NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/10/2016.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 16-1451
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Ryden and Rankin, Garnett, Pabon;
      also SENATOR(S) Scott and Heath.
      
      
      Concerning a requirement that the department of personnel
           create a procurement code working group to study ways to
           improve the state's "Procurement Code".
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add part 5 to article
      101 of title 24 as follows:
                              PART 5
                  PROCUREMENT CODE WORKING GROUP
      
           24-101-501.  Procurement code working group - creation -
      recommendations - repeal. (1)  The executive director or his or her
      designee shall convene a procurement code working group to
      meet during the interim following the second regular session of
      the seventieth general assembly to study ways to improve the
      procurement code. The procurement code working group shall
      solicit input from subject-matter experts, including, but not
      necessarily limited to, vendors, business organizations, nonprofit
      organizations, labor organizations, taxpayer advocacy
      organizations, legal professionals, and state employees with
      expertise in the procurement code.
      
           (2)  The procurement code working group shall do its work
      within the existing resources of the department.
      
           (3)  The procurement code working group shall submit to
      the general assembly its recommendations for modifications to
      the procurement code on or before December 31, 2016.
      
           (4)  This part 5 is repealed, effective July 1, 2017.
      
           SECTION 2.  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
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      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