Second Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 14-0506.02 Ed DeCecco x4216     HOUSE BILL 14-1090
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Nordberg, 
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 Finance
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the requirement that a supermajority of the
            members elected to the general assembly approve a
            law that increases revenue through a fee.
       
       
                           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 bill requires at least 60% of both houses of the general
       assembly to approve any law that creates a new fee or increases an
       existing fee.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add part 18 to article
       2 of title 2 as follows:
                              PART 18
                      SUPERMAJORITY VOTE FEES
            2-2-1801.  Fee - supermajority vote. On or after the effective
       date of this section, the general assembly may not pass any law
       that creates a new fee or increases an existing fee unless the
       law is approved by at least sixty percent of the members elected
       to each house.
            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.