s_lg_2016a_2016-03-15t14:02:29z0 Hearing Summary

Date: 03/15/2016

02:02 PM -- HB 16-1106



Senator Grantham and Senator Garcia, co-prime sponsors, described the provisions of House Bill 16-1106 concerning county authority to designate pioneer trail. The reengrossed bill allows a board of county commissioners to designate, by resolution, any public roads in the county as a section of a pioneer trail. A pioneer trail consists of public roads that follow original routes of travel of national historic significance. To make such a designation, the board must identify all of the roads that make up the pioneer trail. If a county designates any portion of a state highway as a pioneer trail, the designation is not effective until the General Assembly, acting by joint resolution, also designates the portion of the state highway as part of the pioneer trail. The board may not designate a pioneer trail across public lands on a road administered by the federal government unless the road is designated as open to travel by the federal management agency. The county may post, or allow to be posted, identifying and informative signs related to the pioneer trail along county roads.



The following persons testified on the bill:



02:07 PM -- Linda Balough, representing the Park County Department of Historic Preservation Heritage, Tourism, and Community Development, Board of Colorado Preservation Inc., spoke in favor of the bill and discussed the importance of historic places for the tourism industry. She also responded to questions from the committee about pioneer trails in Colorado.



02:15 PM -- Eric Bergman, Colorado Counties, Inc., spoke in support of the bill and discussed pioneers and pioneer trails in Colorado.



02:16 PM



The chair closed testimony and Senator Grantham and Senator Garcia closed their remarks on the bill.