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o 12 '.1 J-oo'" c." 00 f":> WATER LEGISLATIVE REPORT Jl1ly 16, 19 . H.B. 96-1125 De artment of ublic health and environme t executi director - aualifications - appointment of chief medical officer. Chang the qualifiqations for the executive director of the department of publ' health and environment. As an alternative to a degree of doctor of medicin authorizes the executive director to have a degree of doctor of osteopat or, at a min~mum, experience or education in public administration and publi or environmehtal health. States that, if the executive director has a degre of doctor of. medicine or doctor of osteopathy, such person must also mee certain educational or experience requirements. Require~ the executive director to appoint a chief medical officer wh has a degreeIof doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy and who meets th educational and experience requirements if the governor appoints an executiv director who idoes not have such qualifications. Requires the appointment 0 a chief mediqal officer to be made upon consultation with the governor an with the consent of a majority of the members of the senate. Directs th appointment to be made within 3 months after the executive director' appointment ;Ls confirmed by the senate. Specifies the chief medical officer's duties. APPROVED by Gbvernor May 23, 1996 EFFECTIVE July 1, 1996 H.B. 96-1197 :Air aualitv - rules - economic and risk analvses - multi-media environmenta11integration issues. Extends current requirements for economic and risk analyses of proposed stationary-source air pollution rules to include rules; that apply to mobile sources. In provisions listing the criteria for ilnvoking some analysis requirements, removes the. criterion "not required by the federal [Clean Air] act", leaving as the only 2 criteria that the proposed ~tate rule either "exceeds the requirements of" or "differs from" federal ,law or rules. Eliminates current provisions creating an advisory committee to address multi-media environmental integration issues. APPROVED by Governor June 1, 1996 EFFECTIVE June 1, 1996 H. B. 96-1239 : Property tax - valuation of water riahts. Provides that exchanged water rights and nonexempt dams, ditches, pipelines, canals, flumes, reserv~irs, bypasses, conduits, wells, pumps, or other associated structures or devices used to produce, hold, transport, measure, or exchange water shall be valued for property tax purposes with the item of real property served; by the water. Clarifies that valuing real property and the water rights serving the real property as a unit means that any increase in value of the real property served with water made available directly, or by exchange, by the use of any dam, ditch, pipeline, canal, flume, reservoir, bypass, conduit, well, pump, or other associated structure or device shall be included in the: valuation of the real property served by the water rights.