NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/6/2014.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 14-1380
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Gardner and Fields, Ginal, Kagan,
      Kraft-Tharp, Schafer;
      also SENATOR(S) Nicholson, Crowder, King, Newell, Todd.
      
      
      Concerning the Colorado coroners standards and training
           board, 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, 30-10-601.6, amend
      (3) (a), (5) (a), and (6); and add (7) as follows:
      
           30-10-601.6.  Coroners standards and training board.
      (3) (a)  The C.C.S.T. board shall consist of eight members. The chairperson
      and the vice-chairperson of the C.C.S.T. board shall be elected annually by
      the members of the C.C.S.T. board with the requirement that the
      chairperson be either a coroner or a forensic pathologist.
      
           (5) (a)  On and after August 6, 2003, the executive director of the
      department of public health and environment may accept and expend gifts,
      grants, and donations to cover the costs incurred in the establishment and
      operation of the C.C.S.T. board. Such gifts, grants, and donations received
      shall be transmitted to the state treasurer, who shall credit the moneys to the
      coroner training fund created in section 30-10-601.8 (5). Any
      unencumbered state moneys remaining in the fund upon the repeal of this
      section shall be transferred to the general fund.
      
           (6)  The department of public health and environment in
      coordination with the C.C.S.T. board shall hire an independent contractor
      to staff shall perform the administrative duties related to the
      establishment and operation of the C.C.S.T. board.
      
           (7)  The attorney general shall be the legal advisor to the
      C.C.S.T. board. A deputy or assistant attorney general chosen by
      the attorney general or the attorney general's designee shall
      attend each meeting of the C.C.S.T. board to provide legal
      counsel to the C.C.S.T. board as requested by the board.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 30-10-601.7, amend
      (1) (c) as follows:
      
           30-10-601.7.  Duties of the Colorado coroners standards and
      training board. (1)  In addition to its other duties set forth in this part 6,
      the C.C.S.T. board shall:
      
           (c)  Approve training providers and programs used to fulfill the
      annual sixteen-hour twenty-hour in-service training requirement
      specified in section 30-10-601.8 (3).
      
           SECTION 3.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 30-10-601.8, amend
      (3); and add (6) as follows:
      
           30-10-601.8.  Training - fees - coroner training fund. (3)  Each
      coroner shall complete a minimum of sixteen twenty hours of in-service
      training provided by the Colorado coroners association or by another
      training provider approved by the C.C.S.T. board during each year of the
      coroner's term. At the request of a coroner, the C.C.S.T. board may decide
      that a combination of education, experience, and training satisfies the
      requirement to complete sixteen twenty hours of in-service training
      annually.
      
           (6)  Each county coroner or his or her designee shall create
      a policy for the training of deputy coroners and make the policy
      available for public inspection.
      
           SECTION 4.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-31-101, add (4.7)
      as follows:
      
           24-31-101.  Powers and duties of attorney general. (4.7)  The
      attorney general shall be the legal representative of the
      Colorado coroners standards and training board and perform
      the duties specified in section 30-10-601.6 (7), C.R.S., relating to
      the Colorado coroners standards and training board.
      
           SECTION 5.  Appropriation. In addition to any other
      appropriation, there is hereby appropriated to the department of law, for the
      fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, the sum of $3,643, or so much thereof
      as may be necessary, for the provision of legal services for the department
      of public health and environment related to the implementation of this act.
      Said sum is from cash funds received from the department of public health
      and environment out of moneys in the coroner training fund created in
      section 30-10-601.8 (5), Colorado Revised Statutes.
      
           SECTION 6.  Effective date. This act takes effect July 1, 2014.
      
           SECTION 7.  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                        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