HB 22-1007 CO

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The act establishes the wildfire mitigation resources and best practices grant program (grant program) within the Colorado state forest service (forest service). To be eligible to receive a grant, a recipient must be an agency of local government, a county, a municipality, a special district, a tribal agency or program, or a nonprofit organization. The forest service is tasked with reviewing grant applications. Grants must be awarded only to applicants proposing to conduct outreach among landowners in high wildfire hazard areas, and the forest service must consider the potential impact of an applicant's proposed outreach when awarding grants. The forest service must report to the wildfire matters review committee on the grant program. Commencing no later than the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the act requires the general assembly to annually appropriate money from the general fund to the healthy forests and vibrant communities fund to implement the grant program. The act extends the existing income tax deduction created to offset the landowner's costs incurred in performing wildfire mitigation measures, currently set to expire with the 2024 income tax year, through the 2025 income tax year. The act also creates a state income tax credit to reimburse a landowner for the costs incurred in performing wildfire mitigation measures on the landowner's property. Specifically, a landowner with a federal taxable income at or below $120,000, annually adjusted for inflation and rounded to the nearest hundred dollars, for any income tax year commencing on or after January 1, 2023, but prior to January 1, 2026, is allowed a state income tax credit in an amount equal to 25% of up to $2,500 in costs for wildfire mitigation measures. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

• Donald Valdez · primary
• Mike Lynch · primary
• Cleave Simpson Republican · primary
• Pete Lee · primary

1. Jun 3, 2022 Governor Signed · executive
2. May 20, 2022 Sent to the Governor · executive
3. May 20, 2022 Signed by the President of the Senate · upper
4. May 20, 2022 Signed by the Speaker of the House · lower
5. May 5, 2022 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments · upper
6. May 4, 2022 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments · upper
7. May 4, 2022 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole · upper
8. May 2, 2022 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations · upper
9. Apr 26, 2022 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Finance · upper
10. Apr 22, 2022 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments · lower
11. Apr 21, 2022 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee · lower
12. Apr 21, 2022 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole · lower
13. Mar 7, 2022 House Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations · lower
14. Feb 17, 2022 House Committee on Energy & Environment Refer Amended to Finance · lower
15. Jan 12, 2022 Introduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment · 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 (06/03/2022) · PDF
• Final Act (05/20/2022) · PDF
• Rerevised (05/05/2022) · PDF
• Revised (05/04/2022) · PDF
• Reengrossed (04/22/2022) · PDF
• Engrossed (04/21/2022) · PDF
• Introduced (01/12/2022) · PDF
• PA3 (04/21/2022) · PDF
• PA2 (03/08/2022) · PDF
• PA1 (02/18/2022) · PDF
• Committee Amendment · PDF