NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 5/14/2014.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 14-132
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Crowder and Ulibarri, Aguilar, Baumgardner,
      Grantham, Guzman, Heath, Herpin, Jahn, Johnston, Jones, Kefalas, Kerr,
      King, Lambert, Newell, Nicholson, Rivera, Roberts, Scheffel, Schwartz,
      Tochtrop, Todd, Carroll;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Gardner and Exum, Garcia, Buckner, Conti,
      Coram, DelGrosso, Fields, Fischer, Foote, Gerou, Ginal, Hamner,
      Hullinghorst, Joshi, Kraft-Tharp, Labuda, Landgraf, Lawrence, Lebsock,
      Lee, May, McCann, McLachlan, McNulty, Melton, Mitsch Bush, Moreno,
      Murray, Pabon, Pettersen, Primavera, Priola, Rankin, Rosenthal, Ryden,
      Saine, Salazar, Schafer, Scott, Singer, Sonnenberg, Stephens, Tyler,
      Waller, Williams, Wilson, Wright, Young, Ferrandino.
      
      
      Concerning the repeal of the requirement that a soldier be killed
           while deployed to a combat zone to issue a fallen soldier
           license plate.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 42-3-213, amend (1)
      (a) (XIV) and (15) (a) as follows:
      
           42-3-213.  Special plates - military veterans - rules - retirement.
      (1) (a)  The department shall issue one or more sets of special license plates
      to the following persons who own a truck that does not exceed sixteen
      thousand pounds empty weight, a passenger car, a motorcycle, or a
      noncommercial or recreational vehicle:
      
           (XIV)  The current or past spouse, child, sibling, grandparent, or
      parent of a person who died in the line of duty while serving in the armed
      forces; and deployed to a combat zone;
      
           (15)  Fallen service member special license plate. (a) The fallen
      service member special license plate shall be designed to indicate that the
      owner of the motor vehicle to which the plate is attached is a family
      member of a person who died in the line of duty while serving in the armed
      forces. and deployed to a combat zone. The plate shall bear the word
      "fallen" and the title of a person who serves in the branch of the armed
      forces in which the deceased served.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date -
      applicability. (1)  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 applies to license plate applications submitted on or
      after January 1, 2015.
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Morgan Carroll                        Mark Ferrandino
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Cindi L. Markwell                      Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO