HB19-1015 | Recreation Of The Colorado Water Institute |
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Short Title: | Recreation Of The Colorado Water Institute |
Sponsors: | J. Arndt / J. Ginal (D) |
Summary: | Colorado water institute recreation. The Colorado water institute was created in 1981 and automatically repealed in 2017. The act recreates the institute. |
Status: | 2/20/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1075 | Tax Credit Employer-assisted Housing Pilot Program |
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Short Title: | Tax Credit Employer-assisted Housing Pilot Program |
Sponsors: | J. Wilson |
Summary: | As a pilot program to promote employer-assisted housing projects in rural areas, for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2019, but prior to January 1, 2023, the bill creates a state income tax credit for a donation a taxpayer makes to a sponsor that is used solely for the costs associated with employer-assisted affordable housing in a rural area. The bill defines "sponsor" to mean the Colorado housing and finance authority, a housing authority operated by a county or municipality, a nonprofit corporation that has been designated as a community development corporation under the federal tax code, or an international, nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization whose mission is concentrated on constructing affordable housing. The amount of the credit allowed by the bill is 20% of the approved donation amount; except that the aggregate amount of the credit awarded to any one taxpayer is limited to $400 in any one income tax year. The bill contains additional requirements pertaining to the manner in which the taxpayer submits information to receive the tax credit. The bill also requires periodic reporting of information on the use of the tax credit.
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Status: | 5/9/2019 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
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HB19-1082 | Water Rights Easements |
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Short Title: | Water Rights Easements |
Sponsors: | M. Catlin (R) | D. Valdez / D. Coram |
Summary: | Property - rights-of-way and ditches - extent of right-of-way. The act clarifies that a ditch right-of-way, unless expressly inconsistent with the terms upon which the right-of-way was created, includes the right to construct, operate, clean, maintain, repair, and replace the ditch, to improve the efficiency of the ditch, including by lining or piping the ditch, and to enter onto the burdened property for such purposes, with access to the ditch banks, as the exigencies then existing may require, for all reasonable and necessary purposes related to the ditch. |
Status: | 3/28/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1113 | Protect Water Quality Adverse Mining Impacts |
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Short Title: | Protect Water Quality Adverse Mining Impacts |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) | B. McLachlan (D) / K. Donovan |
Summary: | Hard rock mining - mined land reclamation board - reclamation plan - water quality treatment - financial assurance. Current law does not address reliance on perpetual water treatment as the means to minimize impacts to water quality in a reclamation plan for a mining operation. Section 1 of the act requires most reclamation plans to demonstrate, by substantial evidence, a reasonably foreseeable end date for any water quality treatment necessary to ensure compliance with applicable water quality standards. Current law allows a mining permittee to submit an audited financial statement as proof that the operator has sufficient funds to meet its reclamation liabilities in lieu of a bond or other financial assurance. Section 2 eliminates this self-bonding option and also requires that all reclamation bonds include financial assurances in an amount sufficient to protect water quality, including costs for any necessary treatment and monitoring costs.
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Status: | 4/4/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1114 | Agriculture Commissioner Farm Produce Safety |
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Short Title: | Agriculture Commissioner Farm Produce Safety |
Sponsors: | M. Catlin (R) | D. Valdez / J. Danielson (D) | J. Cooke |
Summary: | Food safety - produce - regulation - continuation under sunset law. The act establishes a state law to implement federal regulations regarding produce safety on farms. To implement this, the act:
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Status: | 4/4/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1124 | Protect Colorado Residents From Federal Government Overreach |
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Calendar Notification: | Friday, May 3 2019 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (1) in senate calendar. |
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Short Title: | Protect Colorado Residents From Federal Government Overreach |
Sponsors: | A. Benavidez | S. Lontine / M. Foote | J. Gonzales (D) |
Summary: | Federal immigration enforcement - no arrest based on civil detainer - no personal information to immigration authorities from probation - advisement before immigration interview. The act allows a law enforcement officer or employee to cooperate or assist federal immigration enforcement authorities in the execution of a warrant issued by a federal judge or magistrate or honoring any writ issued by any state or federal judge concerning the transfer of a prisoner to or from federal custody. The act prohibits a law enforcement officer from arresting or detaining an individual solely on the basis of a civil immigration detainer. The act prohibits a probation officer or probation department employee from providing an individual's personal information to federal immigration authorities. If a law enforcement officer is coordinating a telephone or video interview between federal immigration authorities and an individual in jail or another custodial facility, the individual must be advised that:
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Status: | 5/28/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1132 | School Incentives To Use Colorado Food And Producers |
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Short Title: | School Incentives To Use Colorado Food And Producers |
Sponsors: | B. Buentello | R. Pelton (R) / D. Coram | J. Bridges (D) |
Summary: | Colorado food - school grant program - nonprofit grant program - appropriation. The act establishes a grant program in the department of education (CDE) to encourage providers that are entitled to federal money for lunches for students (participating providers) to purchase food products from Colorado growers, producers, and processors (Colorado food). The grant program reimburses participating providers for the amount of Colorado food that the provider purchased in the previous school year. The act caps the reimbursements at $500,000 per year. The act establishes a separate program in CDE to make a grant to a nonprofit organization to make grants to entities that promote the sale of Colorado food to schools and to eligible providers to encourage the purchase of Colorado food. The nonprofit organization is required to conduct an annual evaluation and report to CDE. For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $168,942 from the general fund to CDE for the school purchasing programs.
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Status: | 5/14/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1148 | Change Maximum Criminal Penalty One Year To 364 Days |
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Short Title: | Change Maximum Criminal Penalty One Year To 364 Days |
Sponsors: | L. Herod (D) / J. Gonzales (D) |
Summary: | Criminal sentencing - misdemeanors and municipal violations - change maximum penalty from one year to 364 days. Under current law, the maximum sentence for a class 2 misdemeanor, level 2 drug misdemeanor, a misdemeanor without a fixed statutory penalty, and a municipal ordinance violation is one year. The act changes the maximum sentence to 364 days. |
Status: | 3/28/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1162 | Expand Farm Equipment Sales And Use Tax Exemption |
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Calendar Notification: | Friday, May 3 2019 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE - CONSENT CALENDAR (1) in senate calendar. |
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Short Title: | Expand Farm Equipment Sales And Use Tax Exemption |
Sponsors: | R. Pelton (R) | D. Valdez / J. Sonnenberg | L. Garcia (D) |
Summary: | State sales tax exemption for farm equipment - extension - applicability to local sales taxes. Current law exempts cow identification systems and transponders used by a farm dairy to identify and track dairy cows from the state sales and use tax but does not otherwise exempt any equipment or systems used by a farm operation to identify or track food animals. By amending the statutory definition of "farm equipment", the act extends the existing state sales and use tax exemption to include, regardless of purchase price, any visual, electronic identification, or matched pair ear tags and electronic identification readers used to scan ear tags that are used by a farm operation to identify or track food animals, including animals used for food or in the production of food. Under the act the extension of the exemption only applies to a county or municipal sales tax if the county or municipality amends its sales tax ordinance to include the extension of the exemption. |
Status: | 5/23/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
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HB19-1168 | State Innovation Waiver Reinsurance Program |
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Short Title: | State Innovation Waiver Reinsurance Program |
Sponsors: | J. McCluskie (D) | J. Rich (R) / K. Donovan | B. Rankin |
Summary: | Reinsurance program - creation - payments for high-cost insurance claims - program contingent on federal waiver or funding approval - special fees - premium tax revenues - other funding sources - cash fund created - appropriation - repeal. The act authorizes the commissioner of insurance to apply to the secretary of the United States department of health and human services for a state innovation waiver, federal funding, or both, to allow the state to implement and operate a two-year reinsurance program to assist health insurers in paying high-cost insurance claims. The state cannot implement the program absent waiver or funding approval from the secretary. The program is established as an enterprise for purposes of section 20 of article X of the state constitution so long as the program satisfies enterprise status requirements. The commissioner is to establish payment parameters at levels to effectuate targeted insurance premium reductions. The payment parameters include:
The commissioner is authorized to assess special fees against hospitals and, under specified circumstances, against health insurers to provide funding for the program. Additionally, the program is to receive money from the following sources to operate the program:
The act creates the reinsurance program cash fund and continuously appropriates the money in the fund to the division of insurance to operate the program. The commissioner is also authorized to seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, or donations from private or public sources. The program repeals on September 1, 2023, unless the federal government denies the waiver or funding request, in which case the program repeals upon that denial. $785,904 is appropriated to the department of regulatory agencies for use by the division of insurance to implement the act.
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Status: | 5/17/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1179 | Public Fund Investments |
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Short Title: | Public Fund Investments |
Sponsors: | M. Gray / P. Lee |
Summary: | Legal investment of public funds - definitions. The act defines a nationally recognized statistical rating organization as a credit rating agency that is registered with the U.S. securities and exchange commission's office of credit ratings and defines a negotiable certificate of deposit as an unsecured noncollateralized obligation of a bank to pay the holder of a negotiable certificate of deposit specified principal, plus interest, upon a particular maturity. The act also modifies statutes governing the legal investments of public funds as follows:
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Status: | 5/23/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1191 | Allow Farm Stands On Any Size Principal Use Site |
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Short Title: | Allow Farm Stands On Any Size Principal Use Site |
Sponsors: | J. Arndt / K. Donovan |
Summary: | Farm stands - retail sale of goods permitted - compliance with other applicable laws. The act defines "farm stand" to mean a temporary or permanent structure used for the sale and display of agricultural products resulting from agricultural operations that are conducted on the principal use site on which the farm stand is located. The act permits a farm stand to sell and display agricultural products resulting from agricultural operations not conducted on the principal use site to the extent permitted by the applicable local government. The act permits a farm stand to be located on a parcel of any size. The retail sale of goods to the public by a farm stand must include goods or other agricultural products that are grown or produced on the principal use site on which the farm stand is located or may include agricultural products resulting from agricultural operations that are not conducted on the principal use site to the extent permitted by the applicable local government. The act does not prohibit a local government from requiring the operator of a farm stand to obtain a valid license or permit or to comply with any other applicable laws prior to operating the farm stand, but in no way shall such local permitting, licensing, or other applicable legal requirements deny the use of the site as a farm stand.
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Status: | 4/12/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1202 | Food Systems Advisory Council |
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Short Title: | Food Systems Advisory Council |
Sponsors: | B. McLachlan (D) | R. Galindo / J. Ginal (D) | K. Priola (D) |
Summary: | Colorado food systems advisory council - relocation to Colorado state university - repeal of interagency farm-to-school coordination task force - duties - appropriation. The act relocates the Colorado food systems advisory council (council) from the department of agriculture to Colorado state university and repeals the interagency farm-to-school coordination task force. The act ends the terms of current members of the council and provides for the appointment of new members. As updated in the act, the council's duties are to:
$100,317 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of higher education to implement the act.
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Status: | 5/31/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1241 | University of Colorado Training And Scholarships Rural Physicians |
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Short Title: | University of Colorado Training And Scholarships Rural Physicians |
Sponsors: | B. Buentello | J. Wilson / J. Ginal (D) | D. Hisey |
Summary: | The bill requires the university of Colorado school of medicine (school) to provide scholarships to students who:
The bill requires the school to submit an annual written report to the education committees of the house of representatives and senate concerning the operation of the school's rural track during the preceding academic year.
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Status: | 5/9/2019 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
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HB19-1247 | Study Agricultural Applications For Blockchain |
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Short Title: | Study Agricultural Applications For Blockchain |
Sponsors: | D. Valdez | M. Catlin (R) / K. Donovan | D. Coram |
Summary: | Blockchain technology - study of potential agricultural applications - creation of advisory group - report to general assembly. The act directs the commissioner of agriculture to convene an advisory group to study the potential applications for blockchain technology in agricultural operations and to report to the general assembly by January 15, 2020, with its findings and recommendations for legislation, if any, contingent on the commissioner's receipt of sufficient money through gifts, grants, and donations to fund the study and report. The advisory group is subject to repeal on July 1, 2020. |
Status: | 5/30/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
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HB19-1262 | State Funding For Full-day Kindergarten |
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Short Title: | State Funding For Full-day Kindergarten |
Sponsors: | J. Wilson | B. McLachlan (D) / J. Bridges (D) | R. Fields (D) |
Summary: | Full-day kindergarten - funding - appropriation. Before passage of the act, the school finance formula provided funding for half-day kindergarten educational programs plus a small additional amount of supplemental kindergarten funding. The act provides funding through the school finance formula for full-day kindergarten educational programs. A student enrolled in a full-day kindergarten educational program will be funded at the same amount as students enrolled full-time in other grades. A student enrolled in a half-day kindergarten educational program will be funded as a half-day student plus the existing amount of supplemental kindergarten funding. Before passage of the act, many school districts charged parents of students enrolled in full-day kindergarten a fee to fund the full-day kindergarten educational program. After passage of the act, a school district or a charter school that provides a full-day kindergarten educational program shall not charge fees for attending kindergarten other than those fees that are routinely charged to parents of students enrolled in other grades and are applicable to the kindergarten educational program. However, if the general assembly stops funding kindergarten students as full-time pupils, then a school district or charter school may resume charging a fee or tuition for the unfunded portion of the school day. Before passage of the act, a school district was authorized to use a half-day preschool position to enroll a child in full-day kindergarten. The act prohibits using a preschool position to enroll a child in full-day kindergarten. A school district that used preschool positions in this manner in the 2018-19 budget year will retain the positions in the 2019-20 budget year and budget years thereafter to the extent the school district fills the positions with preschool students. The act directs a school district that is not offering a full-day kindergarten educational program as of the 2019-20 school year to submit a plan to the department of education addressing how it could phase in a full-day kindergarten educational program, but a school district is not required to offer a full-day kindergarten educational program. If a charter school seeks to expand an existing half-day kindergarten educational program to full day, it must notify the charter authorizer and amend the charter contract, if necessary. If the authorizer objects to the program expansion, the charter school and the authorizer must negotiate a change to the charter contract. If the parties cannot agree, the charter school may appeal the issue to the state board of education for a determination. Any renegotiation of the charter school's contract must be limited to the issue of expanding the kindergarten educational program. For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $182,911,699 to the department of education for the state share of total program funding associated with full-day kindergarten programs. The act also appropriates $25,094 to the department of human services for child care licensing and administration.
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Status: | 5/21/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1264 | Conservation Easement Tax Credit Modifications |
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Short Title: | Conservation Easement Tax Credit Modifications |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) | J. Wilson / F. Winter (D) | K. Donovan |
Summary: | Income tax - credit for donation of conservation easement - extend repeal of conservation easement oversight commission and easement holder certification program - alternative valuation method - conservation easement working group - disclosure form - access to COMaP. A conservation easement is an agreement in which a property owner agrees to limit the use of his or her land in perpetuity in order to protect one or more specified conservation purposes. The instruments creating the conservation easement are recorded in the public records affecting the ownership of the property. The conservation easement is held by a third party (holder), which monitors the use of the land and ensures that the terms of the agreement are upheld. A state income tax credit is currently allowed for a portion of the value of a donated conservation easement. The statutes establishing the conservation easement oversight commission and the program to certify conservation easement holders in the division of conservation are currently set to repeal on July 1, 2019. The act extends the repeal dates for each to July 1, 2026. In addition, the act:
Additionally, the act makes conforming amendments to certain statutory sections contained in HB 19-1172, which recodifies title 12, Colorado Revised Statutes, to ensure that the provisions of the act will be effective as a result of HB 19-1172 becoming law. Specifies that certain sections take effect only if House Bill 19-1172 becomes law.
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Status: | 6/3/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
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HB19-1292 | Colorado Resiliency Office Reauthorization Funding |
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Short Title: | Colorado Resiliency Office Reauthorization Funding |
Sponsors: | J. Singer | R. Galindo / J. Ginal (D) |
Summary: | Emergency management - resiliency office - continuation - appropriation. The act continues the Colorado resiliency office, which administers the resiliency and community recovery program as part of the state's disaster recovery and response functions. The requirement that the office be funded solely through grant funding is repealed, making general funds available to pay for the work of the office. The office is repealed effective September 1, 2022, and is scheduled for a sunset review prior to its repeal. The act appropriates $249,454 to the department of local affairs from the implementation of the act.
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Status: | 5/16/2019 Sent to the Governor |
Status History: | Status History |
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HB19-1327 | Authorize And Tax Sports Betting Refer Under Taxpayers' Bill Of Rights |
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Calendar Notification: | Friday, May 3 2019 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (CONTINUED) (1) in senate calendar. |
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Short Title: | Authorize And Tax Sports Betting Refer Under Taxpayers' Bill Of Rights |
Sponsors: | A. Garnett | P. Neville / K. Donovan | J. Cooke |
Summary: | Gambling - betting on sports events - legalization - creation of division of sports betting - rule-making authority - taxation - submission of ballot issue under Taxpayers' Bill of Rights - allocation of tax revenues - appropriation. In 2018, the United States supreme court held in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association , 138 S. Ct. 1461, that a federal law prohibiting states from authorizing sports betting violated the tenth amendment of the United States constitution. States may now authorize sports betting. The act decriminalizes sports betting in Colorado, effective May 1, 2020, under the following conditions:
$1,739,015 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of revenue for startup and initial operating costs in the 2019-20 state fiscal year.
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Status: | 5/29/2019 Governor Signed |
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HB19-1329 | Wholesale Sales Agricultural Fertilizer Tax Exempt |
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Calendar Notification: | Friday, May 3 2019 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (CONTINUED) (1) in senate calendar. |
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Short Title: | Wholesale Sales Agricultural Fertilizer Tax Exempt |
Sponsors: | J. Arndt | H. McKean / J. Sonnenberg | L. Garcia (D) |
Summary: | Sales and use tax - wholesale sales - agricultural commodities - fertilizer and spray adjuvants. Wholesale sales are not subject to sales and use taxes. The act includes sales of fertilizer and spray adjuvants used in the production of agricultural commodities in the definition of "wholesale sales" for sales and use tax purposes. |
Status: | 5/23/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
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HR19-1005 | Cultured Meat Misbranding Terms |
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Short Title: | Cultured Meat Misbranding Terms |
Sponsors: | K. Lewis | R. Pelton (R) |
Summary: | *** No bill summary available *** |
Status: | 4/11/2019 Signed by the Speaker of the House |
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SB19-004 | Address High-cost Health Insurance Pilot Program |
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Short Title: | Address High-cost Health Insurance Pilot Program |
Sponsors: | K. Donovan / D. Roberts (D) | J. McCluskie (D) |
Summary: | Health care cooperatives - consumer protections - consumers negotiating rates. The act modernizes laws authorizing health care cooperatives in the state to incorporate consumer protections such as coverage for preexisting conditions and to encourage consumers to help control health care costs by negotiating rates on a collective basis directly with providers. The act authorizes the commissioner of insurance to apply for a federal waiver as necessary to implement the act.
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Status: | 5/17/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
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SB19-009 | Financial Incentives For Rural Educators |
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Short Title: | Financial Incentives For Rural Educators |
Sponsors: | N. Todd / B. McLachlan (D) | J. Wilson |
Summary: | Educators in rural areas - financial incentives. Before passage of the act, the department of higher education (department) annually awarded up to 40 stipends of not more than $2,800 to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs who agreed to teach in a rural school or rural school district. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends and increases the stipend amount to $4,000. Before the act, the department also annually awarded up to 60 stipends to educators in rural schools and rural school districts who were seeking certain certifications. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends.
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Status: | 3/25/2019 Governor Signed |
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SB19-018 | Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Age |
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Short Title: | Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Age |
Sponsors: | R. Scott | V. Marble / B. McLachlan (D) | L. Saine |
Summary: | Commercial driver's licenses - interstate commerce - 18 to 21 years of age. The act authorizes the department of revenue to adopt rules authorizing a person who is at least 18 years of age but under 21 years of age to be licensed to drive a commercial vehicle in interstate commerce if the person holds a commercial driver's license and operation of a commercial vehicle in interstate commerce by a person in that age range is permitted under federal law. |
Status: | 2/20/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
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SB19-063 | Infant And Family Child Care Action Plan |
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Short Title: | Infant And Family Child Care Action Plan |
Sponsors: | K. Priola (D) | T. Story (D) / B. Buentello | A. Valdez (D) |
Summary: | Early childhood leadership commission - infant and family child care strategic action plan. The act requires the department of human services (department), in consultation with the early childhood leadership commission (commission) and various stakeholders, to draft a strategic action plan addressing the declining availability of family child care homes and infant child care. The act requires the department to submit the completed strategic action plan to the commission; the state board of human services; the joint budget committee; the health and human services and education committees of the senate, or any successor committees; and the public health care and human services and education committees of the house of representatives, or any successor committees, no later than December 1, 2019. The act anticipates the department will receive $50,688 in federal funds to implement this act for the 2019-20 state fiscal year.
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Status: | 4/23/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
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SB19-067 | Rural Development Grant Program Creation |
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Short Title: | Rural Development Grant Program Creation |
Sponsors: | D. Coram / B. McLachlan (D) | J. Arndt |
Summary: | The bill creates the rural development grant program to be administered by the Colorado office of economic development. The grants are to be awarded to early stage rural businesses that are primary employers in a rural area with the potential to export goods or services outside of the rural area. The businesses must be at the seed stage of capital financing, have raised less than five hundred thousand dollars of third-party capital, and are able to provide nonstate matching funding equal to at least one-third of the grant award. The grants may be used for developing prototypes, proof of business concepts, or proof of business models. The grants are funded from the general fund and are limited to no more than $150,000 per early stage rural business per year. |
Status: | 4/25/2019 Senate Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments |
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SB19-139 | More Colorado Road And Community Safety Act Offices |
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Short Title: | More Colorado Road And Community Safety Act Offices |
Sponsors: | D. Coram | D. Moreno (D) / R. Galindo | J. Singer |
Summary: | Driver's licenses and other identification documents - persons not lawfully present - appropriation. The act requires the department of revenue to issue identification documents, such as driver's licenses, at 10 or more offices geographically distributed throughout the state. The new offices are phased in, so that the department will have 8 offices open by January 1, 2020, and 10 offices open by July 1, 2020. $1,737,800 is appropriated to the department of revenue from the licensing services cash fund to implement the act.
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Status: | 5/28/2019 Governor Signed |
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SB19-150 | Sunset Public Livestock Markets |
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Short Title: | Sunset Public Livestock Markets |
Sponsors: | K. Donovan | J. Sonnenberg / B. Buentello | R. Pelton (R) |
Summary: | Regulation of public livestock markets - continuation under sunset law - licensure. The automatic termination date of the regulation of public livestock markets is extended until 2034 pursuant to sunset law. Section 3 repeals a requirement that an applicant for a license prove financial stability, business integrity, and fiduciary responsibility and to provide a statement of assets and liability. Section 4 repeals a requirement that a licensed livestock market meet several size and premises standards. Section 4 replaces this with a requirement that a premises have adequate facilities necessary to operate a public livestock market. Sections 5 and 6 repeal provisions that imply that the state board of stock inspection commissioners regulate the sanitation of public livestock markets. Section 7 clarifies that the veterinarian who inspects livestock at a public livestock market is not employed by the department of agriculture and that livestock is inspected, not examined, for clinical signs of injury or disease. Section 7 also requires the veterinarian to be accredited.
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Status: | 5/21/2019 Signed by Governor |
Status History: | Status History |
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SB19-158 | Sunset Pet Animal Care And Facilities Act |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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Short Title: | Sunset Pet Animal Care And Facilities Act |
Sponsors: | J. Ginal (D) / M. Froelich (D) |
Summary: | Pet Animal Care and Facilities Act - grounds for discipline - waiting period after license revocation - fines - mandatory sterilization - continuation under sunset law - appropriation. The act implements some of the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies' sunset review and report on the Colorado "Pet Animal Care and Facilities Act" as follows:
The act removes the option of an animal shelter or pet animal rescue to release a dog or cat to a prospective owner with a fee and a signed agreement to have the animal sterilized within 90 days after the date of release and prohibits the animal's release unless the animal has been sterilized by a licensed veterinarian. The commissioner of agriculture may grant an exemption to a facility in an area with limited access to licensed veterinarians. The automatic termination date of the licensing of pet animal facilities by the department of agriculture is extended until September 1, 2026, pursuant to the provisions of the sunset law. $123,007 is appropriated to the department of agriculture from the general fund to implement the act along with a 1.6 FTE.
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Status: | 5/31/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
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SB19-181 | Protect Public Welfare Oil And Gas Operations |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
News: | Here are the most-lobbied bills so far in Colorado’s 2019 legislative session. The list may surprise you. Colorado has new, stronger oil and gas regulations. Now what? |
Short Title: | Protect Public Welfare Oil And Gas Operations |
Sponsors: | S. Fenberg (D) | M. Foote / K. Becker | Y. Caraveo |
Summary: | Oil and gas operations - air quality regulation - local government authority - oil and gas conservation commission - composition - authority - financial assurance requirements - pooling - appropriation. The act prioritizes the protection of public safety, health, welfare, and the environment in the regulation of the oil and gas industry by modifying the oil and gas statutes and by clarifying, reinforcing, or establishing various aspects of local governments' regulatory authority over the surface impacts of oil and gas development. Current law specifies that local governments have so-called "House Bill 1041" powers, which are a type of land use authority over oil and gas mineral extraction areas, only if the Colorado oil and gas conservation commission (commission) has identified a specific area for designation. Sections 1 and 2 of the act repeal that limitation. Section 3 directs the air quality control commission to review its rules to consider whether to adopt more stringent rules and to adopt rules to minimize emissions of methane and other hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds, and oxides of nitrogen. Section 4 clarifies that local governments have land use authority to regulate the siting of oil and gas locations to minimize adverse impacts to public safety, health, welfare, and the environment and to regulate land use and surface impacts, including the ability to inspect oil and gas facilities; impose fines for leaks, spills, and emissions; and impose fees on operators or owners to cover the reasonably foreseeable direct and indirect costs of permitting and regulation and the costs of any monitoring and inspection program necessary to address the impacts of development and enforce local governmental requirements. Section 4 also allows a local government or oil and gas operator to request the director of the commission to convene a technical review board to evaluate the effect of the local government's preliminary or final determination on the operator's application. Section 5 repeals an exemption for oil and gas production from counties' authority to regulate noise. The remaining substantive sections of the act amend the "Oil and Gas Conservation Act" (Act). The legislative declaration for the Act states that it is in the public interest to "foster" the development of oil and gas resources in a manner "consistent" with the protection of public health, safety, and welfare, including protection of the environment and wildlife resources; this has been construed to impose a balancing test between fostering oil and gas development and protecting public health, safety, and welfare. Section 6 states that the public interest is to "regulate" oil and gas development to "protect" those values. Currently, the Act defines "waste" to include a diminution in the quantity of oil or gas that ultimately may be produced. Section 7 excludes from that definition the nonproduction of oil or gas as necessary to protect public health, safety, welfare, the environment, or wildlife resources. Section 7 also repeals the requirement that the commission take into consideration cost-effectiveness and technical feasibility with regard to actions and decisions taken to minimize adverse impacts and repeals the limitation of the term "minimize adverse impacts" to wildlife resources. The 9-member commission currently includes the executive directors of the departments of natural resources and public health and environment as ex officio members, 3 members who must have substantial experience in the oil and gas industry, and one member who must have training or experience in environmental or wildlife protection. Section 8 reduces the number of industry members to one and requires one member with training or substantial experience in wildlife protection; one member with training or substantial experience in environmental protection; one member with training or substantial experience in soil conservation or reclamation or technical expertise relevant to the issues considered by the commission; one member who is an active agricultural producer or a royalty owner; and one member with training or substantial experience in public health. This version of the commission is repealed on the earlier of July 1, 2020, or the date on which 3 specific rules promulgated by the commission have become effective. On that date, section 9, which creates a professional 5-member commission (along with the 2 ex officio executive directors), becomes effective. Section 10 requires the director of the commission to hire up to 2 deputy directors. Upon receipt of a request for a technical review, the director is required to appoint technical review board members. The Act currently specifies that the commission has exclusive authority relating to the conservation of oil or gas. Section 11 clarifies that nothing in the Act alters, impairs, or negates the authority of:
Currently, an operator first gets a permit from the commission to drill one or more wells within a drilling unit, which is located within a defined area, and then notifies the applicable local government of the proposed development and seeks any necessary local government approval. Section 12 requires operators to file, with the application for a permit to drill, either: Proof that the operator has already filed an application with the affected local government to approve the siting of the proposed oil and gas location and of the local government's disposition of the application; or proof that the affected local government does not regulate the siting of oil and gas locations. Section 12 also specifies that, until the commission has promulgated rules regarding 3 specific topics and the rules have become effective, the director may delay the final determination regarding a permit if the director, following a public comment period, determines that the permit requires additional analysis to ensure the protection of public health, safety, and welfare or the environment or requires additional local government or other state agency consultation. Pursuant to commission rule, an operator may submit a statewide blanket financial assurance of $60,000 for fewer than 100 wells or $100,000 for 100 or more wells. Section 12 directs the commission to adopt rules that require financial assurance sufficient to provide adequate coverage for all applicable requirements of the Act. Current law allows the commission to set numerous fees used to administer the Act and sets a $200 or $100 cap on the fees. Section 12 eliminates the caps and requires the commission to set a permit application fee in an amount sufficient to recover the commission's reasonably foreseeable direct and indirect costs in conducting the analysis necessary to assure that permitted operations will be conducted in compliance with all applicable requirements of the Act. Current law gives the commission the authority to regulate oil and gas operations so as to prevent and mitigate "significant" adverse environmental impacts to the extent necessary to protect public health, safety, and welfare, taking into consideration cost-effectiveness and technical feasibility. Section 12 requires the commission to protect and minimize adverse impacts to public health, safety, and welfare, the environment, and wildlife resources and protect against adverse environmental impacts on any air, water, soil, or biological resource resulting from oil and gas operations. Section 12 also requires the commission to adopt rules that require alternate location analyses for oil and gas facilities that are proposed to be located near populated areas and that evaluate and address the cumulative impacts of oil and gas development. Finally, section 12 directs the commission to promulgate rules to:
Section 13 modifies the commission's administrative procedures, including by taking into account determinations made by administrative law judges. Current law authorizes "forced" or "statutory" pooling, a process by which "any interested person", typically an operator who has at least one lease or royalty interest, may apply to the commission for an order to pool oil and gas resources located within a particularly identified drilling unit. After giving notice to interested parties and holding a hearing, the commission can adopt a pooling order to require an owner of oil and gas resources within the drilling unit who has not consented to the application (nonconsenting owner) to allow the operator to produce the oil and gas within the drilling unit notwithstanding the owner's lack of consent. Section 14 requires that the owners of more than 45% of the mineral interests to be pooled must have joined in the application for a pooling order and that the application include either: Proof that the applicant has already filed an application with the affected local government to approve the siting of the proposed oil and gas facilities and of the local government's disposition of the application; or proof that the affected local government does not regulate the siting of oil and gas facilities. Section 14 also specifies that the operator cannot use the surface owned by a nonconsenting owner without permission from the nonconsenting owner. Current law also sets the royalty that a nonconsenting owner is entitled to receive at 12.5% of the full royalty rate until the consenting owners have been fully reimbursed (out of the remaining 87.5% of the nonconsenting owner's royalty) for their costs. Section 14 raises a nonconsenting owner's royalty rate during this pay-back period from 12.5% to 13% for gas and 16% for oil and makes corresponding reductions of the portions of the nonconsenting owner's royalty from which the consenting owners' costs are paid. Current law requires the commission to ensure that the 2-year average of the unobligated portion of the oil and gas conservation and environmental response fund does not exceed $6 million and that there is an adequate balance in the environmental response account in the fund to address environmental response needs. Section 15 directs the commission to ensure that the unobligated portion of the fund does not exceed 50% of total appropriations from the fund for the upcoming fiscal year and that there is an adequate balance in the account to support the operations of the commission and to address environmental response needs. Section 16 specifies that for permit-specific conditions for wildlife habitat protection, the commission is required to consult with and obtain consent from a surface owner only if the permit-specific conditions directly impact the affected surface owner's property or use of that property. Section 17 amends preemption law by specifying that both state agencies and local governments have authority to regulate oil and gas operations and establishes that local government requirements may be more protective or stricter than state requirements. Section 18 appropriates $851,010 to the department of natural resources to implement the act.
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Status: | 4/16/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
Amendments: | Amendments |
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SB19-186 | Expand Agricultural Chemical Management Program Protect Surface Water |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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Short Title: | Expand Agricultural Chemical Management Program Protect Surface Water |
Sponsors: | K. Donovan | D. Coram / J. Arndt | M. Catlin (R) |
Summary: | Commissioner of agriculture - agricultural chemical management plans - expansion to include surface water - appropriation. Under current law, the commissioner of agriculture is responsible for the management of the use of agricultural chemicals to protect groundwater, and the commissioner adopts rules establishing agricultural management plans for this purpose. The act expands the scope of the commissioner's agricultural management plans to include the protection of state waters, which includes surface and subsurface waters. The act appropriates $239,592 to the department of agriculture from the plant health, pest control, and environmental protection cash fund to implement the act, of which $21,875 is reappropriated to the department of public health and environment and $1,000 is reappropriated to the department of personnel.
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Status: | 6/3/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
Amendments: | Amendments |
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SB19-188 | FAMLI Family Medical Leave Insurance Program |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
News: | House Approves Paid Family Leave Bill Here are the most-lobbied bills so far in Colorado’s 2019 legislative session. The list may surprise you. Colorado Paid Family Leave Program Bounced To Next Year |
Short Title: | FAMLI Family Medical Leave Insurance Program |
Sponsors: | F. Winter (D) | A. Williams / M. Gray | M. Duran (D) |
Summary: | Paid family and medical leave - study - task force created - appropriation. The act creates a study of the implementation of a paid family and medical leave program in the state by:
To implement the act, $165,487 is appropriated to the department of labor and employment and $17,004 is appropriated to the department of public health and environment. Both appropriations are from the general fund.
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Status: | 5/30/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
Amendments: | Amendments |
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SB19-212 | Appropriation General Fund Implement State Water Plan |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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Short Title: | Appropriation General Fund Implement State Water Plan |
Sponsors: | B. Rankin / D. Esgar |
Summary: | State water plan - grant program - appropriations. Section 1 of the act:
The act appropriates:
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Status: | 4/17/2019 Governor Signed |
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SB19-220 | Hemp Regulation Alignment With 2018 Federal Farm Bill |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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Short Title: | Hemp Regulation Alignment With 2018 Federal Farm Bill |
Sponsors: | V. Marble | S. Fenberg (D) / L. Saine | J. Arndt |
Summary: | Industrial hemp - alignment with federal law - state plan of regulation. In 2018, the federal government enacted the "Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018" (federal act), which removed hemp from schedule I of the federal "Controlled Substances Act". The federal act requires the United States department of agriculture (USDA) to develop a plan for the regulation of hemp and authorizes each state to seek approval from the USDA to have primary regulatory authority over hemp production within the state by preparing and submitting a state plan of regulation to the secretary of the USDA. The act updates the laws governing Colorado's industrial hemp regulatory program to align with the federal act and to put the department of agriculture in a position to prepare and submit a state plan to the secretary of the USDA.
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Status: | 5/29/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
Amendments: | Amendments |
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SB19-221 | CO Water Conservation Board Construction Fund Project |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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Short Title: | CO Water Conservation Board Construction Fund Project |
Sponsors: | K. Donovan / D. Roberts (D) |
Summary: | Colorado water conservation board construction fund - project and loan authorizations - appropriations - transfers. The act appropriates the following amounts from the Colorado water conservation board (CWCB) construction fund (fund) to the CWCB or the division of water resources in the department of natural resources for the following projects:
The state treasurer will make the following transfers from the fund:
Section 10 appropriates $17,500,000 from the fund to the CWCB for continuing implementation of the state water plan as follows:
Section 11 authorizes the CWCB to make loans up to $15,150,000 from the fund for the Walker recharge project, a water supply retiming effort that uses the alluvial aquifer of the South Platte river to increase irrigation opportunities for agricultural production. Current law:
Section 15 changes a continuing annual transfer established in statute of $10 million from the severance tax perpetual base fund to the fund for implementation of the state water plan to a single transfer of $10 million on July 1, 2019.
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Status: | 6/3/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
Amendments: | Amendments |
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SB19-240 | Industrial Hemp Products Regulation |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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Short Title: | Industrial Hemp Products Regulation |
Sponsors: | V. Marble | S. Fenberg (D) / B. McLachlan (D) | L. Saine |
Summary: | Industrial hemp - regulation of industrial hemp products - increased wholesale food manufacturer fee - stakeholder process - local regulation. Section 1 of the act sets the annual registration fee that a wholesale food manufacturer that produces an industrial hemp product is required to pay to the department of public health and environment at $300, regardless of the manufacturer's gross annual sales. Section 1 also authorizes the department to convene a stakeholder work group to study the regulation of industrial hemp products. Sections 2 and 3 authorize local governments to charge a local licensing fee and adopt ordinances or resolutions regulating businesses engaged in the storage, extraction, processing, or manufacturing of industrial hemp or industrial hemp products if the ordinances or resolutions do not conflict with state law.
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Status: | 5/29/2019 Governor Signed |
Status History: | Status History |
Amendments: | Amendments |
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