Bill Summary for Bill Number HB10-1051

Date: 04/22/2010

Final
BILL SUMMARY for HB10-1051

SENATE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Votes: View-->	Action Taken:
Moved to refer House Bill 10-1051 to the Committee	PASS

02:04 PM -- House Bill 10-1051

Senator Whitehead, prime sponsor, described the provisions of House Bill 10-1051 concerning water efficiency plans annual reports. The reengrossed bill creates a new annual reporting requirement for water providers and expands the elements required in a water efficiency plan. By February 1, 2012, the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) is required to adopt guidelines for water providers to report water use and conservation data for water supply planning. By June 30, 2014, water providers must report the required data to the CWCB. The CWCB must report the data collected to the General Assembly by February 1, 2019. The bill also requires that water providers include consideration of water-efficient clothes washers and faucet aerators when filing new or updated water efficiency plans.

The following persons testified on the bill:

02:07 PM -- Chris Piper, Denver Water Department, Colorado Water Congress, spoke in support of the bill and described the House amendments to the bill. He identified problems with the introduced version of the bill including the potential cost of complying with the bill's reporting requirement and the value of the information that would have been required to be reported by the water providers. He also responded to questions from the committee about the water providers that will be affected by the bill, called covered entities. A covered entity is a water provider that has a customer demand of at least 2000 acre-feet of water per year.

02:15 PM -- Martha Moore, Colorado River Water Conservation District, spoke in support of the bill.

02:17 PM -- Shanna Koenig, Northwest Colorado Council of Governments, spoke in support of the bill and expressed concern about provisions of the introduced version of the bill.

02:20 PM -- Becky Long, Colorado Environmental Coalition, spoke in support of the bill.

02:22 PM -- Rebecca Mitchell, Colorado Department of Natural Resources, spoke in support of the bill.

02:25 PM

Senator Whitehead closed his remarks on the bill.


BILL:	HB10-1051
TIME:	02:26:01 PM
MOVED:	Whitehead
MOTION:	Moved to refer House Bill 10-1051 to the Committee of the Whole, without amendment. The motion passed on a roll call vote of 5 to 0.
SECONDED:
		VOTE
	Brophy	Yes
	Gibbs	Yes
	Harvey	Excused
	Kester	Excused
	Schwartz	Yes
	Whitehead	Yes
	Hodge	Yes

Final YES: 5 NO: 0 EXC: 2 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS

02:27 PM

The meeting adjourned.