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      HOUSE BILL 11-1122
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Schafer S., Casso, Fields, Labuda, Liston;
      also SENATOR(S) Jahn, Boyd.
      
      
      Concerning the technical modification of specified requirements
           affecting the process by which a proposed home rule
           charter for a municipality is to be submitted for the
           approval of the voters of the municipality.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  31-2-206 (4) and (10), Colorado Revised Statutes, are
      amended to read:
      
           31-2-206.  Charter commission.  (4)  The charter commission shall
      meet at a time and date set by the governing body, which shall be not more
      than twenty days subsequent to the certification of the election, for the
      purpose of organizing itself. At such meeting, the commission members
      shall elect a chairman, a secretary, and such other officers as they deem
      necessary, all of which officers shall be members of the commission.  The
      commission may adopt rules of procedure for its operations and
      proceedings.  A majority of the commission members shall constitute a
      quorum for transacting business.  Further meetings of the commission shall
      be held upon call of the chairman or a majority of the members.  All
      meetings shall be open to the public.
      
           (10)  Within one hundred twenty eighty days after its election, the
      charter commission shall submit to the governing body a proposed charter.
      
           SECTION 2.  31-2-207 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
      to read:
      
           31-2-207.  Charter election - notice.  (1)  Within thirty days after
      the date that the charter commission submits the proposed charter to it, the
      governing body shall publish and give notice of an election to determine
      whether the proposed charter shall be approved, which election shall be
      held not less than thirty nor more than one hundred twenty eighty-five
      days after publication of the notice thereof.  Such notice of the election shall
      contain the full text of the proposed charter.
      
           SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date -
      applicability.  (1)  This act shall take effect September 1, 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 the ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general
      assembly, 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.
      
           (2)  The provisions of this act shall apply to proceedings to adopt a
      home rule charter for a municipality commenced on or after the applicable
      effective date of this act.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      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