HB 12-1004: Colorado Timber Act

• Requires county and municipal building codes to permit the use of lumber milled from lodgepole pine and Englemann spruce trees graded as "stud," "No. 2," "No. 1," or "Select Structural" for building framing material.

• Mandates that building codes encourage the use of beetle-killed lumber from these tree species as building framing material.

• Applies to all counties and municipalities that have already enacted a building code, and to any that enact a building code after the act's effective date.

• Establishes that lumber grading must comply with West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau standards or its successor organization.

• Addresses the beetle infestation epidemic affecting over three million acres of Colorado forests and more than three million lodgepole pine and Englemann spruce trees since the 1990s.