NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 5/29/2015. HOUSE BILL 15-1365 BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) McCann, Lee, Primavera, Singer, Becker K., Fields, Garnett, Hamner, Lebsock, Melton, Moreno, Pabon, Rosenthal, Ryden, Salazar, Hullinghorst, Duran, Ginal, Keyser, Kraft-Tharp, Mitsch Bush, Vigil, Williams; also SENATOR(S) Crowder, Aguilar, Heath, Kerr, Merrifield, Newell, Todd, Ulibarri. Concerning adding two youth members to the Tony Grampsas youth services board. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 26-6.8-103, amend (1) (a), (1) (d) (I) introductory portion, and (1) (e); and add (1) (d) (IV) as follows: 26-6.8-103. Tony Grampsas youth services board - members - duties. (1) (a) There is hereby created the Tony Grampsas youth services board consisting of four adult members appointed by the governor, two youth members appointed by the governor, three adult members appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and two adult members appointed by the president of the senate, and one adult member appointed by the minority leader of the senate. For the initial appointments, the governor shall appoint members to the board after the speaker of the house of representatives and the president and the minority leader of the senate have made appointments. No more than six seven of the members appointed to the board shall be members of the same political party. (d) (I) In appointing adult members to the board, the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president and the minority leader of the senate shall: (IV) In appointing youth members to the board, the governor shall appoint members who are at least fifteen years of age and younger than twenty-six years of age. (e) (I) The appointed members of the board shall serve three-year terms; except that, of the members first appointed, one of the members appointed by the governor shall serve a two-year term, two of the members appointed by the governor shall serve one-year terms, one of the members appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives shall serve a two-year term, and one of the members appointed by the president of the senate shall serve a two-year term. The respective appointing person shall choose those members who shall serve initial shortened terms. If a vacancy arises in one of the appointed offices, the authority making the original appointment shall fill the vacancy for the remainder of the term. (II) Adult members of the board shall serve without compensation but shall may be reimbursed out of available appropriations for all actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. Youth members of the board may receive a per diem as compensation for their service, which per diem may not exceed thirty dollars for each day upon which each youth member performs his or her duties for the board. Youth members of the board may also be reimbursed out of available appropriations for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. SECTION 2. In Colorado Revised Statutes, 26-6.8-102, amend (2) (d) (I) as follows: 26-6.8-102. Tony Grampsas youth services program - creation - standards - applications. (2) (d) (I) The youth services program fund is created in the state treasury. The principal of the fund consists of tobacco litigation settlement moneys transferred by the state treasurer to the fund pursuant to section 24-75-1104.5 (1) (i), C.R.S. Subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, the state department may expend moneys from the fund for the Tony Grampsas youth services program, including the compensation of youth members of the Tony Grampsas youth services board, as described in section 26-6.8-103 (1) (e) (II). The lesser of all unexpended and unencumbered moneys in the fund at the end of any fiscal year or an amount of such moneys equal to five percent of the amount appropriated from the fund for the fiscal year remain in the fund and shall not be transferred to the general fund or any other fund. Any additional unexpended and unencumbered moneys in the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be transferred to the tobacco litigation settlement cash fund created in section 24-22-115, C.R.S. SECTION 3. 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. ________________________________________________________ Dickey Lee Hullinghorst Bill L. Cadman 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