CO HB1315

Division of Criminal Justice must submit annual reports to legislature by March 1 each year beginning March 1, 2018, analyzing substance-affected driving violations including citations, charges filed, convictions, drug types present, and time elapsed between traffic stops and biological sample collection.

Division shall collect data from state judicial branch, Denver County Court, forensic toxicology laboratories, Department of Public Health and Environment, and Division of Probation Services; personal identifying information in the database is not subject to public records disclosure.

Creates Substance-Affected Driving Data-Analysis Cash Fund in state treasury funded by $2 surcharges imposed on persons convicted of DUI, DUI per se, DWAI, vehicular assault, or vehicular homicide, with no judicial discretion to waive surcharge except for indigent defendants.

Appropriates $20,352 for fiscal year 2017-18: $15,000 to Division of Criminal Justice for payments to private laboratories and $5,352 to Department of Public Health and Environment for breath alcohol test results (0.1 FTE).

Act takes effect August 9, 2017, unless subject to referendum petition, in which case it requires voter approval at November 2018 general election to take effect.