Second Regular Session
             Sixty-seventh General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. R10-1106.01 Julie Pelegrin               SJR10-044
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Spence, 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 (None), 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Transportation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                  SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 10-044 
       Concerning authorization of an interim study of taxi cab
            license plates.
       
       
            WHEREAS, Colorado law requires the Public Utilities
       Commission (PUC) to promulgate safety rules for taxi cabs; and
       
            WHEREAS, The PUC currently has in place rules requiring taxi
       drivers to undergo stringent criminal background checks, and taxi
       companies must file proof of insurance with the PUC; and
       
            WHEREAS, Although these rules are in place for the public
       safety, a person who hires a taxi has no method by which to confirm that
       the driver and the taxi company are in compliance with these rules; and
       
            WHEREAS, A vehicle may easily be painted to imitate a
       legitimate taxi cab and may operate as a "gypsy" cab that is not in
       compliance with PUC rules, raising potential public safety concerns; and
       
            WHEREAS, The public safety would be better protected if taxi
       cabs had some conspicuous, external mark that is issued by the state and
       is not easily counterfeited, such as a license plate, to identify legitimate
       taxis that are in compliance with PUC rules; and
       
            WHEREAS, Such an external mark would be useful to law
       enforcement agents and parking enforcement agents, as well as the
       general public; now, therefore,
       
            Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly
       of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:
       
            (1)  That the transportation committee of the Senate and the
       transportation and energy committee of the House of Representatives,
       referred to in this joint resolution as the "joint transportation committees",
       are authorized during the 2010 legislative interim to meet, in accordance
       with the provisions of section 2-3-303.3, Colorado Revised Statutes, to
       study the issue of creating a special license plate or other state-issued
       identifying mark for taxi cabs, referred to in this joint resolution as the
       "taxi cab license plate study"; and
       
            (2)  That the joint transportation committees shall meet no more
       than ____ interim committee days for the purposes of the taxi cab license
       plate study.
       
            Be It Further Resolved, That this joint resolution shall take effect
       only if House Bill 10-1354 is enacted and becomes law.