NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 3/18/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1043
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Brown, Becker K., Vigil, Esgar, Mitsch Bush,
      Wilson, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Baumgardner, Kefalas, Sonnenberg, Crowder, Heath,
      Lambert, Newell, Tate.
      
      
      Concerning the joint technology committee's authority to
           approve the request for a waiver of certain deadlines after
           moneys for a project have been appropriated.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-30-1404, amend
      (7) (a); and add (7) (h) as follows:
      
           24-30-1404.  Contracts. (7) (a)  Except as provided in paragraphs
      (b), (c), (e), (f), and (g), and (h) of this subsection (7), any professional
      services contract entered into pursuant to the provisions of this part 14 shall
      be executed and encumbered within six months after the date on which the
      appropriation that includes the project for which the professional services
      are required becomes law. If no professional services contract is required
      for a particular project, the contract with the contractor for the project shall
      be entered into within six months after the appropriation. If a state agency
      or state institution of higher education determines that the nature of a
      particular project is such that the deadlines imposed by this section cannot
      be met, the state agency or state institution of higher education may request
      the capital development committee to recommend to the controller that the
      deadline be waived for that project. The controller, in consultation with the
      capital development committee may grant a waiver from such deadlines.
      This subsection (7) shall not apply to projects under the supervision of the
      department of transportation. This subsection (7) shall not affect any
      priority established pursuant to section 24-35-210 (11) in the general
      appropriation act for expenditures for projects to be financed from net
      lottery proceeds appropriated for capital construction.
      
           (h)  The six month deadline imposed by paragraph (a) of  this
      subsection (7) does not apply to information technology projects
      that are overseen by the joint technology committee pursuant to
      part 17 of article 3 of title 2, C.R.S. For the purposes of this
      paragraph (h), "information technology" has the same meaning as
      provided in section 2-3-1701 (2), C.R.S.
      
           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
      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
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      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