Date: 03/17/2010

Final
BILL SUMMARY for SB10-025

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, & NATURAL RESOURCES

Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Moved to refer Senate Bill 09-025 to the CommitteePASS



05:01 PM -- Senate Bill 10-025

Representative Baumgardner, sponsor of Senate Bill 10-025, explained that this bill extends the Water Efficiency Grant Program until July 1, 2020, and authorizes up to $550,000 of annual appropriations from the program cash fund. The program is currently scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2012. The bill authorizes annual transfers of $550,000 for FY 2012-13 through FY 2019-20 from the Operational Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund to the program cash fund. Of this funding, $50,000 is to be used for administrative costs. Any funds that remain in the cash fund on June 30, 2020, must be transferred to the Operational Account of the Severance Tax Trust Fund.


05:03 PM -- Jennifer Gimble, spoke in support of the bill and discussed the importance of the program.

05:03 PM -- Dianna Orf, Colorado Water Congress, spoke in support of the bill.

BILL:SB10-025
TIME: 05:03:40 PM
MOVED:Baumgardner
MOTION:Moved to refer Senate Bill 09-025 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 10-0.
SECONDED:McKinley
VOTE
Baumgardner
Yes
Curry
Yes
Gardner C.
Excused
Hullinghorst
Excused
Looper
Yes
McKinley
Yes
Ryden
Yes
Solano
Yes
Sonnenberg
Excused
Tipton
Yes
Vigil
Yes
Pace
Yes
Fischer
Yes
Final YES: 10 NO: 0 EXC: 3 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS