NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 3/27/2014.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 14-1223
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Coram, Salazar, Schafer, Singer;
      also SENATOR(S) Roberts, Crowder.
      
      
      Concerning the reclassification of Dolores county for the
           purpose of statutory provisions fixing the salaries of
           county officers.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 30-2-102, amend (1)
      (e) and (1) (f) as follows:
      
           30-2-102.  Categorization of counties for fixing salaries of county
      officers. (1)  For the purpose of establishing the salaries of county officers:
      
           (e)  Category V counties shall consist of the counties of Baca, Bent,
      Cheyenne, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Dolores, Hinsdale, Lincoln,
      Phillips, Saguache, and San Juan;
      
           (f)  Category VI counties shall consist of the counties of Dolores,
      Jackson, Kiowa, Mineral, and Sedgwick.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. (1)  Except
      as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, 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 6, 2014, if
      adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); 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.
      
           (2)  This act takes effect only if the annual salaries of county
      officers, as set forth in section 30-2-102, Colorado Revised Statutes, are not
      increased more than 10% by legislation enacted during the 2014 legislative
      session.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      Mark Ferrandino                        Morgan Carroll
      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