NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/5/2013.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 13-1283
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Fischer, Fields, Ginal, Hamner, Hullinghorst,
      Lebsock, Lee, McLachlan, Mitsch Bush, Pabon, Pettersen, Rankin,
      Rosenthal, Salazar, Schafer, Sonnenberg, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Schwartz, Aguilar, Baumgardner, Crowder, Giron,
      Jones, Kefalas, Kerr, Newell, Nicholson, Todd.
      
      
      Concerning the species conservation trust fund.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Legislative declaration. (1)  Pursuant to:
      
           (a)  Section 24-33-111 (2), Colorado Revised Statutes, the species
      conservation trust fund has been created in the state treasury to fund
      programs designed to conserve native species that have been listed as
      threatened or endangered under state or federal law, or are candidate species
      or are likely to become candidate species as determined by the United States
      fish and wildlife service;
      
           (b)  Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, the executive
      director of the department of natural resources, after consulting with the
      Colorado water conservation board and its director, the parks and wildlife
      board, and the director of the division of parks and wildlife, has prepared
      and delivered to the general assembly a species conservation eligibility list
      describing programs and associated costs that are eligible to receive funding
      from the species conservation trust fund; and
      
           (c)  Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes, prior to
      obligating funds from the species conservation trust fund, the species
      conservation eligibility list is subject to modification and adoption through
      the passage of a bill.
      
           SECTION 2.  Eligibility list - approval. (1)  The general assembly
      deems the recommended expenditures described in the species conservation
      eligibility list to be in the interest of the people of the state. The moneys
      specified in this subsection (1) shall be available in fiscal year 2013-14 and
      shall remain available for the designated purposes until they are fully
      expended:
      
           (a)  The executive director of the department of natural resources is
      authorized to obligate and expend four million dollars ($4,000,000) from
      the species conservation trust fund for the following activities, programs,
      and species in the following amounts:
      
                        PROGRAM / SPECIES
                                                     AMOUNT
      
      
           (I)  Selenium Management  Program
                                                $   500,000
      
      
           (II)  White River Management Plan
                                                $   250,000
      
      
           (III)  Instream Flow Water Acquisition
                                                $   500,000
      
      
           (IV)  Fountain Creek Fish Passage
           Project
                                                $   250,000
      
      
      
           (V)  Native Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat
           Management and Propagation
                                               $     10,000
      
      
           (VI)  Native Terrestrial Wildlife
           Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation
                                                $   816,000
      
      
           (VII)  Native Aquatic Wildlife Habitat
           and Population Management and
           Propagation
                                                $   500,000
      
      
           (VIII)  Native Aquatic Wildlife
           Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation
                                                $   324,000
      
      
           (IX)  Wildlife Disease Management
           and Landscape Adaptation
                                                $   350,000
      
      
           (X)  Natural Areas - Rare Plant
           Conservation Program and Species
           Conservation
                                                $   500,000
      
      
           Total authorization:
                                                $ 4,000,000
      
      
          SECTION 3.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 39-29-109.3, amend (2)
      (e) (VI) (A) as follows:
      
          39-29-109.3.  Operational account of the severance tax trust fund
      - repeal. (2)  Subject to the requirements of subsections (3) and (4) of this
      section, if the general assembly chooses not to spend up to one hundred
      percent of the moneys in the operational account as specified in subsection
      (1) of this section, the state treasurer shall transfer the following:
      
          (e)  To the species conservation trust fund created in section
      24-33-111 (2) (a), C.R.S., the following amounts:
      
          (VI) (A)  For the state fiscal year commencing July 1, 2013, six
      million six hundred thousand four million dollars.
      
          SECTION 4.  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.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Mark Ferrandino                         John P. Morse
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      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