Colorado Bills

signed · Colorado · Senate Feb 27, 2025

SB 25-110: Department of Treasury Supplemental

SB 25-110 provides supplemental funding to Colorado's Department of Treasury for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. It allocates $9,087,529 to cover the department's operational costs, including administration, staff salaries, and the Unclaimed Property Program. The funding comes from existing state trust funds, such as the Unclaimed Property Trust Fund and cash management fees, without requiring new taxes. This measure directly supports the Treasury Department's ongoing operations and its management of unclaimed funds.

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes

signed · Colorado · House Feb 27, 2025

HB 25-1022: Qualified Medication Administration Personnel

For the purpose of determining workers who are qualified to work in an assisted living residence, current law includes in its definition of "qualified medication administration personnel" an individual who has passed a competency evaluation administered by an approved training entity on or after July 1, 2017. The act adds to this definition an individual who has passed a competency evaluation administered by the department of public health and environment before July 1, 2017. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

signed · Colorado · Senate Feb 27, 2025

SB 25-114: Repeal of the FLEX Program

The act transfers all the unexpended and unencumbered money in the financial literacy and exchange (FLEX) fund to the general fund on June 30, 2025, and repeals the FLEX program on July 1, 2025. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✗ Budget & Taxes ✗ Education

signed · Colorado · Senate Feb 27, 2025

SB 25-115: Seedling Tree Nursery Spending Authority Extension

For money appropriated to the Colorado state university system for use by the Colorado state forest service to renovate and expand the seedling tree nursery, the act extends the spending authority through the 2026-27 state fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✓ Environment

signed · Colorado · Senate Feb 27, 2025

SB 25-113: Mid-Year Adjustments to School Funding

The general assembly recognizes that for the 2024-25 budget year, the actual funded pupil count is higher than anticipated when the appropriation was established in the 2024 legislative session for total program funding for the 2024-25 budget year. In addition, local property tax revenue and specific ownership tax revenue are lower than anticipated, resulting in a decrease in the local share of total program funding for the 2024-25 budget year. The act declares the general assembly's intent to increase the state share of districts' total program funding by $64,076,611 for the 2024-25 budget year. The act adjusts a repeal date for the total program reserve fund. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes ✓ Education

in committee · Colorado · House Feb 27, 2025

HB 25-1055: Repeal Firearm Dealer Requirements & State Permit

The bill repeals the requirements related to dealing firearms enacted in House Bill 24-1353, including repealing the following: The requirement for a firearms dealer (dealer) to obtain a state firearms dealer permit (state permit) to engage in the business of dealing in firearms on and after July 1, 2025; The requirement for the department of revenue to conduct on-site inspections of state permit holders; The requirement that a dealer secure firearms in a manner that prevents members of the public from accessing the firearms; Specific requirements for a dealer to report to law enforcement about suspected straw purchases and firearm thefts by employees; The prohibition on a dealer selling or transferring a firearm outside of the dealer's posted business hours or to a person who is under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance; The requirement for each dealer and each employee of a dealer whose position involves handling firearms to annually complete a training course; and Minimum qualifications for employees of dealers and the requirement for employees to submit to background checks.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Topics ✗ Criminal Justice

in committee · Colorado · Senate Feb 26, 2025

SB 25-066: State Contracts with Opioid Antagonist Businesses

Under current law, the opioid antagonist bulk purchase fund (fund) allows the department of public health and environment (department) to bulk purchase opioid antagonists and distribute them to eligible entities. In contracting for the bulk purchasing and distribution of opioid antagonists, the bill requires the department to contract with an opioid antagonist medication distributor. However, the bill prohibits the department from contracting with an opioid antagonist medication distributor if the distributor: Was found liable for the manufacture or distribution of an opioid that resulted in an opioid-related overdose; Is or was a liable party to a settlement agreement for the manufacture or distribution of an opioid that resulted in an opioid-related overdose; or Is or was liable for a fine or penalty levied by a governmental entity for the manufacture or distribution of an opioid that resulted in an opioid-related overdose. The bill requires the department to implement a competitive selection process for the bulk purchase of opioid antagonists. The bill declares any contract or agreement that does not comply with the contracting requirements of the bill is void and unenforceable. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Topics ✓ Healthcare

in committee · Colorado · House Feb 26, 2025

HB 25-1196: Landlord Procedures for Removal of Tenants

Under current law, based on a tenant's failure to pay one or more late fees, a landlord cannot: Remove or exclude a tenant from a dwelling; Terminate a tenancy or other estate at will; or Terminate a lease in a mobile home park. The bill clarifies that a landlord can take such actions if there is another legal reason and the landlord is not taking the action solely because the landlord is owed one or more late fees. Additionally, a landlord cannot issue a written demand notice for a tenant to give up possession of the premises (demand letter) based solely on the tenant's failure to pay one or more late fees, but must have another legal reason to issue the demand letter. Under current law, the demand letter must be written in English, Spanish, or any other language that the landlord knows, or has reason to know, is the primary language of the tenant. The bill instead requires that the demand letter must be written in English or, if requested by the tenant at the time the tenant enters into the lease, in another language that is the tenant's primary language. Under current law, a landlord is permitted to post a notice to vacate in a conspicuous place on the premises after at least one unsuccessful attempt at service on 2 separate days. The bill allows the landlord to post the notice in a conspicuous place on the premises after only one unsuccessful attempt to serve the tenant with the notice. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Topics ✓ Housing

in committee · Colorado · Senate Feb 25, 2025

SB 25-047: Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law

In 2006, the general assembly passed Senate Bill 06-090, which: Prohibited a local government from passing any ordinance or policy that would prohibit a police officer, local official, or local government employee from cooperating with federal officials with regard to the immigration status of a person within the state; Required a peace officer who has probable cause to believe that a person is not legally present in the United States to report the person to the federal immigration and customs enforcement office; Required each local government to provide notice to peace officers of the duty to report and to provide written confirmation of the notice and reporting statistics to the general assembly; and Prohibited a local government that violates this provision from receiving any grants administered by the department of local affairs. Senate Bill 06-090 was repealed in 2013. The bill recreates and reenacts Senate Bill 06-090. Current law prohibits: A person from being arrested while the person is present at a courthouse, or while going to, attending, or coming from a court proceeding, and provides remedies for a violation; A probation officer or probation department employee from providing personal information about an individual to federal immigration authorities; and State and local governmental entities from contracting with a private entity for immigration detention services or entering into agreements for immigration detention services. The bill repeals each of these laws. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Topics ✗ Immigration

in committee · Colorado · House Feb 25, 2025

HB 25-1141: Gift Card & Retail Property Crime Penalties

Current law requires mandatory sentencing to at least the minimum of the prescribed range for a person who, within the immediately preceding 4 years, was twice convicted of felony theft from a store and who is once again convicted of felony theft from a store. The bill requires a state court to sentence a person convicted of burglary, robbery, theft, or a related property crime from or of a store, who was convicted of any 2 of the specified property crimes or comparable municipal offenses from or of a store within the preceding 4 years, to at least the midpoint term for the current offense. The bill adds language to the existing theft statute clarifying how a gift card's value is determined for purposes of determining the offense level and associated penalty. If the stolen item of value is a gift card, then the value is the full monetary face value or, in the case of a variable load gift card, the maximum potential value, regardless of whether funds have been transferred to the gift card at the time of the theft. The bill adds gift cards to the list of written instruments subject to forgery. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Topics ✗ Criminal Justice

in committee · Colorado · Senate Feb 25, 2025

SB 25-135: Colorado Government Efficiency Authority

The bill creates the Colorado government efficiency authority (authority). The authority is governed by a board consisting of the following appointees: One representative of the private sector with business experience with state contracts, appointed by the governor; One representative of the private sector with experience as a chief financial officer or legal advisor, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; One representative of the private sector with experience in energy and environmental work, appointed by the president of the senate; One representative of the private sector with experience in transportation, appointed by the minority leader of the house of representatives; One representative of the private sector with experience in health care or real estate, appointed by the minority leader of the senate; The staff director of the joint budget committee, or the staff director's designee, as a nonvoting advisory member; The director of the office of state planning and budgeting, or the director's designee, as a nonvoting advisory member; and The state auditor, or the state auditor's designee, as a nonvoting advisory member. Members of the board serve without compensation for any service provided to the authority and do not receive any reimbursement from the board for expenses incurred in furtherance of the board's responsibilities. The board is charged with: Examining every state-funded state agency and state department's operations, personnel, and mission to determine whether the state agency or state department is maximizing the efficient use of state money and resources; Identifying efficiencies in state government that would result in cost savings and improved provision of government services; Working with the federal government to implement federal directives designed to increase government efficiency and reduce government costs; Providing recommendations to the governor and general assembly about implementing efficiencies in state government, leveraging money from the federal government, and implementing federal directives; Holding public hearings that solicit input from the public about increasing efficiencies in state government; and Developing a process for members of the public to make ongoing recommendations related to state government efficiency, which recommendations will be reviewed by the authority. The authority may accept gifts, grants, donations, and federal money to pay for the authority's operations. The authority is not funded by a state agency or state department. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

passed · Colorado · Senate Feb 24, 2025

SR 25-006: Three-Year Anniversary of Ukraine War

This Senate Resolution (SR 25-006) commemorates the three-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It formally commends Colorado-based nonprofit Ukraine Power for delivering nearly $400,000 in aid to Ukrainians over the past three years, and expresses the Colorado Senate's support for Ukraine's sovereignty and efforts to achieve a just peace. The resolution has no binding policy impact - it is a symbolic gesture, not a legislative action, and directly affects Ukraine, Ukraine Power, and Colorado's Ukrainian community by acknowledging their efforts and shared values.

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