HB 26-1299

HB 26-1299, a Colorado bill that has been signed into law, aims to reduce regulatory burdens on education providers. It changes how missing children information is shared by requiring the state bureau of investigation to send lists directly to the Department of Education instead of individual schools. The bill also removes requirements for paper and pencil assessments, allows smaller school networks to submit a single plan, exempts some schools from personnel evaluations if they are not required, and prevents the Department of Education from making voluntary data requests mandatory or tying them to unrelated benefits. This law is now in effect and will impact how educational institutions operate in Colorado.

Official Summary

The bill requires the Colorado bureau of investigation to transmit a list of missing children to the Colorado department of education (department) instead of each school district.     The bill repeals the requirement for a school district, board of cooperative services, district charter school, or institute charter school (local education provider) to have paper and pencil assessment policies for state-administered assessments in public schools.     The bill allows a school district or a charter school network , or a charter school collaborative with 1,200 students or fewer to submit a single plan to satisfy school district, school network, or school plan requirements.      The bill allows schools that have waived out of the underlying requirements for licensed personnel evaluations to be exempt from submitting licensed personnel evaluations.     The bill prohibits the department from representing a voluntary data collection request to a school district, the state charter school institute, or a public school as mandatory and prohibits the department from conditioning any benefit unrelated to a specific grant on the completion of a voluntary data collection request.(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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