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HB1020 TAKE ACTION NOW! Request from the Colorado Association of Commerce & Industry (CACI) Staff

Chamber Members:

Ask your legislator to oppose HB1020.

Colorado recently plummeted from 8th to 21st in the US Chamber of Commerce's annual survey of state business litigation environments. HB1020 will only worsen the perception and reality that Colorado is tilting the litigation playing field against businesses. TAKE ACTION NOW!

When a plaintiff rejects a pre-trial settlement offer, goes to trial, then fails to beat that offer at trial, it wastes the time and money of the defendant's business, the Court, and the taxpayers. Colorado law encourages settlements by making any party that rejects a reasonable pre-trial settlement offer pay the other's post-offer costs.

HB1020 changes this balanced system by tilting the rules for the plaintiff and only the plaintiff. It gives a plaintiff and his attorney that recovers as little as $1 in trial all to the plaintiff's pre-offer costs going back to the start of the lawsuit - even after the plaintiff rejects a better settlement offer.

HB1020 will actually discourage settlement offers!

Thank you,

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CACI Legislative Alert

Donnah Moody

CACI Vice President

Of Governmental Affairs

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Pre-Treatment Water Quality Program Bill Fast-Tracked

A bill that proposes to increase fees by 300 percent for industrial dischargers and transfer enforcement of pretreatment permits from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment was introduced Monday, February 4th, and will be heard in the Senate Health & Human Services Committee tomorrow, February 8^th, at 1:30 p.m.

CACI has expressed concerns about SB-141, which is sponsored by Senator Abel Tapia (D-Pueblo) and Representative Randy Fischer (D-Fort Collins).

Senator Tapia has scheduled a meeting to discuss the bill tomorrow, Friday, February 8th, at 12 Noon in a third-floor Senate Committee Room. CACI members and others who discharge to domestic wastewater treatment works are encouraged to attend the meeting.

CACI members with questions about this bill should contact Donnah Moody, CACI Vice President of Governmental Affairs, at 303.562.4551 or dmoody@COchamber.com.

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