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      SENATE BILL 09-002
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Morse, Bacon, Foster, Isgar, Keller, Newell, White,
      Boyd, Schwartz, Williams;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Peniston, Gagliardi, Levy, Marostica, Massey,
      Miklosi, Roberts, Fischer, Frangas, Gerou, Green, Labuda, McFadyen,
      Merrifield, Primavera, Ryden, Todd.
      
      
      Concerning an increase in the motor vehicle registration fee to
           fund the emergency medical services account within the
           highway users tax fund, and making an appropriation in
           connection therewith.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  42-3-304 (21), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
      to read:
      
           42-3-304.  Registration fees - passenger and passenger-mile taxes
      - clean screen fund.  (21)  In order to promote an effective emergency
      medical network and thus the maintenance and supervision of the highways
      throughout the state, in addition to any other fees imposed by this section,
      there shall be assessed an additional fee of one dollar two dollars at the
      time of registration of any motor vehicle.  Such fee shall be transmitted to
      the state treasurer, who shall credit the same to the emergency medical
      services account created by section 25-3.5-603, C.R.S., within the highway
      users tax fund.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation.  In addition to any other
      appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
      emergency medical services account within the highway users tax fund
      created in section 25-3.5-603 (1) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes, not
      otherwise appropriated, to the department of public health and environment,
      health facilities and emergency medical services division, for the fiscal year
      beginning July 1, 2009, the sum of four million nine hundred thirteen
      thousand nine hundred twenty-three dollars ($4,913,923) cash funds and 3.0
      FTE, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purposes set forth in
      section 25-3.5-603, Colorado Revised Statutes.
      
           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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      Peter C. Groff                    Terrance D. Carroll
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Karen Goldman                          Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO