First Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 15-0514.01 Nicole Myers x4326   SENATE BILL 15-083
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Hill, Holbert
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Judiciary
 
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the application of the "Colorado Open Records
            Act" to private organizations that receive certain
            transfers of money from a government entity.
       
       
                           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 modifies the definition of "public records" under the
       "Colorado Open Records Act" to include all writings made, maintained,
       or kept by a private organization that receives moneys collected by the
       state or a political subdivision of the state at the request of a public
       employee or taxpayer and that involve the receipt or expenditure of
       moneys by the private organization.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-72-202, add (6)
       (a) (V) as follows:
            24-72-202.  Definitions. As used in this part 2, unless the context
       otherwise requires:
            (6) (a) (V)  "Public records" means, when the state or a
       political subdivision transfers moneys to a private organization
       on behalf of a public employee or a taxpayer, all writings made,
       maintained, or kept by the private organization that involve the
       receipt or expenditure of moneys by the private organization.
       Expenditure shall be defined in accordance with generally
       accepted accounting principles.
            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
       5, 2015, if adjournment sine die is on May 6, 2015); 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 2016 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.