Jim Riesberg
State Representative District 50
Jim Riesberg
State Representative District 50
The 2006 Legislative Session
Bills Sponsored by Jim
Increase Older Coloradans Cash Fund (HB 1018)
This bill restores funding for the Older Coloradan Cash Fund to help stabilize
the programs for the Area Agencies on Aging. Some of these programs include home
delivered meals, senior nutrition, home nursing care, and family caregiver support.
Current Status:
House Finance Committee: Passed 13-0
Referred to House Appropriations Committee: Passed 12-0
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 56-8
Senate Appropriations Committee: Passed 8-2
Senate Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 26-8
Signed into law by the Governor on 5-17-06
Police Officers and Firefighters Pension Plan Structure (HB 1059)
This bill came out of the Police and Firefighters Pension Reform Committee
in order to conform to current I.R.S. standards.
Current Status:
House Local Government Committee: Passed 10-0-1
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 65-0
Senate Local Government: Passed 7-0
Senate Third Reading and final passage: Passed 33-0
Signed into law by the Governor on 3-31-06
Athletic Trainers Practice Act (HB 1127)
This bill allows for the regulation of athletic trainers.
Current Status:
House Health and Human Services Committee: Passed 10-3
Referred to House Finance Committee: Passed 8-5
Referred to House Appropriations Committee: Passed 8-5
House 3rd Reading and Final Passage: 35-30
Senate Business, Labor, and Technology: Passed 6-1
Senate Appropriations Committee: Passed 6-3
Senate Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 26-8
Vetoed by the Governor on 5-26-06
Penalties for Drunk Driving (HB 1171)
This bill stiffens penalties for repeat DUI offenders. It requires persistent drunk drivers to have an ignition interlock device installed on their vehicle, in addition to treatment required by current law. The bill also requires treatment and the ignition interlock for individuals with a one time offense with a blood alcohol content at .17 or higher. At .20 blood alcohol content, current law defines an individual as a persistent drunk driver. The final piece of this bill puts more money into the persistent drunk drivers cash fund in order to assist with payment for treatment for the indigent.
Current Status:
House Judiciary Committee: Passed 6-5
House Finance Committee: Passed 13-0
House Appropriations Committee: Passed 7-6
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 42-22
Senate Judiciary Committee: Passed 7-0
Senate Appropriations Committee: Passed 8-2
Senate Third Reading: Passed 26-9
Signed by the Governor on 6-1-06
Child Support Changes (HB 1267)
This bill makes technical corrections to a bill that was passed in the previous legislative session.
Current Status:
House Judiciary Committee: 11-0
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 61-2
Senate Judiciary Committee: Passed 6-0
Senate 3rd Reading and Final Passage: Passed 34-1
Signed into law by the Governor on 4-19-06
Reclaiming Abandoned Graves (HB 1268)
This bill allows cemeteries to reclaim an abandoned plot after after 75 years if no contact has been made with the owners. The cemetery is first required to send a written notice and to publish a notice in the newspaper. If a person appears after a plot has been reclaimed, a comparable plot must be furnished at no cost.
Current Status:
House Local Government Committee: Passed 7-4
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 37-26
Senate Local Government Committee: Passed 5-0
Senate Third Reading: Passed 35-0
Signed into law by the Governor on 4-13-06
Identity Theft (HB 1326)
This bill creates the new crime of identity theft and makes it a class 4 felony.
Current Status:
House Judiciary Committee: Passed 11-0
House Appropriations Committee: Passed 11-1
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 63-1
Senate Judiciary Committee: Passed 7-0
Senate Appropriations Committee: Passed 10-0
Senate Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 35-0
Signed into law by the Governor on 5-30-06
Bioscience Research (HB 1360)
This bill uses grant programs to support bioscience research and the implementation of that research into products.
Current Status:
House Finance Committee: Passed 10-2
House Appropriations Committee: Passed 9-4
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 58-7
Senate Finance Committee: Passed 6-0
Senate Appropriations Committee: Passed 9-0
Senate Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 32-3
Signed by the Governor on 6-5-06
Regional Representation on Tourism Board (HB 1366)
This bill requires a meeting where regional representation on the Tourism Board would be discussed and recommendations would be made to the General Assembly.
Current Status:
House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee: Passed 6-5
House Appropriations Committee: Passed 7-6
House Second Reading: Failed
Reduce Theft of Retail Property (HB 1380)
This bill prohibits the sellers of property at flea markets and similar facilities from selling certain goods without proof of ownership. Also creates an interagency task force on organized retail theft in order to investigate methods of effectively preventing organized networks of retail theft.
Current Status:
House Judiciary Committee: Passed 10-1
House Appropriations Committee: Passed 10-2
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 52-12
Senate Business, Labor, and Technology: Passed 5-0
Senate Third Reading: Passed 35-0
Signed into law by the Governor on 5-26-06
Jim is the House sponsor of the following Senate Bills:
Health Assurance Districts (SB 047)
This bill provides a mechanism for the funding of health assurance districts by allowing such districts to levy a sales tax or mill levy increase, with approval of the voters of the district, in order to provide health care services to the people of the district.
Current Status:
Senate Local Government Committee: Passed 5-1-1
Referred to Senate Appropriations Committee: Passed 6-3
Senate Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 18-15
House Local Government Committee: Passed 8-3
House Finance Committee: Passed 9-4
House Appropriations Committee: Passed 9-3
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 36-28
Conference Committee to resolve differences between House and Senate: Repassed both Houses
Vetoed by the Governor: 5-26-06
Missing Senior Citizens Alert (SB 057)
This bill creates the missing senior citizen alert program to broadcast the notice of missing senior citizens with an impaired mental condition. This program is similar to the Amber Alert used for missing children.
Current Status:
Senate Veterans and Military Affairs: Passed 7-0
Senate Third Reading: Passed 32-1
House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee: Passed 9-0
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 64-0
Signed into law by the Governor on 4-4-06
Phone Records Trading (SB 091)
This bill prohibits the selling or buying of telephone records without the appropriate authorization.
Current Status:
Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee: Passed 7-0
Senate Third Reading and Final Passage: 34-0
House Business Affairs and Labor Committee: Passed 12-0
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 65-0
Signed into law by the Governor on 4-24-06
Surrogate Decision Makers (SB 121)
This bill defines and authorizes who may be appointed as a surrogate decision maker
for individuals who lack decisional capacity in order to make informed health care benefit decisions. It requires that a person's lack of decisional capacity be made by the attending physician and be documented in the person's medical record.
Current Status:
Senate Health and Human Services Committee: Passed 6-0
Senate Third Reading: Passed 35-0
House Health and Human Services Committee: Passed 7-5
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 58-7
Signed into law by the Governor on 5-4-06
Pilot Program for the Disabled (SB 128)
This bill directs a nonprofit Colorado organization with a board composed of persons interested in Medicaid recipients with a disability to submit a proposed pilot program to the state in order to improve the quality of care received by recipients with a disability.
Current Status:
Senate Health and Human Services Committee: Passed 6-0
Senate Appropriations Committee: Passed 8-2
Senate Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 34-1
House Health and Human Services Committee: Passed 13-0
House Appropriations Committee: Passed 12-0
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 61-4
Signed into law by the Governor: 5-25-06
Colorado Health Care Transparency Act (SB 141)
This bill requires transparency of hospitals and advanced health facilities that receive any payment under Medicare or Medicaid. Information received will allow consumers to make educated decisions about the health care they receive.
Current Status:
Senate Health and Human Services Committee: Passed 5-1
Referred Senate Appropriations Committee: Passed 6-4
Senate Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 20-15
House Health and Human Services Committee: Passed 7-6
House Finance Committee: Passed 7-5
House Appropriations Committee: Passed 7-6
House Committee of the Whole: Failed
Drunk Driving Task Force (SB 192)
This bill establishes an interagency task force on drunk driving to investigate methods of reducing drunk driving.
Current Status:
Senate Transportation Committee: Passed 6-0
Senate 3rd Reading and Final Passage: Passed 32-0
House Judiciary Committee: Passed 8-3
House Third Reading and Final Passage: Passed 46-19
Signed into law by the Governor on 4-24-06