Second Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 14-0497.01 Kate Meyer x4348     HOUSE BILL 14-1088
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Dore, 
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Roberts, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning rural representation on the Colorado
            reapportionment commission.
       
       
                           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.)
       
            The Colorado reapportionment commission (commission) is
       constituted decennially for the purpose of establishing the senatorial and
       representative districts of the state legislature. The bill requires at least 7
       of the 11 appointees to the commission reside in counties of 25,000 or
       fewer persons, according to the most recent federal census.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 2-2-510.5 as
       follows:
            2-2-510.5.  Rural membership of commission - legislative
       declaration. (1)  The general assembly hereby finds, determines,
       and declares that requiring a minimum number of commission
       appointees to hail from rural counties is necessary to ensure
       that the interests of Colorado's less-populated areas are
       effectively represented during the reapportionment process.
       The general assembly further declares that subsection (2) of
       this section furthers the purpose and operation of section 48 of
       article V of the state constitution by facilitating creation of a
       more geographically diverse commission.
            (2)  At least seven of the eleven members of the commission
       shall reside in counties of twenty-five thousand or fewer
       persons, according to the most recent national census.
            SECTION 2.  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
       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.