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      HOUSE BILL 09-1036
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) King S., Frangas, Roberts, Ryden;
      also SENATOR(S) Morse, Boyd, Hodge, Isgar, Kester, Newell, Schwartz,
      Spence, Williams.
      
      
      Concerning increasing the amount deposited into the peace
           officers standards and training board cash fund by
           increasing the registration fee for certain classes of
           personal property, and making an appropriation in
           connection therewith.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  42-3-304 (24), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
      to read:
      
           42-3-304.  Registration fees - passenger and passenger-mile taxes
      - clean screen fund.  (24)  In addition to any other fee imposed by this
      section, at the time of registration, the owner shall pay a fee of twenty-five
      sixty cents on every item of Class A, B, or C personal property required to
      be registered pursuant to this article.  Notwithstanding the requirements of
      section 43-4-203, C.R.S., such fee shall be transmitted to the state treasurer,
      who shall credit the same to the peace officers standards and training board
      cash fund, created in section 24-31-303 (2) (b), C.R.S.; except that county
      clerks and recorders shall be entitled to retain five percent of the fee
      collected to cover the clerks' expenses in the collection and remittance of
      such fee.  All of the moneys in the fund that are collected pursuant to this
      subsection (24) shall be used by the peace officers standards and training
      board for the purposes specified in section 24-31-310, C.R.S.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation.  In addition to any other
      appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
      P.O.S.T. board cash fund created in section 24-31-303 (2) (b), Colorado
      Revised Statutes, not otherwise appropriated, to the department of law,
      criminal justice and appellate division, for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
      2009, the sum of one million four hundred ninety-four thousand nine
      hundred ninety-five dollars ($1,494,995) cash funds and 1.0 FTE, or so
      much thereof as may be necessary, for the purposes set forth in section
      24-31-310, Colorado Revised Statutes.
      
           SECTION 3.  Effective date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.
      
           SECTION 4.  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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      Terrance D. Carroll                Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                          Karen Goldman
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    Bill Ritter, Jr.
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO