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.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 11-007
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Grantham, Aguilar, Brophy, Newell;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Becker, Barker, Baumgardner, Conti, Fields,
      Gardner B., Gerou, Kerr J., Labuda, Massey, Priola, Stephens.
      
      
      Concerning the responsibility for the prosecution of a person who
           is charged with failure to register as a sex offender.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  18-1-202 (12), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
      to read:
      
           18-1-202.  Place of trial.  (12)  If a person commits the offense of
      failure to register as a sex offender as provided in section 18-3-412.5, the
      offense is committed and the offender may be tried in the county in which
      the offender was released from incarceration for commission of the offense
      requiring registration or in the county in which the offender resides, in the
      county in which the offender completed his or her last
      registration, or in the county in which the offender is apprehended.
      
           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.
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Brandon C. Shaffer                      Frank McNulty
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Cindi L. Markwell                      Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO