First Regular Session
              Sixty-sixth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 07-0150.01 Brita Darling        HOUSE BILL 07-1033
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Kerr J.,  and White
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Isgar,  Spence, Takis, and Taylor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Judiciary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the designation of criminal investigators within
            the division of registrations in the department of
            regulatory agencies as peace officers.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Legislative Audit Committee.  Adds criminal investigators within
       the division of registrations in the department of regulatory agencies to
       the list of persons or positions designated as peace officers when engaged
       in their primary duty of investigation of licensing-related matters for the
       division of registrations.
            Requires that these criminal investigators obtain P.O.S.T.
       certification.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  Part 1 of article 2.5 of title 16, Colorado Revised
       Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to
       read:
            16-2.5-148.  Division of registrations criminal investigator.  A
       criminal investigator employed by the division of registrations
       in the department of regulatory agencies is a peace officer while
       engaged in the performance of his or her duties pertaining to the
       investigation of complaints or other issues concerning
       professional licensing, which duties shall also include the
       enforcement of all laws of the state of Colorado, and who
       shall be certified by the P.O.S.T. board.
            SECTION 2.  16-2.5-102, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
       to read:
            16-2.5-102.  Certified peace officer - P.O.S.T. certification
       required.  The following peace officers shall meet all the standards
       imposed by law on a peace officer and shall be certified by the peace
       officer standards and training board, referred to in this article as the
       "P.O.S.T. board":  A chief of police; a police officer; a sheriff; an
       undersheriff; a deputy sheriff; a Colorado state patrol officer; a town
       marshal; a deputy town marshal; a reserve police officer; a reserve deputy
       sheriff; a reserve deputy town marshal; the director of the Colorado
       bureau of investigation; a security officer employed by a state institution
       of higher education; a Colorado wildlife officer; a Colorado parks and
       recreation officer; a Colorado police administrator or police officer
       employed by the Colorado mental health institute at Pueblo; an attorney
       general criminal investigator; a community parole officer; a public transit
       officer; and the department of corrections inspector general; and a
       criminal investigator within the division of registrations in the
       department of regulatory agencies.
            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.