NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 4/14/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1169
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Coram, Brown, Court, Esgar, Fields, Hamner,
      Lontine, Melton, Mitsch Bush, Rosenthal, Salazar, Vigil, Winter, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Roberts, Aguilar, Carroll, Crowder, Garcia, Guzman,
      Heath, Hill, Jones, Kefalas, Kerr, Merrifield, Newell, Todd, Cadman.
      
      
      Concerning the appointment of representatives of the Southern
           Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes as voting members of the
           statewide transportation advisory committee.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Legislative declaration. (1)  The general assembly
      hereby finds and declares that:
      
           (a)  State law specifies that the statewide transportation advisory
      committee consists of one member from each state transportation planning
      region;
      
           (b)  The department of transportation has recognized that it is
      appropriate for the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes, each of
      which engage in transportation planning activities, to have independent
      representation on the transportation advisory committee and has authorized
      the tribes to each appoint one nonvoting representative to the committee;
      
           (c)  It is necessary and appropriate to amend state law in order to
      allow representatives of the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes to
      serve as full-fledged voting members of the transportation advisory
      committee; and
      
           (d)  It is the intent of the general assembly that the appointment of
      voting representatives of the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes to
      the transportation advisory committee immediately terminate the
      representation of the nonvoting tribal representatives on the committee.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 43-1-1104, amend (1)
      (a) as follows:
      
           43-1-1104.  Transportation advisory committee. (1) (a)  A
      transportation advisory committee is hereby created. The committee is to
      be composed of one representative from each transportation planning
      region, one representative of the Southern Ute tribe chosen by the
      Southern Ute Indian tribal council, and one representative of the
      Ute Mountain Ute tribe chosen by the Ute Mountain Ute tribal
      council. If a regional planning commission has been formed in a
      transportation planning region, the chairman of such commission or the
      chairman's designee shall be the representative for the region on the
      committee. If any transportation planning region has not formed a regional
      planning commission, then the representative shall be chosen by the boards
      of county commissioners of the counties contained in such region in
      consultation with officials of the municipalities contained in such region.
      
           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
      10, 2016, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2016); 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.
      
      
      
      
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      Dickey Lee Hullinghorst                Bill L. Cadman
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                            Effie Ameen
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO