BOARD00871

• Board Meeting Date: 9/10/2002
• Description: Watershed Protection Fund
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

CHAPTER 281

TAXATION

SENATE BILL 02-087 [Digest]
BY SENATOR(S) Evans, Entz, Pascoe, Taylor, Fitz-Gerald, Isgar, Matsunaka, Phillips, and Tupa;
also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Miller, Alexander, Coleman, Mace, Madden, Romanoff, Stafford, and
Tochtrop.

AN ACT
CONCERNING THE REQUIREMENT THAT COLORADO STATE INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX
RETURN FORMS CONTAIN A LINE WHEREBY INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYERS MAY MAKE A
VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION TO THE COLORADO WATERSHED PROTECTION FUND, AND
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
SECTION 1. Article 22 of title 39, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION
OF A NEW PART to read:
PART 24
COLORADO WATERSHED PROTECTION FUND
VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION
39-22-2401. Legislative declaration. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY HEREBY FINDS AND
DECLARES THAT THE NATURAL HERITAGE AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN COLORADO ARE OF
FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE TO THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE, AND THE PROTECTION OF
THIS NATURAL HERITAGE AND QUALITY OF LIFE ARE ESSENTIAL TO SUSTAINABLE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FURTHER FINDS AND
DECLARES THAT LOCALLY BASED WATERSHED GROUPS HAVE EMERGED AROUND THE
STATE OVER THE PAST DECADE THAT ARE COMMITTED TO COLLABORATIVE
APPROACHES TO THE RESTORATION AND PROTECTION OF LANDS AND NATURAL
RESOURCES WITHIN COLORADO'S WATERSHEDS IN CONCERT WITH ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY RECOGNIZES THAT THE COLORADO
WATERSHED ASSEMBLY, A NONPROFIT CORPORATION, SERVES AS A STATE-LEVEL
UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION FOR SUCH LOCAL GROUPS. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
FURTHER RECOGNIZES THAT THE CITIZENS OF COLORADO MAY BE WILLING TO PROVIDE
FUNDS TO ASSIST IN THE RESTORATION AND PROTECTION OF LANDS AND NATURAL
RESOURCES WITHIN WATERSHEDS IN THE STATE. IT IS THEREFORE THE INTENT OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENACTING THIS PART 24 TO PROVIDE COLORADO CITIZENS THE

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