LEG00180

• Bill Number: SB05-226
• Year: 2005
• Title: Concerning the payment of moneys to the state of Kansas as required pursuant to the Kansas v. Colorado litigation regarding the depletion of water from the Arkansas River, and making an appropriation
• Legislation - Doc Type: Other CWCB Related Bills - Passed

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24-75-403. Cash funds - restriction on use of moneys - definitions.
(I) (b) (I) The general assembly may designate any moneys in a cash fund,
including moneys derived from a charge, as all or a portion of the reserve
required by section 20 (5) of article X of the state constitution and section
24- 77 -104 and may expend the moneys designated as authorized by said
sections. A cash fund from which moneys designated as all or a portion of
the reserve are expended! dUring any state fiscal year shall be fully
reimbursed for the expenditures on or before the last day of the next state
fiscal year.

(II) THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE
TRANSFER OF MONEYS FROM THE SEVERANCE TAX TRUST FUND PURSUANT TO
SECTION 39-29-109 (6), C.R.S., AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT SEVERANCE
TAX FUND PURSUANT TO SECTION 39-29-110 (4), C.R.S., TO THE KANSAS V.
COLORADO PLAINTIFF'S DAMAGES PAYMENT FUND CREATED IN SECTION
24-31-502 (1) AND THE KANSAS V. COLORADO PLAINTIFF'S LEGAL COSTS FUND
CREATED IN SECTION 24-31-502 (2) FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING THE
PAYMENT OF MONEYS TO THE ST ATE OF KANSAS AS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO
THE KANSAS V. COLORADO LITIGATION REGARDING THE DEPLETION OFW A TER
FROM THE ARKANSAS RIVER.

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SECTION S. Appropriation. (1) In addition to any other
appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
Kansas v. Colorado plaintiffs damages payment fund created in section
24-31-502 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, not otherwise appropriated, to
the department of law, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2004, the sum
of thirty-four million seven hundred ninety-six thousand one hundred
twenty-nine dollars ($34,796,129), or so much thereof as may be necessary,
for the implementation of section 24-31-502 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes.

(2) The moneys appropriated in subsection (1) of this section shall
remain available for the designated purposes through June 30, 2006.

SECTION 6. Effective date. This act shall take effect upon
passage; except that section 4 of this act shall take effect only if House Bill
05-1001 is enacted at the First Regular Session of the Sixty-fifth General
Assembly and becomes law.

SECTION 7. Safety clause. The general assembly hereby fmds,

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