NOTE: This bill has been prepared for the signature of the appropriate legislative officers and the Governor. To determine whether the Governor has signed the bill or taken other action on it, please consult the legislative status sheet, the legislative history, or the Session Laws. HOUSE BILL 10-1045 BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Miklosi, Pace, Vigil; also SENATOR(S) Romer. Concerning the address of a person on file with specified state agencies, and making an appropriation therefor. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. 1-2-202.5, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION to read: 1-2-202.5. On-line voter registration - on-line changes in elector information. (8) (a) No later than July 1, 2011, the secretary of state shall make available on the secretary of state's official web site a link to the department of revenue's official web site, whereby an elector may change his or her address information on file with the department of revenue for driver's license or identification card purposes. (b) No sooner than November 1, 2011, and no later than January 1, 2012, the secretary of state shall make available on the secretary of state's official web site a link to the department of revenue's official web site, whereby an elector may change his or her address information for state income tax purposes. SECTION 2. 42-1-211, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION to read: 42-1-211. Colorado state titling and registration system. (1.7) No later than July 1, 2011, the department of revenue shall make available on the department's official web site a link to the secretary of state's official web site, whereby a person may change his or her address information on file with the secretary of state for voter registration purposes. SECTION 3. 42-2-119 (1) (a), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended, and the said 42-2-119 is further amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION, to read: 42-2-119. Notices - change of address or name. (1) (a) Whenever any person, after applying for or receiving a driver's license or motor vehicle registration number identification card, moves from the address named in such application or in the license or registration identification card issued to such person or when the name of the licensee is changed, such person shall, within thirty days, notify the department in writing provide notice to the department of such person's old and new address and the number of any license or registration identification card held by such person. Such notice shall be provided to the department in writing or in electronic form on the department's official web site. A licensee who changes his or her name shall, within thirty days, apply in person to renew such license pursuant to section 42-2-118 and in compliance with sections 42-2-107 and 42-2-305. (2.5) For purposes of subsection (2) of this section, "last-known address" means: (a) For notifications regarding motor vehicles, the most recent address provided on a vehicle registration or vehicle registration address change notification provided pursuant to section 42-3-113; (b) For notifications regarding driving privileges, driver's licenses, or identification cards when there is a driver's license or identification card on file with department, the most recent of either: (I) The mailing address provided by an applicant for a driver's license or identification card; (II) The mailing address stated on an address change notification provided to the department pursuant to subsection (1) of this section; or (III) The corrected address as reported by an address correction service licensed by the United States postal service; (c) For notifications regarding driving privileges or identification cards when there is no driver's license or identification card on file with the department, the most recent address shown on any other record on file with the department pursuant to this article and as may be corrected by an address correction service licensed by the United States postal service. SECTION 4. 42-2-307, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read: 42-2-307. Change of address. Any registrant who acquires an address different from the address shown on the identification card issued to the registrant shall, within thirty days thereafter, notify the department in writing of the registrant's old and new addresses of such change as specified in section 42-2-119 (1) (a). The department may thereupon take any action deemed necessary to ensure that the identification card reflects the proper address of the registrant. SECTION 5. 42-3-113 (7), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read: 42-3-113. Records of application and registration. (7) Within thirty days after moving from an address or changing the name of the owner listed upon a vehicle registration, a person shall notify the department county of residence in which the vehicle is to be registered in writing of the person's old and new address, including county, or old and new name, the registration numbers assigned to the vehicles for which the address is being changed, and of the registration number of numbers for all registrations then held by such person. SECTION 6. Appropriation. In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the licensing services cash fund created in section 42-2-114.5, Colorado Revised Statutes, not otherwise appropriated, to the department of revenue, for allocation to the division of motor vehicles, driver and vehicle services, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, the sum of sixty-three thousand five hundred thirty-eight dollars ($63,538) cash funds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the implementation of this act. SECTION 7. Act subject to petition - specified effective date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011; except that, if a referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within the ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly, then the act, item, section, or part shall not take effect unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2010 and shall take effect on July 1, 2011, or on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor, whichever is later. ________________________________________________________ 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