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      HOUSE BILL 11-1210
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Hamner, Levy, McCann, Tyler, Fields,
      Fischer, Hullinghorst, Labuda, Lee, Pace, Todd, Williams A., Wilson,
      Schafer S.;
      also SENATOR(S) Nicholson, Aguilar, Giron, Guzman, Heath, Hudak,
      Schwartz, Williams S.
      
      
      Concerning a requirement that the department of transportation
      recommend to the general assembly actions that can be taken in
      the short-term to improve mobility in the interstate 70 mountain
      corridor.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Part 1 of article 1 of title 43, Colorado Revised
      Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read:
      
           43-1-121.  Interstate 70 mountain corridor - recommendation
      regarding short-term mobility solutions.  (1)  On or before December
      20, 2011, the department shall make prioritized recommendations
      to the transportation committees of the house of representatives
      and the senate regarding actions that can be taken on or before
      July 1, 2014, to improve mobility in the interstate 70 mountain
      corridor.  Each recommendation shall include an estimate of the
      amount of funding required to implement the recommendation and
      shall recommend available or potentially available sources of
      such funding.  In developing its recommendations, the department
      shall consider operational and safety improvement options,
      transit options, and traffic demand management options and shall
      investigate the feasibility of nongovernmental actions that might
      improve mobility in the corridor.
      
           (2)  The department shall consult with interested local
      governments and business entities that are located within the
      interstate 70 mountain corridor or that have governmental or
      business interests that are likely to be substantially affected by
      any actions taken to improve mobility in the corridor and shall
      take such consultation into account when developing the
      recommendations required by subsection (1) of this section.  The
      department may also hold public hearings at which interested
      members of the public may propose actions to improve mobility in
      the corridor or comment on any such actions proposed by others.
      
           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.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Frank McNulty                      Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO