First Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 15-0435.01 Thomas Morris x4218  SENATE BILL 15-076
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Grantham, 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning an authorization of the land disposal of cathode
            ray tubes.
       
       
                           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.)
       
            Current law generally prohibits the land disposal of electronic
       devices, including those that contain cathode ray tubes. The bill allows
       the disposal of cathode ray tubes, including electronic devices that
       contain them, at hazardous waste disposal sites.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, amend 25-17-303 as
       follows:
            25-17-303.  Landfill ban - rules. (1)  By On or after July 1,
       2013, a person shall not dispose of an electronic device or a component
       of an electronic device in a landfill in this state; except that:
            (a)  A cathode ray tube or an electronic device that
       contains a cathode ray tube may be disposed of at a hazardous
       waste disposal site, as that term is defined in section 25-15-200.3
       (5), that is currently licensed and in good standing pursuant to
       article 15 of this title and that is otherwise allowed to accept
       electronic devices for disposal; and
            (b)  If a hazardous waste disposal site described in
       paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) is not located within a
       county, a board of county commissioners for a county that also does
       not have at least two electronic waste recycling events per year or an
       ongoing electronic waste recycling program that serves residents of the
       county may, by majority vote of the commissioners and in compliance
       with the requirements of this section, exempt its residents from the ban
       established by this section. A county shall make a good-faith effort to
       secure the electronic waste recycling services before the board of
       commissioners may exempt the county's residents from the landfill ban.
       An exemption from the landfill ban is valid for two years, after which the
       board may vote on another two-year exemption after again making a
       good-faith effort to secure a vendor to provide the recycling services. A
       county is not required to pay for the recycling services. Counties that
       currently do not have such services are encouraged to work with the
       department of public health and environment and other entities, such as
       the Colorado association for recycling, or its successor organization, to
       find an electronics recycling vendor that will serve that county.
            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 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.
            (2)  This act applies to conduct occurring on or after the applicable
       effective date of this act.