HOUSE
                       3rd Reading Unamended
       February 9, 2016        HOUSE
       Amended 2nd Reading
                     February 8, 2016Second Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                REENGROSSED
                       This Version Includes All Amendments
                       Adopted in the House of Introduction
 LLS NO. 16-0826.01 Thomas Morris x4218  HOUSE BILL 16-1004
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Winter and Arndt, 
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Kefalas,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Health, Insurance, & Environment
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning a requirement to include measurable goals that
            are subject to deadlines in Colorado's climate action
            plan.
       
       
                           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.)
       
            The bill requires:
                 The state climate action plan to include specific measurable
                 goals, the achievement of which will either reduce
                 Colorado's greenhouse gas emissions or increase
                 Colorado's adaptive capability to respond to climate
                 change, along with associated near-term, mid-term, and
                 long-term deadlines to achieve the goals; and
                 The annual climate report to the general assembly to
                 include an analysis of the progress made in meeting the
                 measurable goals and deadlines specified in the plan.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-20-111, amend
       (2) (a) and (3) (a) as follows:
            24-20-111.  Climate change position created - duties - report.
       (2)  The duties of the position created pursuant to subsection (1) of this
       section include, at a minimum:
            (a)  Development and periodic update of a climate action plan or
       similar document that sets forth a strategy, including specific policy
       recommendations and measurable goals based on the best
       available science, the achievement of which will both reduce
       Colorado's greenhouse gas emissions and increase Colorado's
       adaptive capability to respond to climate change, along with
       associated near-term, mid-term, and long-term deadlines to
       achieve the goals, that the state could use to address climate change
       and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions; and
            (3) (a)  The governor or his or her designee shall submit an annual
       report to the house agriculture, livestock, and natural resources
       committee, the house transportation and energy committee, and the senate
       agriculture, natural resources, and energy committee, or any successor
       committees, on climate change issues generally, the current climate action
       plan developed under this section, and the specific ways in which climate
       change affects the state. The report:
            (I)  May address, as appropriate, the correlations between climate
       change and wildfires, bark beetle infestation, snowpack, water storage,
       drought, and statewide emissions of greenhouse gases; The report and
            (II)  Shall include:
            (A)  Information regarding efforts to reduce emissions of gases
       and to reform practices known to exacerbate climate change effects;
            (B)  The report shall also include Additional prospective proposals
       to prepare the state for the effects of climate change and proposals to
       further reduce the factors that contribute to climate change within
       Colorado; and
            (C)  An analysis of the progress made in meeting the
       measurable goals specified in the climate action plan, including
       whether Colorado is on track to meet the near-term, mid-term,
       and long-term deadlines specified in the plan.  The analysis must
       include, with respect to each of the near-term, mid-term, and
       long-term deadlines, an estimate of the economic, social, and
       health impact on low-income individuals in Colorado that
       results or would result from meeting the deadlines as planned.
            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.