SENATE 2nd Reading Unamended July 6, 2006First Extraordinary Session Sixty-fifth General Assembly STATE OF COLORADO ENGROSSED This Version Includes All Amendments Adopted on Second Reading in the House of Introduction LLS NO. 06B-2070.01 Nicole Hoffman SENATE BILL 06S-002 SENATE SPONSORSHIP Veiga, HOUSE SPONSORSHIP (None), Senate Committees House Committees Judiciary Appropriations A BILL FOR AN ACT Concerning the time within which the Colorado supreme court is required to act on an appeal of a ruling of the title board relating to an initiative petition. Bill Summary (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.) Specifies that when an appeal is filed with the Colorado supreme court regarding the title board's final ruling on the title or single subject of an initiative petition for a proposed law or constitutional amendment, the court shall either affirm or reverse the action of the title board within a specified number of days after the date briefs were submitted to the court. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. 1-40-107 (2), Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended to read: 1-40-107. Rehearing - appeal - fees - signing. (2) If any person presenting an initiative petition for which a motion for a rehearing is filed, any registered elector who filed a motion for a rehearing pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, or any other registered elector who appeared before the title board in support of or in opposition to a motion for rehearing is not satisfied with the ruling of the title board upon the motion, then the secretary of state shall furnish such person, upon request, a certified copy of the petition with the titles and submission clause of the proposed law or constitutional amendment, together with a certified copy of the motion for rehearing and of the ruling thereon. If filed with the clerk of the supreme court within five days thereafter, the matter shall be disposed of promptly within thirty days after the date briefs were submitted, consistent with the rights of the parties, either affirming the action of the title board or reversing it, in which latter case the court shall remand it with instructions, pointing out where the title board is in error. SECTION 2. Effective date - applicability. (1) 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; 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. (2) The provisions of this act shall apply to any appeal filed with the Colorado supreme court on or after the applicable effective date of this act regarding a final ruling of the title board.