First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-1005.01 Kate Meyer           SENATE BILL 11-248
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Newell, 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Looper, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Health and Human Services
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning repeal of the "Bedding Act".
       
       
                           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 repeals the "Bedding Act", which is administered and
       enforced by the Colorado department of public health and environment
       and which regulates the sale of bedding (defined as "any quilted pad,
       packing pad, mattress pad, hammock pad, mattress, comforter, bunk quilt,
       sleeping bag, box spring, studio couch, pillow, or cushion, any bag or
       container made of leather, cloth, or any other material, or any other device
       that is stuffed or filled in whole or in part with any concealed material in
       addition to the structural units and filling material used therein and its
       container, all of which can be used by any human being for sleeping or
       reclining purposes") in Colorado.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  Repeal.  Part 3 of article 5 of title 25, Colorado
       Revised Statutes, is repealed.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  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
       10, 2011, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 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 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 2012 and shall take effect on the date of the official
       declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.