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.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 11-1013
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Schafer S., Casso, Fields, Fischer, Hamner,
      Hullinghorst, Kerr J., Labuda, Lee, Looper, Miklosi, Pabon, Pace, Priola,
      Ramirez, Ryden, Scott, Solano, Todd, Vigil, Wilson;
      also SENATOR(S) Bacon, Aguilar, Boyd, Brophy, Cadman, Carroll, Foster,
      Giron, Grantham, Guzman, Heath, Hodge, Hudak, Jahn, King K., King S.,
      Kopp, Lambert, Lundberg, Morse, Newell, Nicholson, Renfroe, Roberts,
      Scheffel, Schwartz, Shaffer B., Spence, Steadman, Tochtrop, White,
      Williams S.
      
      
      Concerning exemptions from professional regulation for active
           duty military personnel.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Article 70 of title 12, Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read:
      
           12-70-102.  Active military personnel - exemptions from licensing
      requirements.  Each board or division, except the division of real
      estate, that regulates persons licensed, certified, or registered
      pursuant to this title shall exempt licensed, certified, or
      registered military personnel who have been called to federally
      funded active duty for more than one hundred twenty days for
      the purpose of serving in a war, emergency, or contingency from
      the payment of any professional or occupational license,
      certification, or registration fees, including renewal fees, and
      from any continuing education or professional competency
      requirements pursuant to this title for a renewal cycle that falls
      within the period of service or within the six months following the
      completion of service in the war, emergency, or contingency.
      
           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.
      
      
      
      
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      Frank McNulty                      Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      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