First Regular Session
              Sixty-sixth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 07-0206.01 Stephen Miller       HOUSE BILL 07-1082
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Hodge,
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Judiciary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a prohibition on requiring an individual to be
            implanted with a microchip.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Makes it a class 3 misdemeanor for a person to require an
       individual to be implanted with a microchip.  Specifies that each day of
       a continued violation shall constitute a separate offense.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  Article 13 of title 18, Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read:
            18-13-130.  Required implantation of microchip in individual
       prohibited.  (1)  A person may not require an individual to be
       implanted with a microchip.
            (2)  A violation of this section is a class 3 misdemeanor
       punishable as provided in section 18-1.3-501.  Each day in which a
       person violates this section shall constitute a separate offense.
            SECTION 2.  Effective date - applicability.  (1)  This act shall
       take effect September 1, 2007.
            (2)  However, if a referendum petition is filed against this act or
       an item, section, or part of this act during the 90-day period after final
       adjournment of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting a
       referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state
       constitution, then the act, item, section, or part, shall not take effect unless
       approved by the people at a biennial regular general election and shall
       take effect on the date specified in subsection (1) or on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the governor,
       whichever is later.
            (3)  The provisions of this act shall apply to offenses committed on
       or after the applicable effective date of this act.