HB24-1007 | Prohibit Residential Occupancy Limits |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Rutinel (D) | J. Mabrey (D) / T. Exum (D) | J. Gonzales (D) |
Summary: | The act prohibits counties, cities and counties, and municipalities from limiting the number of people who may live together in a single dwelling based on familial relationship, while allowing local governments to implement residential occupancy limits based only on:
APPROVED by Governor April 15, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024 |
Status: | 4/15/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1009 | Bilingual Child Care Licensing Resources |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Joseph (D) | B. McLachlan / J. Ginal | J. Rich (R) |
Summary: | The act requires the department of early childhood (department) to provide education and information in plain language and in prevalent languages to help individuals complete the paperwork required to meet child care licensing compliance requirements. Prevalent languages is defined as the 2 most prevalent languages spoken in Colorado. The department is required to provide services in prevalent languages to individuals seeking to open or otherwise participate in the operation of an early childhood program or facility licensed by the department. The act creates the bilingual licensing unit in the department to help the department satisfy its duties to provide education, information, and services in prevalent languages and requires the general assembly to appropriate $235,000 from the general fund to the department for the 2024-25 state fiscal year and for each state fiscal year thereafter to pay the costs of the bilingual licensing unit's activities. The act also requires the general assembly to appropriate $45,000 from the general fund to the department for the 2024-25 state fiscal year to pay costs associated with updating the department's mobile licensing application. APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 6, 2024 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1012 | Front Range Passenger Rail District Efficiency |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | T. Mauro (D) | A. Boesenecker (D) / R. Zenzinger | C. Simpson (R) |
Summary: | To improve the operational efficiency of the front range passenger rail district (district):
APPROVED by Governor April 29, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 4/29/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1016 | Defined Personnel for Emergency Telephone Services |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Lieder (D) | R. Armagost (R) / C. Kolker (D) | K. Van Winkle (R) |
Summary: | The act defines "emergency communications specialist" as a first responder whose duties involve emergency and nonemergency dispatch services. The act also clarifies that the currently authorized use of the emergency telephone charge, the 911 surcharge, and the prepaid wireless 911 charge, for training for public safety answering point (PSAP) personnel includes training for emergency communications specialists, technical support PSAP personnel, and other personnel essential for the provision of emergency telephone services, emergency notification services, and emergency medical dispatch. APPROVED by Governor March 15, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 3/15/2024 Governor Signed |
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HB24-1018 | College Textbook Sales Use Tax Exemption |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | A. Boesenecker (D) / J. Marchman (D) |
Summary: | The bill creates a state sales and use tax exemption commencing on July 1, 2024, for all sales, storage, use, and consumption of college textbooks. The bill allows a county or municipality to choose to adopt the exemption by express inclusion in its sales and use tax ordinance or resolution.
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1026 | Local Government Tax Payers' Bill of Rights Prior Voter Approval Requirement |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Bockenfeld |
Summary: | Since section 20 of article X of the state constitution (TABOR) was approved by the registered electors of this state in 1992, local governments have successfully sought voter approval of revenue changes allowing the local governments to permanently retain revenue in excess of their TABOR fiscal year spending and property tax revenue limits. Current law does not limit the effective period of such voter-approved revenue changes, commonly referred to as waiver elections. The bill requires that, no later than the local elections to be held in November 2029, a local government that retains revenue in excess of either its fiscal year spending limit or property tax revenue limit pursuant to a waiver election held prior to November 9, 2020, must resubmit the ballot issue from the historic waiver election to the registered electors of the local government for re-approval. |
Status: | 2/5/2024 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1027 | Exemption for Children's Products |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | T. Winter (R) / B. Pelton (R) |
Summary: |
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1028 | Overdose Prevention Centers |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | E. Epps / K. Priola |
Summary: | The bill specifies that the governing body of a municipality, which includes a city, town, and city and county, may authorize the operation of an overdose prevention center within the municipality's boundaries for the purpose of saving the lives of persons at risk of preventable overdoses.
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Status: | 4/18/2024 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1030 | Railroad Safety Requirements |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Mabrey (D) | T. Mauro (D) / L. Cutter (D) | T. Exum (D) |
Summary: | The length of the bill summary for this bill requires it to be published on a separate page here: https://leg.colorado.gov/hb24-1030-bill-summary
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Status: | 5/10/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1033 | Emergency Management Plan Individuals with Animals |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Snyder (D) | E. Velasco (D) / L. Cutter (D) | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) |
Summary: | The act strongly encourages a locally defined or interjurisdictional emergency management plan amended or created on or after July 1, 2024, and requires, when practicable, as determined after consideration of specified required factors, a locally defined or interjurisdictional emergency management plan amended or created on or after January 1, 2025, to address the needs of an individual with an animal during an emergency by:
The act also strongly encourages a city, county, or city and county to make available to the public, on or after January 1, 2025, information for animal emergency preparedness, including:
Lastly, the act also strongly encourages a city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2025, to implement disability etiquette and service animal training to ensure that emergency response personnel are well prepared to interact with individuals with disabilities and their service animals during emergency situations. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 11, 2024 |
Status: | 4/11/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1034 | Adult Competency to Stand Trial |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Amabile (D) | M. Bradfield (R) / R. Fields |
Summary: | The act reforms and clarifies the criminal competency to proceed process. The act provides necessary parties with access to information related to the defendant's claim of incompetency to proceed. The act adds to the information that is included in a competency report. The act delineates a court's options when it finds that a defendant is incompetent to proceed. The act directs when competency services may be provided on an outpatient basis. The act sets forth the circumstances when a court has to dismiss the defendant's case based on the highest level of charge against the defendant and how long the defendant has been waiting for restoration services. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE June 4, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024 |
Status: | 6/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1037 | Substance Use Disorders Harm Reduction |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | E. Epps | C. deGruy Kennedy / K. Priola |
Summary: | The act excludes injuries involving the possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia from a physician's mandatory reporting requirements. The act also adds an exemption to the prohibition on possessing drug paraphernalia for possession of drug paraphernalia that a person received from an approved syringe exchange program or a program carried out by a harm reduction organization while the person was participating in the program. With respect to opioid antagonists, the act:
The act specifies that money appropriated to the department of public health and environment to purchase non-laboratory synthetic opioid detection tests may also be used to purchase other drug testing equipment. The act authorizes an organization operating a clean syringe exchange program to:
APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 6, 2024 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1038 | High-Acuity Crisis for Children & Youth |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Young | B. Bradley (R) / B. Kirkmeyer (R) | R. Fields |
Summary: | The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF), in collaboration with the behavioral health administration (BHA) and the department of human services (CDHS), to develop a system of care (system of care) for children and youth who are less than 21 years of age and who have complex behavioral health needs. At a minimum, the system of care must include:
The act requires HCPF to convene a leadership team that is responsible for the decision-making and oversight of the system of care and to convene an implementation team to create a plan to implement the system of care. The act requires CDHS and HCPF to report progress on the development and implementation of the system of care to the general assembly. The act creates the residential child care provider training academy in CDHS to create a pipeline of high-quality staff for residential child care providers and ensure that individuals hired to work at residential child care facilities receive the necessary training to perform the individual's job functions responsibly and effectively. The act requires CDHS to expand the number of treatment beds available for children and youth whose behavioral or mental health needs require services and treatment in a residential child care facility. The act requires CDHS to develop a system to establish and monitor quality standards for residential child care providers and ensure the quality standards are implemented into all levels of care that serve children and youth in out-of-home placement. The act requires CDHS to develop a system to incentivize residential child care providers to implement quality standards above CDHS' established minimum standards. The act requires CDHS to make publicly available on the department's website a directory of each residential child care provider's quality assurance. The CDHS program that provides emergency resources to certain licensed providers to help remove barriers the providers face in serving children and youth whose behavioral or mental health needs require services and treatment in a residential child care facility currently repeals on July 1, 2028. The act extends the program indefinitely and requires CDHS to contract with additional licensed providers for the delivery of services to children and youth who are eligible for and placed in the program. The act requires CDHS and the BHA to increase the minimum reimbursement rates paid to qualified residential treatment programs for the purpose of aligning room and board payments across payer sources. The act requires HCPF to contract with a third-party vendor to complete an actuarial analysis in order to determine the appropriate medicaid reimbursement rate for psychiatric residential treatment facilities. The act requires CDHS to contract with one or more third-party vendors to implement a pilot program to assess the needs of, and provide short-term residential services for, juvenile justice-involved youth who do not meet the criteria for detention. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, the act appropriates money to the department of human services and the department of health care policy and financing to implement the act. APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 6, 2024 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1041 | Streamline Filing Sales & Use Tax Returns |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | C. Kipp (D) | R. Taggart (R) / J. Bridges (D) | K. Van Winkle (R) |
Summary: | The executive director of the department of revenue (executive director) has been authorized to permit taxpayers that remit sales and use tax to the department of revenue and whose monthly tax collected is less than $300 to make returns and pay taxes at quarterly intervals. The act increases this threshold amount from $300 to $600 for returns that must be filed on or after January 1, 2025, and allows the executive director to further increase the threshold amount by rule for returns that must be filed on or after January 1, 2026. The act prohibits home rule cities, towns, and city and counties that collect their own sales and use taxes and do not use the electronic sales and use tax simplification system administered by the department of revenue from collecting sales and use tax from a retailer that does not have physical presence in the state unless the retailer elects to collect and remit sales and use tax or enters into a voluntary collection agreement with a home rule city, town, or city and county. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, $17,200 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of revenue for the implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor April 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 4/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1042 | Fire & Police Pension Law Technical Corrections |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Snyder (D) | R. Taggart (R) / C. Kolker (D) | K. Van Winkle (R) |
Summary: | House Bill 22-1034, concerning the administration of retirement plans administered by the fire and police pension association, merged the statewide defined benefit plan, the statewide hybrid plan, and the social security supplemental plan into a single statewide retirement plan. Certain statutory cross references in House Bill 22-1034 were not properly updated to reflect the repeals and relocations of statutory provisions that were necessary to accomplish the merger. The act updates the obsolete statutory cross references. The act also updates the definition of "member" in the new hire pension plan statute to clarify that a portion of the definition applies only for purposes of the statewide money purchase plan and repeals an inapplicable portion of the definition of "member" in the statewide retirement plan statute. APPROVED by Governor March 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE March 6, 2024 |
Status: | 3/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1043 | State Contribution to Fire & Police Pension Association Death & Disability Fund |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Taggart (R) | E. Hamrick (D) / C. Hansen (D) | K. Van Winkle (R) |
Summary: | Beginning on July 1, 2025, and every July 1 thereafter through July 1, 2059, the act requires the state treasurer to issue warrants in the amount of $2,250,000 to the fire and police pension association. The association is required to deposit the warrants into the statewide death and disability trust fund so that there will be sufficient money to pay future death and disability benefits to members of the association. APPROVED by Governor May 28, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 28, 2024 |
Status: | 5/28/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1045 | Treatment for Substance Use Disorders |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Armagost (R) | C. deGruy Kennedy / K. Mullica (D) | P. Will |
Summary: | The act prohibits an insurance carrier that provides coverage for a drug used to treat a substance use disorder under a health benefit plan from requiring prior authorization for the drug based solely on the dosage amount. The act requires an insurance carrier to reimburse a licensed pharmacist prescribing or administering medication-assisted treatment (MAT) pursuant to a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement (collaborative agreement) at a rate equal to the reimbursement rate for other health-care providers. The act amends the practice of pharmacy to include prescriptive authority for any FDA-approved product indicated for opioid use disorder in accordance with federal law, if authorized through a collaborative agreement. The act requires the state board of pharmacy, the Colorado medical board, and the state board of nursing to develop a protocol for pharmacists to prescribe, dispense, and administer certain FDA-approved products for MAT. The act requires reimbursement to pharmacies of an enhanced dispensing fee for administering injectable antagonist medication for MAT that aligns with the administration fee paid to a provider in a clinical setting. The act requires the medical assistance program to reimburse a pharmacist prescribing or administering medications for opioid use disorder pursuant to a collaborative agreement at a rate equal to the reimbursement rate for other providers. The act authorizes licensed clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors (professionals) within their scope of practice to provide clinical supervision to individuals seeking certification as addiction technicians and addiction specialists, and directs the state board of addiction counselors and the state board of human services, as applicable, to adopt rules relating to clinical supervision by these professionals. Further, a licensed addiction counselor is authorized to provide clinical supervision to individuals seeking licensure as marriage and family therapists or professional counselors if the licensed addiction counselor has met the education requirements for those professions, or the equivalent, as determined by the respective boards regulating those professions. The act expands the medication-assisted treatment expansion pilot program to include grants to provide training and ongoing support to pharmacies and pharmacists who are authorized to prescribe, dispense, and administer MAT pursuant to a collaborative agreement or drug therapy protocol to assist individuals with a substance use disorder. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) to seek federal authorization to provide MAT, case management services, and a 30-day supply of prescription medication to medicaid members upon release from jail or a juvenile institutional facility. The act adds substance use disorder treatment to the list of health-care or mental health-care services that are required to be reimbursed at the same rate for telemedicine as a comparable in-person service. The act requires HCPF to seek federal authorization to provide partial hospitalization for substance use disorder treatment with full federal financial participation. The act requires each managed care entity (MCE) that provides prescription drug benefits or methadone administration for the treatment of substance use disorders to:
The act requires the behavioral health administration (BHA) to collect data from each withdrawal management facility on the total number of individuals who were denied admittance or treatment for withdrawal management and the reason for the denial and to review and approve any admission criteria established by a withdrawal management facility. The act requires each MCE to disclose the aggregated average and lowest rates of reimbursement for a set of behavioral health services determined by HCPF and authorizes behavioral health providers to disclose reimbursement rates paid by an MCE to the behavioral health provider. Beginning in the 2024-25 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $150,000 from the general fund to the Colorado child abuse prevention trust fund (trust fund) for programs to reduce the occurrence of prenatal substance exposure. For the 2024-25 and 2025-26 state fiscal years, the act also annually appropriates $50,000 from the general fund to the trust fund to convene a stakeholder group to identify strategies to increase access to child care for families seeking substance use disorder treatment and recovery services. The act requires the BHA to contract with an independent third-party entity to provide services and supports to behavioral health providers seeking to become a behavioral health safety net provider with the goal of the provider becoming self-sustaining. The act creates the contingency management grant program in the BHA to provide grants to substance use disorder treatment programs that implement a contingency management program for individuals with a stimulant use disorder. The act authorizes the BHA to apply for federal funding for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder programs and to receive and disburse federal funds to public and private nonprofit organizations. The act extends the opioid and other substance use disorders study committee until September 1, 2026. The act appropriates money to implement the act. APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1046 | Child Welfare System Tools |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Duran (D) | G. Evans / C. Kolker (D) | B. Kirkmeyer (R) |
Summary: | Current law requires mandatory reporters to include certain information when reporting child abuse or neglect to the mandatory reporter's county department, local law enforcement, or through the statewide child abuse reporting hotline system (hotline system). The act requires a mandatory reporter to report any evidence of known domestic violence or intimate partner violence in the child's home, including any evidence of previous cases of known domestic violence or intimate partner violence in the child's home. The act requires the state department of human services (state department) to develop and implement a consistent screening process for a county department to follow, when possible, in responding to a report or inquiry to the hotline system. The screening process must include questions about domestic violence or intimate partner violence. The state department is required to develop and implement a disclosure procedure that notifies callers to the hotline system that calls are recorded. The act requires the state department to review the screening process used by county departments and hotline system operators to:
The state department shall recommend and implement a screening process procedure to determine demographic information that reflects best practices and cultural competencies. No later than January 15, 2025, the office of the child protection ombudsman (ombudsman) shall select a third-party evaluator to conduct an audit on the Colorado family risk assessment (risk assessment) and the Colorado family safety assessment (safety assessment). In conducting an audit of the risk assessment, the third-party evaluator shall:
In conducting an audit of the safety assessment, the third-party evaluator shall:
The third-party evaluator shall create a report summarizing the results of the audit. On or before March 1, 2026, the ombudsman is required to submit the audit report to the house of representatives public and behavioral health and human services committee and the senate health and human services committee, or their successor committees, the speaker of the house of representatives, the minority leader of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the minority leader of the senate. The act appropriates $109,392 from the general fund to the judicial department for use by the ombudsman to implement this act. APPROVED by Governor May 28, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 28, 2024 |
Status: | 5/28/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1050 | Simplify Processes Regarding Certain Local Government Taxes |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Taggart (R) | C. Kipp (D) / J. Bridges (D) | K. Van Winkle (R) |
Summary: | The act requires local taxing jurisdictions that impose a local lodging tax or a sales or use tax on building or construction materials that integrate such taxes into building permits (applicable sales or use tax) to file with the executive director of the department of revenue (executive director) a copy of the resolution or ordinance, and any amendments thereto, imposing such taxes and, if not included in the resolution, ordinance or amendments and certain additional information related to each type of tax. For local lodging taxes, the act requires local taxing jurisdictions to report the rate of the tax, the types of lodging the tax applies to, the number of days after which a stay may be exempt from the tax, and the amount of tax that may be retained by the collector of the tax in exchange for timely filing. For the applicable sales or use tax, the act requires local taxation jurisdictions to report the rate and calculation, what information is included on building permits, the timing for remittance of the tax, and whether the tax is imposed on asphalt equipment, storage of equipment, or services. By no later than July 1, 2025, and by no later than January 1 and July 1 of each year thereafter, the executive director must publish the information in the local taxing jurisdiction's reports relating to the local lodging tax and applicable sales or use tax. The act also modifies the scope of the sales and use tax simplification task force (task force) to include simplification of local lodging tax systems and requires that, in the 2024 interim, the task force shall receive testimony and proposals related to the feasibility and implementation of an electronic system for the collection and remittance of local lodging taxes in the same manner or in a manner similar to the electronic sales and use tax simplification system. The task force may propose legislation for the 2025 legislative session to implement or create such an electronic portal. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 4, 2024 |
Status: | 6/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1057 | Prohibit Algorithmic Devices Used for Rent Setting |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Woodrow (D) | J. Mabrey (D) / J. Gonzales (D) | N. Hinrichsen (D) |
Summary: | The bill states that a landlord, (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
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Status: | 5/1/2024 Senate Considered House Adherence - Result was to Adhere |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1061 | Marijuana Industry & Social Equity |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | N. Ricks (D) | R. English (D) |
Summary: | The bill creates a medical marijuana independent delivery license and a retail marijuana independent delivery license (licenses) to deliver and sell respective marijuana and marijuana products to consumers at permissible delivery locations. A person must have a social equity license to be issued the licenses. The department of revenue (department) is required to promulgate rules concerning the licenses. The bill creates an accelerator independent deliverer license, accelerator hospitality business license, and accelerator transporter license for social equity licensees qualified to participate in the accelerator program. The bill defines "permissible delivery locations" to establish where licensees with delivery privileges may deliver to consumers. The bill adds mandatory and permissive rule-making authority to the department concerning social-equity-related matters. The bill allows a marijuana hospitality licensee with a mobile facility to temporarily suspend its license privileges related to mobility in order to conduct non-marijuana commercial activities. The bill adds mandatory rule-making authority to the department concerning these matters. Beginning January 31, 2026, the bill requires the state licensing authority to provide an annual report to the finance committees of the house of representatives and the senate concerning active social equity or accelerator licenses and licensees, recommendations for new social equity or accelerator licenses, and recommendations for new or innovative funding sources for the social equity program. The department is required to convene a new, or utilize an existing, working group of persons to develop recommendations for the annual report. Effective April 1, 2025, the bill amends the eligibility requirements for a person to qualify as a social equity licensee. The new eligibility requirements do not apply to licensee applications or licenses issued before April 1, 2025, except for a limited exception. The bill eliminates the $1 surcharge applied on deliveries. The bill requires the department of regulatory agencies, as part of its sunset review of the "Colorado Marijuana Code" in 2028, to review social equity licensing and the licenses. Under current law, there is the marijuana entrepreneur fund within the office of economic development that provides grants and loans to support marijuana industry entrepreneurs. The bill creates a new permissible grant for local jurisdictions that establish a social equity licensing program. The bill creates a tax credit for an accelerator-endorsed licensee who hosts and offers technical and capital support to a social equity licensee for at least 12 consecutive months. An eligible accelerator-endorsed licensee may claim up to $50,000 and may carry it forward as a credit against subsequent years' income tax liability for a period not exceeding 5 years. The tax credit may be claimed for tax years 2026 through 2035. The bill amends the statutory provision concerning the retail marijuana sales tax to state that a retailer is not allowed to retain any portion of the retail marijuana sales tax collected to cover the expenses of collecting and remitting the tax.
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Status: | 3/21/2024 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1065 | Reduction of State Income Tax Rate |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Bottoms (R) | R. Pugliese (R) / B. Kirkmeyer (R) |
Summary: | For income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2025, the bill reduces both the individual and the corporate state income tax rates from 4.40% to 4.0%. The bill also exempts the rate reductions from the existing statutory requirements that tax expenditure legislation include a tax preference performance statement in a statutory legislative declaration and repeal after a specified period of tax years.
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Status: | 2/12/2024 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1067 | Ballot Access for Candidates with Disabilities |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Ortiz / F. Winter (D) | L. Liston (R) |
Summary: | The bill requires the general assembly, the secretary of state, and each political party to ensure that the caucus process or any future alternative process by which candidates may access the ballot that is accessible to persons with disabilities remains an option in the state. The bill specifies that the petition process is not a means of ballot access that is accessible to persons with disabilities. In addition, the bill requires that, within 6 months of the effective date of the bill, any person, upon request, must be able to participate in a precinct caucus or a party assembly with the use of a video conferencing platform that is accessible to persons with disabilities unless the precinct caucus or party assembly is held in a geographic location that lacks broadband internet service. When a precinct caucus or party assembly occurs in a geographic location that lacks broadband internet service, participation must be allowed by an alternative means such as a telephone conference. Any alternative means used by a political party must be accessible to persons with disabilities. (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
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Status: | 4/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1069 | Recycling of Single-Use Electronic Smoking Devices |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | A. Valdez (D) |
Summary: | The bill establishes the electronic smoking device recycling strategies advisory group (advisory group). The advisory group is tasked with conducting an analysis of methods and strategies for the recycling of single-use electronic smoking devices (devices). The advisory group shall develop a report that:
The advisory group must submit the report to the general assembly, the department of public health and environment, and the governor's office on or before October 31, 2025.
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1071 | Name Change to Conform with Gender Identity |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Garcia (D) / D. Michaelson Jenet (D) | K. Priola |
Summary: | Current law specifies the conditions a person must meet in order to change the person's name if the person was convicted of a felony. Among those conditions is that the person must show good cause to be able to change the person's name to a name different from the name the person was convicted under. The act states that good cause includes changing the petitioner's name to conform with the petitioner's gender identity. The act authorizes the court to require a petitioner to give public notice of a name change if the name change was requested by a petitioner with a felony conviction and is for the purpose of changing the petitioner's name to conform with the petitioner's gender identity. APPROVED by Governor April 19, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 19, 2024 |
Status: | 4/19/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1072 | Protection of Victims of Sexual Offenses |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Bird (D) | L. Frizell (R) / B. Kirkmeyer (R) | R. Fields |
Summary: | Under current law, certain evidence of a victim's or witness's prior or subsequent sexual conduct is presumed irrelevant, but there is an exception for evidence of the victim's or witness's prior or subsequent sexual conduct with the defendant. The act eliminates this exception. The act expands the criminal rape shield law to prohibit the admission of evidence of the victim's manner of dress or hairstyle as evidence of the victim's consent. The act amends what a moving party must show to the court and to opposing parties and what the court must find in order to introduce evidence that is presumed to be irrelevant under the criminal rape shield law. Under current law, a defendant may move to introduce evidence that the victim or a witness has a history of false reporting of sexual assaults, upon a sufficient showing to the court and opposing parties. The act allows the defendant to offer evidence concerning at least one incident of false reporting of unlawful sexual behavior and also articulate facts that would, by a preponderance of the evidence, demonstrate that the victim or witness has made a report that was demonstrably false or false in fact. APPROVED by Governor April 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024 |
Status: | 4/24/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1074 | Aggravated Cruelty to Law Enforcement Animals |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Armagost (R) | M. Duran (D) / J. Ginal | B. Gardner |
Summary: | Under current law, aggravated cruelty to animals is a class 4 felony. The act specifies that a person commits the offense of aggravated cruelty to animals if the person knowingly kills or causes serious bodily injury resulting in death to a law enforcement animal whether the of a law enforcement animal is on duty or not. The act creates an affirmative defense stating that a person is justified in using physical force upon a law enforcement animal to defend their own person or a third person when the person reasonably believes that a law enforcement animal is an application of unreasonable or excessive force. The act requires an on-duty peace officer to intervene to prevent or stop another peace officer who is the handler of a law enforcement animal from allowing the law enforcement animal from using the degree of excessive physical force permitted by law while carrying out the peace officer's duties. A peace officer who witnesses the use of excessive force by a law enforcement animal, as permitted by the animal's handler, must report the excessive force to the officer's or handler's supervisor. The act specifies situations in which a licensed veterinarian or a person who owns or is charged with the care of a law enforcement animal has immunity from liability when it is necessary to euthanize or provide immediate veterinary care to a law enforcement animal. APPROVED by Governor April 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 17, 2024 |
Status: | 4/17/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1075 | Analysis of Universal Health-Care Payment System |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 SPECIAL ORDERS - SECOND READING OF BILLS (2) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | K. McCormick (D) | A. Boesenecker (D) / J. Marchman (D) | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) |
Summary: | The bill requires the Colorado school of public health to analyze draft model legislation for implementing a single-payer, nonprofit, publicly financed, and privately delivered universal health-care payment system for Colorado that directly compensates providers. The Colorado school of public health must submit a report detailing its findings to the general assembly by The bill also creates the statewide health-care analysis (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
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Status: | 5/7/2024 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 05/08/2024 - No Amendments |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1079 | Persons Detained in Jail on Emergency Commitment |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Amabile (D) | R. English (D) / R. Fields |
Summary: | The act prohibits a law enforcement officer or emergency service patrol officer who takes a juvenile into protective custody from detaining the juvenile in jail. Beginning July 1, 2024, the act requires each local law enforcement agency that has taken a person into protective custody to provide an annual report to the behavioral health administration that includes disaggregated and nonidentifying information concerning persons who were taken into protective custody in an approved treatment facility or detained in an emergency medical facility or jail. Beginning July 1, 2024, the act requires each approved treatment facility or emergency medical services facility that detains a person under protective custody or detains or holds a person on an emergency commitment to provide a quarterly report to the behavioral health administration that includes information about the persons detained or held at the facility. The act appropriates $64,738 from the general fund to the department of human services for use by the behavioral health administration. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2024 |
Status: | 5/17/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1088 | Modifications to the Child Fatality Prevention Act |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | T. Winter (R) / R. Pelton (R) |
Summary: | The "Child Fatality Prevention Act" establishes state and local or regional child fatality prevention review teams to conduct multidisciplinary reviews of child abuse, neglect, and fatalities. The bill:
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Status: | 2/7/2024 House Committee on Health & Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1090 | Privacy Protections Criminal Justice Records |
Position: | Oppose |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Titone (D) | N. Ricks (D) / T. Exum (D) | R. Fields |
Summary: | Subject to limited exceptions, current law requires that a victim's name and identifying information be deleted from criminal justice records released to the public if the person was a victim of certain sexual offenses. The act permits the release of unredacted records to the named victim, victim's designee, or victim's lawful representative. Subject to limited exceptions, current law requires that a child's name and identifying information be deleted from criminal justice records released to the public if the child was a victim of or witness to a criminal offense. The act permits the release of unredacted records to the office of the state public defender, the office of the alternate defense counsel, the office of respondent parents' counsel, the office of the child's representative, municipal attorneys, county attorneys, and a named child victim's lawful representative. This release requirement must be implemented by July 1, 2024. The act clarifies that changes in 2023 to the law related to records of child victims and child witnesses apply to records pertaining to offenses committed on or after January 1, 2024. For records pertaining to earlier offenses, the law in effect prior to January 1, 2024 applies. APPROVED by Governor February 20, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 20, 2024 |
Status: | 2/20/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1091 | Fire-Hardened Building Materials in Real Property |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Brown (D) | B. Titone (D) / L. Cutter (D) | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) |
Summary: | The act generally prohibits covenants and other restrictions that disallow the installation, use, or maintenance of fire-hardened building materials in residential real property, including in common interest communities. However, the act allows a unit owners' association of a common interest community to develop reasonable standards regarding the design, dimensions, placement, or external appearance of fire-hardened building materials used for fencing within the community. APPROVED by Governor March 12, 2024 EFFECTIVE March 12, 2024 |
Status: | 3/12/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1092 | Minimum Sentence Crimes against Prostituted Children |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Bradley (R) | R. English (D) / K. Van Winkle (R) |
Summary: | Under current law, various crimes related to child prostitution are class 3 felonies. These crimes include soliciting for child prostitution, one type of pandering of a child, procurement of a child, keeping a place of child prostitution, pimping of a child, inducement of child prostitution, and patronizing a prostituted child. The bill requires a court to sentence a person convicted of one of these crimes to the department of corrections for a term of at least the minimum of the presumptive range for a class 3 felony, which is 4 years. Under current law, the crime of pandering of a child is either a class 2 or a class 3 felony, depending on the conduct involved. Pandering that uses menacing or criminal intimidation to induce a child to commit prostitution is a class 2 felony. The bill requires a court to sentence a person convicted of this type of pandering to the department of corrections for a term of at least the minimum of the presumptive range for a class 2 felony, which is 8 years.
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Status: | 2/15/2024 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1093 | Peace Officer Provisional Certification Requirements |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Armagost (R) | M. Martinez (D) / N. Hinrichsen (D) |
Summary: | Under existing law, the peace officer standards and training board may grant a person a provisional certification as a peace officer if the person satisfies the requirements for a provisional certificate. One of the requirements is that the person must have been a peace officer in another state or federal jurisdiction, excluding the armed forces, within the preceding 3 years. The act removes the exception for the armed forces, so that being a peace officer in the armed forces satisfies that requirement for a provisional certificate. APPROVED by Governor March 22, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 3/22/2024 Governor Signed |
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HB24-1098 | Cause Required for Eviction of Residential Tenant |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Mabrey (D) | M. Duran (D) / J. Gonzales (D) | N. Hinrichsen (D) |
Summary: | With certain exceptions, the act prohibits a landlord from evicting a residential tenant unless the landlord has cause for eviction. Cause exists only when:
The following conditions constitute grounds for a "no-fault eviction" of a residential tenant, with certain limitations:
If a landlord proceeds with an eviction of a tenant without cause, the tenant may seek relief as provided in existing laws concerning unlawful removal of a tenant and may assert the landlord's violation as an affirmative defense to an eviction proceeding. Current law allows a tenant to terminate a tenancy by serving written notice to the landlord within a prescribed time period, based on the length of the tenancy. For the purpose of such notices, certain provisions apply, including the following:
The act eliminates these provisions. Current law requires the management of a mobile home park to make a reasonable effort to notify a resident of the management's intention to enter the mobile home space at least 48 hours before entry. The act increases this notice period to 72 hours. APPROVED by Governor April 19, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 19, 2024 |
Status: | 4/19/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1101 | Empower Victims through Access Restorative Justice |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Mabrey (D) | M. Snyder (D) |
Summary: | The bill makes changes to increase access to restorative justice practices (restorative justice) in Colorado, specifically by:
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Status: | 4/2/2024 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1103 | Prohibiting Term Excited Delirium |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Amabile (D) | L. Herod / J. Gonzales (D) | J. Buckner (D) |
Summary: | The act prohibits training for law enforcement personnel, emergency medical service providers, or other first responders from including the term "excited delirium"; except that in an emergency medical service provider training the term may be used in teaching the history of the term. A peace officer is prohibited from using the term "excited delirium" to describe a person in an incident report. A coroner or other person authorized to determine a cause of death shall not register "excited delirium" as the cause of death on a death certificate. APPROVED by Governor April 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 4/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1107 | Judicial Review of Local Land Use Decision |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | W. Lindstedt (D) | S. Bird (D) / J. Bridges (D) | F. Winter (D) |
Summary: | The act requires a court to award reasonable attorney fees to a prevailing governmental entity in an action for judicial review of a local land use decision involving residential use with a net project density of 5 dwelling units per acre or more, except for an action brought by the land use applicant before the governmental entity. Filing an action for judicial review of a local land use decision does not affect the validity of the local land use decision. The act authorizes a governmental entity and the public to rely on the local land use decision in good faith for all purposes until the action for judicial review is resolved. APPROVED by Governor May 30, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 30, 2024 |
Status: | 5/30/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1109 | Detention of Parolee Arrested for Violent Crime |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Bockenfeld / R. Pelton (R) |
Summary: | The bill requires a parolee who is arrested for allegedly committing a crime of violence while on parole to be detained at a state correctional facility while awaiting a parole revocation hearing. The bill requires the department of corrections to reimburse a county or city and county for one-half the cost of transporting the parolee from the county or city and county to a state correctional facility. Under existing law, a community parole officer who is informed by a law enforcement agency that a parolee has been arrested for a criminal offense is required to request that a parole revocation proceeding be deferred pending a disposition of the criminal charge. The bill repeals this requirement and instead permits the community parole officer to request that the parole revocation proceeding be deferred.
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Status: | 2/20/2024 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1113 | Credit for Paid Health Insurance Deductible |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Brown (D) | A. Boesenecker (D) / D. Roberts (D) |
Summary: | For small group and individual health benefit plans, if an individual who is entitled to receive benefits or services under a health benefit plan has incurred any out-of-pocket expenses, including payments for a deductible or other coinsurance amount, under the health benefit plan during a plan year, and the individual's health insurance carrier exits the health insurance market and can no longer provide coverage to the individual, the bill requires the individual's new health insurance carrier to credit all of the out-of-pocket expenses paid by the individual in accordance with the original health benefit plan in the given plan year to the new health benefit plan if the individual enrolls in the new health benefit plan in the established special enrollment period. The bill grants rule-making authority to the commissioner of insurance.
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Status: | 2/14/2024 House Committee on Health & Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1117 | Invertebrates & Rare Plants Parks & Wildlife Commission |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. McCormick (D) | M. Soper (R) / J. Marchman (D) | J. Bridges (D) |
Summary: | The act adds rare plants and invertebrates to the species that may be studied and conserved under the current "Nongame, Endangered, or Threatened Species Conservation Act", which is renamed the "Nongame, Endangered, or Threatened Wildlife and Rare Plant Conservation Act". The division of parks and wildlife in the department of natural resources (department) may undertake voluntary programs to conserve, protect, and perpetuate invertebrates. The department is required to include, in the department's SMART Act hearing, information about the investigations conducted under the act. The general assembly is required to make an appropriation from the general fund or the wildlife cash fund to study invertebrates. $774,788 is appropriated to the department for use by the division of parks and wildlife to implement the act. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/17/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1120 | Resources for Persons in Child Welfare System |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | G. Evans |
Summary: | The bill requires that prior to adding a person found responsible for child abuse or neglect (person) to the automated child welfare system (system), a county department of human or social services must provide, within 14 days, a written notice to the person of the opportunity for a hearing to appeal the finding. The written notice must include, among other things:
When a hearing is requested, the bill requires an administrative law judge to contact the parties to schedule the hearing, which must take place no later than 120 days after the date the person requests a hearing. The bill describes the rights accorded to the person.
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1130 | Privacy of Biometric Identifiers & Data |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Daugherty (D) | M. Lynch / P. Lundeen (R) | C. Hansen (D) |
Summary: | The act amends the "Colorado Privacy Act" to add protections for individuals' biometric data by requiring a person that controls or processes one or more biometric identifiers (controller) to adopt a written policy that:
With certain exceptions, a controller must make its written policy available to the public. The act also:
APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025 |
Status: | 5/31/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1140 | Workers' Comp for Complex Trauma |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Weinberg (R) |
Summary: | For the purpose of determining eligibility for workers' compensation benefits for a mental impairment caused by an accidental injury that consists of a psychologically traumatic event arising out of and sustained in the course of employment, the bill establishes that a worker who, while working, experiences complex trauma that causes posttraumatic stress disorder is experiencing a "psychologically traumatic event". |
Status: | 2/14/2024 House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1141 | Local Government Control over Burn Barrel Regulation |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | T. Winter (R) / R. Pelton (R) |
Summary: | The bill clarifies that local governments, rather than the air quality control commission or the department of public health and environment, control the regulation of burning in burn barrels. Burning in burn barrels is permitted as regulated by or unless prohibited by the local government.
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Status: | 4/18/2024 House Committee on Energy & Environment Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1145 | Modify Voter Registration Page on Secretary of State Website |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. DeGraaf (R) |
Summary: | By July 1, 2024, the secretary of state is required to include, on the voter registration page on the secretary of state's official website (website), places for a registered elector to:
The secretary of state is required to ensure that the default selection for every registered elector for each election is to vote in person. The secretary of state is required to add a notice to the website to explain the costs incurred in sending mail ballots to registered electors, and the amount of taxpayer money that is wasted by sending mail ballots that will not be used. On or after July 1, 2024, every registered elector is required to access the registered elector's voter registration through the website at least one time during each election cycle to verify the registered elector's address and make the selections regarding the registered elector's voting and ballot preference (selections). Each registered elector is required to make the selections only once for an election cycle but may alter the selections as many times as the registered elector wishes prior to specified elections. The secretary of state is required to allow electors who first register to vote on or after July 1, 2024, to make selections when registering to vote. If a registered elector does not make the selections for an election cycle, the registered elector is presumed to have opted to vote in person and the registered elector will not receive a mail ballot. The secretary of state and the designated election official in each county (election official) are required to provide written notice, in specified places, of the requirements that a registered elector confirm the registered elector's address and make the selections. For the 2024-2025 state fiscal year and for each state fiscal year thereafter, the staff of the joint budget committee of the general assembly is required to determine whether there is a reduction as a result of the bill, compared to the previous fiscal year, in the amount appropriated to the department of state to reimburse counties for the costs of conducting elections. The general assembly is required to appropriate an amount equal to 50% of any such reduction for programs that combat food vulnerability among children in the state.
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Status: | 2/12/2024 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1147 | Candidate Election Deepfake Disclosures |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Joseph (D) | B. Titone (D) / C. Hansen (D) | J. Buckner (D) |
Summary: | The act creates a statutory scheme to regulate the use of deepfakes produced using generative artificial intelligence in communications about candidates for elective office. Distribution of a communication that includes an undisclosed or improperly disclosed deepfake with knowledge or reckless disregard as to the deceptiveness or falsity of the communication related to a candidate for elective office is prohibited. Proper disclosure requires the statement: "This (image/audio/video/multimedia) has been edited and depicts speech or conduct that falsely appears to be authentic or truthful". The disclosure statement must satisfy the requirements in the act, and any rule adopted by the secretary of state in accordance with the act, for a clear, conspicuous, and understandable disclosure statement regarding a deepfake. The disclosure statement must be included in the communication's metadata and, to the extent technically feasible, must be permanent or unable to be easily removed by subsequent users. Any person who believes there has been a violation of the statutory or regulatory requirements for disclosure of the use of a deepfake may file a complaint with the office of the secretary of state. The secretary shall hear such complaints in accordance with existing complaint and administrative hearing procedures under the "Fair Campaign Practices Act", and a hearing officer may impose a civil penalty of at least $100 for each violation involving unpaid advertising or at least 10% of the amount paid or spent to advertise the communication that includes an undisclosed or improperly disclosed deepfake. A candidate who is the subject of a communication that includes an undisclosed or improperly disclosed deepfake may bring a civil action for injunctive or other equitable relief or for compensatory and punitive damages, or both. The plaintiff-candidate may also seek reasonable attorney fees, filing fees, and costs of action, and any other just and appropriate relief necessary to enforce the prohibition on undisclosed deepfakes and to remedy the harm caused by violation of the prohibition. The plaintiff-candidate must prove the defendant's knowledge or reckless disregard as to the falsity or deceptiveness of the communication that includes the deepfake by clear and convincing evidence. Liability for a violation of the act does not extend to an interactive computer service, a radio or television broadcasting station, including a cable or satellite television operator, programmer, producer, or streaming service, an internet website, a regularly published newspaper, magazine, or other periodical of general circulation, or a provider of technology used in the creation of a deepfake as specified in the act and in accordance with immunities provided by federal law. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024 |
Status: | 5/24/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1150 | False Slates of Electors |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Garcia (D) | J. Parenti / N. Hinrichsen (D) |
Summary: | The act applies conduct pertaining to false slates of electors to 5 existing crimes that make it unlawful for an individual to:
Each crime is punishable by a fine of no more than $10,000. In addition, a defendant who is convicted of the crime of perjury or subornation of perjury for knowingly and falsely swearing or attesting to the oath required by law for presidential electors or inducing another to knowingly and falsely swear or attest to the oath required by law for presidential electors is disqualified, as required by the state constitution, from being a member of the general assembly and from holding any office of trust or profit in the state. APPROVED by Governor April 19, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024 |
Status: | 4/19/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1152 | Accessory Dwelling Units |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Amabile (D) | R. Weinberg (R) / K. Mullica (D) | T. Exum (D) |
Summary: | Section 1 of the act creates a series of requirements related to accessory dwelling units. Section 1 establishes unique requirements for subject jurisdictions and for qualifying as an accessory dwelling unit supportive jurisdiction (supportive jurisdiction). As established in section 1, a subject jurisdiction is either:
Section 1 requires a subject jurisdiction, on or after June 30, 2025, to allow, subject to an administrative approval process, one accessory dwelling unit as an accessory use to a single-unit detached dwelling in any part of the subject jurisdiction where the subject jurisdiction allows single-unit detached dwellings. Section 1 also prohibits, on or after June 30, 2025, subject jurisdictions from enacting or enforcing certain local laws or otherwise acting in certain ways that would restrict the construction or conversion of an accessory dwelling unit. In order to qualify as a supportive jurisdiction, a local government must submit a report on or before June 30, 2025, to the department of local affairs (department) demonstrating that the local government:
Section 1 also creates the accessory dwelling unit fee reduction and encouragement grant program within the department. The purpose of this grant program is for the department to provide grants to supportive jurisdictions for offsetting costs incurred in connection with developing pre-approved accessory dwelling unit plans, providing technical assistance to persons converting or constructing accessory dwelling units, or waiving, reducing, or providing financial assistance for accessory dwelling unit associated fees and other required costs. In addition to providing grants, the department is required to develop a toolkit to support local governments in encouraging accessory dwelling unit construction. Section 1 requires the state treasurer to transfer $5 million to the accessory dwelling unit fee reduction and encouragement grant program fund created for purposes of implementing the grant program. Section 2 requires the department to create, and for local governments to consider and adopt, model public safety code requirements related to geographic or climatic conditions for factory-built structures, including those structures that would be considered accessory dwelling units. Section 3 grants the Colorado economic development commission the power to expend $8 million to contract with the Colorado housing and finance authority to operate and establish the following programs to benefit low- to moderate-income residents of supportive jurisdictions:
Section 4 directs the state treasurer to transfer $8 million from the general fund to the Colorado economic development fund for the purpose of the contracting described in section 3. Section 5 prohibits a subject jurisdiction's planned unit development resolution or ordinance for a planned unit development from restricting the permitting of an accessory dwelling unit more than the local law that applies to accessory dwelling units outside of the planned unit development. Section 6 states, subject to a reasonable restriction exception, that any prohibition on accessory dwelling units or the implementation of restrictive design or dimension standards by a unit owners' association in a supportive jurisdiction is void as a matter of public policy. Section 7 makes appropriations to the department, the division of local government within the department, and the office of the governor for use by the office of information technology for the purpose of implementing the act. APPROVED by Governor May 13, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 13, 2024 |
Status: | 5/13/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1155 | Management of Certain Public Safety Emergencies |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | E. Velasco (D) / L. Cutter (D) |
Summary: | The act defines "reimbursement" for purposes of reimbursing the expenditure of money from state emergency reserve as a repayment of expenditures for which the state previously designated emergency money and specifies that federal cost share provided through a federal emergency management agency public assistant grant is not reimbursement. To specify the authority of all fire response agencies, rather than just a fire protection district, to transfer the management of a wildland fire to the county sheriff (sheriff) when the fire exceeds the capability of the fire response agency to manage, the act authorizes a fire department, as defined in law, to transfer the management of a wildland fire and repeals references to transfers by a fire protection district. The act also specifies that the sheriff may develop a wildfire preparedness plan for the unincorporated area of a county as required by law, in cooperation with any fire department, rather than only with a fire district, with jurisdiction over the unincorporated area. The act repeals references to the community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) in the statutes that address the response to and management of wildland fires, as the CWPP addresses the identification and reduction of hazards and is not focused on the response to or management of wildland fires. Instead, the act specifies that the sheriff and the fire chief of a fire protection district (fire chief) are subject to any relevant plans or agreements in the response to and management of wildland fires. To allow the division of fire prevention and control in the department of public safety (division) and the sheriff to determine the most appropriation management strategy when the management of a wildland fire has been transferred from the sheriff to the division, the act repeals the requirement that the division and the sheriff use the unified command management strategy when the management of a wildland fire has been transferred to the division. The act also repeals the requirement that the unified command management strategy be used in a hazardous substance incident to allow responding agencies to determine the most appropriate response to and management of such an incident. The act repeals the requirement that a sheriff appoint a local incident management team to provide command control to manage a wildland fire and instead requires the sheriff to appoint an incident commander for a wildland fire. In addition, the act specifies that the agency that has jurisdiction over any wildland fire in the state is required to manage the fire using the incident command system as defined in law. The act repeals references to the Colorado state emergency operation plan (SEOP) in the statute designating the division as the lead state agency for wildland fire response and suppression, as the SEOP can only be activated by an executive order and does not apply to the majority of wildland fire operations. In addition the act repeals inaccurate references to the state forest service in that statute. APPROVED by Governor April 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 4/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1156 | Chamber of Commerce Alcohol Special Event Permit |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | A. Hartsook (R) | W. Lindstedt (D) / J. Smallwood | R. Zenzinger |
Summary: | Under Colorado law, a special event permit allows the service of alcohol beverages during special events. The act authorizes a special event permit to be issued to a chamber of commerce. Certain types of business are excluded from participating in the special event. The holder of a retail establishment permit may participate in the special event if the permit holder is not serving complimentary alcohol beverages sold at the same date and time as the special event. The act also requires the executive director of the department of revenue (department) to promulgate rules to authorize age-restricted tobacco festivals by means of a permit issued by the department. Standards are set for the rules. The executive director of the department may establish by rule an application fee for the tobacco festival permit. The application fee must be set at an amount that offsets the direct and indirect cost of implementing and enforcing the tobacco festival permit rules. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1162 | Penalty for Theft of Firearms |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Armagost (R) | M. Snyder (D) |
Summary: | In current law, the sentencing structure for theft, except for auto theft, is based on the value of the item stolen. The bill exempts theft of firearms from that sentencing structure and makes theft of a firearm a class 6 felony, regardless of its value. Subsequent violations, including multiple firearms stolen in the same criminal incident, are separate class 5 felonies.
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Status: | 2/14/2024 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1163 | Pet Animal Registration System |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. English (D) |
Summary: | The bill requires the commissioner of the department of agriculture (commissioner) to develop, implement, and maintain an online pet animal registration system (system). The bill establishes the pet animal registration enterprise (enterprise) in the department of agriculture to provide business services to pet animal owners who pay pet registration fees to the enterprise by developing, implementing, maintaining, and administering the pet animal registration system, connecting pet animals with their owners and designated caregivers when and after emergencies occur, and protecting pet animals by supporting animal shelters that are caretakers of last resort. A pet animal owner must register the pet animal in the system annually for a fee set by the enterprise, which must be no more than $8.50 annually per pet animal with a designated caregiver, $16 annually per pet animal that is a dog or cat that is not neutered or spayed and has a designated caregiver, and $25 annually per pet animal without a designated caregiver. The fee set by the enterprise is in addition to any pet registration or licensing fee assessed by any other jurisdiction. The enterprise will collect both state and local fees and transmit any fee levied by another jurisdiction to that jurisdiction and the fee levied by the state to the newly created pet animal registration cash fund. The state's fee will be used to develop, implement, maintain, and administer the system and reimburse animal shelters for the cost of taking custody of a pet animal for which a caregiver cannot be located or has refused to take custody. The bill also requires a pet animal owner to designate a caregiver for the owner's pet animal. The caregiver is responsible for the care and safekeeping of the pet animal during an emergency that incapacitates the pet animal owner. First responders will use the system to identify the designated caregiver of the pet animal and notify the caregiver of the incapacitation of the pet animal's owner. A caregiver must agree to be responsible for the pet animal. If a caregiver later refuses to take custody of the pet animal or cannot be located, a first responder will place the pet animal in an animal shelter. Only first responders and the department of public health and environment are allowed to use the system. The bill specifies that to own a pet animal without registering the pet animal; to refuse or fail to comply with the provisions of the bill; to make a material misstatement in a registration application, a registration renewal application, or to the department of agriculture; or to refuse or fail to comply with any rules or regulations adopted by the commissioner is unlawful. An unlawful act is punishable by a civil penalty in an amount set by the commissioner but not to exceed $100 per unlawful act. If the commissioner is unable to collect the civil penalty, the commissioner may sue to recover the civil penalty or refuse to renew a registration.
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Status: | 2/8/2024 House Committee on Agriculture, Water & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1166 | Expand Homestead Exemptions |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. DeGraaf (R) | S. Luck (R) |
Summary: | For property tax years commencing during property tax reassessment cycles (cycles) that begin on or after January 1, 2025, the bill changes the amount of the exemptions for the owner-occupied primary residence (residence) of a qualifying senior, a veteran with a disability, or the surviving spouse of a United States armed forces service member who died in the line of duty or veteran whose death resulted from a service-related injury or disease (exemptions) from 50% of the first $200,000 of actual value of the residence to 50% of an amount of actual value of the residence equal to 50% of the estimated state median home value (median home value) for the state; except that, if the median home value declines, the exemption amount continues to be calculated based on the median home value used to calculate the exemption amount for the property tax years included in the prior cycle. The state constitution currently only allows a senior who has owned and occupied the senior's residence for 10 years, or the surviving spouse of such a senior, to claim the exemption. If at the 2024 general election the voters of the state approve a referred constitutional amendment to allow a senior, or the surviving spouse of such a senior (surviving spouse), who has previously qualified for the exemption for 2016 or any later year for a prior residence to claim the exemption for the senior's or surviving spouse's current residence regardless of how long the senior or surviving spouse has owned and occupied that residence, the bill makes the statutory changes needed to conform to the constitutional amendment.
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Status: | 3/4/2024 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1168 | Equal Access to Public Meetings |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Froelich (D) | M. Rutinel (D) / N. Hinrichsen (D) |
Summary: | The bill requires state and local public bodies (public bodies) to ensure that the following accessibility requirements are implemented by July 1, 2025:
Nothing in the bill prohibits a public body from promulgating rules for the administration of public testimony so long as the rules apply to both in-person and remote testimony, and nothing in the bill requires a public body to provide hardware or software or internet or phone access at an individual's home. The failure of any public body to comply with the applicable requirements of the bill constitutes discrimination on the basis of disability. Any individual who is subjected to a violation is entitled to seek relief as currently provided in law.
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1173 | Electric Vehicle Charging System Permits |
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Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE - CONT'D (5) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | A. Valdez (D) / K. Priola | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) |
Summary: | The act establishes permitting procedures for electric vehicle (EV) charging systems for counties with a population of 20,000 or more (covered county) and municipalities with a population of 10,000 or more (covered municipality). On or before December 31, 2025, a board of county commissioners of a covered county or the governing body of a covered municipality must do one of the following:
If a covered county or covered municipality establishes its own objective standards and administrative review process, the covered county or covered municipal permitting agency must provide a checklist to prospective applicants of all requirements that must be included in an application for an EV charger permit. The covered county or covered municipality may deny an application if the application does not comply with the objective standards for EV charging systems set forth by the covered county or covered municipality or for health or safety reasons. A covered county or covered municipality must also notify an EV charger permit applicant of the covered county permitting agency's or covered municipal permitting agency's decision to approve, conditionally approve, or deny an applicant within 3 business days after the date the agency makes such determination. The Colorado energy office, in addition to developing the model code regarding the approval of EV charger permits, is required to provide covered counties and covered municipalities technical assistance in developing and administering the expedited EV charger permitting process. If a board of county commissioners of a covered county or governing body of a covered municipality adopts the model code, it is not subject to the other requirements specified in the act. APPROVED by Governor May 21, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/21/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1175 | Local Goverments Rights to Property for Affordable Housing |
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Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE - CONT'D (4) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | A. Boesenecker (D) | E. Sirota (D) / F. Winter (D) | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) |
Summary: | The act creates a right of first refusal and a right of first offer for local governments to make an offer to purchase certain types of multifamily rental properties. Both the right of first refusal and the right of first offer terminate on December 31, 2029, and a local government is not entitled to exercise either right after that date unless the local government exercised the right before December 31, 2029 and the process has not concluded. For multifamily rental properties that are existing affordable housing consisting of not less than five units, a local government has a right of first refusal to make a matched offer for the purchase of such property, subject to the local government's commitment to using the property as long-term affordable housing. Existing affordable housing is housing that is subject to one or more restricted use covenants or similar recorded agreements to ensure affordability consistent with affordable housing financial assistance requirements. The act requires the seller of such property to give notice to the local government and to the Colorado housing and finance authority at least 2 years before the final expiration of the last remaining affordability restriction on the property of the date of such expiration, a second notice not less than 6 months before the final expiration of the last remaining affordability restriction, and additional notice when the seller takes certain actions as a precursor to selling the property. Sharing information provided by the seller in certain notices is subject to execution of a nondisclosure agreement. Upon receiving the third notice indicating an intent to sell the property or of a potential sale of the property, the local government has 14 calendar days to preserve its right of first refusal and an additional 30 calendar days to make an offer and must agree to close on the property within 60 calendar days of the acceptance of the local government's offer; except that, if the seller has received an entirely cash offer from a third-party buyer, then the local government must agree to close within the same time period as is set forth in the third-party buyer's offer. If the price as listed in the seller's notice is reduced by 5% or more or if the required terms and conditions of an acceptable offer that has been communicated to the local government materially change, the seller must provide notice of the change within 7 days and the local government may exercise or re-exercise its right of first refusal. If the seller rejects an offer by the local government, the seller must provide a written explanation of the reasons, invite the local government to make one subsequent offer within 14 days, and must accept or reject the local government's subsequent offer within 14 days of the subsequent offer being made. For all other multifamily rental properties that are 30 years or older and have not more than 100 units and not less than 15 units, a local government has a right of first offer. A seller of such property must provide notice of intent to sell the property to the local government before the seller enters into an agreement with a licensed broker to solicit and procure purchasers or otherwise lists the property for sale on the multiple listing service. After receipt of the notice, the local government has 7 days to respond by either indicating the local government is interested in receiving due diligence information on the property to evaluate whether it wants to make an offer, which response must include a nondisclosure agreement in a form acceptable to the seller, or waiving any right to purchase the property. If the local government does not respond within this time period, it is deemed to have waived its right of first offer with respect to the property. The local government's right of first offer is subject to the property being used or converted for the purpose of providing long-term affordable housing or mixed-income development. If the local government has requested due diligence information, the seller has 5 days to provide the information to the local government and the local government then has 14 days to make an offer or waive its right of first offer. If a response is not provided in this period, the right of first offer is deemed waived. The seller has 14 days to accept or reject the local government's offer, and, if the seller does not provide notice, the offer is deemed rejected. If the seller accepts the offer, the parties have 30 days to negotiate and execute a contract for the purchase of the property and then 60 days to close on the transaction, unless both parties agree to other terms. In exercising its right of first refusal or first offer, the local government may partner with certain other entities for the financing of the transaction and may also assign either right with respect to all applicable properties in the local government's jurisdiction or with respect to a single property to certain other entities that are then subject to all the rights and requirements of the local government in exercising either right. The act allows certain sales of property to be exempt from the right of first offer or from both the right of first refusal and the right of first offer. Upon completion of the requirements of the seller for the right of first refusal and for the right of first offer, the local government, or its assignee if it has assigned either right, is required to execute and record a certificate of compliance stating that the seller has complied with all applicable provisions for the right of first refusal or right of first offer. The act also requires the attorney general's office to enforce the provisions of the act and grants the attorney general's office, the local government, or a local government's assignee standing to bring a civil action for violations of the right of first refusal or first offer established by the act. If a court finds that a seller has materially violated the law with respect to the right of first refusal or first offer, respectively, the court must award a statutory penalty of not less than $10,000 for a first offense and not less than $30,000 for any subsequent offenses but the court cannot award a statutory penalty that is more than $100,000. APPROVED by Governor May 30, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/30/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1178 | Local Government Authority to Regulate Pesticides |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | C. Kipp (D) | M. Froelich (D) / L. Cutter (D) | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) |
Summary: | Current law prohibits a local government from creating laws that regulate the use of pesticides by pesticide applicators regulated by state or federal law. The bill allows a local government to create and enforce laws regulating the sale or use of pesticides to protect the health and safety of the community with certain exceptions.
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Status: | 5/6/2024 House Second Reading Special Order - Laid Over to 05/09/2024 - No Amendments |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1179 | 2023 Property Tax Year Updated Abstract |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | C. deGruy Kennedy | L. Frizell (R) / C. Hansen (D) | M. Baisley (R) |
Summary: | A county assessor is required to complete an assessment roll of all taxable property within the assessor's county and an accompanying abstract of assessment (abstract) on or before either August 25 or November 21 of every year, depending on certain conditions. During the first extraordinary session of the seventy-fourth general assembly, the general assembly enacted, and the governor signed on November 20, 2023, Senate Bill 23B-001, which modified the valuation for assessment for residential real property for the 2023 property tax year and accordingly rendered inaccurate the abstracts completed on or before August 25, 2023, and November 21, 2023. The act requires a county assessor to prepare an updated abstract and file a copy of that abstract, along with updated versions of other information that a county assessor is required to append to an abstract, with the property tax administrator no later than February 20, 2024. APPROVED by Governor February 15, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 15, 2024 |
Status: | 2/15/2024 Signed by the President of the Senate |
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HB24-1216 | Supports for Youth in Juvenile Justice System |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Bacon (D) | T. Hernandez / J. Coleman (D) |
Summary: | The act establishes a bill of rights for a K-12 student who is involved in any capacity with the juvenile or criminal justice system (justice-engaged student). School districts, boards of cooperative services, charter schools, and institute charter schools (local education providers) must follow the bill of rights for justice-engaged students. The bill of rights includes, but is not limited to:
Each local education provider shall publish on its website an explanation of the services and resources available for justice-engaged students, including the name, phone number, and email address of a designated, trained point-of-contact person (contact person) at the local education provider. For small and rural school districts that are not members of a BOCES, a designated support person within the department of education (department) may act as a contact person. The contact person shall read and understand the guidance developed by the department and be knowledgeable about alternative education options and wraparound services. Upon notification or request, a local education provider will work with the team of professionals, including the multi-tiered systems of supports, and appropriate intervention teams, families, and justice-engaged students to ensure a pathway to graduation, including workforce development opportunities, access to alternative educational programming, and mental health and other supports as and if appropriate and available. On or before July 1, 2024, the department shall convene an interagency working group to review and make recommendations to the department and joint education committees of the house of representatives and the senate no later than December 1, 2024 regarding justice-engaged students. The board shall promulgate rules to establish a process and framework for interpreting and transferring credits and schoolwork completed by a justice-engaged student while in custody. Local education providers retain the right to suspend or expel a justice-engaged student pursuant to applicable laws. The department shall provide guidance to local education providers on how to allow a justice-engaged student to receive an accommodation to participate in school activities, including, but not limited to, graduation ceremonies, sporting events, after-school activities, and college or career readiness pathways. On or before September 1, 2026, the act requires the department to select and contract with an entity to establish and maintain a statewide hotline for justice-engaged students, families and caregivers, justice system personnel, and education personnel. Each justice-engaged student shall be provided information about the hotline by law enforcement after ticketing or arrest, by the division of youth services after release from the division, and by local education providers after notification that a student has become justice-engaged. The act requires the entity operating the hotline to submit a written report to the department and board on or before June 30, 2025, and each June 30 thereafter. The report must categorize and summarize the number of calls received, the type of person calling, types of supports or referrals provided, and the geography of calls received so that service gaps can be identified. Beginning July 1, 2025, the department shall assist students from small and rural school districts who have been denied re-entry into school by a local education provider. Under current law, if a child or youth is within a court's jurisdiction, a preliminary investigation is made to determine whether further actions be taken to protect the interests of the child or youth or the community. The court or judge or magistrate is encouraged to take into consideration a juvenile's educational progress and ability to achieve credits toward graduation when considering release options. If the court commits a justice-engaged student to the department of human services who does not include a physical threat or bodily injury to another person, the court is encouraged to order that the commitment take place in a manner that allows the justice-engaged student to continue to attend school prior to commitment to avoid disruption of the justice-engaged student's academic progress and ability to achieve credits for a semester. The act appropriates $82,883 from the general fund for the 2024-25 state fiscal year to the department of education for use by student pathways. APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/31/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1218 | Ground Ambulance Service Rates & Billing |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. McCormick (D) | M. Soper (R) / K. Mullica (D) | M. Baisley (R) |
Summary: | For ground ambulance services, the bill:
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Status: | 3/19/2024 House Committee on Health & Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1220 | Workers'Compensation Disability Benefits |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Daugherty (D) / J. Marchman (D) |
Summary: | The act allows a claimant for workers' compensation benefits to refuse an offer of modified employment if the employment requires the claimant to drive to or from work and the treating physician has restricted the claimant from driving. The act adds the loss of an ear to the list of other body parts for which an injured worker can receive whole person permanent impairment benefits. The act increases the current limitations on the amount of money a claimant may claim based on the claimant's impairment rating as follows:
The act requires a workers' compensation insurer to pay benefits to a claimant by direct deposit upon request by the claimant. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025 |
Status: | 6/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1223 | Improved Access to the Child Care Assistance Program |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (2) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | J. Willford (D) | L. Garcia (D) / L. Cutter (D) | D. Michaelson Jenet (D) |
Summary: | The act overhauls the Colorado child care assistance program (CCCAP). The act simplifies the application process by:
Income qualifications are changed to correspond with universal preschool program requirements. A county may exclude state and federal assistance program income eligibility guidelines in eligibility determinations. An employee of a child care provider may apply to the CCCAP and be granted full benefits for children from 6 weeks of age to 13 years of age, regardless of the employee's income. The act directs that child care providers be paid based on enrollment and not on attendance and be paid a weekly rate in advance. Employers are permitted to cover copayments, and copayments are limited to 7% of a family's income. The act authorizes grants and contracts for underserved populations. Starting July 1, 2025, the department shall create a pilot program for unlicensed providers to seek license-exempt status and establishment as an eligible CCCAP provider separate and distinct from the parent-initiated process. A CCCAP recipient is required to engage in an eligible activity to receive benefits. The act includes substance use disorder treatment programs, job training, and education activities as eligible activities. The department of early childhood education, in consultation with the department of public health and environment, shall conduct or contract for a study to determine the feasibility of de-linking eligibility for the federal child and adult care food program from the CCCAP. The act appropriates $100,000 from the general fund to the department of early childhood for the child and adult care food program study. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 4, 2024 |
Status: | 6/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1230 | Protections for Real Property Owners |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Parenti | J. Bacon (D) / F. Winter (D) | L. Cutter (D) |
Summary: | Current law declares void any express waivers of or limitations on the legal rights or remedies provided by the "Construction Defect Action Reform Act" or the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act". Sections 1 and 4 make it a violation of the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act" to obtain or attempt to obtain a waiver or limitation that violates the aforementioned current law. Section 4 also requires a court to award to a claimant that prevails in a claim arising from alleged defects in a residential property construction, in addition to actual damages, prejudgment interest on the claim at a rate of 6% from the date the work is finished to the date it is sold to an occupant and 8% thereafter. Current law requires that a lawsuit against an architect, a contractor, a builder or builder vendor, an engineer, or an inspector performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision, inspection, construction, or observation of construction of an improvement to real property must be brought within 6 years after the claim arises. Section 2 increases the amount of time in which a lawsuit may be brought from 6 to 10 years. Current law also provides that a claim of relief arises when a defect's physical manifestation was discovered or should have been discovered. Section 2 also changes the time when a claim of relief arises to include both the discovery of the physical manifestation and the cause of the defect. |
Status: | 5/7/2024 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 05/09/2024 - No Amendments |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1235 | Reduce Aviation Impacts on Communities |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Brown (D) | S. Bird (D) / S. Fenberg | R. Zenzinger |
Summary: | Section 2 of the act creates a state income tax credit for owners of aircraft that incur qualifying expenses to enable an aircraft that is powered by leaded aviation gasoline to be certified to instead be powered by unleaded aviation gasoline. Sections 3 and 6 provide explicit authority in the existing state aviation grant program for aviation fund grants:
Section 6 also:
Section 4 adds to the division's duties:
Section 5 increases the Colorado aeronautical board (board) from 7 to 9 voting members by requiring the appointment of 2 members who are residents of communities that are affected by general aviation airport traffic or traffic at a commercial airport at which there is significant general aviation activity and makes the executive director of CDPHE, or the executive director's designee, an ex officio nonvoting member of the board. In appointing the 2 new voting members, the governor is required to give priority to individuals who are not trained pilots, are familiar with airport infrastructure, aviation, and the mission of the board, and reside in a community that is significantly impacted by noise or lead emissions by a high-traffic airport with significant general aviation activity. The governor is also required to make appointments to the board so as to ensure a balance broadly representative of the activity level of airports throughout the state and further ensure that the racial, ethnic, and gender makeup of the board is representative of communities that are disproportionately impacted by general aviation airport traffic or traffic at a commercial airport at which there is significant general aviation activity. Section 7 requires the division to evaluate, educate, and provide technical assistance to airports about the adverse impacts of aircraft noise on health, safety, and welfare and requires the division to prioritize these activities at airports with significant general aviation activity that are located in densely populated residential areas or have a significant number of flights over such areas. Section 8 appropriates $44,609 from the general fund to the department of revenue and reappropriates $2,591 of the appropriation to the department of personnel for implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2024 |
Status: | 5/17/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1237 | Programs for the Development of Child Care Facilities |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Bradfield (R) | M. Lukens (D) / J. Marchman (D) | J. Rich (R) |
Summary: | The act creates 3 new programs to be implemented and administered by the division of housing in the department of local affairs (division). The division is required to adopt policies, procedures, and guidelines for each program on or before November 1, 2024; except that, if there is insufficient funding before July 1, 2025 to implement and administer the child care facility development capital grant program, then the division is required to adopt policies, procedures, and guidelines for this program on or before November 1, 2025. For each program, consultation between the division and the department of early childhood is required for the policies the division develops and adopts to implement the programs. Additionally, the division is required to publish on its website and submit an annual report regarding the programs to specified legislative committees and to the department of early childhood. The child care facility development toolkit and technical assistance program is created to provide technical assistance from consultants and related professionals to enable interested child care providers, developers, employers, public schools, institutions of higher education, and local governments to understand the technical aspects of planning, developing, building, and co-locating child care facilities. The division must prioritize applications for projects that will meet a demonstrable need for child care in the areas of greatest need across the state and that satisfy one or more purposes of the program. The division's annual report must contain information regarding the assistance provided under this program and the uses of such assistance by program recipients. This program is available until July 1, 2028. The child care facility development planning grant program is created to incentivize and support local governments in identifying and making regulatory updates or improvements to community planning, development, building, zoning, and other regulatory processes to support the development of child care facilities. The division must develop a menu of recommended policy or regulatory tools, and eligible recipients for the grant must intend to implement one or more of such tools off the menu or identify other local policies or programs to implement to streamline the eligible recipient's regulatory environment for the development of child care facilities. The division's annual report must contain information regarding the amount of grants distributed and a description of recipients' use of the grants. This program is available until July 1, 2028. The child care facility development capital grant program is created to provide eligible entities, which are local governments, public schools, institutions of higher education, or public-private partnerships, with money to support the development of licensed child care and to construct, remodel, renovate, or retrofit a child care facility to meet a demonstrated need for child care in an eligible entity's community. The division shall utilize the state housing board within the division to review and make recommendations on grant applications. Grant recipients are required to provide a financial match. The financial match required from a grant recipient is 50% for a center-based facility and 25% for a home-based facility. More weight is given to applications that represent geographic diversity, will serve a high percentage of families below the area's median income, commit to providing a well-compensated staff, co-locate with or repurpose facilities with other uses, plan to serve children in regions with low child care capacity, or plan to serve infants and toddlers. The division's annual report must contain information regarding the amount of grants distributed and a description of recipients' use of the grants. The act also creates the child care facility development cash fund (fund) for use by the division to administer and implement the 3 programs and to make grants under the child care facility development planning grant program and the child care facility development capital grant program. On August 15, 2024, the state treasurer shall transfer $250,000 from the general fund to the fund. The money from the transfer must be used before June 30, 2025, to implement the child care facility development toolkit and technical assistance program and the child care facility development planning grant program, and the division must prioritize money first for the toolkit and technical assistance program. Then, after June 30, 2025 but before June 30, 2028, money from the transfer can be used for all 3 programs, and after July 1, 2028, but before June 30, 2029, money from the transfer may be used for the child care facility development capital grant program. Additionally, the division may receive gifts, grants, or donations to implement and administer and make grants under the child care facility development capital grant program. The division may also use $70,000 from the general fund transfer for administrative costs. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $250,000 from the child care facility development cash fund to the department of local affairs for child care facility development. APPROVED by Governor May 29, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/29/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1239 | Single-Exit Stairway Multifamily Structure |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | A. Valdez (D) | A. Boesenecker (D) / K. Priola |
Summary: | On or before December 1, 2026, the bill requires a board of county commissioners or the governing body of a municipality to adopt a building code, or amend an existing building code, to allow up to 5 stories of a multifamily residential building to be served by a single exit. To satisfy this requirement, a local government shall incorporate by reference and adopt or adapt and adopt language from a portion of an existing building code that allows a single exit to serve no more than 5 stories of a group r-2 occupancy in the same building. If a local government so requests, the department of local affairs shall provide technical assistance to the local government in satisfying this requirement. The bill also clarifies that the adoption or amendment of a building code to satisfy the requirements of the bill does not qualify as adopting or enforcing a building code for the purpose of determining whether a board of county commissioners or the governing body of a municipality is required to adopt an energy code.
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Status: | 4/10/2024 House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1241 | Alignment of Petty Property Crime Threshold |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | E. Epps | J. Mabrey (D) / R. Rodriguez (D) |
Summary: | Under current law, if a defendant is charged with a traffic offense, a petty offense, or a comparable municipal offense, a court shall not impose a monetary condition of release. Specifically, the provision applies to a comparable municipal offense that is a property crime and reflects a value of less than $50. The act removes the monetary threshold and instead states that the court cannot impose a monetary condition of release for a comparable municipal offense that would be a petty offense property crime under state law. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 11, 2024 |
Status: | 4/11/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1246 | Electric Grid Resilience Temporary Carbon Dioxide Regulation |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. DeGraaf (R) |
Summary: | The bill requires the public utilities commission (commission) to develop a contingency plan to create electrical generation and grid resilience against geomagnetic storms. Standards are set for the plan. The commission shall promulgate rules requiring an electrical utility to:
Current law sets carbon dioxide emission reduction goals for the years 2030 and 2050. The bill extends these goals to 2040 and 2060 and makes these goals a lower priority than the electrical generation and distribution resilience provisions of the bill. The bill prohibits the classification of carbon dioxide as an air pollutant and establishes, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, that state statute, executive agency rules, and any regulations of political subdivisions of the state must not include the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as a pollutant. Any portion of an executive agency rule that treats carbon dioxide emissions as a pollutant is void.
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Status: | 3/13/2024 House Committee on Energy & Environment Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1250 | Driving Improvement Course Driver's License Points |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Armagost (R) | C. Kipp (D) / C. Hansen (D) | J. Smallwood |
Summary: | The act allows an individual who has been convicted of a traffic infraction or a misdemeanor traffic offense to attend a driving improvement course for the purpose of waiving license suspension points for the conviction. The individual must complete a driving improvement course that is offered by a commercial driving school and is approved by the department of revenue (department). The department must adopt rules that:
The act sets standards for the approval of driving improvement courses. The department may charge a commercial driving school both a fee to approve a driving improvement course and a fee for each individual who claims a points waiver. The fee must be set in an amount sufficient to offset the direct and indirect cost of administering the waiver program. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1260 | Prohibition Against Employee Discipline |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Duran (D) | T. Hernandez / J. Danielson (D) |
Summary: | The act prohibits an employer from subjecting or threatening to subject an employee to discipline, discharge, or an adverse employment action on account of the employee's refusal to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting concerning religious or political matters or for declining to listen to the speech of or view religious or political communications from the employer or the agent, representative, or designee of the employer. With regard to state employees, the prohibitions apply only to meetings and communications relating to state employees' decisions to join or support a fraternal or labor organization. Certain employer communications are exempt from the prohibition, including communications:
Certain communications from institutions of higher education and K-12 schools and school districts are also exempt when the communication is related to coursework, symposia, or an academic program. The act does not apply to certain religious corporations, entities, associations, educational institutions, societies, or nonprofit faith-based health systems or facilities. The act authorizes an aggrieved person to seek relief by filing a complaint with the department of labor and employment (department) or by filing an action in district court after the person has exhausted all administrative remedies and has filed a complaint with the department. The act also creates an affirmative defense for employers. Each employer is required to distribute, at the employer's workplace or through e-mail or a regularly used communication system, a notice to each employee of the employee rights outlined in the act. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, $278,564 is appropriated from the general fund to the department for use by the division of labor standards and statistics to implement the act. VETOED by Governor May 17, 2024 |
Status: | 5/17/2024 Governor Vetoed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1266 | Local Government Utility Relocation in Right-of-Way |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | E. Hamrick (D) | L. Frizell (R) / R. Zenzinger |
Summary: | The act establishes a process by which local governments and investor-owned utility companies with more than 250,000 customers may coordinate on utility relocation work that is necessitated by a road improvement project. A road improvement project does not include a project in a roadway under the control of the Colorado department of transportation (CDOT) unless the construction is performed by or under the direction of the local government pursuant to an agreement with CDOT. Under the process established by the act, a local government is required to notify any affected utility company of the details of a road improvement project before beginning the project and in the event of a change in the scope of the proposed project. These details include the proposed design, funding details, the specifics of the utility conflict, and the estimated timeline for the road improvement project and utility relocation. If local governments and utility companies so choose, they may coordinate on road improvement projects necessitating the removal, relocation, or alteration of utility lines in a local government's right-of-way and commit to a schedule for utility relocation by means of a clearance letter. The required components for a clearance letter include the scope of the utility relocation, schedule and coordination requirements for the utility relocation, accountability for traffic management and the discovery of hazardous materials, a dispute resolution mechanism, and requirements for prompt performance, staking, and project approval. A clearance letter must also provide that the utility company pay for actual damages associated with its delay in the performance of the utility relocation, except those caused by a force majeure, the discovery of hazardous materials, or a change in the scope or schedule of the road improvement project. The act also outlines the timeline and process for a local government to accept or reject a completed utility relocation. The utility relocation coordination process outlined by the act does not prevent a local government from pursuing alterative arrangements for road improvement projects, in which case the local government and utility company need not follow the process requirements outlined in the act. The act does not cover a local government that has granted a franchise to a utility company and does not alter the terms of any franchise or license granted pursuant to statute or the state constitution. APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/3/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1268 | Financial Assistance for Certain Low-Income Individuals |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Weissman (D) | D. Ortiz / T. Exum (D) | R. Fields |
Summary: | The act modifies the "Property Tax/Rent/Heat Credit Rebate" (PTC),which is available to qualifying seniors and individuals with a disability who earn income below a threshold amount and who pay real property tax, or a tax equivalent through rent, or heat or fuel expenses, or an equivalent through rent, by:
Qualified individuals with a disability for tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2025, are allowed an income tax credit. Eligibility with respect to disability mirrors the eligibility as it exists under current law for the PTC. The income tax credit is allowed in the following amounts:
The department of revenue must adjust the amounts of the credit and the amounts of adjusted gross income annually for inflation. An individual who is both a qualifying senior and a qualified individual with a disability and meets the eligibility requirements to claim both the income tax credit and the PTC can only claim one or the other in the same income tax year. APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
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HB24-1279 | Vote Tracking Number Elections |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. DeGraaf (R) |
Summary: | A distributed ledger is a permanent database that is consensually shared, synchronized, and publicly accessible. A distributed ledger allows information to be entered into a publicly available common database from multiple locations at different times. The bill establishes a system for the use of distributed ledgers in elections. In the case of an elector who votes in person:
In the case of an elector who votes by mail:
Before any ballot is counted, it is verified, in the presence of a token assignment observer team, that a unique vote tracking number is attached to the ballot. Upon counting a ballot, unless the ballot is counted as part of a manual count, a cast vote record of the ballot including the vote tracking number must be created and entered into the cast vote record distributed ledger. The public may access the various distributed ledgers described in the bill to confirm that the approach in the bill is followed and that votes are counted accurately. The public may also access a tally status report distributed ledger as votes are counted to track election results.
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Status: | 2/26/2024 House Committee on State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1283 | Secretary of State Review of Municipal Campaign Finance Complaints |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Willford (D) | J. Marvin / K. Mullica (D) |
Summary: | The clerk of a municipality (clerk) is authorized to refer a campaign finance complaint (complaint) that was filed with the clerk and that arises out of a municipal campaign finance matter to the secretary of state (secretary) if the municipality in which the complaint was filed has adopted an ordinance that:
Before referring a complaint to the secretary, a clerk is required to review the complaint to determine if it was filed in writing, signed by the complainant, and identifies one or more respondents. If the complaint does not satisfy these 3 criteria, the clerk is required to dismiss it, and if it does, the clerk is required to refer it to the secretary. To refer a complaint to the secretary a municipality must provide a copy of the ordinance that authorizes such referral to the secretary within 180 days of the election. The act specifies certain criteria that the ordinance must satisfy. A clerk is required to provide notice to a person who files a complaint if the clerk dismisses the complaint or refers the complaint to the secretary. A municipality is required to cooperate with the secretary in the review, investigation, and determination of any complaint referred to the secretary. If the secretary receives a complaint referred by a clerk, the secretary is required to deem the complaint filed with the secretary on the date of receipt from the clerk and ensure that the complaint is addressed in accordance with the requirements of the act. In addition, if the complaint is referred by a home rule municipality, the secretary is required to apply the substantive provisions of the home rule municipality's local law in processing, investigating, and resolving the complaint. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, $170,723 is appropriated to the department of state from the department of state cash fund for the implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/3/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1284 | Pretrial Release for Repeat Violent Offenses |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | G. Evans | S. Bird (D) / B. Pelton (R) | D. Roberts (D) |
Summary: | The bill prohibits a court, without the consent of the district attorney, from releasing a person on any unsecured personal recognizance bond if the person is accused of committing a crime of violence and the court finds probable cause to believe that the person has committed the offense, and:
Existing law requires any monetary condition of pretrial release to be reasonable. The bill states that a reasonable monetary condition for a repeat violent offender is at least $7,500.
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Status: | 4/2/2024 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1292 | Prohibit Certain Weapons Used in Mass Shootings |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | T. Hernandez | E. Epps / J. Gonzales (D) |
Summary: | The bill defines the term "assault weapon" and prohibits a person from manufacturing, importing, purchasing, selling, offering to sell, or transferring ownership of an assault weapon. The bill further prohibits a person from possessing a rapid-fire trigger activator.
The prohibition does not apply to:
(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
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Status: | 5/7/2024 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1294 | Mobile Homes in Mobile Home Parks |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | A. Boesenecker (D) | E. Velasco (D) / L. Cutter (D) |
Summary: | The act modifies the"Mobile Home Park Act" as follows:
In addition, the act specifies the duties and rights of the purchaser and the seller of a mobile home in connection with an agreement in which the purchaser agrees to purchase a mobile home over a period of time that is mutually agreed upon by the seller of the mobile home (rent-to-own contract) and specifies the terms and conditions that must be included in a rent-to-own contract. However, these provisions of the act apply only to a rent-to-own contract for a mobile home that is located in a mobile home park and only when the seller of the mobile home is the owner of the mobile home park or owns more than one mobile home within the mobile home park. The provisions regarding rent-to-own contracts take effect June 30, 2024. Specifically, the act:
Beginning June 30, 2024, the act authorizes the attorney general to independently initiate and bring civil and criminal action to enforce the provisions of the rent-to-own mobile home contract law. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $40,966 to the department of law for the implementation the act. The appropriation is from reappropriated funds received by the department of local affairs from the "Mobile Home Park Act" dispute resolution and enforcement program fund. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE June 4, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE June 30, 2024 |
Status: | 6/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1296 | Modifications to the Colorado Open Records Act |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | C. Kipp (D) | M. Soper (R) / J. Marchman (D) |
Summary: | The bill makes the following changes to the "Colorado Open Records Act" (CORA):
(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
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Status: | 5/1/2024 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1299 | Short-Term Rental Unit Property Tax Classification |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Bird (D) / K. Mullica (D) |
Summary: | The bill defines a short-term rental unit as a building that is designed for use predominantly as a place of residency by a person, a family, or families, is leased or available to be leased for short-term stays, and includes the land upon which the building is located. A commercial short-term rental unit is defined as a short-term rental unit that is not the owner's primary or secondary residence. A commercial short-term rental unit is classified as lodging property, which is a subclass of nonresidential property for purposes of valuation for assessment. A short-term rental unit that is the owner's primary or secondary residence will continue to be classified as residential property. On or before November 15, 2024, and on or before November 15 of each year thereafter, an owner of a short-term rental unit shall submit to the assessor of the county in which the property is located an affidavit signed by the owner, under the penalty of perjury in the second degree, identifying whether the property will continue to be used as a short-term rental unit in the following property tax year commencing on January 1, and if so, whether it will be the owner's primary or secondary residence. Absent contrary information, the assessor shall use the information in the affidavit to determine whether the property is a commercial short-term rental unit. If a commercial short-term rental unit is sold, the new owner shall submit an affidavit to the county assessor if the property will no longer be a commercial short-term rental unit for the classification of the property to change for the subsequent property tax year.
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Status: | 4/22/2024 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1303 | Colorado Open Meetings Law for the General Assembly |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | E. Epps |
Summary: | The bill makes several modifications and clarifications to the application of the "Colorado Open Meetings Law" (COML) to any state public body of the general assembly. The bill clarifies that a meeting of any political party caucus, which are the caucuses associated with each major political party in each chamber of the general assembly, is subject to the provisions of the COML if the meeting relates to the public business of the general assembly and excludes any other type of caucus made up of members of the general assembly from the provisions of the COML. Additionally, the bill establishes that serial meetings, which are a series of meetings between 2 or more members of a state public body that individually do not constitute a meeting of a quorum of the body but collectively constitute a meeting of a quorum of the body, are a violation of the COML. The bill modifies the provisions of the COML concerning written electronic communication between members of a state public body of the general assembly by excluding such communication, regardless of the length of time the communication is available for, from the requirements of the COML unless the communication occurs contemporaneously between a quorum of a state public body of the general assembly during a meeting of the body and is concerning public business and unless the communication constitutes a serial meeting. In both instances, such communication is a violation of the COML. The bill clarifies that written electronic communication may be subject to the provisions of the "Colorado Open Records Act". The bill also modifies certain requirements for notice and minutes required for meetings of state public bodies of the general assembly. Notice must specify any applicable statutory provisions for the notice. Minutes must include the names of all members of the general assembly in attendance, whether their attendance was in-person, virtual, or a hybrid of both, and note if a recording of the meeting was made.
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Status: | 4/9/2024 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB24-1304 | Minimum Parking Requirements |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Vigil | S. Woodrow (D) / K. Priola | N. Hinrichsen (D) |
Summary: | The act prohibits a municipality that is within a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) or a county that has unincorporated areas within an MPO (local government), on or after June 30, 2025, from enacting or enforcing minimum parking requirements that apply to a land use approval for a multi-family residential development, adaptive re-use for residential purposes, or adaptive re-use mixed-use purposes which include at least 50% of use for residential purposes that is within, as applicable, the unincorporated area of the county or the municipality, within a metropolitan planning organization, and at least partially within an applicable transit service area. An applicable transit service area is an area identified by a map published by the department of local affairs as an area that is one-quarter mile of certain transit stops. The prohibition on enacting or enforcing minimum parking requirements does not lower the protections provided for persons with disabilities or prohibit a local government from:
Furthermore, notwithstanding the prohibition on enacting or enforcing minimum parking requirements, a local government may impose or enforce a minimum parking requirement in connection with a housing development project that is intended to contain twenty unity or more or contain regulated affordable housing. To impose or enforce such a minimum parking requirement, a county or municipality must publish certain written findings and annually report to the department of local affairs. Lastly, the act requires the department of local affairs:
APPROVED by Governor May 10, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/10/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1308 | Effective Implementation of Affordable Housing Programs |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Frizell (R) | W. Lindstedt (D) / J. Gonzales (D) |
Summary: | The division of housing (division) within the department of local affairs must submit an annual public report on the funding of affordable housing preservation and production (public report). The act requires that the division include in the report specific information on uses of existing state and federal funds to provide best use of subsidies to maximize unit production and confirmation of rules and practices to ensure developments are not disqualified for funding support from the division if the development has previously received money from funds established by proposition 123. The act further requires the division to add to the public report information on applications for affordable housing programs that the division administers, including the number of applications approved, denied, and pending, the amount of money awarded from approved applications, and the amount of money applied for but not awarded from denied applications. The act also requires the division to add to the public report information regarding money in the housing development grant fund, including amounts in the fund and the use of the money in the preceding year, and information about the timing for drafting, delivering, and executing contracts that are required in connection with receiving money from the fund. The act also establishes procedures and timelines for the division to follow for affordable housing programs administered by the division. The act requires that the division accept applications once a quarter, with the cycle beginning at the start of a state fiscal year, and requires that the division review applications and issue any requests for additional information, forms, or questions to applicants within 10 calendar days of an application period closing. The division is required to publish the application schedule by May 1 for the upcoming cycle and update the schedule 60 days before the start of the next quarter; except that the division must publish the application schedule for the second half of the 2024-25 state fiscal year by November 1, 2024. If the division will not be accepting applications for any affordable housing program for an upcoming quarter, the division must publish notice of this with an explanation as to why applications won't be accepted for the program. The division must either issue final decisions on applications or submit applications to the board of housing for final decision within 45 days following the submission of completed applications. If applications are submitted to the state housing board, the state housing board must make a final decision on an application at its next regularly scheduled meeting. After a final decision approving an application, the division shall issue an award letter that includes information on the timeline for issuing money to the applicant, any terms for a loan or grant period, and any conditions that must be met before a contract in connection with the approval is executed. The division shall also provide a draft contract to the approved applicant within 30 days of the application being approved. Within 90 days of the division receiving a substantially complete post-award due diligence package from an approved applicant, the division shall execute any required contracts for the affordable housing program and send it to the approved applicant within 10 days of execution; except that the 90 day period pauses for the period from when an approved applicant receives a preliminary draft contract from the division until the division receives the executed contract from the approved applicant. The act also amends existing grant, loan, and other affordable housing programs administered by the division to require the application process to be followed for any applications submitted under these programs and requires any programs that have adopted policies, procedures, or guidelines for the application process to be amended if they are inconsistent with the application process established by the act. The act also modifies the "City Housing Law". The act expands the term "housing project" to include the provision of dwelling accommodations to persons without regard to income as long as the housing project substantially benefits persons of low income. The act clarifies that, in addition to the authority to construct a housing project, a city is authorized to acquire, own, or lease a housing project and that a city can manage, operate, and maintain, or contract for the management, operation, and maintenance of any housing project owned or leased by the city. The act adds an alternative option to the requirement that the city deliver possession of a housing project to a housing authority within the city's boundaries to instead allow the city to contract with a nonprofit or private entity to manage, maintain, and operate the housing project. The act also allows a community land trust or nonprofit affordable housing homeownership developer or its authorized agent that is applying for a property tax exemption with the division of property taxation to submit only one application and one annual report if the property that is the subject of the exemption application and report has been subdivided. However, the application and the report must be accompanied by payment not to exceed the aggregate amount of payments that would be required if individual applications or reports were filed for each parcel and once a subdivided parcel has been split into a separate taxable parcel from the improvements and is leased to the owner of the improvements, the developer or their designee must file an individual annual report for the subdivided parcel. APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/31/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1313 | Housing in Transit-Oriented Communities |
Position: | Oppose |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Woodrow (D) | I. Jodeh (D) / C. Hansen (D) | F. Winter (D) |
Summary: | Section 1 of the act establishes a category of local government: A transit-oriented community. As defined in the act, a transit-oriented community is either a local government that:
If the local government is a county, contains either a part of:
The act requires a transit-oriented community to meet its housing opportunity goal. A housing opportunity goal is a zoning capacity goal determined based on an average zoned housing density of 40 dwelling units per acre multiplied by the number of acres of transit-related areas within a transit-oriented community. On or before September 30, 2024, the department of local affairs (department) shall develop a map that identifies the transit-related areas necessary for the calculation of a housing opportunity goal and the various reports required by the act. To accomplish its housing opportunity goal, a transit-oriented community shall ensure that the zoning capacity within certain areas of the transit-oriented community meets or exceeds the transit-oriented community's housing opportunity goal. The main category of area that the act requires a transit-oriented community to increase the zoning capacity of to meet the transit-oriented community's housing opportunity goal is a transit center. In order to qualify as a transit center, an area must:
In addition to designating an area as a transit center for purposes of meeting a housing opportunity goal, the act allows local governments to designate areas as neighborhood centers for that purpose. The act requires transit-oriented communities to submit a series of reports to the department regarding the calculation, satisfaction, and implementation of a transit-oriented community's housing opportunity goal. The act requires a transit-oriented community to submit the following to the department:
Additionally, on or before December 31, 2026, a transit-oriented community may notify the department that the transit-oriented community has an insufficient water supply to accomplish its housing opportunity goal, and the transit-oriented community may make a corresponding request for the department to modify the transit-oriented community's housing opportunity goal. If the department approves a transit-oriented community's housing opportunity goal report on or before December 31, 2027, the department shall designate the transit-oriented community as a certified transit-oriented community. A certified transit-oriented community is the only eligible entity for the transit-oriented communities infrastructure fund grant program (grant program) created within the department. The purpose of the grant program is to assist transit-oriented communities in upgrading infrastructure within transit centers and neighborhood centers. In administering the grant program, the department shall prioritize grant applicants based on the information in the reports described in the act. Grants from the grant program are awarded from money in the transit-oriented communities infrastructure fund (fund). The fund consists of gifts, grants, and donations along with money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund and money in the account described in the act. The fund is continuously appropriated. On July 1, 2024, the state treasurer shall transfer $35 million from the general fund to the fund. Section 2 prohibits a planned unit development resolution or ordinance that is adopted on or after the effective date of the act and that applies within a transit center or neighborhood center from restricting the development of housing more than the local law that applies to that transit center or neighborhood center. Section 3 requires a local government, when requiring a real property owner to dedicate real property to the public, to provide a private property owner the option of paying a fee, rather than dedicating the private real property to the public, if the real property does not meet local government standards for dedication. Section 4 makes any restriction by a unit owners' association within a transit center or neighborhood center on the development of housing that is adopted on or after the effective date of the act and is beyond the local law that applies to that transit center or neighborhood center void as a matter of public policy. Section 5 requires the department of transportation to conduct a study that identifies both:
In addition to the $35 million appropriated to the fund, section 7 makes 2 appropriations. First, section 7 appropriates $183,138 to the governor for use by the Colorado energy office to implement the act. Second, section 7 appropriates $70,000 to the governor for use by the office of information technology to provide information services for the department. APPROVED by Governor May 13, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 13, 2024 |
Status: | 5/13/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1314 | Modification Tax Credit Preservation Historic Structures |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Lukens (D) | M. Martinez (D) / J. Gonzales (D) | P. Will |
Summary: | The act modifies the income tax credit for qualified costs incurred in preservation of historic structures (credit) by:
To implement the act, for the 2024-25 state fiscal year:
APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/24/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1315 | Study on Remediation of Property Damaged by Fire |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Brown (D) | J. Amabile (D) / L. Cutter (D) |
Summary: | The act requires the division of insurance (division) to conduct or cause to be conducted a study regarding the remediation of residential premises that have been damaged from smoke, soot, ash, and other contaminants as a result of a fire. The study focuses on existing practices for the remediation of homes that have been damaged by smoke, soot, ash, and other contaminants as a result of a fire and requires the division to make recommendations for establishing uniform standards related to such remediation. The division may contract with a third party to conduct all or part of the study. The division must submit a report of the study's findings and recommendations to certain committees of the general assembly by January 1, 2026. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, $219,909 is appropriated to the department of regulatory agencies for use by the division. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/5/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1316 | Middle-Income Housing Tax Credit |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | W. Lindstedt (D) | M. Lindsay (D) / J. Bridges (D) |
Summary: | The act creates a pilot program for an income tax credit for owners of qualified housing developments focused on rental housing for middle-income individuals and families. Middle-income individuals and families have an annual household income between 80% and 120% of the area median income of the households of the same size in the county in which the housing development is located; except that, for rural resort counties, the annual income is between 80% and 140% of the respective area median income. During the calendar years commencing on January 1, 2025, and ending on December 31, 2029, the owner of a qualified housing development may be allocated a credit by the Colorado housing and finance authority (CHFA). The amount of the credit is determined by CHFA. The allocation of credits must follow CHFA's published allocation plan and the aggregate amount of credits allocated in one calendar year, not including any unallocated credits from preceding years that may be allocated, cannot exceed:
The aggregate amount of any unallocated credits remaining as of December 31, 2029, is added to the amount of credits that CHFA may allocate for the state affordable housing tax credit. The allocated credit amount may be used to offset a qualified taxpayer's income taxes each year for a period of 5 years, beginning in the year that the qualified housing development is placed in service. Although the credit may only be claimed for a 5-year period, the owner is required to provide middle-income housing in the qualified housing development for 15 years. A portion of the credit may be recaptured under certain conditions, for instance when the owner reduces the number of units serving middle-income individuals and families. In addition, the credit is allowed against insurance premium taxes for eligible taxpayers that are not subject to income taxes. A governmental or quasi-governmental entity, including the middle-income housing authority, may be allocated a credit if it owns a qualified housing development. A credit allocated to a governmental or quasi-governmental entity is subject to the same conditions, allocation rights, and recapture as a credit allocated to a qualified owner; except that a governmental or quasi-governmental entity may also transfer credits to any qualified taxpayer. The act also requires CHFA to annually report on the middle-income housing tax credit pilot program to the general assembly, to make the report publicly available, and, as part of CFHA's final annual report, to provide certain information summarizing the overall success of the pilot program. The middle-income housing tax credit is repealed on January 1, 2055. APPROVED by Governor May 30, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 30, 2024 |
Status: | 5/30/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1317 | Workforce Data Collection |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Young | S. Lieder (D) |
Summary: | The bill requires the director of the division of employment and training (director) in the department of labor and employment to annually collect, analyze, and make recommendations to the general assembly based on data from workforce centers; the state, in relation to data it has collected concerning workers in specific age categories, beginning at age 50; and individuals with disabilities. The bill also requires the director, every 3 years, to conduct, or contract with an another entity to conduct, a survey to better understand the experiences and needed tools and resources of individuals in Colorado who are 55 years of age or older and are considering entering or reentering the workforce, are unemployed, underemployed, or are looking for a career change.
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1318 | Modify Rental Premises Person with Disability |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Ortiz / J. Danielson (D) |
Summary: | Under current law, it is unlawful for a person to discriminate against a renter in the rental of a dwelling because the renter has a disability. Discrimination includes a refusal to permit reasonable modifications of existing premises occupied or to be occupied by an individual with a disability if the modifications are necessary to afford the individual with full enjoyment of the premises. The act removes the provision that allows a landlord to condition permission for a modification on the renter agreeing to restore the interior of the premises. The act also removes the provision that requires a modification to be at the expense of the individual with a disability. APPROVED by Governor May 28, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/28/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: |
HB24-1330 | Air Quality Permitting |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Bacon (D) | J. Willford (D) / L. Cutter (D) |
Summary: |
On and after January 1, 2025, the division or commission must base any determination on the modeling of air quality impacts from emissions (air quality modeling). If a permit is granted after air quality modeling is conducted:
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1331 | Out-of-School Time Grant Program |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Taggart (R) | J. Bacon (D) / B. Kirkmeyer (R) | J. Bridges (D) |
Summary: | The act creates the out-of-school time program grant program (grant program) to provide grants to eligible 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organizations to provide academic enrichment and related services to public school students during times when school is not in session. The department of education (department) is required to administer the grant program. Grants must be used for:
Grantees are required to annually report to the department, and the department is required to annually provide a report to the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $3.5 million from the general fund to the department for the grant program. The act requires the general assembly to appropriate $3.5 million to the department for the grant program in the 2025-26 and 2026-27 state fiscal years. APPROVED by Governor May 23, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/23/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1334 | Broadband Service for Multiunit Buildings |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | A. Boesenecker (D) / C. Hansen (D) |
Summary: | The act prohibits a property owner (owner) of a multiunit building, including a multidwelling and multitenant building and a mobile home park, from denying a broadband provider (provider) access to the property to install the necessary infrastructure to provide broadband service. The act specifies the legal obligations and rights of both broadband providers and owners regarding the deployment of broadband infrastructure. APPROVED by Governor May 22, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/22/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1338 | Cumulative Impacts & Environmental Justice |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE - CONT'D (8) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | M. Rutinel (D) | E. Velasco (D) / D. Michaelson Jenet (D) |
Summary: | The environmental justice action task force was created in the department of public health and environment (CDPHE) to develop recommendations for measures to achieve environmental justice in the state. The task force completed its work and published a final report on November 14, 2022, which report included a recommendation for the development of environmental equity and cumulative impact analyses (EECIA) in the state. The act creates the office of environmental justice (office) in CDPHE and requires the office to oversee a process to develop at least 2 EECIAs for specific geographic locations in the state. Once an EECIA is developed, various state agencies will be able to rely on the EECIA in conducting cumulative impact analyses regarding certain activities that may result in pollution. The office must choose as locations for the EECIAs communities that are disproportionately impacted communities, with priority given to communities that have a heightened potential for widespread human exposure to environmental contaminants. After selecting a location for an EECIA, CDPHE must contract with an academic institution or other third party to develop an EECIA. In developing an EECIA, the applicable contractor must perform a scientifically rigorous analysis that includes most of the recommendations made by the environmental justice action task force. Within 9 months after completing the first EECIA, CDPHE is required to prepare a report, which includes identifying any recommendations or resources needed for implementing the findings of the EECIA. CDPHE must submit the report to certain legislative committees. On or before January 1, 2025, the division of administration (division) in CDPHE is required to hire a petroleum refinery regulation expert to examine whether a rule establishing petroleum refinery control regulations should be adopted by the air quality control commission and examine other regulatory or nonregulatory measures performed. After January 1, 2025, a petroleum refinery in the state must comply with certain monitoring requirements to provide real-time emissions monitoring data to the division. The division is required to establish a rapid response inspection team to respond quickly to air quality complaints received. Once the team is established, the team must develop processes and best practices for quickly responding to such complaints, engage in outreach to communities regarding events and conditions that lead to excess air pollution emissions in those communities, and track and report on the division's website the number of complaints filed and the formal action, if any, taken on each complaint. $1,829,087 is appropriated from the general fund to CDPHE for implementation of the act. Of the amount appropriated:
APPROVED by Governor May 28, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 28, 2024 |
Status: | 5/28/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1339 | Disproportionately Impact Community Air Pollution |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Weissman (D) | M. Rutinel (D) / F. Winter (D) |
Summary: | Under current law, the air quality control commission (commission) consists of 9 members. As of October 1, 2024, section 2 of the bill increases the membership of the commission to 11 members to include:
Under current law, the commission is required to adopt rules regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the industrial and manufacturing sector (sector). Section 3 requires the commission to adopt rules, to be implemented by January 1, 2025, that:
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1341 | State Vehicle Idling Standard |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Marvin | J. Willford (D) / L. Cutter (D) |
Summary: | Current law imposes a uniform state idling standard on an owner or operator of a covered vehicle that prohibits the vehicle from idling for more than 5 minutes within any 60-minute period, except in certain situations. Current law also prohibits a local government from enacting a resolution or ordinance concerning the idling of a covered vehicle that is more stringent than the state idling standard. The act authorizes a local government to enact a resolution or ordinance concerning the idling of a covered vehicle that is at least as stringent as, but not less stringent than, the state idling standard and requires any local government with an idling standard to include certain exemptions. The act also exempts a critical service or utility provider when performing the functions of the provider's duties from the idling standard and declares that the idling standard is a matter of mixed local and statewide concern. APPROVED by Governor April 29, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 4/29/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1343 | Wildfire Evacuation Modeling Grant Program |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Snyder (D) |
Summary: | The bill creates the wildfire evacuation modeling grant program (program) within the office of emergency management (office) for the purpose of awarding grants to eligible recipients to perform wildfire evacuation modeling and generate reports that include times, maps showing evacuation routes, and any other relevant metrics for the area for which the modeling is being conducted. The program is initially administered as a pilot program and the office must establish a limited number of eligible recipients to receive grants. On or before December 1, 2025, the office must submit a report to the house of representatives agriculture, water, and natural resources committee and the senate agriculture and natural resources committee, or their successor committees, regarding the pilot program, which may include recommendations for improving the program and recommendations on whether to continue the program. The bill also creates the wildfire evacuation modeling grant program cash fund (fund) for the purposes of awarding grants and covering administrative costs of the office for administering the program. On August 15, 2024, the state treasurer shall transfer $120,000 from the general fund to the fund.
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1346 | Energy & Carbon Management Regulation |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Titone (D) | K. McCormick (D) / C. Hansen (D) | K. Priola |
Summary: | The act expands the authority of the energy and carbon management commission (commission) to include the regulation of activities performed for the purpose of engaging in the injection and underground sequestration of injection carbon dioxide in pore space (geologic storage operations). The commission may:
Current law requires the commission to promulgate rules that evaluate and address the cumulative impacts of oil and gas operations by April 28, 2024. The act changes current law by extending the deadline for the rule-making to September 30, 2024, and requiring the evaluation of cumulative impacts to address impacts from all operations regulated by the commission. Wells drilled for the exclusive purpose of obtaining subsurface data or information to support operations are not subject to a cumulative impact analysis. The act also allows the director of the commission to hire and designate employees of the commission as administrative law judges who have the authority to administer proceedings on behalf of the commission. Current law provides a statute of limitations of one year after the date of an alleged violation of energy and carbon management laws (violation). The act changes this statute of limitations to 3 years after the discovery of the alleged violation and provides that the 3-year statute of limitations period does not apply if information regarding the alleged violation is knowingly or willfully concealed by the alleged violator. The act also expands the following energy and carbon management law areas to include geologic storage operations:
The act also establishes that:
Upon application of any interested person, the commission must hold a hearing and enter an order (order) providing for the formation of a unit of one or more geologic storage resources (geologic storage unit) if the commission finds that the geologic storage unit is reasonably necessary to effectuate a geologic storage project. The order must include terms and conditions that are just and reasonable and establish a plan for operations of the geologic storage unit (plan). An order is effective only if the plan has been approved by those persons that collectively own at least 75% of the geologic storage resources included in the geologic storage unit area (required approval) and the commission makes a finding in the order of the required approval. The act also allows a local government to request that the director of the commission appoint a technical review board to assist the local government in analyzing and answering any technical questions regarding the local government's land use regulations. The act also requires the department of public health and environment (department) to develop carbon dioxide accounting procedures for geologic storage operations. The commission must compile relevant data to support the carbon dioxide accounting procedures and work collaboratively with the department in implementing the carbon dioxide accounting procedures. The commission and the department must also work collaboratively to address air emissions from geologic storage operations. APPROVED by Governor May 21, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 21, 2024 |
Status: | 5/21/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1348 | Secure Firearm Storage in a Vehicle |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT(S) RECEIVED (1) in house calendar. Wednesday, May 8 2024 CONSIDERATION OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORTS (2) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | E. Velasco (D) | L. Garcia (D) / S. Jaquez Lewis (D) | R. Fields |
Summary: | The act prohibits knowingly leaving a handgun in an unattended vehicle unless the handgun is stored in a locked hard-sided container that is placed out of plain view and the container is in a locked vehicle, the locked trunk of the locked vehicle, or a locked recreational vehicle. The act prohibits knowingly leaving a firearm that is not a handgun in an unattended vehicle unless the firearm is stored in a locked hard-sided or soft-sided container that is placed out of plain view and the container is in a locked vehicle, the locked trunk of the locked vehicle, or a locked recreational vehicle. A firearm that is not a handgun that is stored in a soft-sided container must have a locking device installed on the firearm while stored in the soft-sided container. A person who is considered to have a disability who stores a firearm in a locked soft-sided container does not violate the requirement to store a firearm in a hard-sided container. The act includes exceptions from the storage requirement for storing antique firearms, storing a firearm that is a not a handgun in a vehicle being used for farm or ranch operations, a person who lives in a vehicle or in a recreational vehicle, peace officers and active members of the armed forces, and certain activities related to lawful hunting. Unsafe storage of a firearm in a vehicle is a civil infraction. APPROVED by Governor May 15, 2024 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025 |
Status: | 5/15/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1357 | Pipeline Safety |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | T. Story (D) | K. Brown (D) / K. Priola |
Summary: | Current law requires the pipeline safety rules of the public utilities commission (commission) to address the mapping of all pipelines within the commission's jurisdiction. The bill clarifies current law by requiring the commission's mapping requirements for all pipelines within its jurisdiction to be available at a scale of 1 to 6,000 or greater. On or before December 31, 2024, the commission must adopt rules that require:
The bill also requires a section of pipeline that has not been used for 2 or more years to be removed or abandoned in place. An owner or operator may abandon a section of pipeline in place only in certain circumstances. If an owner or operator intends to remove a section of pipeline or abandon a section of pipeline in place, the owner or operator must notify the commission no less than 30 days before the owner or operator commences the removal or abandonment in place. The commission may review a notice of abandonment in place to determine whether the proposed abandonment in place is less impactful than removal. The bill also requires the commission to develop a user-friendly, public-facing website (website) for pipeline safety data in the state. The website must include the location, date, and owner or operator for the following data:
Current law provides that any person that violates certain pipeline safety laws is subject to a penalty of up to $200,000 dollars per violation. The bill changes this maximum penalty to $500,000 per violation. The amount of the penalty must also be no less than $5,000 for each day of a violation and, in the event that the commission deems that the penalty is necessary for the protection of public health, safety, welfare, the environment, or wildlife resources, no less than $15,000 per day of a violation. Beginning in 2026, the commission is required to adjust the penalty amounts for inflation every 2 years. Current law allows the commission to reduce penalties based on certain metrics and factors (factors). The bill changes current law to allow the commission to also increase penalties based on the factors and adds additional factors that the commission must consider. Except with respect to an owner or operator of a distribution system serving fewer than 1,000 customers in the state, the commission is prohibited from reducing a penalty based on the factors by more than 15% and the violator is required to conduct certain compliance actions before a reduction occurs.
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1362 | Measures to Incentivize Graywater Use |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Lukens (D) | M. Catlin (R) / D. Roberts (D) | C. Simpson (R) |
Summary: | Under current law, a board of county commissioners or governing body of a municipality (local government) may authorize the use of graywater within its jurisdiction. Graywater refers to certain types of wastewater that is collected from fixtures before it is treated and put to certain beneficial uses. The act authorizes the installation of graywater treatment works in new construction projects and the use of graywater statewide; except that a local government:
APPROVED by Governor May 29, 2024 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026 |
Status: | 5/29/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1366 | Sustainable Local Government Community Planning |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | M. Froelich (D) | K. Brown (D) |
Summary: | The bill requires a local government to provide the Colorado energy office (office) with the climate action element and then requires the office to deliver a copy of any climate element it receives to the department of local affairs, the Colorado department of transportation (CDOT), and any other state agency that the office determines.
Second, the bill requires CDOT to conduct a study in connection with the statewide transportation plan that identifies:
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1370 | Reduce Cost of Use of Natural Gas |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | C. Kipp (D) | J. Willford (D) / F. Winter (D) |
Summary: | The act requires the Colorado energy office to issue a request for information by December 1, 2024, to solicit interest from local governments that are served by a dual-fuel utility (utility) in becoming a gas planning pilot community (community). A gas planning pilot community is defined in the act as a local government in which constituents have gas service provided by a utility and an active franchise agreement with the utility, which local government formally indicates an interest in working with the utility to mutually explore opportunities for neighborhood-scale alternatives projects. A neighborhood-scale alternatives project geographically targets decommissioning a portion of the gas distribution system or avoids expanding the gas distribution system in order to serve new construction projects and provides alternative energy service to buildings within the project area that reduces future greenhouse gas emissions required to serve buildings. By April 30, 2025, the Colorado energy office and a utility must jointly file with the public utilities commission (commission) the results of the request for information, identifying up to 5 proposed communities. In identifying proposed communities, the Colorado energy office and the utility must prioritize local governments that are interested in pursuing thermal energy network or geothermal energy projects as part of the proposed community's evaluation of potential neighborhood-scale alternatives projects. The Colorado energy office and the utility must also jointly file a draft agreement between the utility and a proposed community to identify and pursue a neighborhood-scale alternatives project. The commission must approve or modify the list of proposed communities by June 30, 2025. By October 1, 2025, though a utility and local government may agree to extend this deadline, a utility and each approved community must enter into an agreement, and the utility must submit to the commission a list of the communities with which the utility has entered into an agreement. For each approved community, the utility is required to disclose certain data and information to the Colorado energy office, the commission, and the community to inform the evaluation of potential neighborhood-scale alternatives projects. The act requires the utility to work with an approved community to rank neighborhood-scale alternatives projects and, before June 1, 2026, to submit at least one neighborhood-scale alternatives project to the commission for approval if the neighborhood-scale alternatives project has the full support of potentially affected customers. The filing must also contain a list of potential neighborhood-scale alternatives projects that are ranked highly but do not have full customer support at the time of the filing. Prior to June 1, 2027, a utility and a local government must jointly submit an application for commission approval of the neighborhood-scale alternatives projects included on this list, which projects may lack full customer support if the local government has determined that a reasonable majority of customers supports each project. The joint application must also include the net costs of the projects. If a utility will not pursue a neighborhood-scale alternatives project in one or more communities, the utility and local government, prior to June 1, 2027, are required to jointly file a report with the commission explaining why a project will not be pursued in that community. The commission must allow a utility to recover costs incurred from the implementation of a neighborhood-scale alternatives project. In approving a neighborhood-scale alternatives project, the commission may modify the gas utility's service requirement for select premises with an alternative energy service requirement. A utility may propose to fund conversion of existing gas appliances or equipment to nonemitting thermal resources and may also propose to offer new rate structures to pay for thermal energy networks or other nonemitting thermal resources as an alternative energy service. By June 1 of each year following approval of a neighborhood-scale alternatives project, a utility is required to submit a report to the commission on the implementation of any approved neighborhood-scale alternatives projects. By July 1, 2028, or another time determined by the commission, the commission must hire a third-party consultant to conduct an analysis of all approved and proposed neighborhood-scale alternatives projects and present the findings of the analysis to the commission and the general assembly. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, the act appropriates:
APPROVED by Governor May 22, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/22/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1371 | More Uniform Local Massage Facilities Regulation |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | A. Hartsook (R) | M. Lukens (D) / R. Fields | B. Gardner |
Summary: | The law has allowed, but has not required, a county or a municipality to adopt a resolution or ordinance that either establishes business licensure requirements for massage facilities or regulates and prohibits unlawful activities to prevent the operation of illicit massage businesses that engage in human trafficking-related offenses. The act:
APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1372 | Regulating Law Enforcement Use of Prone Restraint |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Woodrow (D) | L. Herod / R. Fields | J. Gonzales (D) |
Summary: | Current law subjects a peace officer who uses unlawful force or fails to intervene in the unlawful use of force to criminal and civil penalties as well as disciplinary measures through the peace officers standards and training board (P.O.S.T. board). The act defines prone restraint as a use of force. The act requires law enforcement agencies to adopt written policies and procedures concerning use of the prone position and prone restraint by officers certified by the P.O.S.T. board; sheriff's deputies, regardless of P.O.S.T. board certification; and Colorado state patrol officers. Law enforcement agencies must post the adopted policies and procedures on their publicly accessible websites or make them available upon request. The policies and procedures must address how and when to request or render medical aid for use of force involving prone restraint, when to get medical clearance for use of force involving a prone restraint when there are injuries or complaints of injuries, how and when to render appropriate medical aid within the scope of a peace officer's training for any use of force involving prone restraint, and how and when to transition a person placed in a prone position into a recovery position that allows the person to breathe normally. The act requires law enforcement agencies to review the adopted policies and procedures at least every five years and, beginning on or before July 1, 2026, to implement and train peace officers on their contents. The P.O.S.T. board must make its training on the use of the prone position available to all law enforcement agencies in the state. APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 3, 2024 |
Status: | 6/3/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1373 | Alcohol Beverage Retail Licensees |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Amabile (D) | N. Ricks (D) / D. Roberts (D) | P. Will |
Summary: |
Current law limits the amount of alcohol beverages certain retailers can purchase from retail liquor stores, liquor-licensed drugstores, and fermented malt beverage and wine retailers to $2,000 dollars' worth of alcohol beverages each calendar year . Sections For the delivery of alcohol beverages:
(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
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Status: | 5/7/2024 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1374 | Judicial Contractor Loan Forgiveness Eligibility |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Marvin | M. Rutinel (D) / D. Michaelson Jenet (D) |
Summary: | Independent contractors (contractors) were previously ineligible for the federal public service loan forgiveness program (program), which forgives remaining federal student loan liability for government and nonprofit full-time employees after 10 years of qualifying service, but in 2023 the federal government made contractors who perform work for a government agency eligible for the program if the work cannot be performed by a government employee. Three independent judicial agencies, the office of the alternative defense counsel, the office of the child's representative, and the office of respondent parents' counsel (agencies) primarily use contractors to provide legal representation on behalf of the agencies because providing the same services through state employees would create ethical conflicts. To enable these contractors to qualify for the program if they otherwise meet program requirements, the act:
APPROVED by Governor May 15, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 15, 2024 |
Status: | 5/15/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: |
HB24-1379 | Regulate Dredge & Fill Activities in State Waters |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. McCluskie (D) | K. McCormick (D) / D. Roberts (D) | B. Kirkmeyer (R) |
Summary: | The act requires the water quality control commission (commission) in the department of public health and environment (department) to promulgate rules by December 31, 2025, as necessary to implement a state dredge and fill discharge authorization program (program) and requires the division of administration (division) in the department to administer and enforce authorizations for activities that will result in discharges of dredged or fill material into state waters. The rules must focus on avoidance and minimization of adverse impacts and on compensation for unavoidable adverse impacts of dredge and fill activity (activity) and must incorporate the guidelines developed pursuant to section 404 (b)(1) of the federal "Clean Water Act", unless the commission determines, based on a demonstration at a public rule-making hearing, that the guidelines are not protecting state waters. The act specifies certain content that the commission must include in the rules and other content that the commission may include in the rules. The act establishes duties for the division in administering the program. The division must issue individual authorizations consistent with the rules promulgated by the commission. The division must act upon an application for an individual authorization within 2 years after receiving a complete application, although this period may be extended under certain circumstances. The division must issue general authorizations for the discharge of dredged or fill material into state waters from certain categories of activities that are similar in nature and have minimal individual and cumulative adverse impacts on state waters and the environment. Beginning January 1, 2025, until the rules are promulgated and the division issues general authorizations under the rules, the nationwide and regional general permits issued by the United States Army corps of engineers constitute valid authorizations to discharge dredged or fill material into state waters that are not subject to federal jurisdiction. As expeditiously as is prudent and feasible, the division must issue a statewide general authorization for discharges to isolated wetlands, isolated ponds and impoundments, and isolated ordinary highwater mark reaches (isolated state waters). The statewide general authorization to isolated state waters does not include certain state waters, must identify best management practices to protect isolated state waters, must not require preconstruction notification, and must not authorize a project where the entire project's unavoidable adverse impacts exceed one-tenth of an acre of wetlands or three-hundredths of an acre of streambed. The authorization term of the statewide general authorization for discharges to isolated state waters is 5 years. The division must include compensatory mitigation requirements in all individual authorizations and in general authorizations where the division determines that the proposed discharge of dredged or fill material will result in greater than one-tenth of an acre of unavoidable adverse impacts to wetlands or greater than three-hundredths of an acre of unavoidable impacts to streams. Compensatory mitigation must compensate for all functions of state waters that will be lost as a result of the authorized activity. The division must utilize the existing structure of preconstruction notifications in the nationwide and regional permits established by the United States Army corps of engineers, including general authorizations for categories of activities that do not require preconstruction notification. The division may include conditions in a notice of authorization, on a case-by-case basis, to clarify the terms and conditions of a general authorization or to ensure that an activity will have only minimal individual and cumulative adverse impacts on state waters. The division may establish guidance to assist in administering the program. The division may, to the extent resources allow, establish one or more staff positions in the western slope region of the state to assist with dredge and fill program administration in that geographic area. Until the rules become effective and the division issues general authorizations under the rules:
The act deems certain activities exempt and therefore does not require a discharge authorization for, or otherwise require regulation of, such activities. The act also excludes certain types of waters from the act's regulatory requirements. The act clarifies that "state waters" includes wetlands. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year and for each state fiscal year thereafter, if the total number of issued authorizations exceeds or is projected to exceed 110 authorizations, the department must seek a supplemental appropriation from the general assembly to pay the costs of processing the authorizations and to ensure that authorizations are processed in a timely manner. The act requires the commission to establish by rule on or before December 31, 2025, authorization fees for the program. Collected fees are credited to the existing clean water cash fund. In current law, with certain exceptions, an applicant for any water diversion, delivery, or storage facility that requires an application for a permit, license, or other approval from the United States must inform the Colorado water conservation board, the parks and wildlife commission, and the division of parks and wildlife of its application and submit a mitigation proposal. The act extends the same requirement to applicants for certain activities that require an individual authorization from the division. Current law requires the division to report annually to the general assembly concerning water quality control matters. The act requires the division to include in this annual report certain specific information concerning the implementation of the program. On a quarterly basis, the division must also report to the joint budget committee the number of individual dredge and fill authorizations and notices of authorization that the division projects to issue for the fiscal year. For the 2026-27 state fiscal year and for each state fiscal year thereafter, the state treasurer must transfer $248,304 from the general fund to the clean water cash fund. On July 1, 2024, the state treasurer must transfer $748,000 from the severance tax operational fund to the clean water cash fund for use by the department in administering the program. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $747,639 to the department from the clean water cash fund. Any money not expended prior to July 1, 2025, is further appropriated to the department for the 2025-26 state fiscal year. APPROVED by Governor May 29, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 29, 2024 |
Status: | 5/29/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1434 | Expand Affordable Housing Tax Credit |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Bird (D) | R. Weinberg (R) / R. Zenzinger | C. Simpson (R) |
Summary: | The act increases the amounts of the affordable housing tax credit that the Colorado housing and finance authority may allocate to qualified taxpayers by:
The act accelerates the credit by requiring that a qualified taxpayer claim 70% of the total amount of the credit in the first year of the credit period and claim 6% of the total amount of the credit in each of the second through sixth years of the credit period. The act also creates the Colorado affordable housing in transit-oriented communities income tax credit (tax credit). The tax credit is refundable and administered in the same manner as the Colorado affordable housing tax credit; except that the tax credit:
The act allows the following tax credit amounts to be awarded:
The act reduces the amount of money transferred to the housing development grant fund by $35 million for state fiscal year 2024-25 through 2031-32. APPROVED by Governor May 30, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 30, 2024 |
Status: | 5/30/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1435 | Colorado Water Conservation Board Projects |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. McCormick (D) | M. Catlin (R) / D. Roberts (D) | C. Simpson (R) |
Summary: | The act appropriates the following amounts for the 2024-25 state fiscal year from the Colorado water conservation board (CWCB) construction fund to the CWCB or the division of water resources in the department of natural resources for the following projects:
Section 4 directs the state treasurer to transfer up to $2,000,000 from the CWCB construction fund to the CWCB litigation fund on July 1, 2024. The CWCB is authorized to make loans from the severance tax perpetual base fund or the CWCB construction fund:
Section 10 directs the state treasurer to transfer $2,000,000 on July 1, 2024, from the CWCB construction fund to the turf replacement fund to finance the state turf replacement program. Section 14 directs the state treasurer to transfer $20,000,000 on July 1, 2024, from the severance tax perpetual base fund to the CWCB construction fund for the purchase and sale agreement between the Colorado river water conservation district and the public service company of Colorado for the purchase of the water rights associated with the Shoshone power plant. Section 15 appropriates $23,300,000 from the water plan implementation cash fund to the CWCB to fund grants that will help implement the state water plan. Sections 16 and 17 amend current law, under which the state treasurer is directed to make 2 transfers of $2.5 million each from the economic recovery and relief cash fund to the CWCB construction fund. Under current law, the CWCB is required to use the $2.5 million from one of the transfers for the direct and indirect costs of providing assistance to political subdivisions and other entities applying for federal "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" money and other federally available money related to water funding opportunities (water funding purposes). The CWCB is required to use the $2.5 million from the other transfer for issuing grants to political subdivisions of the state or other entities for the hiring of temporary employees, contractors, or both that will assist those political subdivisions and other entities in applying for federal "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" money and other federally available money related to natural resource management (natural resource management purposes). Sections 16 and 17 amend current law by allowing the CWCB, on or after July 1, 2024, to expend money from either of the 2 transfers for either the water funding purposes or the natural resource management purposes. APPROVED by Governor May 29, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 29, 2024 |
Status: | 5/29/2024 Governor Signed |
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HB24-1447 | Transit Reform |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | W. Lindstedt (D) | M. Froelich (D) / F. Winter (D) |
Summary: | The length of the bill summary for this bill requires it to be published on a separate page here: https://leg.colorado.gov/hb24-1447-bill-summary
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Status: | 5/4/2024 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1449 | Environmental Sustainability Circular Economy |
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Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (1) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | J. Joseph (D) | M. Lindsay (D) / L. Cutter (D) | K. Priola |
Summary: | The act repeals the pollution prevention advisory board and the pollution prevention advisory board assistance committee when the act takes effect, repeals the recycling resources economic opportunity program on October 1, 2025, and repeals the front range waste diversion enterprise and replaces it with the Colorado circular communities enterprise (enterprise). The enterprise, in merging and modernizing the purposes of the recycling resources economic opportunity program and the front range waste diversion enterprise, awards grants and other funding and provides technical assistance to local governments, nonprofit and for-profit businesses, public and private schools, and institutions of higher education throughout the state that pursue a circular economy for waste management, including waste diversion and aversion. The act also creates the statewide voluntary sustainability program to support businesses engaging, or looking to engage, in sustainability efforts. Under current law, user fees are imposed on operators of attended solid waste disposal sites (operators) to finance the recycling resources economic opportunity program and the front range waste diversion enterprise. The act applies those fees to the enterprise, requiring operators of sites located outside of the front range to pay a fee of either 2 or 4 cents per load transported for disposal and requiring operators of sites located in the front range, between July 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024, to pay a fee of 74 cents per cubic yard per load transported for disposal and, on and after January 1, 2025, to pay a fee of 78 cents per cubic yard per load transported for disposal. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024 |
Status: | 5/17/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HB24-1454 | Grace Period Noncompliance Digital Accessibility |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Ortiz | R. Pugliese (R) / P. Lundeen (R) |
Summary: | Current law requires state agencies and public entities to comply with digital accessibility standards on or before July 1, 2024. The act provides a one-year extension to July 1, 2025, of immunity from liability for failure to comply with the digital accessibility standards for an agency that demonstrates good faith efforts toward compliance or toward resolution of any complaint of noncompliance. To be eligible for the extension, the act requires the agency to post quarterly reports on progress and create a process for redress for inaccessible digital products. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 24, 2024 |
Status: | 5/24/2024 Governor Signed |
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HB24-1460 | Law Enforcement Misconduct |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Herod | J. Bacon (D) / J. Danielson (D) |
Summary: | The bill requires a law enforcement agency (agency) that receives an allegation of misconduct, criminal conduct, or other unprofessional conduct regarding a peace officer employed by the agency to investigate the allegation. If a peace officer receives an allegation of misconduct, criminal conduct, or other unprofessional conduct (misconduct) or is reasonably aware of the misconduct of another peace officer, the peace officer shall report the allegation to the subject of the allegation's employing agency. A peace officer who fails to make the report commits a class 2 misdemeanor. A person who makes an allegation has a private right of action if the allegation is not investigated. The bill clarifies that patterns and practices investigations may also be related to deprivation of rights by a peace officer against another peace officer. Current law requires agencies to report certain information regarding officers' misconduct to a database maintained by the P.O.S.T. board. The attorney general may audit the reports made to the database to verify reporting compliance. The bill requires the attorney general to accept reports of non-reporting to the database and requires those reports to be investigated within available resources. Current law requires unedited video and audio recordings of incidents of alleged misconduct to be released the public upon request. The bill states that a law enforcement agency shall not charge a fee to the requestor related to releasing the recording. Current law provides a peace officer with whistle-blower protection. The bill allows a peace officer who is subject to whistle-blower discipline a private right of action against the officer's employing agency. The bill requires each agency to retain all reports regarding allegations of misconduct and all investigation files, notes, and reports related to those reports. The bill also requires the investigating agency to provide a copy of the investigation file to the subject of the investigation after the investigation is completed.
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Status: | 5/3/2024 House Third Reading Lost with Amendments - Floor |
Amendments: | Amendments |
HCR24-1001 | Senior Property Tax Exemption Portability |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. DeGraaf (R) | S. Luck (R) |
Summary: | The state constitution currently only allows a senior who has owned and occupied the senior's primary residence for 10 years, or the surviving spouse of such a senior, to claim a property tax exemption for 50% of the first $200,000 of actual value of the primary residence (exemption). If approved by the voters of the state at the 2024 general election, the concurrent resolution will allow a senior, or the surviving spouse of such a senior, who has previously qualified for the exemption for 2016 or any later year for a prior primary residence to claim the exemption for the senior's current owner-occupied primary residence regardless of how long the senior has owned and occupied that residence.
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Status: | 4/22/2024 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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HCR24-1006 | Property Tax Revenue Growth Limit |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Marshall (D) |
Summary: | If approved by the voters of the state at the 2024 general election, the concurrent resolution will amend the state constitution to create a new annual property tax revenue growth limit (district limit) for each jurisdiction that levies property tax (district). The district limit limits a district's property tax revenue growth for any property tax year commencing on or after January 1, 2025, to an amount equal to the sum of:
If the estimated amount of property tax revenue subject to the district limit that will be generated by a district's current mill levy will exceed the district limit, then the mill levy must be reduced so that the amount of property tax revenue generated does not exceed the district limit unless maintenance of the current mill levy is approved:
Notwithstanding the TABOR voter approval for a mill levy increase above the mill levy for the prior year, if a district's mill levy is reduced as required to comply with the district limit, the district may increase the mill levy to any rate up to the pre-reduction rate without voter approval so long as the increase does not cause the district's property tax revenue to exceed the district limit.
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
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SB24-002 | Local Government Property Tax Credits Rebates |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) / J. McCluskie (D) | L. Frizell (R) |
Summary: | The act authorizes a board of county commissioners to establish an incentive program to offer limited county property tax credits or rebates to participants in a program designed to directly improve an area of specific local concern related to the use of real property in the county. An "area of specific local concern" is defined in the act as a use of real property in the county that is determined by the board of county commissioners to be diminishing or unavailable based on verifiable data and which use the board of county commissioners finds and declares necessary for the preservation of the health, safety, or welfare of the residents of the county, including as to matters of equity, access to housing, and access to education. An "area of specific local concern" does not include a use of real property in a county that harms or may reasonably be expected to harm a disproportionately impacted community or prevents or may reasonably be expected to prevent meeting minimum greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and deadlines. An incentive program must be established by resolution or ordinance adopted by a board of county commissioners at a public hearing, which resolution or ordinance must include the board's findings and determinations regarding the specific area of local concern and specific criteria for the qualification of program participants. The county must provide notice of the hearing, including specified information regarding the incentive program, to the clerk of each municipality that is wholly or partly located in the county and that may be impacted by the incentive program. Each such municipality must be allowed to submit written comments and provide testimony at the hearing. Incentive programs must be evaluated on an annual basis and may be renewed only if determined to be effective. An incentive program must be uniformly applied among all owners of the same class of real or commercial property. The act also authorizes municipalities to establish an incentive program offering limited municipal property tax credits or rebates to participants in a program designed to directly improve an area of specific local concern related to the use of real property in the municipality. A municipal incentive program is subject to the same substantive and procedural requirements as a county program, including the requirement to provide notice of the public hearing regarding the incentive program, and an opportunity to submit written comments and provide testimony at such hearing, to each county that includes all or any portion of the municipality and that may be impacted by the incentive program. APPROVED by Governor March 15, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 3/15/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-003 | Colorado Bureau of Investigation Authority to Investigate Firearms Crimes |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | T. Sullivan (D) / M. Froelich (D) | M. Duran (D) |
Summary: | The act authorizes the Colorado bureau of investigation (bureau) to investigate particular illegal activity involving firearms statewide. The bureau shall communicate with the appropriate local law enforcement agency in such an investigation to deconflict investigative operations and determine investigative responsibilities prior to taking investigative or enforcement action and shall collaborate with the local district attorney in the beginning stages of the investigation. An agent or other employee of the bureau who is a peace officer shall wear and activate a body-worn camera when conducting any public-facing part of an investigation authorized in the act. The act appropriates $1,477,127 from the general fund to the department of public safety for the bureau to conduct the investigations. APPROVED by Governor May 15, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/15/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-005 | Prohibit Landscaping Practices for Water Conservation |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) | C. Simpson (R) / K. McCormick (D) | B. McLachlan |
Summary: | On and after January 1, 2026, the act prohibits local governments from allowing the installation, planting, or placement of nonfunctional turf, artificial turf, or invasive plant species on commercial, institutional, or industrial property, common interest community property, or a street right-of-way, parking lot, median, or transportation corridor. The act also prohibits the department of personnel from allowing the installation, planting, or placement of nonfunctional turf, artificial turf, or invasive plant species as part of a project for the construction or renovation of a state facility, which project design commences on or after January 1, 2025. Artificial turf on athletic fields of play is exempted from the prohibitions. APPROVED by Governor March 15, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 3/15/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-006 | Pretrial Diversion Programs |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Rodriguez (D) | R. Fields / R. English (D) | M. Bradfield (R) |
Summary: | The act requires a district attorney's office, or the office's designee, to consider the use of a juvenile diversion program (program) to prevent a juvenile who demonstrates behaviors or symptoms consistent with an intellectual and developmental disability, a mental or behavioral health issue, or a lack of mental capacity from further involvement in formal delinquency proceedings. Current law allows programs to use the results of an approved and validated assessment tool to identify the appropriate diversion services a juvenile may need and the professionals who may provide the services. The act adds behavioral health services and services for juveniles with developmental disabilities to the types of services a juvenile may need and adds behavioral health treatment providers and providers who offer services to juveniles with developmental disabilities to the list of professionals who may provide the appropriate diversion services. If an adult defendant's competency is raised or a defendant is found incompetent to proceed, the act allows the defendant to enter into a diversion agreement with the consent of the district attorney and the court if the court finds that the defendant has the ability to participate and is advised of the potential consequences of failure to comply. The defendant's entrance into the diversion agreement does not waive the issue of competency to stand trial if there is a violation of the diversion agreement and proceedings on the charges resume. The diversion agreement alone is not evidence of competency. APPROVED by Governor March 22, 2024 EFFECTIVE March 22, 2024 |
Status: | 3/22/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-009 | Local Government Disaster-Related Programs |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Cutter (D) | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) / M. Snyder (D) |
Summary: |
(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
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Status: | 5/14/2024 House Committee on Appropriations Lay Over Unamended - Amendment(s) Failed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-012 | Reentry Workforce Development Cash Assistance Pilot Program |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Gonzales (D) | J. Coleman (D) / M. Young | J. Mabrey (D) |
Summary: | The bill creates the reentry workforce development cash assistance pilot program (pilot program) in the department of corrections (department) to provide cash assistance to persons who enroll and participate in workforce services or training programs after incarceration. The pilot program provides a total payment of up to $3,000 to eligible persons for basic life expenses. The bill requires the department to contract with an organization to administer the pilot program, perform an annual survey of pilot program recipients, and produce an annual report that is submitted to the judiciary committees of the senate and house of representatives.
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Status: | 2/7/2024 Senate Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-020 | Alcohol Beverage Delivery & Takeout |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) | N. Hinrichsen (D) / W. Lindstedt (D) | R. Pugliese (R) |
Summary: | The act removes an automatic repeal to permit businesses licensed to sell alcohol beverages at retail by the drink to deliver these beverages or to allow the customer to take these beverages from the licensed premises after July 1, 2025. A hotel and restaurant licensee or tavern licensee is prohibited from allowing takeout and delivery of alcohol beverages in a sealed manufacturer's container without the assistance of the license holder's employee, unless the license holder is a lodging establishment. APPROVED by Governor May 10, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/10/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-024 | Local Lodging Tax Reporting on Sales Return |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Bridges (D) | K. Van Winkle (R) / C. Kipp (D) | R. Taggart (R) |
Summary: | The act requires local taxing jurisdictions, which are limited to jurisdictions for which the department of revenue does not collect, administer, and enforce a local lodging tax, to apply the same reporting requirements or standards to an accommodation's intermediary as to a marketplace facilitator that is obligated to collect and remit a local lodging tax. The act prohibits local taxing jurisdictions from requiring additional reporting information from an accommodation's intermediary. The act also prohibits a local taxing jurisdiction that has passed an applicable marketplace facilitator law from auditing a marketplace facilitator for sales facilitated by the marketplace at any time other than when the marketplace facilitator is filing tax returns with the local taxing jurisdiction. The act does not prohibit a local taxing jurisdiction from requesting information maintained by an accommodation's intermediary that is in connection with an audit related to a local lodging tax or from requesting and obtaining additional information or data from a marketplace facilitator or accommodation's intermediary to be provided on a voluntary basis or prohibit a home rule municipality, for purposes unrelated to the administration of local taxes, from passing an ordinance regulating a marketplace facilitator or an accommodation's intermediary, including an ordinance governing the issuance of information or data by a marketplace facilitator or accommodation's intermediary to the home rule city. APPROVED by Governor April 19, 2024 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025 |
Status: | 4/19/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-025 | Update Local Government Sales & UseTax Collection |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Bridges (D) | K. Van Winkle (R) / C. Kipp (D) | R. Taggart (R) |
Summary: | Under current law, the department of revenue (department) administers, collects, and enforces the local sales or use tax that a statutory local government or a special district imposes and, if requested, administers, collects, and enforces any such tax that a home rule jurisdiction imposes. The statutes that govern the administration, collection, and enforcement of these local sales or use taxes are located in multiple titles of the Colorado Revised Statutes. The act revises, modernizes, and harmonizes the separate statutes that govern the state administration of local sales or use tax by creating new parts 2 and 3 in article 2 of title 29. In general, the act makes clear that the department collects, administers, and enforces a local government sales or use tax in the same manner as it collects, administers, and enforces the state sales tax. The act:
APPROVED by Governor May 1, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025 |
Status: | 5/1/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-027 | Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Process Study |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Gonzales (D) | R. Rodriguez (D) / M. Martinez (D) |
Summary: | The division shall solicit proposals for an entity to assist with the study. The bill requires the division to submit a report of its findings to the joint budget committee and the judiciary committees of the house of representatives and the senate by June 30, 2025.
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Status: | 1/22/2024 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations |
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SB24-028 | Study Biochar in Wildfire Mitigation Efforts |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Cutter (D) | P. Will / E. Velasco (D) |
Summary: |
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Status: | 1/25/2024 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Refer Amended to Appropriations |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-029 | Study Metrics to Measure Criminal Justice System Success |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Gonzales (D) | R. Rodriguez (D) / J. Amabile (D) | L. Garcia (D) |
Summary: | The act creates the alternative metrics to measure criminal justice system performance working group (working group). The working group consists of:
The working group shall consult with stakeholders either identified by the working group or who request to participate. The act requires the working group to study metrics and methods, other than measuring recidivism, to:
The working group is required to submit a report to the house of representatives public and behavioral health and human services committee and judiciary committee and the senate health and human services committee and judiciary committee on or before July 1, 2025. The report must include a summary of the working group's work and any recommendations of the working group. APPROVED by Governor March 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE March 6, 2024 |
Status: | 3/6/2024 Governor Became Law |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-031 | Local Authority Enforce Violation of Noxious Weed Act |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) / M. Lukens (D) | B. McLachlan |
Summary: | Current law allows the commissioner of agriculture to assess civil penalties for violations of state laws related to the prevention of noxious weeds (violations). The act:
APPROVED by Governor March 12, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 3/12/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-032 | Methods to Increase the Use of Transit |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 CONSIDERATION OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILLS (2) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | K. Priola | F. Winter (D) / S. Vigil | J. Marvin |
Summary: | The statewide transit pass exploratory committee (committee) is created in the department of transportation (department) to produce a viable proposal for the creation, implementation, and administration of a statewide transit pass (proposal). The committee is required to meet as necessary to produce a viable proposal by July 1, 2026, with the goal of implementing a statewide transit pass by January 1, 2028. The committee consists of members, appointed by the executive director of the department, who represent specified types of organizations and have specified knowledge or experience. In conducting its work, the committee is required to consider specified issues and to solicit input from subject matter experts and interested parties across the state. The committee is required to submit its proposal, including recommendations for any necessary legislation in connection with the proposal, to the executive director of the department and the members of the transportation legislation review committee of the general assembly on or before July 1, 2026. The existing ozone season transit grant program is combined with a new program to provide youth fare free transit grants and together are created as the zero fare transit grant program in the Colorado energy office (office). The zero fare transit grant program is created to provide grants to:
To receive a grant, CASTA or the RTD must submit an application to the office in accordance with the act and policies established by the office. An eligible transit agency that receives a grant from CASTA may use the grant money to either cover the costs associated with providing new or expanded free transit services within its service area during ozone season or to provide operating support for its transit operations and general transit programs so long as the eligible transit agency provides uninterrupted fare free year-round transit services to youth riders. The RTD may use the grant money to provide operating support for its transit operations and general transit programs, so long as the RTD provides uninterrupted fare free year-round transit services for youth riders. The RTD is required to report to the office and an eligible transit agency that receives a grant from CASTA is required to report to CASTA regarding its use of the grant money. CASTA is required to submit to the office a summary of the reported information for all eligible transit agencies that received a grant through CASTA. The office is required to establish policies governing the zero fare transit grant program and to report to the house of representatives transportation, housing, and local government committee and the senate transportation committee, or their successor committees, by December 31 of each year of the program. The zero fare transit fund (fund) is created in the treasury. The fund consists of money transferred to the fund from the ozone season transit grant program fund, money transferred to the fund from the multimodal transportation options fund, any other money that the general assembly appropriates or transfers to the fund, and any gifts, grants, or donations credited to the fund. The money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the office for the zero fare transit grant program. The state treasurer is directed to transfer any money remaining in the ozone season transit grant program fund on June 30, 2024, to the fund. In addition, the state treasurer is directed to transfer $10 million from the multimodal transportation and mitigation options fund to the fund on July 1, 2024. A regional transportation authority is allowed to derive up to one-half, rather than one-third, of its total revenue from a visitor benefit tax and, unlike in the past, to levy such a tax at a rate greater than 2%. The department is authorized to use money that was previously transferred to the state highway fund for a designated purpose in connection with the development of the Burnham Yard rail property for new purposes including site preparation, site enhancements, planning, and facilitating a track alignment that preserves buildable land while promoting transit and rail capacity and increasing safety in connection with the development of the Burnham Yard rail property. APPROVED by Governor May 16, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 16, 2024 |
Status: | 5/16/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-035 | Strengthening Enforcement of Human Trafficking |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Pelton (R) | R. Fields / T. Winter (R) | M. Duran (D) |
Summary: | Under current law, "crimes of violence" are subject to enhanced sentencing. The act adds human trafficking of an adult or a minor for the purpose of involuntary servitude and human trafficking of an adult or a minor for sexual servitude to the list of crimes of violence that are subject to enhanced sentencing. Under current law, it is an affirmative defense to a charge of human trafficking for sexual servitude if the person being charged can demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that, at the time of the offense, the person was a victim of human trafficking for sexual servitude who was forced or coerced into engaging in the human trafficking of minors for sexual servitude. The act extends the affirmative defense if the person was forced or coerced into engaging in human trafficking for sexual servitude and removes the preponderance of evidence standard. The act makes the statute of limitations for human trafficking of an adult or a minor for the purpose of involuntary servitude and human trafficking of an adult for sexual servitude 20 years. The act does not change the unlimited statute of limitations for human trafficking for sexual servitude of a minor. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 11, 2024 |
Status: | 4/11/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-036 | Vulnerable Road User Protection Enterprise |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | F. Winter (D) | L. Cutter (D) / M. Lindsay (D) | W. Lindstedt (D) |
Summary: | The enterprise is required to:
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Status: | 3/19/2024 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-037 | Study Green Infrastructure for Water Quality Management |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | C. Simpson (R) | J. Bridges (D) / M. Lynch | K. McCormick (D) |
Summary: | The act requires the university of Colorado and Colorado state university, in collaboration with the division of administration (division) in the department of public health and environment (department), to:
On or before November 1, 2026, the division, in coordination with the universities, is required to submit a report and, on or before February 1, 2027, present the report to the water resources and agriculture review committee. The report and presentation must concern the progress of the feasibility study and any pilot projects and on any legislative and administrative recommendations to promote the use of green infrastructure and green financing mechanisms for water quality management in the state. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/24/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-038 | Authorize Conservancy District Water Management |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Bridges (D) | C. Simpson (R) / M. Martinez (D) | K. McCormick (D) |
Summary: |
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Status: | 3/27/2024 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-039 | Nuclear Energy as a Clean Energy Resource |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Liston (R) |
Summary: | The statutory definition of "clean energy" in current law determines which energy projects are eligible for clean energy project financing at the county and city and county level. The statutory definition of "clean energy resource" in current law determines which energy resources may be used by a qualifying retail utility to meet the 2050 clean energy target. The bill updates the statutory definitions to include nuclear energy. |
Status: | 1/24/2024 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-040 | State Funding for Senior Services |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Danielson (D) | J. Ginal / J. Willford (D) | M. Young |
Summary: | No later than August 2024, and each August every 3 years thereafter, the act requires the department of human services (department), the office of state planning and budgeting, and representatives from area agencies on aging to review the adequacy of the appropriation for senior services for the prior 3 fiscal years to address the needs of senior citizens who request services pursuant to the "Older Coloradans' Act". The department is required to report the findings of the adequacy review during its "SMART Act" hearing. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 24, 2024 |
Status: | 5/24/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-049 | Content of Material in Libraries |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Cutter (D) | C. Kolker (D) / J. Joseph (D) | E. Hamrick (D) |
Summary: | The bill establishes a process by which a student, parent, or member of the community may object to a library resource in a school or public library. Each library resource that is reconsidered pursuant to the process must be evaluated based on standards applied by a committee for school libraries and a director of a public library. Members of the committee for school libraries are appointed by the superintendent of the school district, and the committee covers reconsideration requests in all schools in the district. For public libraries, the director is selected by the library's board of trustees and covers the library or libraries in the library district. A library resource may not be removed while a request for reconsideration is pending. A principal, librarian, media specialist, other employee, contractor, or volunteer may refuse a directive to remove a library resource if such an individual has a good faith belief that the directive conflicts with law or policy established pursuant to the bill, and such an individual may not be subjected to retaliation. The bill prevents the state board of education from waiving the requirements of the bill as they are applied to public schools, district charter schools, and institute charter schools. The bill specifies that it is a discriminatory practice and unlawful for anyone to discriminate against anyone in the selection, retention, reconsideration, or display of a library resource.
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Status: | 2/28/2024 Senate Committee on Education Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-052 | Ongoing Funding for 911 Resource Center |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Fields / R. English (D) |
Summary: | To help ensure that the training, guidance, and assistance provided by the center to 911 professionals, including public safety access point (PSAP) personnel, local 911 emergency call service authorities, and PSAPs, is useful and is being effectively implemented, and that the funding provided by the bill is being expended efficiently and effectively, the center is required to:
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Status: | 1/29/2024 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-053 | Racial Equity Study |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Coleman (D) / L. Herod | N. Ricks (D) |
Summary: | The act establishes the Black Coloradan racial equity commission (commission) in the legislative department to conduct a study to determine, and make recommendations related to, any historical and ongoing effects of slavery and subsequent systemic racism on Black Coloradans that may be attributed to Colorado state practices, systems, and policies. The study includes historical research conducted by the state historical society (society), commonly known as history Colorado, and an economic analysis conducted by a third party. The society may enter into an agreement with a third-party entity to conduct all or parts of the historical research. The society shall conduct at least 2 community engagement sessions for members of the public to provide input to the society. The society shall provide the commission with quarterly updates about the status of its research. The society is required to submit a report to the commission with the results of its research and any recommendations. The commission shall enter into an agreement with a third party to conduct an economic analysis of the financial impact of systemic racism on historically impacted Black Coloradans utilizing the findings of the society's historical research. The third party shall deliver the results of its economic analysis to the commission. At the conclusion of the study, the commission shall submit a report to the general assembly and the governor about the study and make the report available on a publicly accessible webpage of the general assembly's website. The report must include a description of the study's goals, the results of the historical research and economic analysis, and the commission's recommendations. After the commission submits the report, the commission shall work with any parties necessary to implement the recommendations in the report. The study is contingent upon the commission receiving $785,000 of gifts, grants, or donations for the purpose of conducting the study. The act creates the Black Coloradan racial equity study cash fund to accept the gifts, grants, or donations received for the study. The money in the cash fund is continuously appropriated to legislative council for use by the commission and to the society for conducting the historical research. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-063 | Confidentiality of Group Peer Support Services |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Rich (R) | J. Coleman (D) / R. Taggart (R) |
Summary: | The act prohibits a peer support team member or recipient of group peer support services from being examined as a witness without the consent of the person to whom the examination relates. APPROVED by Governor March 22, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 3/22/2024 Governor Signed |
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SB24-066 | Firearms Merchant Category Code |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | T. Sullivan (D) / M. Froelich (D) | J. Mabrey (D) |
Summary: | The act requires certain networks that facilitate payment transactions to make the merchant category code for firearms and ammunition available to merchant acquirers (processor) who process transactions for firearms merchants. A processor must assign the code to each firearms merchant to which the processor provides services. The attorney general's office has exclusive authority to enforce the act. Before bringing an enforcement action, the attorney general's office must notify in writing the person alleged to have violated the act. Standards are set for the notice. A violator has 30 days to cure the violation in accordance with the standards in the act. If a person violates the act and does not cure the violation, the attorney general's office may bring a civil action to seek:
If the attorney general's office prevails in the action, a court may issue an order requiring the violator to pay reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred in bringing the action. APPROVED by Governor May 1, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/1/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-072 | Voting for Confined Eligible Electors |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Gonzales (D) / M. Rutinel (D) | K. Brown (D) |
Summary: | The law has required county clerk and recorders must make best efforts to coordinate with the county sheriff or the county sheriff's designee at each county jail or detention center to facilitate voting for all confined eligible electors. The act requires a county sheriff to designate at least one individual to facilitate voting for confined eligible electors at the county jail or detention center (sheriff's designee) and requires the sheriff's designee to coordinate with the county clerk and recorder. The sheriff's designee must provide information to confined individuals regarding eligibility to vote, how confined individuals can verify or change their voter registration, and how eligible confined individuals can register to vote and ensure there is reasonable access to resources to verify or change a voter registration or register to vote. The sheriff's designee must also ensure that all confined eligible electors have reasonable access to the ballot information booklet, certain information about local ballot issues, and any election-related materials that are prepared and provided to the designee in support of or in opposition to any candidate or issue on the ballot. The act also requires that the county clerk and recorder and the sheriff's designee coordinate to provide one day of in-person voting at the county jail or detention center for all confined eligible electors. The in-person voting must be open for at least 6 hours and be held on any day between the fifteenth day before election day and the fourth day before election day. Additionally, the clerk and recorder is required to confirm through the department of corrections online offender database that a confined individual is not serving a felony sentence before the individual can register to vote or is permitted to vote on the day of in-person voting. Additionally, for mail ballot elections, the sheriff's designee is required to:
By not earlier than 3:00 p.m. on election day, a team of bipartisan election judges acting at the direction of the county clerk and recorder is required to conduct a final collection of ballots from the county jail or detention center that have been deposited at the designated location. The act further requires the election plan that is required under current law to include information concerning how the clerk and recorder and the sheriff's designee will facilitate the process for confined eligible electors to cure a deficiency on a voted ballot and requires the sheriff's designee to establish a process for a confined eligible elector to cure a deficiency on their ballot. The failure of the sheriff or the sheriff's designee to comply with the requirements set forth in the act is subject to assessment of a civil penalty determined by the court and payable by the county in the amount of $5,000 per violation. The civil penalty is to be credited to the department of state cash fund. The office of the secretary of state is required to create training materials for county clerk and recorders to minimally use in providing training and technical assistance to the sheriff's designee. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, the act appropriates:
APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 31, 2024 |
Status: | 5/31/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-076 | Streamline Marijuana Regulation |
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Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 CONSIDERATION OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILLS (3) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | K. Van Winkle (R) | J. Gonzales (D) / W. Lindstedt (D) |
Summary: | The act amends the existing definition of "immature plant" to mean a nonflowering marijuana plant that is no taller than 15, rather than 8, inches; no wider than15, rather than 8, inches; and produced from a cutting, clipping, or seedling. Current law requires beneficial owners and people who have access to the limited access areas of a medical marijuana business or retail marijuana business to have identification cards. The act repeals this requirement for beneficial owners. The act requires the state licensing authority to promulgate rules that do not require a licensee to use radio frequency identification technology to track regulated marijuana. Current law requires the marijuana enforcement division in the department of revenue (division) to promulgate rules requiring testing of marijuana and marijuana products for contaminants or substances that are harmful to health and allows a licensee to remediate marijuana or marijuana products that fail a test. The act clarifies that if a licensee is able to remediate or decontaminate a product and the product passes retesting, the licensee need not provide an additional label that would otherwise not be required for a product that passed initial testing. Current law requires every marijuana business to post, at all times and in a prominent place, a warning about using marijuana while pregnant or breastfeeding. The act requires the warning to be posted at each point of sale. Current law allows a person who qualifies as a social equity licensee to apply for any regulated marijuana business license or permit, including an accelerator store, accelerator cultivator, or accelerator manufacturer license. The act establishes new criteria under which a natural person may qualify as a social equity licensee and excludes certain persons from qualifying as a social equity licensee. The act extends initial license and license renewal periods from one year to 2 years. Local authorities may decide what licenses they will issue for one year or 2 years. The act requires the state licensing authority to promulgate rules authorizing multiple regulated marijuana business licensees with identical controlling beneficial owners to submit a single initial or renewal application. The act requires a medical marijuana store, when completing a sale of medical marijuana concentrate, to physically attach to the receipt, container, or packaging the tangible educational resource created by the state licensing authority regarding the use of medical marijuana concentrate. Current law allows the transfer of immature plants, seeds, and genetic material between a medical or retail cultivation facility and certain people, including people approved by rule. The act allows such a transfer from or to a medical or retail marijuana cultivation facility from or to a person permitted by another jurisdiction to possess or cultivate marijuana. The medical or retail cultivation facility must establish a process to confirm that the purchaser is 21 years of age or older using an age verification process. The cultivation facility may accept online payments for the transfer. A cultivation facility may accept online payment for genetic material but is prohibited from transferring genetic material to consumers that are on the licensed premises. The state licensing authority may promulgate rules to implement the provision, but limits are placed on the rules that the state licensing authority may adopt. The act prohibits a licensed retail marijuana store from selling food in excess of 20% of the store's annual gross revenues. Current law sets the amount of the application fee for a retail marijuana business at $5,000. The act allows the state licensing authority to set the initial application fee in an amount not to exceed $5,000. The state licensing authority must set the amount of the application fee to offset the direct and indirect costs of regulating retail marijuana businesses. Current law requires that excise tax be levied on the first transfer of unprocessed retail marijuana. The act specifies that the transfer of unprocessed retail marijuana exclusively for microbial control is not the first transfer of unprocessed retail marijuana for taxation purposes. Current law requires a taxpayer to be engaged in a business that is legal under both state and federal law in order to claim an enterprise zone tax credit. The act removes this restriction for a marijuana business that is licensed under state law. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-078 | Outdoor Nature-Based Preschool Programs |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Marchman (D) | K. Priola / J. Joseph (D) | B. McLachlan |
Summary: | The act includes outdoor nature-based preschool programs (outdoor programs) as a type of licensed child care center (center) in the department of early childhood (department) for licensing-related matters. No later than December 31, 2025, the executive director of the department shall promulgate rules for centers operating as outdoor programs. The rules must include, but are not limited to:
The act requires the department to provide training to licensing staff who oversee outdoor program site inspections and, beginning December 1, 2026, to outdoor program operators and staff. The department shall collaborate with local fire departments on fire prevention and protection requirements for outdoor programs and with the department of public health and environment on sanitary standards for outdoor programs. The act requires the general assembly to appropriate $30,000 from the child care licensing cash fund to the department for the 2024-25, 2025-26, and 2026-27 fiscal years to implement the outdoor programs. The act appropriates $179,569 to the department for purposes of licensing outdoor programs. The appropriation consists of $149,569 from the general fund and $30,000 from the cash fund. The act appropriates $35,341 to the department of public health and environmentfor environmental health programs related to outdoor program licensure. APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-079 | Motorcycle Lane Filtering & Passing |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | N. Hinrichsen (D) | J. Smallwood / J. Mabrey (D) | R. Weinberg (R) |
Summary: | The act authorizes the driver of a 2-wheeled motorcycle to overtake or pass another motor vehicle in the same lane if:
A motorcycle driver overtaking or passing under the act must not overtake or pass:
The authorization to overtake or pass is repealed, effective September 1, 2027. Before the repeal, the Colorado department of transportation will analyze safety data on the act and issue a report to the general assembly. APPROVED by Governor April 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 4/4/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-083 | Relinquishment of Child in Newborn Safety Device |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Smallwood | J. Coleman (D) / S. Luck (R) | J. Bacon (D) |
Summary: | The bill authorizes a fire station, hospital, or community clinic emergency center (authorized facility) to install a newborn safety device on its premises for parents who voluntarily relinquish their child who is 72 hours old or younger. A newborn safety device must be installed in a conspicuous location at the authorized facility and be equipped with a dual alarm system. An authorized facility that installs a newborn safety device is responsible for the cost of the installation and maintenance, shall ensure the dual alarm system is functioning, and shall make information available to the relinquishing parent. The bill makes conforming amendments.
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Status: | 2/27/2024 Senate Third Reading Laid Over to 05/09/2024 - No Amendments |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-085 | Sales & Use Tax Rebate for Digital Asset Purchases |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Priola | J. Buckner (D) / J. Parenti | R. Weinberg (R) |
Summary: | For the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and for each state fiscal year thereafter through the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2033, the bill allows a data center business or a data center operator (taxpayer) to claim a rebate for all state sales and use tax that the taxpayer paid for construction materials or data center equipment that is for the construction or operation of an eligible data center. To be eligible to claim a sales and use tax rebate, a taxpayer is required to obtain certification from the Colorado office of economic development (office) stating that the data center is an eligible data center and that the taxpayer may claim a rebate of state sales and use tax (certification). An "eligible data center" is defined as a data center that creates a specified number of jobs, generates a specified amount of revenue, and requires a specified amount of power. The sales and use tax rebate is allowed only for the sale, storage, or use of construction materials or data center equipment that occurs on or after the date that the taxpayer obtains certification from the office. When a taxpayer believes that the data center that will be identified in a sales and use tax rebate application satisfies the criteria to be an eligible data center, the taxpayer may apply to the office for the certification. The taxpayer must demonstrate in the certification application that the data center is an eligible data center, and the taxpayer is required to submit any documentation or proof that the office deems necessary to determine whether a data center satisfies the criteria to be an eligible data center. Before issuing a certification, the office shall provide the application to the Colorado economic development commission (commission) to determine whether the data center satisfies the criteria to be an eligible data center, and the commission shall approve or deny the certification. When approving an application for certification as an eligible data center, the commission may limit a certification by specifying that an eligible data center may claim a rebate only up to a specified dollar amount based on specified economic development priorities. The commission may issue certification for up to 3 data centers to claim a sales and use tax rebate in any fiscal year. If the commission determines that a data center satisfies the criteria to be an eligible data center, the office is required to notify the department of revenue (department) and issue a certification to the taxpayer. To claim a sales and use tax rebate, a taxpayer must submit a rebate application and a copy of the certification from the office to the department. A taxpayer is required to submit certain documentation with the application. The bill allows a taxpayer to assign a certification to specified types of parties after it is awarded. The bill requires the office and the department to prepare an annual report including information regarding eligible data centers and state sales and use tax rebates allowed. The office is required to submit the report to the finance committees of the house of representatives and senate.
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Status: | 4/30/2024 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-089 | Firefighter Heart Benefits Trust |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Rodriguez (D) / L. Daugherty (D) | R. Weinberg (R) |
Summary: | The act removes the ability of most firefighter employers to select accident insurance, self-insurance, or a self-insurance pool as options to provide statutorily required monetary benefits to a firefighter who has experienced a heart and circulatory malfunction. As a result, all firefighter employers except for those exempted by the act must participate in a multiple employer health trust in order to provide such benefits. The act exempts firefighter employers that are cities and counties or municipalities that, as of July 2022, have a population of 400,000 or more and, as of April 30, 2024, have enacted an ordinance to provide the required monetary benefits that remains in effect. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 24, 2024 |
Status: | 5/24/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-091 | Rights-of-Way Permits for Broadband Deployment |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Pelton (R) | K. Mullica (D) / M. Martinez (D) | M. Catlin (R) |
Summary: | Current law allows an entity that wants to access public rights-of-way (rights-of-way) for the deployment of broadband to enter into a public-private initiative agreement with the department of transportation (department) for the entity's access to the rights-of-way. The bill creates an alternative method for entities that want to access rights-of-way for the deployment of broadband, whereby the department may issue a permit and impose a permit fee for access to rights-of-way for the deployment of broadband. The bill specifies that an entity that wants to access rights-of-way for the deployment of broadband may pursue either the permit application and fee process created in the bill or the existing public-private initiative agreement process. In issuing permits that grant access to rights-of-way, the bill:
The department may impose a one-time permit processing fee in connection with an application to gain access to rights-of-way for the deployment of broadband (permit processing fee) so long as the fee does not exceed the department's actual costs in connection with granting or administering the permits. The department is prohibited from imposing any other fee or charge for access to rights-of-way for the deployment of broadband. The department is also prohibited from including any charge in the permit processing fee to receive compensation for the fair market value of rights-of-way or access to rights-of-way; except that if the attorney general certifies in writing to the transportation commission that excluding fair market value in the permit processing fee violates federal law and that the violation will result in the loss of federal money apportioned to the state, the department is required to include fair market value in the permit processing fee. In such case, the department is required to set the rate of fair market value at a level that does not exceed the lowest rate of fair market value established by any other state for access to that state's rights-of-way for the deployment of broadband.
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Status: | 5/1/2024 Senate Committee on Transportation & Energy Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-092 | Cost Effective Energy Codes |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Pelton (R) / R. Pugliese (R) |
Summary: | The bill requires any provision of any energy code adopted by a county or municipality on or after January 1, 2026, to be cost effective. "Cost effective" means, using the existing energy efficiency standards and requirements as a base of comparison, that the economic benefits of the proposed energy efficiency standards and requirements will exceed the economic costs of those standards and requirements based upon an incremental multi-year analysis that:
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Status: | 2/29/2024 Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-094 | Safe Housing for Residential Tenants |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | J. Gonzales (D) | T. Exum (D) / M. Lindsay (D) | M. Froelich (D) |
Summary: | The act modifies existing warranty of habitability laws by clarifying actions that constitute a breach of the warranty of habitability (breach) and procedures for both landlords and tenants when a warranty of habitability claim (claim) is alleged by the tenant. Updates to existing warranty of habitability laws include:
The act establishes legal standards and court procedures related to claims, including authorizing a tenant to raise a breach as an affirmative defense against a landlord's action for possession or action of collection against the tenant. The act also establishes legal standards and procedures for a landlord's defense to a claim and limitations on a tenant's claim. The act instructs the court in its calculation of actual and punitive damages for breach cases. The act prohibits retaliation and specifies what tenant actions are protected by the prohibition on retaliation and what actions constitute retaliation by the landlord. The act clarifies the jurisdiction of the attorney general and county and district courts over matters related to violations of the warranty of habitability. The act also modifies the statement included in a summons issued to a defendant in a court proceeding regarding an action for possession brought by a landlord. APPROVED by Governor May 3, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 3, 2024 |
Status: | 5/3/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-096 | Limit Fenced Perimeter Security Alarm System Regulations |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Van Winkle (R) / M. Soper (R) |
Summary: | The bill defines what a fenced perimeter security alarm system is and limits the extent to which a local government is authorized to impose requirements related to the use of a fenced perimeter security alarm system.
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Status: | 2/29/2024 Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-102 | Taxation Premium Cigars |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | T. Sullivan (D) |
Summary: | Effective July 1, 2024, the bill defines "premium cigars" and reduces the statutory rate of taxation of this particular tobacco product from the current rates for all non-cigarette tobacco products other than moist snuff of 36% of the manufacturer's list price (MLP) from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027, and 42% of the MLP on and after July 1, 2027, to 20% of the MLP, effectively rolling back the increases in the statutory taxation rate for such tobacco products since 2005. The bill does not affect taxation of premium cigars under section 21 of article X of the state constitution, which imposes an additional 20% tax. |
Status: | 2/29/2024 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-106 | Right to Remedy Construction Defects |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Zenzinger | J. Coleman (D) / S. Bird (D) |
Summary: | In the "Construction Defect Action Reform Act" (act), Colorado law establishes procedures for bringing a lawsuit for a construction defect (claim).
To bring a claim or related action, Under the act, a claimant is barred from seeking damages for failing to comply with building codes or industry standards unless the failure results in:
(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)
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Status: | 5/3/2024 House Committee on Transportation, Housing & Local Government Postpone Indefinitely |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-107 | Weapons Possession Previous Offender Add Crimes |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Gardner / G. Evans |
Summary: | Under current law, it is illegal for a person to possess a firearm if the person was convicted of or adjudicated for certain felonies. The bill adds felonies for drug manufacture, dispensation, sale, and distribution; drug possession with intent to manufacture, dispense, sell, and distribute; and first and second degree motor vehicle theft, to the list of convictions that prohibit a person from possessing a firearm. |
Status: | 5/7/2024 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 05/09/2024 - No Amendments |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-108 | Prohibit Unauthorized Use Public Safety Radio |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Priola | M. Baisley (R) / J. Parenti | R. Weinberg (R) |
Summary: | The act prohibits a person from knowingly affiliating with a public safety radio network without authorization from the network's authorizing entity. Unlawful affiliation with a public safety radio network is a class 2 misdemeanor. APPROVED by Governor May 1, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/1/2024 Governor Signed |
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SB24-111 | Senior Primary Residence Prop Tax Reduction |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (15) in house calendar. |
Sponsors: | C. Kolker (D) | C. Hansen (D) / S. Lieder (D) | M. Young |
Summary: | For property tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2025, the act creates a new subclass of residential real property called qualified-senior primary residence real property, which includes residential real property that as of the assessment date is used as the primary residence of an owner-occupier, as defined in the act, if:
The act also:
APPROVED by Governor May 14, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/14/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-112 | Construction Defect Action Procedures |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | P. Lundeen (R) |
Summary: |
The bill states that a construction professional is not vicariously liable for the acts or omissions of a licensed design professional for any construction defects. Under current law regarding common interest communities, a unit owners' association (association) must follow a process to obtain the approval of a majority of the unit owners before initiating a construction defect action (action). The approval process:
In connection with this process, section 2 :
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Status: | 4/30/2024 Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-120 | Updates to the Crime Victim Compensation Act |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (2) in house calendar. |
Sponsors: | R. Fields / S. Bird (D) |
Summary: | The act makes the following updates to the "Crime Victim Compensation Act" (act):
APPROVED by Governor May 15, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 15, 2024 |
Status: | 5/15/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-124 | Health-Care Coverage for Biomarker Testing |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Michaelson Jenet (D) | J. Rich (R) / A. Hartsook (R) | M. Duran (D) |
Summary: | The act requires all large group health benefit plans to provide coverage for biomarker testing to guide treatment decisions if the testing is supported by medical and scientific evidence. The act defines "biomarker testing" as an analysis of a patient's tissue, blood, or other biospecimen for the presence of an indicator of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a specific therapeutic intervention. The required testing under the act does not include biomarker testing for screening purposes or direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The act requires the commissioner of insurance to implement biomarker testing coverage for all large employer health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025. To the extent biomarker testing is not in addition to the benefits provided pursuant to the benchmark plan, all individual and small group health benefit plans must provide coverage for biomarker testing. Within 120 days after the act takes effect, the division of insurance (division) shall submit to the federal department of health and human services (HHS) its determination of whether biomarker testing is in addition to essential health benefits and would require state defrayal of costs pursuant to federal law. The division shall implement the requirement for coverage for biomarker testing for individual and small group health benefit plans within 12 months after the earlier of the division receiving confirmation from HHS that biomarker coverage does not require defrayal or more than 365 days passing since the division submitted its determination that defrayal was not necessary. Biomarker testing is subject to the health benefit plan's annual deductibles, copayment, or coinsurance but is not subject to any annual or lifetime maximum benefit limit. APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 3, 2024 |
Status: | 6/3/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-125 | Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Pelton (R) | D. Michaelson Jenet (D) / G. Evans | A. Boesenecker (D) |
Summary: | The act enacts the "Interstate Compact on Placement of Children" (compact). The purpose of the compact is to:
After the act takes effect, and subject to available appropriations, the executive director of the department of human services (executive director) shall convene a working group to review the proposal for enactment of the revised interstate compact on placement of children, and conclude one year later unless amended. The working group shall review and make recommendations, according to a time frame determined by the working group, to Colorado's commissioner to the compact on the following issues:
The compact takes effect after the executive director provides notice to the revisor of statutes that the thirty-fifth state has enacted the compact. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/24/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-127 | Regulate Dredged & Fill Material State Waters |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Kirkmeyer (R) / S. Bird (D) |
Summary: | The bill creates the stream and wetlands protection commission (commission) in the department of natural resources (department) and requires the commission to develop, adopt, and maintain a dredge-and-fill permit program (permit program) for:
The bill creates the stream and wetlands protection division (division) in the department to administer and enforce the permit program. The commission is required to promulgate rules as expeditiously as is prudent and feasible concerning the issuance of permits under the permit program. Until the division implements such rules, the bill prohibits the water quality control division in the department of public health and environment from taking any enforcement action against an activity that includes the discharge of dredged or fill material into state waters if the activity causing the discharge is conducted in a manner that provides for protection of state waters consistent with the protections that would have occurred through compliance with federal law prior to May 25, 2023. The bill establishes enforcement mechanisms for the permit program. A person who violates the terms of a permit, a rule, or a cease-and-desist order or clean-up order is subject to a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 per day per violation. The bill directs the state treasurer to transfer $600,000 from the severance tax operational fund to the capital construction fund on July 1, 2024, for the implementation of the bill.
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Status: | 4/25/2024 Senate Committee on Finance Refer Amended to Appropriations |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-129 | Nonprofit Member Data Privacy & Public Agencies |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Pelton (R) | C. Kolker (D) / C. deGruy Kennedy | L. Frizell (R) |
Summary: | With certain exceptions, the act prohibits a public agency from:
A nonprofit entity or any of its members affected adversely by a public agency's violation of the act's provisions may initiate a civil action against the public agency in district court for injunctive relief, damages, or such other relief as is appropriate. Notwithstanding existing laws concerning governmental immunity, a court may award damages against a public agency that violates the act's provisions as follows:
A court may also award the costs of litigation to a complainant that prevails in such an action. The act prohibits a custodian of public records (custodian) from requiring a nonprofit entity to produce member-specific data that is contained in public records if such records are not subject to inspection and copying pursuant to the "Colorado Open Records Act". A custodian must deny any request to inspect, copy, or reproduce any member-specific data in the possession of a public agency and provided to the public agency by a nonprofit entity. A custodian must not require a nonprofit entity to produce records and information relating to the identification of individual employees of nonprofit entities with whom the public entity contracts for services or of individual employees of subcontractors of such nonprofit entities. APPROVED by Governor May 28, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/28/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-131 | Prohibiting Carrying Firearms in Sensitive Spaces |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) | C. Kolker (D) / K. Brown (D) | M. Lindsay (D) |
Summary: | The act prohibits a person from knowingly carrying a firearm, both openly and concealed, in the following government buildings, including their adjacent parking areas:
Unlawful carrying of a firearm in a government building is a class 1 misdemeanor. The act includes exceptions for law enforcement officers, members of the United States armed forces or Colorado National Guard, security personnel, persons carrying as part of the lawful and common practices of a legal proceeding, and persons who hold a permit to carry a concealed handgun (concealed carry permit) who are carrying a concealed handgun in an adjacent parking area. The act permits a local government to enact a law permitting carrying at a local government building included in the act. Members of the general assembly are exempt from the prohibition on carrying in a state legislative building until January 5, 2025. The act prohibits a person from knowingly carrying a firearm, both openly and concealed, on the property of a child care center, other than a family child care home, that is licensed by the department of early childhood or is exempt from licensing pursuant to state law, and that operates with stated educational purposes (licensed child care center); public or private elementary, middle, junior high, high, or vocational school; or any public or private college, university, or seminary (higher education institution), with exceptions. A violation is a class 1 misdemeanor. The act maintains exceptions in existing law for carrying a firearm on the property of a public elementary, middle, junior high, or high school and adds exceptions for concealed carry permit holders carrying in the parking area of a licensed child care center or higher education institution; security personnel at a licensed child care center or higher education institution; and for a licensed child care center that is on the same property as another building or improvement, carrying a firearm in an area that is not designated as a licensed child care center. Existing law prohibits openly carrying a firearm within any polling location or central count facility, or within 100 feet of a ballot drop box or any building in which a polling location or central count facility is located, while an election or any related ongoing election administration activity is in progress. The act prohibits carrying a firearm in any manner at those locations. APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024 |
Status: | 5/31/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-139 | Creation of 911 Services Enterprise |
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Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (10) in house calendar. |
Sponsors: | J. Gonzales (D) / C. deGruy Kennedy | W. Lindstedt (D) |
Summary: | The act creates the 911 services enterprise in the department of regulatory agencies (enterprise). The enterprise is authorized to impose a fee on service users (fee). A service user is a person who is provided a 911 access connection in the state. The fee is set annually by the enterprise and, together with the 911 surcharge that the public utilities commission (commission) imposes on service users for the benefit of meeting the needs of governing bodies to pay for basic emergency service and provide emergency telephone service (911 surcharge) and must not exceed $0.50 per month per 911 access connection. The fee is collected in the same manner as the 911 surcharge. Revenue from the fee will fund expenses and costs related to the provision of 911 services, including:
The act also creates the 911 services enterprise cash fund, adds a requirement for the commission to include in its "state of 911" annual report the activity of the enterprise including its use of its revenue, and makes several technical updates to the statutes concerning the 911 surcharge and the commission's "state of 911" report. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $107,695 from the general fund to the department of regulatory agencies and reappropriates $38,406 of that appropriation to the department of law to implement the act. APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/31/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-147 | Streamlining the Updating of Telecom Equipment |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Van Winkle (R) |
Summary: | The federal government created a list of telecommunications equipment and service that pose a risk to national security and that should be removed, discontinued, or replaced (covered list). The bill specifies that a person who removes, discontinues, or replaces telecommunications equipment or service on the covered list in compliance with federal law is not required to obtain additional permits from a local government to remove, discontinue, or replace the telecommunications equipment or service if the local government receives notice and any replacement equipment is functionally similar to the removed equipment. |
Status: | 2/22/2024 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-148 | Precipitation Harvesting Storm Water Detention |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Van Winkle (R) / B. McLachlan | B. Bradley (R) |
Summary: | Under current law, an entity that owns, operates, or has oversight over a storm water detention and infiltration facility (facility) is not allowed to divert, store, or otherwise use water detained in the facility. For facilities that are also approved for use as a precipitation harvesting facility, the act authorizes the use of water detained in the facility pursuant to an approved precipitation harvesting pilot project if precipitation captured in the facility for beneficial use is replaced and any other water captured is managed and released back to the stream system. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 4/11/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-150 | Processing of Municipal Solid Waste |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | L. Cutter (D) | D. Michaelson Jenet (D) / M. Froelich (D) |
Summary: | Units that combust municipal solid waste (combustion units) that are in existence in the state on or before July 1, 2024, are eligible, pursuant to section 2 of the act, for a state incentive to conduct technological upgrades. Section 2 clarifies that, on and after January 1, 2025, combustion and combustion units do not meet certain environmental standards established by state law or rules. In addition, section 2 prohibits combustion units that target plastic as a feedstock from eligibility for any state incentives not granted or awarded, or that apply to income tax years, before January 1, 2025, with certain exceptions. Sections 3 and 4 clarify that a solid waste-to-energy incineration system includes pyrolysis and gasification processes. Section 5 changes current law to specify that synthetic gas produced by the pyrolysis of waste materials is not an eligible energy resource for the purpose of certain state-level renewable energy standards. Section 6 changes current law to specify that methane derived from the pyrolysis of municipal solid waste is not recovered methane that is a clean heat resource for the purpose of clean heat plans. VETOED by Governor May 17, 2024 |
Status: | 5/17/2024 Governor Vetoed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-151 | Telecommunications Security |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | P. Lundeen (R) | D. Roberts (D) / M. Lukens (D) | M. Soper (R) |
Summary: | The act requires telecommunications providers that operate in Colorado to remove, discontinue, or replace all critical telecommunications infrastructure that utilizes equipment from a federally banned entity. The act requires telecommunications providers to register with the division of homeland security and emergency management (division) within the department of public safety on or before January 15, 2025, and annually certify thereafter that the telecommunications provider is:
The act requires a telecommunications provider that operates critical telecommunications infrastructure that utilizes federally banned equipment to register with the division each year until all of the federally banned equipment has been removed or replaced. The act creates the secure telecommunications cash fund for the collection of registration fees that will be used to implement the program. The act also grants the director of the division rule-making authority to implement the requirements of the act. APPROVED by Governor June 7, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/7/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-154 | Accessory Dwelling Units |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) |
Summary: | As established in the bill, a subject jurisdiction is the unincorporated portion of a county that is not within:
The bill requires a subject jurisdiction to allow, on or after January 1, 2025, subject to an administrative approval process, the conversion of an accessory dwelling unit. The bill also prohibits subject jurisdictions from applying a restrictive design or dimension standard to an accessory dwelling unit.
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Status: | 4/25/2024 Senate Committee on Local Government & Housing Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-159 | Mod to Energy & Carbon Management Processes |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Jaquez Lewis (D) | K. Priola / A. Boesenecker (D) | J. Marvin |
Summary: | On or before July 1, 2027, section 2 of the bill requires the energy and carbon management commission (commission) to adopt rules (permitting rules) to cease issuing new oil and gas permits (permits) before January 1, 2030, which rules must include certain reductions in the total number of oil and gas wells covered by new permits issued in 2028 and 2029. If the commission determines that mitigation of adverse environmental impacts is necessary as a result of oil and gas operations, current law requires the commission to issue an order requiring a responsible party to perform the mitigation. If the responsible party refuses to perform the mitigation or is identified after the state provides funds for the mitigation, the commission must sue the responsible party to recover the costs of the mitigation. Section 3 changes current law by:
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Status: | 3/28/2024 Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-160 | Records of Workplace Discrimination Complaints |
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Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (7) in house calendar. |
Sponsors: | S. Fenberg | P. Lundeen (R) / J. McCluskie (D) | R. Pugliese (R) |
Summary: | In the 2023 legislative session, the general assembly enacted 2 bills related to complaints and findings of discriminatory or unfair practices in the workplace, including complaints and findings of sexual harassment committed by an elected official, and access to records of such complaints and findings. The 2023 enactments resulted in a conflict in the law with regard to public access to records of sexual harassment complaints against an elected official. Specifically, Senate Bill 23-172, concerning protections for Colorado workers against discriminatory employment practices:
Senate Bill 23-286, concerning improving public access to government records, amended CORA to specifically require the custodian of any record of a sexual harassment complaint against an elected official to make the record available for public inspection, after redacting the identity of or any information that would identify any accuser, accused who is not an elected official, victim, or witness, if the investigation concludes that the elected official is culpable of sexual harassment. The act resolves the conflict between Senate Bill 23-172 and Senate Bill 23-286 by allowing public inspection of records in an employer's designated repository that pertain to a sexual harassment complaint or investigation against an elected official found culpable of sexual harassment. Additionally, the act designates the office of legislative workplace relations as the repository of complaint records for the employers in the legislative department. APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-163 | Arbitration of Health Insurance Claims |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) / M. Catlin (R) | L. Daugherty (D) |
Summary: | The bill makes changes to the arbitration requirements for out-of-network health insurance claims by requiring the arbitration process to include a batching process, by which multiple claims may be considered jointly and under the same arbitration fee as part of one payment determination in alignment with federal law. The commissioner of insurance is required to promulgate rules that specify the information each insurance carrier is required to submit to a provider with the initial payment of a claim. |
Status: | 3/28/2024 Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB24-165 | Air Quality Improvements |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Priola | L. Cutter (D) / M. Rutinel (D) | L. Garcia (D) |
Summary: | On or before December 31, 2028, the bill requires the air quality control commission (AQCC) in the department of public health and environment (department) to adopt by rule certain emission standards and requirements for in-use, off-road, diesel-fueled fleets. On or before December 31, 2025, the AQCC must adopt rules for controlling emissions from facilities, buildings, structures, installations, or real property that generates mobile source activity that results in emissions of air pollutants (indirect source) within the 8-hour ozone Denver metro/north front range nonattainment area (covered nonattainment area). The rules must include emission reduction targets for indirect sources to achieve and a process for the division of administration (division) in the department to review alternative approaches proposed by an owner or operator of an indirect source. The commission may establish a fee for indirect sources within the covered nonattainment area to cover the division's costs in implementing the rules. The bill also defines "ozone season" as the period beginning May 1 and ending September 30 of each year (ozone season). Beginning in the 2025 ozone season, and in each ozone season thereafter, any oil and gas preproduction activity within the covered nonattainment area must pause for the duration of the ozone season. On or before June 30, 2024, and on or before each June 30 thereafter, an oil and gas operator in the state is required to submit an oil and natural gas annual emission inventory report (inventory report) to the division that includes, for the previous calendar year, the emissions of certain air pollutants from oil and gas operations under the control of the oil and gas operator. On or before October 1, 2024, and on or before each October 1 thereafter, the division, in coordination with the energy and carbon management commission (ECMC), must prepare a report regarding the inventory reports received by the division for the previous calendar year and certain other information. On or before November 30, 2024, and on or before each November 30 thereafter, for the ozone season of the subsequent year, an oil and gas operator that controls oil and gas operations in the covered nonattainment area must submit a report to the division estimating emissions of nitrogen oxides from the oil and gas operator's operations in the covered nonattainment area (estimates). For the 2025 ozone season, and for each ozone season thereafter, the ECMC, in consultation with the division, must develop an ozone season nitrogen oxides emission budget (budget) for the emissions of nitrogen oxides by oil and gas operations in the covered nonattainment area, which budget must set certain maximum average emission levels of nitrogen oxides by oil and gas operations. On or before February 1, 2025, and on or before each February 1 thereafter, the division must prepare a nitrogen oxides report regarding the estimates received by the division for use by the ECMC in determining if the total estimates received exceed the budget for the ozone season of the current year. Beginning in February 2025, and in each February thereafter, the ECMC, in consultation with the division, must act to limit emissions of nitrogen oxides from oil and gas operations in the covered nonattainment area in a manner that prevents an exceedance of the current year's budget. The bill also requires the department of transportation to establish vehicle miles traveled reduction targets for the covered nonattainment area and to develop policies and programs to assist applicable metropolitan planning organizations in meeting the targets.
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Status: | 5/2/2024 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-166 | Air Quality Enforcement |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | F. Winter (D) / M. Froelich (D) | E. Velasco (D) |
Summary: |
On or before December 31, 2024, section 4 requires owners and operators of stationary sources to submit any reports or records that the owner or operator is required to create, maintain, or submit pursuant to federal or state law. The division must make any reports or records received available on the division's website within 30 days after receipt. Current law provides that a person that violates a local government's air quality regulations is subject to a maximum civil penalty of $300. Section 5 raises the maximum civil penalty to the amount provided by state air quality laws. Current law exempts damage awards from the state constitutional definition of "fiscal year spending", which counts toward the state's annual spending limit pursuant to state constitutional law. Section 7 adds civil penalties assessed by a state agency to the statutory definition of "damage awards". |
Status: | 5/2/2024 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-172 | Hemp Product Definition Marijuana Regulation |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | B. Pelton (R) / B. McLachlan |
Summary: | Colorado law uses a defined phrase of "hemp product". The act changes terms in the marijuana statutes to conform to the current defined phrase. APPROVED by Governor May 1, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/1/2024 Governor Signed |
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SB24-174 | Sustainable Affordable Housing Assistance |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (17) in house calendar. |
Sponsors: | B. Kirkmeyer (R) | R. Zenzinger / S. Bird (D) | R. Pugliese (R) |
Summary: | The act requires the executive director of the department of local affairs (director), no later than December 31, 2024, to develop reasonable methodologies for conducting statewide, regional, and local housing needs assessments and reasonable guidance for a local government to identify areas at elevated risk of displacement. The act requires the director, no later than November 30, 2027, and every 6 years thereafter, to conduct a statewide housing needs assessment that analyzes existing and future statewide housing needs and to publish a report, based on the statewide housing needs assessment and regional and local housing needs assessments accepted by the department, identifying current housing stock and estimating statewide housing needs. The act requires each local government, beginning December 31, 2026, to conduct and publish a local housing needs assessment. The act outlines the process for a local government conducting a local housing needs assessment and for determining when a local government is exempt from conducting a local housing needs assessment. The act requires local governments to submit local housing needs assessments to the department of local affairs (department), which shall publish those assessments on the department's website. Relatedly, the act allows a regional entity to conduct a regional housing needs assessment. If a regional entity conducts a regional housing needs assessment, the act requires the regional entity to submit the assessment both to each local government in the region and to the department, which shall publish those assessments on the department's website. A housing action plan is an advisory document that demonstrates a local government's commitment to address housing needs and that guides a local government in developing legislative actions, promoting regional coordination, and informing the public of the local government's efforts to address housing needs in the local government's jurisdiction. The act requires a local government with a population of either 5,000 or more or 1,000 or more if the local government either participated in a regional housing needs assessment or is a rural resort community to make a housing action plan no later than January 1, 2028, and every 6 years thereafter. The act identifies the specific elements that a housing action plan must include, explains how a local government may update a housing action plan, requires a local government to report its progress in implementing the plan to the department, and requires a local government to submit a housing action plan to the department, which shall publish each accepted housing action plan on the department's website. The act requires the director to develop, by no later than June 30, 2025:
The act establishes the minimum required elements for all three directory types. The act also requires the director to submit a statewide strategic growth report to the general assembly no later than October 31, 2025, and develop and publish, in consultation with relevant state agencies, a natural land and agricultural interjurisdictional opportunities report no later than December 31, 2025. The act requires the division of local government (division) to provide technical assistance and guidance through a grant program, the provision of consultant services, or both to aid local governments in:
The act creates the continuously appropriated housing needs planning technical assistance fund to contain the money necessary for the division to provide this technical assistance and guidance. The act requires the state treasurer to transfer $10.5 million from the local government severance tax fund and $4.5 million from the local government mineral impact fund to this fund. Further, the act directs the division to serve as a clearing house for the benefit of local governments and regional entities in accomplishing the goals of the act. The division shall report on the assistance requested and provided under the act. On and after December 1, 2027, for any grant program conducted by the department, the Colorado energy office, the office of economic development, the department of transportation, the department of natural resources, the department of public health and environment, or the department of personnel and administration that awards grants to local governments for the primary purpose of supporting land use planning or housing, the act requires the awarding entity to prioritize awarding grants to a local government that:
In the case of a local government that is not required to do any of the above, the department is required to prioritize that local government in the same way that it prioritizes a local government that has done all of the above. On or before June 30, 2025, the act requires the department to designate criteria for the designation of a neighborhood center by a local government. If a local government designates a neighborhood center, the local government must submit a report to the department describing the neighborhood center. Furthermore, on or after December 31, 2026, the act requires certain grant programs to prioritize projects supporting or concerning neighborhood centers. The act modifies the requirements of both county and municipal master plans so that those master plans must include:
The water supply element in a county or municipal master plan must identify the general location and extent of an adequate and suitable supply of water, identify supplies and facilities sufficient to meet the needs of local infrastructure, and include water conservation policies. The strategic growth element in a master plan must include:
The act requires both counties and municipalities to submit their master plan and any separately approved water or strategic growth element to the division for the division's review. The act prohibits a unit owners' association of a common interest community from, through any declaration or bylaw, rules, or regulation adopted or amended by an association on or after July 1, 2024, prohibiting or restricting the construction of accessory dwelling units or middle housing if the zoning laws of the association's local jurisdiction would otherwise allow such construction. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, $583,864 is appropriated, from reappropriated funds received from the department of local affairs from the housing needs planning technical assistance fund, to the office of the governor for use by the office of information technology to provide information technology services for the department of local affairs for the implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor May 30, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 30, 2024 |
Status: | 5/31/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-179 | Floodplain Management Program |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | C. Simpson (R) | N. Hinrichsen (D) / M. Catlin (R) | T. Story (D) |
Summary: | Local government floodplain management regulations for development in floodplain areas must equal or exceed the federal emergency management agency's national flood insurance program's (national flood insurance program) minimum design and construction criteria and must comply with the Colorado water conservation board's (CWCB) rules and regulations for regulatory floodplains in Colorado. Not all local governments participate in the national flood insurance program. The act requires the office of the state architect, in coordination with the CWCB, to develop a state floodplain management program (program) by June 30, 2025, which will ensure compliance with the minimum floodplain management criteria of the national flood insurance program and with the CWCB's rules and regulations for regulatory floodplains in Colorado. The program applies to development on state-owned land in counties and municipalities that do not participate in the national flood insurance program. At the discretion of the office of the state architect, the program may also apply to state-leased properties in counties and municipalities that do not participate in the national flood insurance program. The act appropriates $49,383 from the general fund to the department of personnel for use by the office of the state architect. APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-184 | Support Surface Transportation Infrastructure Development |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Fenberg | J. Marchman (D) / J. McCluskie (D) | A. Boesenecker (D) |
Summary: | The act clarifies the scope of the high-performance transportation enterprise's (transportation enterprise) powers and duties to expand its capacity to execute its charge and more explicitly prioritize mitigation of traffic congestion and traffic-related pollution through the completion of multimodal surface transportation infrastructure projects as follows:
Section 4 authorizes the regional transportation district (RTD) to extend construction and operations of its northwest rail fixed guideway corridor beyond its boundaries if all capital and operating expenses outside the RTD are fully accounted for and already reimbursed to the RTD by a public body. Section 6 requires the front range passenger rail district (rail district), in cooperation with RTD, CDOT, and the transportation enterprise, to provide to the transportation legislation review committee and the governor:
Sections 5, 7, 8, and 13, respectively and in conjunction with section 2, provide specific, explicit authorization to the RTD, the rail district, CDOT, and the transportation enterprise, in accordance with an implementation plan developed as required by section 6, to enter into a standalone intergovernmental agreement with or create a separate legal entity with each other to implement the completion of construction and operation of the RTD's northwest fixed guideway corridor, including an extension of the corridor to Fort Collins as the first phase of front range passenger rail service. Section 10 requires CDOT and the rail district to annually report to the transportation legislation review committee and the governor regarding the status of the service development plan for front range passenger rail service between Trinidad, Pueblo, and Fort Collins and requires the plan to include descriptions of steps taken to maximize the chances of securing federal grant assistance and of how the project will create good-paying, high-quality, and safe jobs. Section 9 requires CDOT's transit and rail division to submit a report containing a development plan for rocky mountain rail service to the legislative committees that oversee transportation and the governor not later than December 31, 2024. Section 15 appropriates $42,399 from the general fund to the department of revenue to implement the act. APPROVED by Governor May 16, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 16, 2024 |
Status: | 5/16/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-185 | Protections Mineral Interest Owners Forced Pooling |
Position: | Support |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Fenberg / J. Amabile (D) |
Summary: | Under current law, when 2 or more separately owned tracts are within an oil and gas drilling unit (unit) established by the Colorado energy and carbon management commission (commission), in the absence of voluntary pooling and after a reasonable offer to lease, made in good faith (offer to lease), the commission may enter an order pooling the mineral interests of those tracts (pooling order) for the development and operation of the unit if the applicant for the pooling order:
The act changes current law by:
For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, $20,483 is appropriated to the department of natural resources from the energy and carbon management cash fund for implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor May 22, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/22/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-189 | Gender-Related Bias-Motivated Crimes |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | R. Fields | C. Hansen (D) / M. Weissman (D) | M. Soper (R) |
Summary: | The act adds transgender identity to the classes identified in bias-motivated crimes and harassment. The act redefines sexual orientation for purposes of bias-motivated crimes as a person's orientation toward sexual or emotional attraction and the behavior or social affiliation that may result from the attraction. APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024 |
Status: | 5/31/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-195 | Protect Vulnerable Road Users |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | F. Winter (D) | L. Cutter (D) / M. Lindsay (D) | W. Lindstedt (D) |
Summary: | Section 1 of the act amends the statute that governs the use of automated vehicle identification systems (AVIS) on roadways other than toll highways operated by a public highway authority or the high-performance transportation enterprise in the department of transportation (CDOT) to:
Section 2 requires CDOT to establish and include in its statutorily required performance plan declining annual targets for vulnerable road user fatalities and, as part of the targets, also establish engineering methodology and internal education requirements for practices to prioritize safety over speed on high-injury networks. For state fiscal year 2025-26 and each succeeding state fiscal year, section 3 requires CDOT, after accounting for eligible critical safety-related asset management surface transportation infrastructure projects and as determined by the transportation commission, to expend a specified minimum amount of the money allocated to the state highway fund from the road safety surcharge and certain other fees, fines, and surcharges that are imposed on motor vehicle registrations and dedicated for certain types of road safety projects that protect vulnerable road users. To guide CDOT in implementing sections 2 and 3, section 4 amends an existing definition of "road safety project" to include certain types of projects that protect vulnerable road users and defines the term "vulnerable road user". APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 5, 2024 |
Status: | 6/5/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-197 | Water Conservation Measures |
Position: | |
Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) | P. Will / J. McCluskie (D) | M. Catlin (R) |
Summary: | Section 2 of the act allows the owner of a decreed storage water right to loan water to the Colorado water conservation board (board) to preserve or improve the natural environment to a reasonable degree for a stream reach for which the board does not hold a decreed instream flow water right. Current law requires the board to establish an agricultural water protection program for water divisions 1 and 2. Section 3 changes current law by requiring the board to establish an agricultural water protection program in each water division. Current law allows periods of nonuse of a water right to be tolled in certain circumstances for the purposes of determining whether a water right is abandoned. Section 4 changes current law by allowing a water right to be tolled for the duration that an electric utility that owns a water right in water division 6 decreases use of, or does not use, the water right if the decrease in use or nonuse occurs during the period beginning January 1, 2020, and ending December 31, 2050, and if the water right is owned by the electric utility since January 1, 2019 (abandonment exception). Current law requires an owner of a conditional water right to obtain a finding of reasonable diligence or the conditional water right is considered abandoned. Section 5 allows the water judge, in considering a finding of reasonable diligence for a conditional water right that is owned by an electric utility in water division 6 since January 2019, to consider the following as supporting evidence:
In determining the amount of historical consumptive use for a water right, a water judge is prohibited from considering certain specified uses. Section 6 prohibits the water judge from considering the decrease in use or nonuse of a water right owned by an electric utility in water division 6 since January 1, 2019, which decrease in use or nonuse occurs during the period beginning January 1, 2019, and ending December 31, 2050, in determining the amount of historical consumptive use (historical consumptive use protection). If the water right is leased or loaned by the electric utility to a third party, the water right is not entitled to historical consumptive use protection for the period the water right is subject to the lease or loan. To qualify for historical consumption use protection or the abandonment exception, an electric utility that manages all units of a generating station in water division 6 must file with the water division 6 water court an application seeking quantification of historical consumptive use for the absolute direct flow water rights serving the generating station. The application is a claim for a determination of a water right, and the water division 6 water court has jurisdiction to determine the historical consumptive use for the absolute direct flow water rights serving the generating station. Current law allows the board to approve certain grants related to water conservation and requires the board to establish criteria to require the grant applicant to provide matching funds of at least 25%. Section 8 requires the board to reduce or waive fund matching requirements in the case of a grant to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe or the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. APPROVED by Governor May 29, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024 |
Status: | 5/29/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-199 | Annual Species Conservation Trust Fund Projects |
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Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 CONSIDERATION OF HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILLS (1) in senate calendar. |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) | P. Will / K. McCormick (D) | M. Catlin (R) |
Summary: | For state fiscal year 2024-25, the act appropriates $5,000,000 from the species conservation trust fund in the state treasury for various wildlife conservation programs directed at conserving candidate species or species that are likely to become candidate species, as determined by the United States fish and wildlife service, as follows:
APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2024 |
Status: | 5/17/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-205 | Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence |
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Calendar Notification: | Wednesday, May 8 2024 THIRD READING OF BILLS - FINAL PASSAGE (21) in house calendar. |
Sponsors: | R. Rodriguez (D) / B. Titone (D) | M. Rutinel (D) |
Summary: | On and after February 1, 2026, the act requires a developer of a high-risk artificial intelligence system (high-risk system) to use reasonable care to protect consumers from any known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination in the high-risk system. There is a rebuttable presumption that a developer used reasonable care if the developer complied with specified provisions in the act, including:
The act also, on and after February 1, 2026, requires a deployer of a high-risk system to use reasonable care to protect consumers from any known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination in the high-risk system. There is a rebuttable presumption that a deployer used reasonable care if the deployer complied with specified provisions in the act, including:
A person doing business in this state, including a deployer or other developer, that deploys or makes available an artificial intelligence system that is intended to interact with consumers must ensure disclosure to each consumer who interacts with the artificial intelligence system that the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence system. The act does not restrict a developer's, deployer's, or other person's ability to engage in specified activities, including:
The act provides an affirmative defense for a developer, deployer, or other person if:
An insurer, a fraternal benefit society, or a developer of an artificial intelligence system used by an insurer is in full compliance with the act if the entity is subject to specified laws governing insurers' use of external consumer data and information sources, algorithms, and predictive models and rules adopted by the commissioner of insurance. A bank, out-of-state bank, credit union chartered by the state of Colorado, federal credit union, out-of-state credit union, or any affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is in full compliance with the act if the entity is subject to examination by a state or federal prudential regulator under any published guidance or regulations that apply to the use of high-risk systems and the guidance or regulations meet criteria specified in the act. The act grants the attorney general rule-making authority to implement, and exclusive authority to enforce, the requirements of the act. A person who violates the act engages in a deceptive trade practice pursuant to the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act". APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2024 |
Status: | 5/17/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-208 | Colorado Department of Labor and Employment Regulate Electricity for Electric Vehicles |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | K. Priola | F. Winter (D) / T. Mauro (D) | M. Rutinel (D) |
Summary: | The bill creates the electric vehicle enterprise (enterprise) in the department of labor and employment (department). The business purpose of the enterprise is to synchronize electric vehicle charging protocols to create consistency and transparency for electric vehicle charging consumers. The enterprise constitutes an enterprise for purposes of section 20 of article X of the state constitution so long as it retains the authority to issue revenue bonds and receives less than 10% of its total annual revenue in grants from all Colorado state and local governments combined. So long as it constitutes an enterprise, the enterprise is not subject to section 20 of article X of the state constitution. The bill establishes a board of directors for the enterprise, including the board's membership, powers, and duties. The bill authorizes the enterprise to impose and collect a fee beginning July 1, 2025, to be paid by each electric vehicle charging station retailer based on the total number of retail electric vehicle charging stations operated by the retailer and the total number of power supply devices used at such stations. The bill creates the electric vehicle enterprise special revenue fund (fund) and continuously appropriates money in the fund to the enterprise to accomplish its duties. The bill requires the state treasurer, on July 1, 2024, to transfer $264,000 from the general fund to the fund and, on July 1, 2025, to transfer $160,000 from the general fund to the fund for the purpose of defraying expenses incurred by the enterprise before it receives fee revenue or revenue bond proceeds. The money is transferred as a loan to the enterprise, to be paid in full not later than December 31, 2028, with interest. The bill requires the enterprise, in consultation with the Colorado energy office and the division of oil and public safety within the department, to promulgate rules establishing minimum standards related to specifications and tolerances for retail electric vehicle charging equipment and methods of retail sale at publicly accessible electric vehicle charging stations to promote equity in the marketplace. The department must begin enforcing the rules on July 1, 2025, for all electric vehicle charging stations installed before, on, or after July 1, 2025. For the purposes of existing laws concerning fuel products, the bill amends the definitions of the terms "fuel products" and "motor fuel" to include electricity when used to fuel electric vehicles.
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Status: | 4/29/2024 Senate Second Reading Laid Over to 05/09/2024 - No Amendments |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SB24-210 | Modifications to Laws Regarding Elections |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | S. Fenberg | B. Pelton (R) / E. Sirota (D) |
Summary: | The act modifies the "Uniform Election Code of 1992", (code) the law regarding initiatives and referendums, the "Fair Campaign Practices Act", the public official disclosure requirements of the "Colorado Sunshine Act of 1972", and other laws regarding elections. The act modifies the code as follows:
The act further modifies the code to specify that regarding the use of an all-candidate primary election or a ranked voting method in a primary or general election, it is the general assembly's intent that a general statutory provision with a later effective date prevails over a specific statutory provision with an earlier effective date. In addition, the act specifies that before a designated election official may conduct an all-candidate primary election using an all-candidate primary ballot and before a primary or general election can use a ranked voting method for federal or state offices, the secretary must certify that:
The provisions of the act regarding an all-candidate primary election and the use of ranked voting methods take effect March 1, 2026. The act modifies the law regarding initiatives and referendums by repealing an obsolete provision regarding filing a paid circulator report with the secretary and by repealing obsolete language regarding the effective date of the bills enacted during the 2020 legislative session that included an act subject to petition clause. The act modifies the "Fair Campaign Practices Act" as follows:
The act modifies the public official disclosure requirements specified in the "Colorado Sunshine Act of 1972" as follows:
The act amends the "Colorado Open Records Act" to specify that if a clerk receives a request for election-related records that are in active use, in storage, or otherwise not readily available, and the request is made during an election for which the clerk is the designated election official, the clerk may take additional time to fulfill the request under certain circumstances; except that the allowance for additional time does not apply if the requester of the public records is a mass medium organization or a newsperson. The act adds clerk and recorders to the law specifying the office hours and required availability of county officials. The act amends Senate Bill 24-230, concerning support for statewide remediation services that positively impact the environment, to repeal the definition of "fee" applicable to section 20 of article X of the state constitution. These provisions of the act are contingent upon Senate Bill 24-230 being enacted and becoming law. The act modifies the county commissioner redistricting process to specify that staff working with the redistricting commission or the advisory committee assigned to assist the redistricting commission regarding the mapping of county commissioner districts may make a completed proposed redistricting plan that staff has prepared as a result of a request made in a public hearing available to the public on the commission's website. In addition, the act specifies that such staff may communicate with a member of the commission or advisory committee to clarify directions that were given to staff during a public meeting regarding the creation of a proposed plan, so long as staff makes a record of the communication available on the commission's website. The act makes the following appropriations for the 2024-25 state fiscal year:
APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE June 6, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE March 1, 2026 |
Status: | 6/6/2024 Governor Signed |
Amendments: | Amendments |
SJR24-004 | Water Projects Eligibility Lists |
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Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
Sponsors: | D. Roberts (D) | C. Simpson (R) / K. McCormick (D) | M. Catlin (R) |
Summary: | *** No bill summary available *** |
Status: | 3/8/2024 Governor Signed |
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