NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 5/11/2013.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 13-1278
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Mitsch Bush, Duran, Exum, Fields, Foote,
      Ginal, Hamner, Hullinghorst, Labuda, Lebsock, Lee, Levy, May,
      McLachlan, Moreno, Primavera, Rosenthal, Ryden, Salazar, Singer, Tyler,
      Williams, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Todd and Jahn, Aguilar, Guzman, Heath.
      
      
      Concerning the reporting of oil spills, and, in connection
           therewith, making an appropriation.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 34-60-130 as
      follows:
      
           34-60-130.  Reporting of spills - rules. (1)  If one barrel or more
      of oil or exploration and production waste is spilled outside of
      berms or other secondary containment, the spill shall be reported
      within twenty-four hours after the discovery of the spill, to:
      
           (a)  The commission; and
      
           (b)  The entity with jurisdiction over emergency response
      within the local municipality, if the spill occurred within a
      municipality, or the local county if the spill did not occur within
      a municipality.
      
           (2)  The spill report must include any available information
      concerning the type of waste involved in the spill.
      
           (3)  The commission may promulgate rules to implement this
      section.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation. In addition to any other
      appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the oil and
      gas conservation and environmental response fund created in section
      34-60-122 (5), Colorado Revised Statutes, not otherwise appropriated, to
      the department of natural resources, for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
      2013, the sum of $10,417, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for
      allocation to the oil and gas conservation commission for program costs
      related to the implementation of this act.
      
           SECTION 3.  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