NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 3/23/2016.
      
      
      SENATE BILL 16-107
      
      
      BY SENATOR(S) Cooke, Kefalas, Cadman;
      also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Pabon, Arndt, Fields, Lee, Lontine, Melton,
      Ryden, Hullinghorst.
      
      
      Concerning the regulation of voter registration drive
           circulators, and, in connection therewith, requiring
           circulators to complete mandatory training.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 1-2-701, amend (2);
      and add (3) as follows:
      
           1-2-701.  Registration of voter registration drive - training -
      rules. (2)  A voter registration drive organizer and a voter registration
      drive circulator shall fulfill the training requirements established by the
      secretary of state by rules promulgated in accordance with article 4 of title
      24, C.R.S.
      
           (3) (a)  Prior to circulating any voter registration
      applications, a person intending to work as a circulator on a
      voter registration drive shall complete the training provided by
      the voter registration drive organizer and sign an affirmation
      affirming that he or she fulfilled the training requirements for
      circulators.
      
           (b)  A voter registration drive organizer shall maintain and
      make available to the secretary of state records evidencing the
      training completed by its circulators.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 1-2-702, add (2.5) as
      follows:
      
           1-2-702.  Conducting a voter registration drive. (2.5)  Within
      twenty-two days prior to an election, before accepting for
      delivery a voter registration application form from any elector,
      a circulator working on a voter registration drive shall inform
      the elector that, to vote in the upcoming election, the elector
      must submit an application for registration at a voter service and
      polling center or the elector's county clerk and recorder's office
      or through the online voter registration system established
      pursuant to section 1-2-202.5.
      
           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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      Bill L. Cadman                Dickey Lee Hullinghorst
      PRESIDENT OF                     SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Effie Ameen                            Marilyn Eddins
      SECRETARY OF                 CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
      THE SENATE                         OF REPRESENTATIVES
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO