Gov. Hickenlooper signs several bills

DENVER — Thursday, March 22, 2012 — Gov. John Hickenlooper signed several bills today.

Number	Title	Sponsors	Summary
HB12-1033	Workers Compensation Administration Audit Fines	Swalm / Newell	Concerning conditions on the authority of the director of the division of workers' compensation to impose administrative fines as a result of compliance audits finding instances of late reporting of injuries under the "workers’ compensation act of Colorado”
HB12-1047	Non-safety Licensing Standards Kinship Foster Care	Kefalas / Newell	Concerning the waiver of non-safety licensing standards for kinship foster care
HB12-1055	DORA Div Registrations Name Change Rule Authority	Schafer S. / White	Concerning the division of registrations in the Department of Regulatory Agencies, and, in connection therewith, renaming the division as the division of professions and occupations and requiring periodic review of the functions of the division
HB12-1074	Judicial Oversight of Guardians and Conservators	Kerr J. / King S.	Concerning access to data to assist the courts in overseeing persons appointed to manage the affairs of persons under disability
HB12-1078	Exempt Drinking Water Cert. Designation	Vigil / Schwartz	Concerning the exemption of drinking water treatment facilities from the requirement to obtain a certificate of designation
HB12-1090	No School Pupil Enrollment Count On Holidays	Pace / Newell	Concerning the annual date for establishing the total pupil enrollment of each public school
HB12-1095	Verification Of Electronic Court Documents	Waller / Newell	Concerning electronic court documents
HB12-1117	Local Government Allows Charitable Giving From Motorists	Balmer / Nicholson	Concerning the ability of a local government to permit, in its discretion, the collection of charitable solicitations from motorists on a certain number of days per calendar year
HB12-1163	Conditional and Provisional Peace Officer Status	Waller / Morse	Concerning limited peace officer authority designations
HB12-1177	Dev. Disabled Home Care Allowance Grant Program	Gerou / Hodge	Concerning a grant program to provide home care allowance benefits to certain eligible individuals, and, in connection therewith, making and reducing appropriations
HB12-1217	Owner-user Organization Boiler Inspections	Tyler /Aguilar	Concerning the authority of an organization that maintains a regularly established inspection department to conduct inspections of its own pressure-retaining items
HB12-1221	Direct Billing For Anatomic Pathology Services	Liston / Tochtrop	Concerning billing for anatomic pathology services
HB12-1233	Legal Separation Court Appearance Procedure	Labuda / Carroll	Concerning the ability of a court to enter a decree of legal separation in certain circumstances without the appearance of the parties
HB12-1247	Reduce Tobacco Settlement Accelerated Payments	Gerou / Steadman	Concerning annual reductions in the amount of tobacco litigation settlement moneys that are allocated in the fiscal year in which the state receives them, and, in connection therewith, offsetting the reductions with tobacco litigation settlement cash fund moneys made available by the repeal of the short-term innovative health program grant fund
SB12-024	Residential Nonprofit Corp. Refunds Open Meetings	Harvey / Holbert	Concerning the obligations of a residential nonprofit corporation to its residential members, and, in connection therewith, clarifying open meeting provisions and limiting the conditions under which the corporation must refund moneys paid by a residential member
SB12-037	Electronic Prescription Controlled Substances	King S. / Young	Concerning the ability to dispense a controlled substance based on an electronically transmitted prescription drug order
SB12-097	Streamline Change of Surface Water Diversion Point	Hodge / Sonnenberg	Concerning a simplified procedure for the adjudication of certain changes of the points of diversion of water rights

For a complete list of Gov. Hickenlooper’s 2012 legislation decisions, click here.

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