any other
      appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
      operational account of the severance tax trust fund created in section
      39-29-109, Colorado Revised Statutes, not otherwise appropriated, to the
      department of human services, self-sufficiency, special purpose welfare
      programs for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, the sum of ten million
      dollars ($10,000,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the
      implementation of this act.
      
           SECTION 3.  Safety clause.  The general assembly hereby finds,
      determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
      preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
      
      
      
      
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      Doug Dean                              Stan Matsunaka
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Judith M. Rodrigue                      Karen Goldman
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
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                   Joe Rogers
                      LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO