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      HOUSE BILL 11-1192
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Coram, Brown, Scott, Vaad;
      also SENATOR(S) Brophy, Grantham, Jahn.
      
      
      Concerning the addition of specified highway segments to those
           for which a person may apply to the department of
           transportation for permission to operate a longer vehicle
           combination under existing law.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  42-4-505 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
      to read:
      
           42-4-505.  Longer vehicle combinations - rules.  (3) (a)  The long
      combinations shall be are limited to interstate highway 25, interstate
      highway 76, interstate highway 70 west of its intersection with state
      highway 13 in Garfield county, interstate highway 70 east of its intersection
      with U.S. 40 and state highway 26, the circumferential highways designated
      I-225 and I-270, and state highway 133 in Delta county from mile marker
      8.9 to mile marker 9.7.  The department of transportation shall promulgate
      rules and regulations to provide carriers with reasonable ingress to and
      egress from such designated highway segments.
      
           (b)  Upon action by the congress of the United States to lift
      the freeze imposed by the federal "Intermodal Surface
      Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991", Pub.L. 102-240, as amended,
      concerning the use of longer vehicle combinations, either by the
      total freeze being lifted by congress or by the approval of pilot
      projects to expand the use of longer vehicle combinations by the
      states, the department of transportation shall undertake a
      process to evaluate both interstate and state highways for
      possible authorization by the department of additional highway
      segments for inclusion by the general assembly in paragraph (a)
      of this subsection (3).  During the review process, the department
      shall solicit input from all relevant stakeholders and shall
      work within existing statutory and regulatory guidelines.  The
      department shall commence the review process within ninety days
      after action by congress that would allow expansion of the
      longer vehicle combination route network in Colorado.
      
           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