CO SB077

Colorado asserts concurrent legislative jurisdiction with the federal government over all U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands within the state as of July 1, 2014, and any lands thereafter acquired.

State retains authority to execute civil and criminal processes on these federal lands as if the federal government had not claimed exclusive jurisdiction.

State gains power to tax persons, corporations, property, and transactions occurring on federal lands within Colorado.

State may exercise additional legislative authority to protect resident life, health, and safety on federal lands through police power, subject to limitations arising from federal law.

Bill cites wildfire management, arson investigation, and illegal drug production as examples requiring concurrent federal-state-local coordination and justifies assertion based on constitutional interpretation that "other needful buildings" does not include vast undeveloped acres.