HB 22-1072 CO

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The habitat partnership program (program) assists the division of parks and wildlife (division) with reducing wildlife conflicts and meeting game management objectives. The act: Authorizes the director of the division (director) to independently appoint members of the habitat partnership council (council) that, in part, advises local habitat partnership committees (committees) that help implement program objectives; Expands the scope of the program to assist the division with private land conservation and wildlife migration corridor efforts; With respect to reducing wildlife conflicts, prioritizes conflicts that arise from forage and fence issues related to big game ungulate species, which are big game species that are hooved mammals; Authorizes the council to allocate an annual budget to each committee, subject to final approval by the director, and expend funds in areas of the state that are not covered by a committee; Requires the director to set terms for committee members; and Identifies the council and each committee as an independent organizational unit for purposes of purchasing, accounting, and procurement-related issues. The act clarifies that any balance of unexpended and unencumbered money in the habitat partnership cash fund (fund) at the end of a fiscal year that exceeds the amount transferred to the fund at the beginning of the fiscal year from the wildlife cash fund reverts to the wildlife cash fund and continues the fund indefinitely. The act also exempts the program from the "Procurement Code". (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

• Perry Will · primary
• Dylan Roberts Democratic · primary
• Kerry Donovan · primary
• Cleave Simpson Republican · primary

1. Apr 21, 2022 Governor Signed · executive
2. Apr 19, 2022 Sent to the Governor · executive
3. Apr 18, 2022 Signed by the President of the Senate · upper
4. Apr 18, 2022 Signed by the Speaker of the House · lower
5. Apr 4, 2022 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments · upper
6. Apr 1, 2022 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments · upper
7. Apr 1, 2022 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole · upper
8. Mar 24, 2022 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Unamended to Appropriations · upper
9. Feb 25, 2022 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Agriculture & Natural Resources · upper
10. Feb 22, 2022 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments · lower
11. Feb 18, 2022 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments · lower
12. Feb 17, 2022 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole · lower
13. Feb 7, 2022 House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, & Water Refer Unamended to Appropriations · lower
14. Jan 18, 2022 Introduced In House - Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, & Water · lower

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Signed Act (04/21/2022) · PDF
• Final Act (04/18/2022) · PDF
• Rerevised (04/04/2022) · PDF
• Revised (04/01/2022) · PDF
• Reengrossed (02/22/2022) · PDF
• Engrossed (02/18/2022) · PDF
• Introduced (01/18/2022) · PDF
• Committee Amendment · PDF