SENATE
                       3rd Reading Unamended
       May 9, 2011            SENATE
                       2nd Reading Unamended
                        May 6, 2011First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                REENGROSSED
                       This Version Includes All Amendments
                       Adopted in the House of Introduction
 LLS NO. 11-1065.01 Duane Gall           SENATE BILL 11-271
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Shaffer B., 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Pace, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Judiciary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the prohibition of deceptive trade practices in
            the solicitation of orders for retail florist services.
       
       
                           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 makes it a deceptive trade practice to solicit retail orders
       for florist services without disclosing relevant information including the
       amount of any fee or surcharge added by the person soliciting the order
       and the true name, physical address, and local telephone number of the
       florist who will fill the order.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  6-1-105 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
       BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW PARAGRAPH to read:
            6-1-105.  Deceptive trade practices.  (1)  A person engages in a
       deceptive trade practice when, in the course of such person's business,
       vocation, or occupation, such person:
            (ddd)  Violates any provision of section 6-1-723.
            SECTION 2.  Part 7 of article 1 of title 6, Colorado Revised
       Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to
       read:
            6-1-723.  Florist services - intermediaries - deceptive trade
       practices.  (1)  A person engages in a deceptive trade practice
       when, in the course of the person's business, vocation, or
       occupation, the person gathers, solicits, aggregates, or relays
       customer orders for florist services by means of a web site or
       any other method and:
            (a)  Fails to disclose to each customer:
            (I)  The person's true name, physical location, and local
       telephone number; and
            (II)  The true name, physical location, and local telephone
       number of the florist who will fill the customer's order;
            (b)  Charges the customer any fee or surcharge that is not
       clearly disclosed, in advance, to both the customer and the
       florist who will fill the customer's order; or
            (c)  Fails to relay the customer's order immediately to the
       florist who will fill the customer's order.
       
            SECTION 3.  Effective date - applicability.  This act shall take
       effect upon passage and shall apply to acts committed on or after said
       date.
            SECTION 4.  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.