NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 3/27/2014.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 14-1177
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Swalm, Labuda, McNulty, Szabo, Schafer,
      Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Tochtrop.
      
      
      Concerning requirements governing meetings of the boards of
           county commissioners of the larger counties.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, amend 30-10-304 as
      follows:
      
           30-10-304.  Meetings of board in counties over one hundred
      thousand. (1)  Except as otherwise permitted under subsection (2)
      of this section, each board of county commissioners of counties a
      county containing more than one hundred thousand inhabitants shall hold
      at least two meetings in each week of each year; but in the months of July
      and August of each year the board will not be required to hold more than
      two meetings in each of those months.
      
           (2)  Each board of county commissioners of a county
      containing more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may
      hold fewer than two meetings in each week of each year on the
      basis of, without limitation, the following circumstances:
      
           (a)  A lack of a quorum caused by illness;
      
           (b)  Scheduling conflicts with meetings of professional
      organizations whose membership includes county commissioners;
      
           (c)  Inclement weather;
      
           (d)  Natural disasters or emergency conditions;
      
           (e)  Special events; or
      
           (f)  Any other circumstance that a majority of the board
      deems reasonable justification for not holding the meeting in the
      majority's sole discretion.
      
           (3)  The board chair may cancel a regularly scheduled
      meeting of the board. If the decision to cancel a meeting is made
      more than twenty-four hours in advance of the meeting, the
      board shall promptly provide notice to the public of the
      cancellation in the same manner in which it customarily provides
      the public notice of its meetings.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect September 1, 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 the ninety-day period after
      final adjournment of the general assembly, 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.
      
      
      
      
      ________________________________________________________
      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