SB 26-91

Senate Bill 26-91 updates Colorado’s labor laws by excluding newspaper deliverers from being classified as employees under several key acts, including workers' compensation and paid family leave. This means that individuals who deliver newspapers will not be entitled to benefits like workers’ compensation or paid family leave insurance. The bill also clarifies how these deliverers should be treated as independent contractors rather than employees when it comes to wage laws. Since the bill has been signed into law, newspaper deliverers are now officially excluded from employee status under these acts in Colorado.

Official Summary

In current law , the 'Colorado Employment Security Act' excludes services performed by certain individuals engaged in the trade or business of delivering or distributing newspapers or shopping news from the definition of 'employment' . The bill adds the same exclusion to the 'Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado', the 'Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Act', and provisions concerning wages repeals that exclusion and adds clarifying language regarding how the independent contractor test should be applied to determine whether such individuals are employees. The bill adds the same clarifying language to the provisions concerning wages.(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

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