Colorado 2025 Bills

Mental Health Professional Access To Dismissed Complaint

Under current law, when a complaint against a mental health professional is dismissed, information contained in the records of the board that licenses, registers, or certifies the mental health professional (board) is exempt from the disclosure requirements of the state's open records law. The bill allows a mental health professional who is a respondent to a dismissed complaint (respondent) to access information in the files of the board and in the files of the division of professions and occupations in the department of regulatory agencies (division). Before allowing the access, the board and the division shall redact from the information the names of the respondent's clients or other recipients of service and any other information that would identify an individual person, including the complainant or a witness.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-08 · House

Rights Of Persons Office Respondent Parents' Counsel

Respondent parents' counsel - access to judicial department information - representation in reinstatement petition. The act adds to the list of agencies and attorneys authorized to have statewide read-only access to the name index and register of actions for the judiciary department those attorneys who are either under contract with or authorized by the office of the respondent parents' counsel. The act clarifies that a parent whose rights in a parent-child relationship have been terminated and who has filed a petition to reinstate the rights of a parent-child relationship is entitled to appointed counsel through the office of the respondent parents' counsel, if income eligibility criteria are satisfied. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · House

Colorado Department Of Public Health And Environment Water Quality Control

State board of health - water quality control - joint operating agreement approval - water conservancy district board of directors - rules. The act eliminates the requirement that the state board of health approve a municipality's entrance into a joint operating agreement with an industrial enterprise for work relating to sewerage facilities. The act also clarifies that the board of directors of a water conservancy district must comply with the rules of the water quality control commission concerning the manner in which watercourses of the district are used for waste disposal.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · House

Encourage Use Of Xeriscape In Common Areas

Water conservation - use of xeriscape and other drought-tolerant landscaping - common interest communities - special districts. Section 1 of the act augments an existing law that establishes the right of unit owners in common interest communities to use water-efficient landscaping, subject to reasonable aesthetic standards, by specifically extending the same policy to limited common elements, which are owned by the community and available for use by some but not all of the unit owners. Sections 2 and 3 extend existing water conservation requirements, currently applicable only to certain public entities that supply water at retail and their customers, to property management districts and other special districts that manage areas of parkland and open space. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · House

Department Of Natural Resources Language Update

Natural resources foundation fund. The act repeals language authorizing the department of natural resources to receive or reject gifts and devises of money or property to be credited to the Colorado natural resources foundation fund and updates it with authorizing language that is current and consistent with language used throughout the statutes. The act changes the name of the fund that the money is credited to from the Colorado natural resources foundation fund to the Colorado natural resources gifts, grants, and donations fund.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · Senate

Deeds To Convey Real Property

Titles and interests - deeds for the conveyance of real property - standard forms - terms of warranty and exceptions. The act states that a licensed title insurance entity may prepare deeds for the conveyance of real property in accordance with statutory forms. Any deed prepared by a title insurance entity containing a covenant of warranty must: Include a limitation on the warranty of title; and Use the phrase "subject to statutory exceptions" and no other terms or descriptions, unless the preparing title insurance entity is otherwise instructed in writing by both the grantor and the grantee. The act provides new forms of deeds for the conveyance of real property under certain circumstances. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · House

Interdistrict Transportation Of Students

Interdistrict transportation of students. The act restores the statutory language in section 22-32-113 to the language as it existed before the statute was amended by section 7 of House Bill 18-1306, concerning ensuring educational stability for students in out-of-home placement. Section 7 has been declared void by a Colorado court for violating section 21 of article V of the Colorado constitution that requires bills to contain a single subject clearly expressed in the bill's title. The act allows a school district to furnish transportation, or to reimburse parents or others for the cost of transportation, to and from its schools to students who are residents of another school district if the resident school district is adjacent to the school district of attendance and the resident school district consents to the transportation of its students to the adjacent school district. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · Senate

Colorado Department Of Public Health And Environment Air Quality Control

State board of health - supervision of air quality control programs - repeal. The act eliminates the requirement that the state board of health supervise certain air quality control programs and removes statutory provisions relating to the air pollution variance board and the air quality hearings board.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · Senate

Colorado Department of Public Health And Environment Emergency Epidemic Preparedness

State board of health - area trauma advisory councils - rules - repeal. The act repeals the requirement that the state board of health adopt rules and establish standards to ensure that area trauma advisory councils and managed care organizations are prepared for an emergency epidemic.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · Senate

Grand Junction Regional Center Campus

Grand Junction regional center campus - department of human services - authority to either list all or a portion of the campus for sale or transfer. Current law requires the department of human services to list the Grand Junction regional center campus for sale. The act gives the department of human services other options by authorizing the department to either list all or a portion of the Grand Junction regional center campus for sale or to enter into a contract to transfer all or a portion of the campus to a state institution of higher education, to a local government, or to a state agency interested in its acquisition. Such transfer would, according to current statute, be required to be reviewed by the capital development committee.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · House

Counting Special Education In Graduation Rates

Education - performance indicators - graduation rate - counting students enrolled in special education services. Under the act, a student who is enrolled in special education services must be counted in the enrolling public high school's, school district's or institute's, and state's graduation rate in the year in which the student completes high school graduation requirements. The act does not limit the right to a free appropriate public education for a student as provided by the federal "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act", the "Exceptional Children's Educational Act", or any other federal or state law or rule. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · House

Include Career And Technical Education In Building Excellent Schools Today Program

School district capital construction assistance program - grants to support career and technical education. The act amends the "Building Excellent Schools Today Act" to allow the public school capital construction assistance board (board) to provide grants to support career and technical education capital construction, which is defined as: New construction or retrofitting of public school facilities for certain career and technical education programs; and Equipment necessary for individual student learning and classroom instruction, including equipment that provides access to instructional materials or that is necessary for professional use by a classroom teacher. The act requires the board to report annually to the capital development committee and to the education and finance committees of the house of representatives and the senate, or to any successor committees, concerning the issuance and denial of career and technical education capital construction grants during the preceding year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · House

Repeal Board Of Health Authority Over Colorado Department Of Public Health And Environment Funds

State board of health - repeal authority over money for state and local public works or public health functions. The act repeals the state board of health's authority to accept, use, disburse, and administer money allotted to the department of public health and environment for state and local public works or public health functions.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · Senate

Convalescent Centers As Pharmacies

Pharmacies - authority of hospice or convalescent center to operate as a pharmacy. The act allows a licensed hospice or convalescent center to procure, store, order, dispense, and administer prescription medications. Specified provisions of the act are contingent upon House Bill 19-1172 becoming law. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-07 · House

Cryptocurrency Exemption Colorado Digital Token Act

Securities - registration and licensing requirements - exemptions - cryptocurrency - Colorado Digital Token Act. The act provides limited exemptions from the securities registration and securities broker-dealer and salesperson licensing requirements for persons dealing in digital tokens. "Digital token" is defined as a digital unit with specified characteristics, secured through a decentralized ledger or database, exchangeable for goods or services, and capable of being traded or transferred between persons without an intermediary or custodian of value.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-06 · Senate

Nonresident Electors And Special Districts

Section 1 of the bill expands the definition of "eligible elector", as used in reference of persons voting in special district elections, to include a natural person who owns, or whose spouse or civil union partner owns, taxable real or personal property situated within the boundaries of the special district or the area to be included in the special district and who has satisfied all other requirements in the bill for registering to vote in an election of a special district but who is not a resident of the state. Section 2 prohibits a person from voting in a special district election unless that person is an eligible elector as defined by the bill. The section also requires any natural person desiring to vote at any election as an eligible elector to sign a self-affirmation that the person is an elector of the special district. The bill specifies the form the affirmation must take. Section 3 specifies procedures by which the eligible elector who is an eligible elector in another state becomes registered to be able to vote in the special district election. This section also contains an affirmation to be executed by the voter upon completing his or her application for registration. The oath or affirmation must be notarized by the elector. Section 3 also permits any special district organized under the laws of the state, upon passage of a resolution by the board of the district (board), to allow an elector whose eligibility has been established through the procedures specified in the bill to vote for candidates for the board of directors of the special district. The bill makes clear that no person who is designated as an eligible elector is permitted to cast a ballot at any special district election without first having been registered within the time and in the manner required by the bill. The bill only applies to a special district whose: Board, by resolution, permits an eligible elector who is not a resident of the state to vote in elections of the special district; and Regular special district election is not conducted as part of a general, primary, or coordinated election. A county clerk and recorder is not required to either contract with a special district that permits the registration of noneligible resident electors in connection with the provision of any services or to administer any regular special district election conducted by the special district. A person who is designated as an eligible elector in accordance with the bill is only permitted to vote in an election of the special district with which the person has registered and for a candidate for the board of directors of the special district who is listed on the ballot of the special district with which the elector is registered. A person who is designated as an eligible elector in accordance with the bill is only permitted to vote for candidates for the board and is not authorized to vote for any other candidates or ballot issues or ballot questions that may appear on the regular ballot of the special district. The bill describes procedures by which an eligible elector who is a resident of another state registers to vote with the special district. The form used to register an eligible elector under the bill must contain a question asking the elector to confirm that he or she desires to receive a ballot from the special district. Unless the elector has executed the form to indicate that he or she desires to receive a ballot from the special district, the designated election official is not required to send a ballot to the elector. The special district is solely responsible for maintaining the list of nonresident owners of property within the special district who are eligible to vote in an election of the special district. Section 4 contains procedures for verifying the signature of a ballot returned by a nonresident eligible elector with the signature of the elector on the notarized registration form required by the bill. Section 5 authorizes each special district board to select, in an exercise of its own discretion and by majority vote of the board's voting members, one or more additional board members, each of whom shall serve as a nonvoting member of the board. A member of the board appointed for this purpose must be a person who is a nonresident of the state but is otherwise eligible to cast a ballot in elections of the special district in accordance with the bill. A board with 3 members may appoint no more than one nonvoting member of the board. A board with 5 members may appoint no more than 2 nonvoting members of the board. The term of such board members is 4 years subject to renewal of one or more additional 4-year terms in the discretion of a majority of the voting members of the board. Any board member appointed for this purpose may be removed for cause at any time by a majority of the voting members of the board.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-06 · House

Repeal Of Mill Levy Equalization Fund

Effective June 30, 2019, the bill repeals the mill levy equalization fund through which the general assembly appropriated money to the state charter school institute for distribution to institute charter schools. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-05 · House

Motor Vehicle Window Tint

Current law normally requires motor vehicles registered in Colorado to transmit at least 70% of light through the windshield and 27% of light through other windows. The bill requires motor vehicles registered outside Colorado but operated in Colorado to transmit at least 20% of light through windows other than the windshield. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-05 · House

County Sheriff Qualification Training Requirements

Current law requires the sheriff of each county to obtain peace officer certification within one year of taking office. The bill modifies this provision to require the sheriff to have a valid certification or provisional certification from the Colorado peace officer standards and training board in order to be nominated, elected, or appointed to the office of sheriff.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-05 · House

Prohibit Camping Environmentally Sensitive Areas

To protect clean water supplies and public health and safety as a matter of statewide concern, the bill prohibits a person from camping within 100 feet of an urban environmentally sensitive area unless a state or local governmental agency has approved the area for camping. A county or district public health agency that has one or more environmentally sensitive areas within the agency's jurisdiction shall conduct and periodically update an environmental impact study of all environmentally sensitive areas within the agency's jurisdiction to evaluate the public health risks associated with unauthorized camping in the environmentally sensitive areas. Upon conclusion of the study or update, each agency shall adopt or update and implement an environmental mitigation plan to avoid, minimize, and remediate the risks. An agency may apply to the applicable local government to use Great Outdoors Colorado money to conduct and update an environmental impact study or to implement a mitigation plan.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-04 · House

Mental Health Involuntary Transportation Holds

Current law allows specified intervening professionals to transport to a treatment facility any person who appears to be in need of an immediate evaluation for treatment of a mental health disorder to prevent physical or psychiatric harm to others or to himself or herself. The authority to involuntarily hold such a person in custody expires upon the delivery of the person to the facility. The bill adds language to clarify that the authority to hold the person remains in effect until the evaluation is completed and a determination is made concerning the need for continued emergency evaluation and treatment.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-01 · House

Nonanimal And Lab-grown Meat Misbranding

The bill states that food is misbranded as "meat" or a cut of meat if it does not come from animals and that lab-grown meat is misbranded as "meat" or a cut of meat unless these terms are not modified by "lab-grown" or "artificially cultured".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-03-01 · House

Suppl Approp Dept Judicial

Supplemental appropriation - judicial department. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the judicial department. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Commission On Uniform State Laws Appointments

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Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Retail Food Establishments Inspection And Suspension

Retail food establishments - inspections - penalties for violations. With respect to retail food establishment inspections, the act: Clarifies that emergency situations can create an "imminent health hazard"; Repeals language that separated violations found during inspections into critical and noncritical violations; Clarifies that it is unlawful to continue to operate a retail food establishment that has had its license or certificate of license suspended; Aligns the requirements for the communication of inspection results with the determination of whether violations are sufficient to require a reinspection; Removes the minimum amount for a civil penalty and establishes the maximum amount as $1,000 for violations of rules promulgated by the department of public health and environment; Provides that a retail food establishment that is found to be in violation during 4 out of 5 inspections during a 12-month period is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 and license suspension; and Adds unpaid license fees to the list of items on which a retail food establishment can spend an assessed penalty.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · House

Suppl Approp Dept Transportation

Supplemental appropriations - department of transportation. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of transportation. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept Safety

Supplemental appropriations - department of public safety. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of public safety. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Scope Of Manufactured Home Sales Tax Exemption

Manufactured homes - sales tax exemption clarification. As it existed before the enactment of the act, the state sales and use tax exemption statute (exemption statute) exempted from state sales tax, and through operation of another statute also exempted from local sales taxes, 48% of the purchase price for the initial sale of "factory-built housing" and 100% of the purchase price for any subsequent sale of a "manufactured home" (sales tax exemption). The exemption statute referenced another statute defining "factory-built housing", but in Senate Bill 03-182, concerning the consolidation of programs implemented by the department of local affairs that pertain to the regulation of construction, the general assembly replaced the existing definition of "factory-built housing" with a new definition of "factory-built residential structure", and the statute referenced in the exemption statute actually defines the latter term. This definition of "factory-built residential structure" includes only "structures designed to be installed on a permanent foundation" and therefore arguably limited the sales tax exemption, which had previously clearly applied to structures designed for occupancy in either temporary or permanent locations, to only those structures designed to be installed on permanent foundations. The act clarifies the scope of the sales tax exemption by amending the exemption statute to exempt "manufactured homes" instead of "factory-built housing", which clarifies that the sales tax exemption applies to homes designed to be installed on either temporary or permanent foundations. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · House

Suppl Approp Dept Human Services

Supplemental appropriation - department of human services. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of human services. The general fund, cash funds, and federal funds portions of the appropriation are decreased and the reappropriated funds portion is increased, resulting in an overall decrease to the department. The 2017 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of human services. The cash funds and federal funds portions of the appropriation are increased and the reappropriated funds portion is decreased, resulting in an overall increase to the department. Appropriations made in Senate Bill 18-254, concerning reforms to child welfare services, are amended to specify that money appropriated is for foster and adoptive parent recruitment, training and support. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Annual Stipends For Certified School Professionals

Nationally certified school professionals - annual stipends. The act adds nationally certified school psychologists as school professionals eligible for annual stipends awarded by the department of education (department) if the school psychologist meets the requirements set forth in the act. The act clarifies that school counselors, who hold a certification from the national board for certified counselors or from the national board for professional teaching standards, are school professionals who have been eligible for annual stipends awarded by the department since the initial award was distributed during the 2009-10 school year. The act corrects the name of the national board for professional teaching standards by removing the word "principal" from the title. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · House

Suppl Approp Dept Revenue

Supplemental appropriations - department of revenue. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of revenue. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept Local Affairs

Supplemental appropriations are made to the department of local affairs. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept Treasury

Supplemental appropriations - department of the treasury. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of the treasury. The general fund and cash funds portions of the appropriation are increased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept Law

Supplemental appropriations - department of law. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of law. The general fund and cash funds portions of the appropriation are decreased and the reappropriated funds portion is increased, resulting in an overall increase to the department.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept Regulatory Agencies

Supplemental appropriation - department of regulatory agencies. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of regulatory agencies. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is decreased and the reappropriated funds are increased, resulting in no change in the amount appropriated to the department.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept State

Supplemental appropriations - the department of state. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of state. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased. The 2017 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of state. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased. Appropriations made in Senate Bill 18-150, concerning measures to facilitate voter registration of individuals in the criminal justice system, is amended to specify the uses for the appropriated money. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Reduce Regulatory Burden Rules On Businesses

Prior to adopting rules under the "State Administrative Procedure Act" (APA), a state agency (agency) is required to prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis in which the agency considers using regulatory methods that will accomplish the objectives of applicable statutes while minimizing the adverse impact on small businesses. For purposes of the regulatory flexibility analysis, the bill defines "small business" as a business that is independently owned and operated and employs 100 or fewer employees. When preparing the regulatory flexibility analysis, an agency is required to consider methods to reduce the impact on small businesses, including the following: Establishing less stringent compliance or reporting requirements; Establishing less stringent schedules or deadlines for compliance or reporting requirements; Consolidating or simplifying compliance or reporting requirements; Establishing different performance standards; and Exempting small businesses from compliance requirements. The agency is also required to: Determine the necessity for the proposed rules; Identify the fiscal impact of the rules; Identify and analyze the least costly alternatives to the rules and adopt the least costly alternatives unless the agency provides written justification for adopting a more costly regulatory approach; and Analyze whether small businesses should be exempted from the rules or whether less burdensome rules should be applied to small businesses and adopt exemptions or less burdensome rules, unless the agency provides written justification for a more burdensome regulatory approach. The agency is required to file the regulatory flexibility analysis with the secretary of state for publication in the Colorado register at the same time that it files its notice of proposed rule-making and the draft of proposed rules. The existing provision in the APA on forming a representative group to give input on proposed rules is amended to require an agency proposing rules that are likely to have an impact on small businesses to expand outreach to and actively solicit representatives of small businesses to participate in the representative group and in the rule-making hearing for the rules. The agency must make good faith efforts to expand outreach and notification to small businesses that lack a trade association or lobbyist to represent the types of small businesses impacted by the proposed rules. The executive director of the department of regulatory agencies (executive director), or the executive director's designee, shall develop a one-stop location on the department's website that provides a place for small businesses and the public to access the regulatory flexibility analyses that agencies prepare. A small business that is adversely affected or aggrieved by the failure of an agency to comply with the regulatory flexibility analysis requirements may: File a request with the executive director to require the agency to prepare a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed rules and to direct the agency to adjust the rule-making schedule to allow for the preparation of the cost-benefit analysis; or Request a hearing on the matter before an administrative law judge.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · House

Suppl Approp Capital Construction

Supplemental appropriations - capital construction. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of corrections. The general fund portion of the appropriation is increased. The 2017 general appropriation act is amended to clarify a line item capital construction appropriation to the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, and state planning and budgeting. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept Personnel

Supplemental appropriation - department of personnel. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of personnel. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased and the reappropriated funds portion is decreased, resulting on an overall decrease to the department.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept Governor, Lt. Gov, OSPB

Supplemental appropriation - offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, and state planning and budgeting. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, and state planning and budgeting. The general fund and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation is increased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept Public Health & Environment

Supplemental appropriation - department of public health and environment. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of public health and environment. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased. Appropriations made in House Bill 18-1400, concerning an increase in fees paid by stationary sources of air pollutants, is increased. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Suppl Approp Dept Military Affairs

Supplemental appropriations are made to the department of military and veterans affairs. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · Senate

Repeal Colorado Department Of Public Health And Environment Facility Life Safety Statutes

Department of public health and environment - fire safety - life safety - rule-making authority - repeal. The act repeals statutory provisions that require the department of public health and environment (department) to adopt rules relating to fire safety of health facilities and allow the department to establish a life safety code for health facilities, because these functions were transferred to the department of public safety.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-28 · House

Honoring Gold Star Families

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Last action: 2019-02-27 · House

Sheriff Enforcement Dangerous Dog Statute

The bill requires a county sheriff's office to investigate an alleged violation of the unlawful ownership of a dangerous dog crime or enforce the provisions of that statute. If a victim of that crime believes the county sheriff's office is not investigating the crime or enforcing the statute, the victim can file an affidavit with a judge having jurisdiction over the alleged crime. The judge then must require the county sheriff to appear to explain the refusal. If the judge finds that the county sheriff's refusal was arbitrary or capricious and without reasonable excuse, the judge shall order: The county sheriff's office to investigate the alleged offense or enforce the law; or The district attorney's office with jurisdiction over the crime to investigate the alleged offense or enforce the law. If a county sheriff's office refuses to comply with an order to investigate or enforce the law, the court shall order the county sheriff to reimburse the county for all general fund appropriations received in the last fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-26 · House

Income Gain On Transactions Using Virtual Currency

For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2020, the bill allows an individual taxpayer or a corporation to claim a state income tax deduction on gains, to the extent included in federal taxable income, from the sale or exchange of virtual currency for other than cash or cash equivalents, up to $600 per sale or exchange. All sales or exchanges that are part of the same transaction or a series of related transactions are required to be treated as one sale or exchange. The executive director of the department of revenue is required to promulgate rules regarding the receipt of documentation related to virtual currency transactions for which gain or loss is recognized. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-26 · Senate

Prerequisites For Construction Of Managed Lanes

The bill prohibits the department of transportation (CDOT) or any enterprise of CDOT from constructing or designating a managed lane on a state highway unless: CDOT or the enterprise, taking safety, productivity, and public cost considerations into account, considering multiple highway configuration options and both managed lane options that include tolling and managed lane options that do not include tolling, and balancing any safety impacts against the productivity and other benefits of capacity expansion and congestion relief, has thoroughly evaluated specified alternative means of increasing the capacity of and reducing traffic congestion on the state highway; CDOT or the enterprise has published detailed written, data-based findings that clearly establish that when compared to the addition of one or more managed lanes all of the alternatives evaluated are unfeasible or too unsafe to be implemented or would not provide adequate capacity expansion and congestion relief; and CDOT has complied with new requirements of the bill that it prepare and make readily available to the public on its website a written report of the results of its public outreach efforts relating to the managed lane and annually summarize the report for the transportation and local government committee of the house of representatives and the transportation and energy committee of the senate. "Managed lane" is defined to include a toll lane, a high occupancy toll lane, or a high occupancy vehicle lane. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-26 · Senate

Colorado Right To Rest

The bill creates the "Colorado Right to Rest Act", which establishes basic rights for people experiencing homelessness, including but not limited to the right to rest in public spaces, to shelter themselves from the elements, to eat or accept food in any public space where food is not prohibited, to occupy a legally parked vehicle, and to have a reasonable expectation of privacy of their property. The bill prohibits discrimination based on housing status. The bill creates an exemption of the basic right to rest for people experiencing homelessness for any county, city, municipality, or subdivision that can demonstrate that, for 3 consecutive months, the waiting lists for all local public housing authorities contain fewer than 50 people. The bill allows the general assembly to appropriate money from the marijuana tax cash fund to the department of local affairs for the purpose of enabling governmental entities that do not meet the exemption requirement to reduce the housing waiting lists to fewer than 50 people for at least 6 months per year. The bill allows any person whose rights have been violated to seek enforcement in a civil action. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-26 · House

Distribute Plastic Straws Only Upon Request

The bill prohibits a restaurant, food vendor, or other food service establishment from providing a single-use plastic beverage straw to a customer unless the customer requests a straw. The bill does not apply to the following: The use of a self-serve straw dispenser; A customer's order of food from a food service establishment through a drive-through window, for off-premises delivery through a third-party delivery service, or for delivery through the use of a digital or mobile application or website; or Prepackaged food that was filled, sealed, or packaged before the food service establishment received the prepackaged food at its retail premises. A local government shall not regulate the use of single-use plastic beverage straws. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-25 · House

Transfer Of GOCO Great Outdoors Colorado Money To State Education Fund

Beginning with the third quarter of the 2020-21 state fiscal year, the concurrent resolution allows the transfer of available net proceeds minus any money required to pay bonds issued by law by the Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) trust fund board of every state-supervised lottery game operated under the authority of section 2 of article XVIII of the state constitution to the state education fund.(Note: This summary applies to this concurrent resolution as introduced.) Read More

Last action: 2019-02-25 · Senate