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CO HB1334

Bill

Status

Failed

4/28/2025

Primary Sponsor

Jennifer Bacon

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits metropolitan districts and water and sanitation districts from using dominant eminent domain power to condemn state-owned property or property belonging to home rule cities, towns, city and counties, or home rule counties

  • Clarifies that the 1981 Special District Act granted these districts eminent domain powers but never intended to authorize condemnation of state or home rule municipal property

  • Codifies the Colorado Court of Appeals ruling in Town of Parker v. Colorado Division of Parks & Outdoor Recreation (1993), which held that dominant eminent domain does not authorize condemnation of state property

  • Preserves existing vested rights and liabilities and does not apply retroactively to past transactions

  • Amends Colorado Revised Statutes sections 32-1-1004 (metropolitan districts) and 32-1-1006 (sanitation, water and sanitation, or water districts)

Legislative Description

Condemnation Authority of Certain Special Districts

Local Government

Last Action

House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Postpone Indefinitely

4/28/2025

Committee Referrals

Transportation, Housing & Local Government4/22/2025

Full Bill Text

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