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Colorado General Assembly
Public Policy
2012 Legislative Session
The Second Regular Session of the Sixty-eigth Colorado General Assembly convened on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012. Major issues in the building this year are the recent and still very contentious political redistricting, especially as it relates to this election-year session at the capitol, with all 65 House members up, almost half of the Senate and a major national election as well. As has been the case for the last few years, the budget continues to be the biggest issue in the building.
CCIA proposed bill, "Public and Retail Utility Provisions Regarding Electric Vehicles/Natural Gas Vehicles" has been submitted to the drafting office. We will post the bill to this page as soon as it is released from the drafting office. The purpose of the bill is to foster market development of electric and natural gas vehicles and associated charging and fueling infrastructure in Colorado. CCIA believes the Act will serve the interests of the State of Colorado by, among other things, increasing the use of domestic energy sources, fostering economic development, reducing mobile source emissions, increasing utilization of existing utility generating capacity, transmission and distribution assets, and avaoiding, to the extent feasible, or otherwise minimizing, additional utility operating expenditures and capital investments to support incremental electricity demand at system peak times. The bill will be sponsored by Rep. Brian DelGrosso, R-Loveland and Colorado State Senator Cheri Jahn, D-Wheat Ridge.
CCIA delivers a win for Colorado's cleantech community with the Colorado General Assembly's passage of Senate Bill 47
On May 9, 2011, Senate Bill 47, the "Colorado Science and Technology Innovation Reinvestment Act," received final approval by the state Senate late Tuesday night with a vote of 22-13. SB 47 passed the state House on Monday with a vote of 45-19. SB 47 would divert 50 percent of the future growth of income tax withholding from the cleantech and bioscience industries (using NAICS codes) so that it could be used as seed money for start-up companies and inventions. SB 47 is a "first-of-its-kind" funding mechanism for Colorado. It is expected to generate about $2 million per year for the industry. More....
CCIA advocates for policies that grow and support Colorado's cleantech cluster.
The CCIA Public Policy Committee and it's sub-committees will meet to debrief and develop language to ensure that all of Colorado's cleantech companies have equal opportunity to access DOE and other federal agency grant monies. If you are a member of the CCIA and would like to participate in the Public Policy Committee, please contact Chris Shapard with your interest.
We specifically support programs that:
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Accelerate the cleantech research and development pipeline.
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Speed cleantech technology transfer and support the growth of early stage companies.
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Expand our rich base of management talent able to move cleantech. technologies and companies into the marketplace.
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Promote a business climate that is friendly to cleantech companies.
Federal policy priorities
CCIA has prioritized a series of federal policy initiatives that will help broaden the deployment of clean technology and support the Colorado sector's growth. Clean technology is an economic engine, providing well-paid green-collar high-tech jobs. Our state is an ideal site for demonstration projects, cleantech workforce development programs, energy efficiency retrofits, manufacturing facilities and expanded research investment.
Please read our positions on capital formation, innovation, smart grid and workforce development.