NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/10/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1386
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Kraft-Tharp, Becker K., Garnett, Ginal,
      Hamner, Kagan, Lee, Mitsch Bush, Moreno, Pabon, Salazar, Singer, Vigil,
      Winter, Young, Hullinghorst;
      also SENATOR(S) Steadman, Aguilar, Carroll, Heath, Jones, Kefalas,
      Merrifield, Newell, Todd.
      
      
      Concerning a program to cover vulnerable populations' costs of
           acquiring necessary documents, and, in connection
           therewith, making an appropriation.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 25-4-2208 as
      follows:
      
           25-4-2208.  Necessary document program - definition - repeal.
      (1)  As used in this section, "necessary document" means:
      
           (a)  A social security card issued pursuant to 42 U.S.C. sec.
      405 (c) (2) (G);
      
           (b)  One of the following documents issued in Colorado or
      analogous documents issued in another jurisdiction:
      
           (I)  A driver's license issued pursuant to part 1 of article 2
      of title 42, C.R.S.;
      
           (II)  An identification card issued pursuant to part 3 of
      article 2 of title 42, C.R.S.; and
      
           (III)  A vital statistics certificate or vital statistics report
      issued pursuant to article 2 of this title; or
      
           (c)  Any document required as a condition of issuance of a
      document specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection (1).
      
           (2)  The office shall administer a necessary document
      program. The office shall make one or more grants per fiscal year
      to, enter into one or more vendor contracts with, or both, a
      nonprofit entity or collection of nonprofit entities that conduct
      a collaborative identification project to assist Colorado
      residents who are victims of domestic violence, impacted by a
      natural disaster, low-income, disabled, homeless, or elderly and
      who are seeking documentation of their identity, status, or
      citizenship by paying the fees to acquire a necessary document.
      
           (3)  The general assembly shall annually appropriate to
      the office up to three hundred thousand dollars from the
      general fund. The office shall expend the money for the purposes
      specified in this section, including up to fifteen thousand dollars
      for the office's direct and indirect costs in administering the
      necessary document program.
      
           (4)  This section is repealed, effective September 1, 2021.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation. For the 2016-17 state fiscal year,
      $300,000 is appropriated to the department of public health and
      environment for use by the administration and support division. This
      appropriation is from the general fund. To implement this act, the division
      may use this appropriation for the necessary document program.
      
           SECTION 3.  Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds,
      determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
      preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
      
      
      
      
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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