Second Regular Session
             Sixty-seventh General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 10-0115.01 Thomas Morris        HOUSE BILL 10-1006
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Curry,  Baumgardner, Gardner C., McKinley
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Brophy,  Hodge, White, Whitehead
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning increased funding for the division of water
            resources from the operational account of the
            severance tax trust fund.
       
       
                           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.)
       
            Water Resources Review Committee.  Authorizes the
       expenditure of up to 5% of the moneys in tier 1 of the operational account
       of the severance tax trust fund for the division of water resources, and
       allows this increase to supplant moneys that would otherwise be made
       available to the division from the general fund.  Eliminates the tier 1
       authorization for the division of wildlife to account for the increase.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  39-29-109.3 (1) (e), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended, and the said 39-29-109.3 (1) is further amended BY THE
       ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH, to read:
            39-29-109.3.  Operational account of the severance tax trust
       fund - repeal.  (1)  For fiscal years commencing on and after July 1,
       1997, the executive director of the department of natural resources shall
       submit with the department's budget request for each fiscal year a list and
       description of the programs the executive director recommends to be
       funded from the operational account of the severance tax trust fund
       created in section 39-29-109 (2) (b), referred to in this section as the
       "operational account".  The minerals, energy, and geology policy advisory
       board established pursuant to section 34-20-104, C.R.S., shall review the
       executive director's recommendation before submittal.  The general
       assembly may appropriate moneys from the total moneys available in the
       operational account to fund recommended programs as follows:
            (e)  For fiscal years commencing on or after July 1, 2008, only, for
       programs within the division of wildlife that monitor, manage, or mitigate
       the impacts of mineral or mineral fuel production activities on wildlife in
       any region of the state in which production activity is occurring or, from
       any location in the state, research such impacts, up to five percent of the
       moneys in the operational account, which moneys shall not supplant
       moneys that would otherwise be made available for such programs;
            (g)  For fiscal years commencing on or after July 1, 2010,
       for programs within the division of water resources, up to five
       percent of the moneys in the operational account.
            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.