The 2023 general appropriations act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of health care policy and financing. The general fund and federal funds portions of the appropriation are decreased and the cash funds and reappropriated funds portions are increased. A new appropriation to the department for overexpenditures of line item appropriations in the 2022 long bill is made. Amends House Bill 23-1215, concerning limitations on hospital facility fees, to further appropriate the amount appropriated for the 2024-25 fiscal year. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2023 general appropriations 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. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2023 general appropriations act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the judicial department. The general fund and cash funds portions of the appropriation are increased and the reappropriated funds portion is decreased. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2023 general appropriations act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of agriculture. The general fund and cash funds portions of the appropriation are increased. Senate Bill 23-039, concerning measures to reduce family separation caused by a parent's detention, is amended to clarify the name of the institution and subprogram to which money has been appropriated. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the state treasurer to transfer $2.5 million from the general fund to the judicial collection enhancement fund on April 1, 2024. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law requires the state librarian in the department of education to oversee the Colorado imagination library program (program) and to contract with a Colorado nonprofit organization (contractor) to operate the program. The act relocates the program to the department of early childhood (department). Effective June 30, 2024, the rights, powers, duties, functions, and obligations concerning the program are transferred to the department. The act transfers the contractual obligations with the contractor to the department. Before the rights, powers, duties, functions, and obligations concerning the program are transferred to the department on June 30, 2024, the department may enter into an interagency agreement with the department of education for the administration of the program. The act authorizes the contractor to enter into contracts with book vendors or publishers to provide additional age-appropriate, high-quality books to children enrolled in the program at no cost to families. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The new twenty-third judicial district exists beginning January 7, 2025. The act makes changes so that the judicial district drug offender treatment board and the local juvenile services planning committee may begin work before the new judicial district exists. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, there is a community crime victims grant program (program) and associated cash fund (cash fund) that provides funding for support services to crime victims. The act reduces the current general fund appropriation for the program by $4 million and requires that $4 million be transferred from the general fund to the cash fund. The act appropriates $1 million in fiscal year 2023-24 to the department of public health and environment from the cash fund for the program. The act exempts the cash fund from the statutory reserve limit and makes the cash fund subject to annual appropriations. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act creates the state funding for senior services contingency reserve fund (fund) in the department of the treasury to aid the state office on aging in addressing unforeseen circumstances experienced by an area agency on aging or a provider of eligible services. The act sets criteria that must be met for an area agency on aging or a provider of eligible services to receive money from the fund. For the 2023-24 fiscal year, the act appropriates $2million from the fund to the department of human services for use by the office of adults, aging, and disability services. The fund is repealed, effective September 1, 2029. Prior to repeal, the fund is subject to a sunset review. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the following transfers to be made on April 1, 2024: $18,971,100 from the general fund to the capital construction fund; and $3,275,000 from the preschool programs cash fund to the information technology capital account of the capital construction fund. APPROVED by Governor February 27, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 27, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act enacts the softbound volumes of the Colorado Revised Statutes 2023, the subsequent changes approved by the voters at the statewide election on November 7, 2023, and the 2023 Colorado First Extraordinary Session Supplement as the positive and statutory law of the state of Colorado and establishes the effective date of said publication. APPROVED by Governor February 20, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 20, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
