NOTE:  This bill has been prepared for the signatures of the appropriate legislative
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or taken other action on it, please consult the legislative status sheet, the legislative
      history, or the Session Laws.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 13-1147
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Melton, Buckner, Court, Duran, Exum, Fields,
      Fischer, Lebsock, Mitsch Bush, Moreno, Ryden, Salazar, Singer, Tyler,
      Williams, Foote, Ginal, Hamner, Hullinghorst, Labuda, McLachlan, Pabon,
      Pettersen, Primavera, Rosenthal, Schafer, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Newell, Todd, Ulibarri, Aguilar, Carroll, Giron,
      Guzman, Heath, Hodge, Hudak, Jones, Nicholson, Schwartz, Steadman,
      Tochtrop, Morse.
      
      
      Concerning voter registration facilitated by state institutions of
           higher education.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 1-2-213.5 as
      follows:
      
           1-2-213.5.  State institutions of higher education - electronic
      voter registration option - information to students. (1) (a)  Any state
      institution of higher education, as defined in section 23-1-108 (7) (g)
      (II), C.R.S., that utilizes an electronic course registration process
      shall provide to each student registering electronically for
      courses at the institution the opportunity to register to vote by
      giving each student the option to be electronically directed to
      the official web site of the secretary of state so that he or she
      may register in accordance with section 1-2-202.5. The option shall
      be provided to students either during or immediately following
      the electronic registration period for each term or semester. 
      
           (b)  Each state institution of higher education subject to
      paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) shall implement the electronic
      voter registration option as soon as practicable, but not later
      than the next regularly scheduled maintenance to its electronic
      course registration system process.
      
           (2)  A state institution of higher education that does not
      utilize an electronic course registration process shall provide to
      students information regarding how to register to vote,
      including, at a minimum, prominently posting such information in
      a clearly visible area of the institution's registrar's office.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes 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
      7, 2013, if adjournment sine die is on May 8, 2013); 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 will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2014
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
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      Mark Ferrandino                         John P. Morse
      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