SENATE
                       3rd Reading Unamended
       April 6, 2016          SENATE
                       2nd Reading Unamended
                       April 5, 2016Second Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                REENGROSSED
                       This Version Includes All Amendments
                       Adopted in the House of Introduction
 LLS NO. 16-1063.01 Richard Sweetman x4333SENATE BILL 16-144
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Cooke, 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Sias, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning allowing certain military personnel who are
            less than twenty-one years of age to obtain a permit to
            carry a concealed handgun.
       
       
                           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.)
       
            Under current law, an applicant for a concealed handgun permit
       must satisfy certain criteria, including a requirement that he or she is at
       least 21 years of age. The bill amends this requirement to state that the
       applicant must be either:
                 21 years of age or older; or
                 18 years of age or older and on active duty in, or honorably
                 discharged from, any branch or reserve branch of the
                 United States military forces, including the National Guard.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 18-12-203, amend
       (1) (b) as follows:
            18-12-203.  Criteria for obtaining a permit. (1)  Beginning May
       17, 2003, except as otherwise provided in this section, a sheriff shall issue
       a permit to carry a concealed handgun to an applicant who:
            (b)  On and after the effective date of this paragraph (b),
       as amended, is either:
            (I)  Twenty-one years of age or older; or
            (II) (A)  Eighteen years of age or older; and
            (B)  On active duty in, or honorably discharged from, any
       branch or reserve branch of the United States military forces,
       including the National Guard.
            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.