Fiscal Impact Summary	FY 1999/2000	FY 2000/2001
State Revenues General Fund	-$323,184	-$323,184
State Expenditures General Fund	-$68,625	-$68,625
FTE Position Change	-1.0 FTE	-1.0 FTE
Other State Impact: TABOR
Effective Date: 90 days after adjournment unless a referendum petition is filed.
Appropriation Summary for FY 1999-2000: Department of Local Affairs - ($68,625 and 1.0 FTE) - General Fund
Local Government Impact: None.

This reengrossed bill declares the General Assembly's intent that state supervision of compliance with government-approved codes for manufactured housing be accomplished primarily through the use of private inspection and certification entities to the extent allowed by the State Constitution, the State Personnel System Act, Article 50 of Title 24 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, and rules promulgated by the State Personnel board. The bill authorizes the Division of Housing in the Department of Local Affairs to review and approve quality assurance representatives (state and private) that intend to perform these in-state and out-of-state inspections.

The bill authorizes the State Housing Board, under the Department of Local Affairs, to establish uniform construction and maintenance standards for factory-built housing. The bill repeals the board's authority to promulgate rules and regulations concerning the safety of equipment of camper trailers and camper coaches. The bill authorizes the board to promulgate rules establishing standards for private inspection and certification entities to perform the Division of Housing's certification and inspection of in-state and out-of-state manufactured housing units. These standards are to not prohibit a manufacturer from having the option to contract with the division or an authorized quality assurance representative to perform inspection and certification functions.

The bill requires all factory-built housing or factory-built nonresidential units offered for sale within the state to comply to the construction codes as adopted by the board. All new factory-built housing must bear an insignia of approval issued by an authorized quality assurance representative. All factory built nonresidential units manufactured, repaired, or sold in the state must bear an insignia of approval issued by the division or an authorized quality assurance representative.

The bill repeals the division's authority to establish fees to pay the costs of spot inspections. The bill authorizes the division to establish fees to pay the costs of taking representative samples of the product and evaluating the performance of authorized quality assurance representatives, and the administration of the program to certify factory-built housing and nonresidential units.

The bill revises the definitions of "camping trailer", "fifth wheel trailer", "travel trailer", and "truck camper" to meet the definitions set forth in the American National Standard Institute's (ANSI) standard A119.2. The bill prohibits any person from manufacturing or selling any new recreational vehicle or park trailer that is not manufactured to the ANSI standard.

The bill repeals the following statutory provisions regarding standards for camper trailers and camper coaches:

This bill will eliminate the division's recreational vehicle inspection program consisting of the issuance of approval insignias, plan checking, and re-inspections. The division assesses and collects fees for these three functions; the fees are deposited to the state General Fund. The division collects a fee for every approval insignia placed on every unit at the manufacturer's plant prior to shipment into this state. Plan checking fees are paid to the division by manufacturers wishing to obtain approval for products intended to be sold within the state. The amount of the plan checking fee is dependent upon the type of plan to be reviewed. The division also assesses a fee for re-inspection of any units that have been issued "red tags" for deviations from the manufacturer's approved plans. Table 1 provides a summary of the division's estimate of the annual General Fund revenue reduction per the provisions of this bill.

The elimination of the recreational vehicle inspection program will reduce the division's annual General Fund expenditures as shown in Table 2.

This fiscal note would imply the Department of Local Affairs would require a General Fund appropriation reduction of $68,625 and 1.0 FTE for FY 1999-2000.

Table 1 - RV Inspection Program Fee Revenue Impact
Type of Fee	Current Fee	Proposed Fee	Fee Change	# of Units	Total Fee
Approval Insignias	$20	$0	($20)	6,526	($130,520)
Plan Checking	$88	$0	($88)	2,078	($182,864)
Re-inspection	$100	$0	($100)	98	($9,800)
Total Revenue Impact					($323,184)

Table 2 - RV Inspection Program Expenditure Impact
	FY 1999-2000	FY 2000/2001
Personal Services Inspector	(1.0 FTE - $59,776)	(1.0 FTE - $59,776)
Operating Expenses	(8,849)	(8,849)
Total Expenses	(1.0 FTE - $68,625)	(1.0 FTE - $68,625)