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      SENATE BILL 09-038
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Hudak, Boyd, Morse, Shaffer B.;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Marostica.
      
      
      Concerning technical changes to judicial fees.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Repeal.  13-32-101 (1) (c) (III) (C), Colorado
      Revised Statutes, is repealed as follows:
      
           13-32-101.  Docket fees in civil actions - judicial stabilization cash
      fund - support registry fund created - repeal.  (1)  At the time of first
      appearance in all civil actions and special proceedings in all courts of
      record, except in the supreme court and the court of appeals, and except in
      the probate proceedings in the district court or probate court of the city and
      county of Denver, and except as provided in subsection (3) of this section
      and in sections 13-32-103 and 13-32-104, there shall be paid in advance the
      total docket fees, as follows:
      
           (c) (III)  Except as provided in subparagraph (IV) of this paragraph
      (c):
      
           (C)  This subparagraph (III) is repealed, effective July 1, 2010.
      
           SECTION 2.  14-10-120.5 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      amended to read:
      
           14-10-120.5.  Petition - fee - assessment - displaced homemakers
      fund.  (1)  There shall be assessed against a nonindigent petitioner a fee of
      five dollars for each filing of a petition for dissolution of marriage,
      declaration of invalidity of marriage, legal separation, or
      declaratory judgment concerning the status of marriage.  All such
      fees collected shall be transmitted to the state treasurer for deposit in the
      displaced homemakers fund created pursuant to section 8-15.5-108, C.R.S.
      
           SECTION 3.  Effective date - applicability.  This act shall take
      effect July 1, 2009, and shall apply to petitions filed on or after said date.
      
           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.
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Peter C. Groff                    Terrance D. Carroll
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      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