First Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 13-0539.01 Jason Gelender x4330 HOUSE BILL 13-1161
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Coram, Gerou
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Jahn, Hodge, Steadman
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Transportation & Energy
 
 
 
 Appropriations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the exemption of rented vehicles that weigh at
            least ten thousand pounds declared empty vehicle
            weight from the daily vehicle rental fee, and, in
            connection therewith, requiring the owner of such a
            vehicle to pay road safety and bridge safety
            surcharges in lieu of the fee when registering the
            vehicle.
       
       
                           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.)
       
            Current law requires the payment of a daily vehicle rental fee of
       $2 on the rental of any vehicle required to be registered that is rented in
       the state. Such a vehicle is exempt from the road safety and bridge safety
       surcharges imposed on other vehicles at the time of registration.
            The bill exempts vehicles that weigh at least 10,000 pounds
       declared empty vehicle weight from the daily vehicle rental fee and
       subjects such vehicles to the road safety and bridge safety surcharges.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 43-4-804, amend (1)
       (b) (I) as follows:
            43-4-804.  Highway safety projects - surcharges and fees -
       crediting of moneys to highway users tax fund. (1)  On and after July
       1, 2009, the following surcharges, fees, and fines shall be collected and
       credited to the highway users tax fund created in section 43-4-201 (1) (a)
       and allocated to the state highway fund, counties, and municipalities as
       specified in section 43-4-205 (6.3):
            (b) (I)  Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (III) of this
       paragraph (b), a daily vehicle rental fee, which shall be is imposed on the
       rental of any vehicle rented in the state at the rate of two dollars per day;
       except that the fee is not imposed on any vehicle that weighs at
       least ten thousand pounds declared empty vehicle weight and is
       rented during a registration period for the vehicle that begins
       on or after the effective date of this subparagraph (I), as
       amended. Any person who owns vehicles that are based in Colorado for
       rental purposes or who owns vehicles that are based in a state other than
       Colorado for rental purposes but rents such vehicles from a business
       location in Colorado and whose primary business is the rental of such
       vehicles for periods of less than forty-five days, including renewals, to
       another person shall collect the daily vehicle rental fee from the renter of
       each vehicle rented. The rental invoice shall must list the daily vehicle
       rental fee separately as a Colorado road safety program fee.
            SECTION 2.  Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,
       determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
       preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.