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      HOUSE BILL 13-1241
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Fields and Gardner, Buckner, Exum, Hamner,
      Kagan, Labuda, Lebsock, Lee, McCann, Melton, Pabon, Salazar, Singer,
      Williams, Young, Conti, Court, Duran, Foote, Gerou, Ginal, Hullinghorst,
      May, Mitsch Bush, Moreno, Pettersen, Primavera, Rankin, Rosenthal,
      Ryden, Schafer, Scott, Waller, Wright, Ferrandino;
      also SENATOR(S) Guzman and King, Aguilar, Carroll, Giron, Heath,
      Hudak, Jahn, Jones, Kefalas, Kerr, Newell, Nicholson, Schwartz, Steadman,
      Tochtrop, Todd, Ulibarri, Morse.
      
      
      Concerning a statewide automated victim information
           notification system, and, in connection therewith, making
           and reducing appropriations.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 24-33.5-515 as
      follows:
      
           24-33.5-515. Statewide automated victim information and
      notification system - legislative declaration. (1)  The general assembly
      hereby finds and declares that:
      
           (a)  The federal department of justice offered grants to help
      establish statewide automated victim information and
      notification systems;
      
           (b)  A Colorado statewide association of county sheriffs
      applied for and received grants to establish a statewide
      automated victim information and notification system and
      recently received an additional grant to upgrade the system;
      
           (c)  The system allows crime victims and other concerned
      citizens to access timely and reliable information about criminal
      cases and the custody status of offenders twenty-four hours a
      day over the telephone, through the internet, or by electronic
      mail;
      
           (d)  The system is available for any county that wishes to
      participate and also includes the division of youth corrections;
      
           (e)  Although the federal grants were sufficient to
      establish the system, there is no funding source for the ongoing
      expenses of operating the system; and
      
           (f)  The division is in the best position to distribute funding
      for the system and to monitor its effectiveness.
      
           (2)  The general assembly may annually appropriate from
      the general fund to the division moneys for the operation of the
      statewide automated victim information and notification system.
      The division must distribute moneys appropriated to the division by
      the general assembly for the operation of the statewide
      automated victim information and notification system to be used
      by the county sheriffs, the division of youth corrections, and
      other departments or agencies.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation. (1) In addition to any other
      appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
      general fund not otherwise appropriated, to the department of public safety,
      for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, the sum of $434,720, or so much
      thereof as may be necessary, for allocation to the division of criminal
      justice, victims assistance, for the statewide automated victim information
      and notification system created by this act.
      
           (2)  For the implementation of this act, appropriations made in the
      annual general appropriation act to the department of human services,
      division of youth corrections, institutional programs, for operating
      expenses, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, are adjusted as follows:
      
           (a)  The general fund appropriation is decreased by $10,000.
      
           (b) The reappropriated funds appropriation is increased by $10,000.
      Said sum is from reappropriated funds received from the department of
      public safety out of the appropriation made in subsection (1) of this section.
      
           SECTION 3.  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.
      
      
      
      
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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