Second Regular Session
             Sixty-seventh General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 10-0831.01 Jason Gelender       SENATE BILL 10-145
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Romer,  Williams, Bacon, Foster, Johnston, Hodge, Steadman
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 McCann,  Middleton, Ryden, Todd
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Transportation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the alleviation of traffic congestion within the
            United States highway 40 corridor through central
            and east Denver and Aurora, and, in connection
            therewith, requiring the high-performance
            transportation enterprise to study the feasibility of
            entering into a public-private partnership to develop,
            construct, and operate a rail fixed guideway system
            between the Auraria higher education center and the
            Anschutz medical campus of the university of
            Colorado at Denver and, if a special district or
            improvement district is subsequently formed for the
            purpose of financing, developing, constructing, and
            operating such a system, requiring a specified portion
            of the road safety surcharge paid by vehicle owners
            who reside within one mile of the system route to be
            paid to the special district.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill requires the high-performance transportation enterprise to
       study the feasibility of entering into a public-private partnership to
       develop, construct, and operate a rail fixed guideway system between the
       Auraria higher education center and the Anschutz medical campus of the
       university of Colorado at Denver.  If, after the study is completed, a
       special district is formed for the purpose of financing, developing,
       constructing, and operating such a system, the bill requires $4 of each
       road safety surcharge paid by vehicle owners who reside within one mile
       of the system route to be paid to the special district.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  43-4-806, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
       BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION to read:
            43-4-806.  High-performance transportation enterprise -
       creation - board - funds - powers and duties - limitations - reporting
       requirements - highway 40 corridor feasibility study - legislative
       declaration.  (11) (a)  As a possible means of applying
       transportation demand management principles to the problem of
       traffic congestion within the United States highway 40 corridor
       through central and east Denver and Aurora, the
       transportation enterprise shall study the feasibility of
       entering into a public-private partnership to develop, construct,
       and operate a rail fixed guideway system, as defined in section
       40-18-101 (3), C.R.S., between the Auraria higher education
       center and the Anschutz medical campus of the university of
       Colorado at Denver.
            (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 43-4-804 (1)
       and 43-4-205 (6.3), if, after the transportation enterprise
       completes the feasibility study required by paragraph (a) of this
       subsection (11), a special district or improvement district of any
       kind is formed for the purpose of financing, developing,
       constructing, and operating a rail fixed guideway system
       between the Auraria higher education center and the Anschutz
       medical campus of the university of Colorado at Denver, four
       dollars from each road safety surcharge imposed pursuant to
       section 43-4-804 (1) and collected upon the registration of a
       vehicle registered to a person at an address that is within one
       mile of the system route shall be allocated to the special
       district or improvement district.
            SECTION 2.  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.