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 10-1003
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) McNulty, Kerr J., Miklosi, Primavera;
      also SENATOR(S) Tochtrop, Mitchell, Penry, Williams.
      
      
      Concerning the extension of the deadline for the review of
           grievance petitions filed with the state personnel board.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  24-50-123 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
      to read:
      
           24-50-123.  Grievances - review.  (3)  The decision of the
      appointing authority shall be final; except that an employee may petition the
      board for review.  The board may grant the petition only when it appears
      that the decision of the appointing authority violates an employee's rights
      under the federal or state constitution, part 4 of article 34 of this title, article
      50.5 of this title, or the grievance procedures adopted pursuant to subsection
      (1) of this section.  The board shall review and summarily grant or deny a
      petition within ninety one hundred twenty days of receipt of the petition;
      except that petitions filed with the board that result in an investigation
      pursuant to section 24-50-125.3 or 24-50.5-104 are exempt from the
      ninety-day one-hundred-twenty-day review requirement.  Any petition
      granted shall be determined in accordance with section 24-50-125.4.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date -
      applicability.  (1)  This act shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day
      following the expiration of the ninety-day period after final adjournment of
      the general assembly (August 11, 2010, if adjournment sine die is on May
      12, 2010); 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 such period, 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 the date of the official
      declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.
      
           (2)  The provisions of this act shall apply to petitions filed on or after
      the applicable effective date of this act.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      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