First Regular Session
              Sixty-fifth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 05-0199.01 John Hershey         HOUSE BILL 05-1033
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Crane,
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the publication of legal notices by a
            government entity on its internet website.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Allows the state, an agency or political subdivision of the state, or
       a local government to meet any statutory requirement to publish a legal
       notice in a legal publication or newspaper by posting the notice on its
       official internet website.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  Part 1 of article 70 of title 24, Colorado Revised
       Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to
       read:
            24-70-110.  Publication - internet website - public building. 
       Notwithstanding any provision of this part 1 or any other
       statute requiring the state, an agency or political subdivision
       of the state, or a local government to publish a notice in a
       legal publication or newspaper, a publicly supported legal
       notice or advertisement shall meet the publication requirement
       if it is posted on the official internet website of the government
       entity required to publish the notice.
            SECTION 2.  Effective date.  This act shall take effect at 12:01
       a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety-day period after
       final adjournment of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting
       a referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state
       constitution (August 10, 2005, if adjournment sine die is on May 11,
       2005); except that, if a referendum petition is filed against this act or an
       item, section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item,
       section, or part, if approved by the people, shall take effect on the date of
       the official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the
       governor.