NOTE:  This bill has been prepared for the signature of the appropriate legislative
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      history, or the Session Laws.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 11-214
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Hodge, Steadman, Lambert;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Becker, Gerou, Ferrandino.
      
      
      Concerning decommissioning Fort Lyon correctional facility.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Repeal.  3-1-133, Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      repealed as follows:
      
           3-1-133.  Acceptance of jurisdiction over Fort Lyon.  The state of
      Colorado hereby accepts the retrocession of jurisdiction from the United
      States of America over the real property comprising Fort Lyon Veterans
      Hospital, as provided in Public Law 89-626, approved October 4, 1966.
      
           SECTION 2.  17-1-104.3 (1) (b), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      amended to read:
      
           17-1-104.3.  Correctional facilities - locations - security level. 
      (1) (b)  The correctional facilities operated by the department, the location
      of such facilities, and the designated security level of such facilities shall be
      as follows:
      
      Correctional facility    Location            Security level
      
      Colorado state      Fremont county      Level V
         penitentiary
      Centennial correctional  Fremont county      Level V
         facility
      Limon correctional       Lincoln county      Level IV
         facility
      Arkansas Valley          Crowley county      Level III
         correctional facility
      Buena Vista              Chaffee county      Level III
         correctional complex
      Colorado Territorial          Fremont county      Level III
         correctional facility
      Fort Lyon correctional   Bent county              Level III
         facility
      Fremont correctional     Fremont county      Level III
         facility
      Arrowhead correctional   Fremont county      Level II
         center
      Four Mile correctional   Fremont county      Level II
         center
      Skyline correctional          Fremont county      Level I
         center
      Colorado correctional    Jefferson county         Level I
         center
      Delta correctional       Delta county             Level I
         center
      Rifle correctional       Garfield county          Level I
         center
      Colorado correctional    Chaffee county      Level I
         alternative program
      Colorado women's         Fremont county      Level IV
         correctional facility
      Denver reception and     City and county          Level V
         diagnostic center             of Denver
      La Vista correctional    Pueblo county       Level III
         facility
      San Carlos correctional  Pueblo county       Level V
         facility
      Sterling correctional    Logan county        Level V
         facility
      Trinidad correctional    Las Animas county        Level II
         facility
      Denver women's      City and county          Level V
         correctional facility    of Denver
      Youthful offender        Pueblo county       Level III
         system
      
           SECTION 3.  Repeal.  17-20-128, Colorado Revised Statutes, is
      repealed as follows:
      
           17-20-128.  State authorized to receive Fort Lyon property. 
      (1)  The state is hereby authorized to receive, by and through the department
      of corrections and its executive director, all rights, title, and interest in and
      to the real property comprising the Fort Lyon department of veterans affairs
      medical center that may be conveyed by the federal secretary of veterans
      affairs.
      
           (2)  The executive director, as a condition of receiving the
      conveyance described in subsection (1) of this section, if any, shall provide
      appropriate public access to Kit Carson chapel and the cemetery pursuant
      to federal law.
      
           SECTION 4.  Act subject to petition - effective date.  This act
      shall take effect March 1, 2012; 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, whichever is later.
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Brandon C. Shaffer                      Frank McNulty
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Cindi L. Markwell                      Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO