GOV. RITTER SCHEDULE FOR TODAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY

 

Thursday is the final day for Gov. Ritter to take action on bills from the 2008 legislative session. He will be signing health-care and transportation bills in Denver today, legislation authorizing a new state justice center and history museum on Wednesday morning, and several bills in Grand Junction Wednesday afternoon.  

 

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

 

9 a.m.                          Gov. Ritter will deliver opening remarks at a workshop sponsored by CSU's Warner College of Natural Resources, "Communicating About Climate Change: A Governor's Initiative Toward a Sustainable West."

 

                                    Location: Inverness Hotel and Conference Center, 200 Inverness Drive West, Englewood.

 

10:30 a.m.                   Gov. Ritter will sign nearly a dozen health-care bills into law, including several pieces of legislation that form the heart of his "Building Blocks to Health Care Reform" package. The full list of bills to be signed:

 

                                    SB 57 (Kester/Marshall), Insurance Coverage Hearing Aids Minors

SB 135 (Mitchell/Gagliardi), Health Ins Standardized Benefits Card

SB 138 (Johnson/McGihon), Physician Designation Full Disclosure

SB160 (Hagedorn/McGihon), Children's Health Care

SB 161 (Boyd/Merrifield), CHP+ and Medicaid Enrollment

SB 194 (Hagedorn/McGihon), Pub. Health Reorg.

SB 217 (Hagedorn/McGihon), Centennial Care

HB 1100 (Gagliardi/Keller), Colo. Responds to Kids with Special Needs

HB 1372 (Primavera/Hagedorn), Adult Stem Cell Donation Awareness

HB 1385 (Primavera/Schwartz), Increased Health Insurance Transparency

HB 1410 (A. Kerr/Tochtrop), Preventive Coverage Colorectal Cancer

 

Location: The Children's Hospital, Anschutz Medical Campus at Fitzsimons, 13123 E. 16th Ave., Aurora. From downtown Denver: Take Colfax east to Anschutz Medical Campus. Turn left on Ursula Street, pass East 16th Avenue, take the next right into the media-reserved parking area on the west side of the hospital. Children's contact: Lonna Lindsay, (720) 777-8526.

 

1:30 p.m.                    Gov. Ritter will sign five transportation bills into law:

 

HB 1010 (McFadyen/Takis), Motor Vehicle Traffic Fines

HB 1036 (McFadyen/Williams), Charles Mather Highway Safety Act

HB 1257 (Vaad/Williams), Overweight Motor Vehicle Permits & Fees

SB 60 (Boyd/Summers), Automobile Theft Prevention Authority

SB 63 (Penry/Butcher), Off-Highway Vehicle Sound Standards

 

Location: West Foyer, State Capitol.

 

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

 

9:30 a.m.                     Gov. Ritter will sign legislation (Senate Bill 206) authorizing the financing for the new Ralph L. Carr Justice Center and a new home for the Colorado History Museum. The Justice Center will be located on the block currently occupied by the Supreme Court building and the Colorado History Museum, and the new museum will be located just one block to the south. The Justice Center is scheduled to open in 2014.

                                   

                                    Location: North side of the existing Judicial Building, 2 E. 14^th Ave.

 

11:30 a.m.                   Gov. Ritter will sign several bills at Mesa State College in Grand Junction:

SB 218 (Schwartz & Penry/Buescher & Balmer) Federal Mineral Lease Allocation

SB 245 (Windels/Buescher), Higher Ed Intercept

HB 1359 (Buescher/Penry), Alternating Proprietorship Wineries

HB 1414 (Buescher/Penry), Regulate Oil & Gas Waste Disposal Pits

 

Location: Mesa State College, Grand Junction. The ceremony will take place in front of Wubben Hall, the school's science building, which is just south of Mav Circle. Press and public should park in lot P-1 at 12^th and Elm.

 

Thursday, June 5, 2008

 

9:30 a.m.                     Gov. Ritter will sign a package of legislation supporting people with developmental disabilities:

                                    HB 1031 (Pommer/Keller), DD Waiting List Navigator
HB 1047 (B. Gardner/Boyd), State Set Asides for Severely Disabled
HB 1072 (Soper/Williams), Medicaid Buy-In for Disabled Persons
HB 1101 (B. Gardner/Renfroe), DD Waiting List
HB 1127 (Liston/Gibbs), DD Employee Income Tax Credit
HB 1220 (Buescher/Keller), DD Statutory Clean Up
HB 1246 (Green/Keller), Abuse Caregiver Registry for DD
SB 02 (Boyd/Soper), Family Caregiver for Developmentally Disabled
SB 04 (Keller/B. Gardner), State Employment for Persons with DD
SB 165 (Williams/ M. Carroll), Advisory Council

 

                                    Location: West Foyer, State Capitol

 

10:30 a.m.                   Gov. Ritter will sign a consumer-protection package of bills:

HB 1389 (M. Carroll/Sandoval), Fair Accountable Insurance Rates

HB 1216, (Ferrandino/Romer), Consumer Outreach and Education
HB 1402, (Gagliardi & Ferrandino/Bacon), Protections for Homeowners

SB 77 (Johnson/Jahn), On-line Circumvention Sale Event Tickets

SB 153 (Boyd/Ferrandino), Licensure of Home Care Facilities

SB 246 (Williams/Jahn & Lundberg), Unfair Practices Act

 

Location: West Foyer, State Capitol

 

11 a.m.                        Gov. Ritter will sign a variety of different bills:

                                    HB 1033 (Levy/Sandoval), Historic Preservation Income Tax Credit

                                    HB 1049 (Benefield/Groff), Extend Child Care Income Tax Credit

                                    HB 1151 (Lambert/Schultheis), Boy Scouts Centennial Plates

HB 1168 (Marshall/Romer), Financial Literacy

HB 1317 (Looper & Gallegos/Tapia & Schultheis), Interstate Compact Educate Military Kids

HB 1325 (Looper/Tapia), Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program

HB 1353 (Madden/Isgar), Verify Conservation Easement Tax Credits

SB 11 (Morse/Massey), Trauma Care Funding

 

Location: West Foyer, State Capitol