First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0411.01 Richard Sweetman     SENATE BILL 11-053
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Renfroe,  Harvey, Brophy, Lambert, Grantham, Kopp, Lundberg, Mitchell, Scheffel
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Sonnenberg,  Szabo, Holbert
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the governor's authority to restrict the
            distribution of firearms during a state of disaster
            emergency.
       
       
                           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 eliminates the authority of the governor to suspend or limit
       the sale, dispensing, or transportation of firearms during a state of disaster
       emergency.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  24-32-2104 (7) (h), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended to read:
            24-32-2104.  The governor and disaster emergencies.  (7)  In
       addition to any other powers conferred upon the governor by law, the
       governor may:
            (h)  Suspend or limit the sale, dispensing, or transportation of
       alcoholic beverages, firearms, explosives, or combustibles; and
            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.