NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/6/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1458
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Vigil and Coram, Arndt, Becker J., Becker K.,
      Brown, Conti, Fields, Ginal, Lebsock, Mitsch Bush, Pabon, Pettersen,
      Primavera, Rankin, Rosenthal, Roupe, Ryden, Salazar, Hullinghorst;
      also SENATOR(S) Sonnenberg and Garcia, Aguilar, Carroll, Donovan,
      Guzman, Heath, Hill, Jones, Kefalas, Kerr, Martinez Humenik, Merrifield,
      Newell, Roberts, Ulibarri.
      
      
      Concerning measures to effectuate the conservation of native
           species in Colorado, and, in connection therewith, making
           appropriations from the species conservation trust fund for
           purposes recommended by the department of natural
           resources.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Legislative declaration. (1)  Pursuant to:
      
           (a)  Section 24-33-111 (2), Colorado Revised Statutes, the species
      conservation trust fund has been created in the state treasury to fund
      programs designed to conserve native species that have been listed as
      threatened or endangered under state or federal law or that are candidate
      species or are likely to become candidate species as determined by the
      United States fish and wildlife service;
      
           (b)  Section 24-33-111 (3), Colorado Revised Statutes: 
      
           (I)  The executive director of the department of natural resources,
      after consulting with the Colorado water conservation board and its
      director, the parks and wildlife commission, and the director of the division
      of parks and wildlife, has prepared and delivered to the general assembly
      a species conservation eligibility list describing programs and associated
      costs that are eligible to receive funding from the species conservation trust
      fund; and
      
           (II)  Before obligating funds from the species conservation trust
      fund, the species conservation eligibility list is subject to modification and
      adoption through the passage of a bill.
      
           SECTION 2.  Eligibility list - approval. (1)  The general assembly
      deems the recommended expenditures described in the species conservation
      eligibility list to be in the interest of the people of the state. The money
      specified in this subsection (1) is available in fiscal year 2016-17 and
      remains available for the designated purposes until it is fully expended. The
      executive director of the department of natural resources is authorized to
      obligate and expend three million dollars ($3,000,000) from the species
      conservation trust fund for the following activities, programs, and species
      in the following amounts:
      
                         PROGRAM/SPECIES
                                             AMOUNT
                                                   
                                                   
                   (I)  Native terrestrial wildlife
                                      conservation 
                                           $778,135
                                                   
                                                   
                      (II)  Native aquatic wildlife
                                      conservation 
                                           $321,865
                                                   
                                                   
                  (III)  Native species management,
                        monitoring, and propagation
                                           $700,000
                                                   
                                                   
                         (IV)  Gunnison river basin
                        selenium management program
                                           $250,000
                                                   
                                                   
                          (V)  Upper Colorado river
                                   recovery program
                                           $550,000
                                                   
                                                   
                     (VI)  Grand Valley power plant
                             repair and improvement
                                           $400,000
                                                   
                                                   
                                Total authorization
                                         $3,000,000
                                                   
                                                   
     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.
                                                   
                                                   
                                                   
                                                   
      ________________________________________________________
      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