The act modifies the affordable housing programs (programs) created by Proposition 123, which was approved by voters at the 2022 statewide election, by: Allowing tribal governments to participate in the programs; Requiring the division of local government, rather than the division of housing, to administer the land planning capacity development program; Allowing the office of economic development (office) to use a portion of the money in the affordable housing financing fund (financing fund) for its administrative expenses, without increasing the total amount of money from the fund that may be used for administrative expenses; Modifying the calculation for determining eligibility for some of the programs; Clarifying the description of how money is transferred or allocated; Specifying certain units to be included for purposes of the 3% growth obligation that is a condition for funding for local and tribal governments; Establishing a process for rural resort communities to petition the division of housing to use alternative percentages of area median income for eligibility for certain affordable housing programs for a given funding cycle; Exempting money that was originally from the federal coronavirus state fiscal recovery fund from the appropriations for fiscal year 2022-23 used to determine the state's maintenance of effort requirement for other affordable housing funding; and Requiring the office and the division of housing to provide 3 annual reports to legislative committees about the affordable housing programs. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE June 5, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act expands the methods by which the state, a county, a city and county, or a municipality (jurisdiction) may deliver a notice of violation when a traffic violation is detected through the use of an automated vehicle identification system (system) to include not just personal service, but also first-class mail and mail delivery services that are equivalent to or superior to first-class mail with respect to delivery speed, reliability, and price. The act changes the deadline by which a jurisdiction is required to issue and send by mail, personal service, or other delivery service a notice of violation when a traffic violation is detected through the use of a system from 90 days after the violation to: 30 days after the violation if the motor vehicle involved is registered in the state; or 60 days after the violation if the motor vehicle involved is registered outside of the state. The act specifies the information required in a notice of violation and a civil penalty assessment notice. If the registered owner of the vehicle (owner) fails to request a hearing to dispute the alleged violation or fails to pay the civil penalty in full by the deadline stated in the notice, the owner waives the right to contest the violation or amount of the penalty, and the jurisdiction is required to enter a final order of liability against the owner. Any appeal of a final order must be brought in the county court in the county where the alleged violation occurred or the municipal court in the municipality where the alleged violation occurred. The act also stipulates that a jurisdiction may not initiate or pursue a collection action against an owner unless the owner is personally served the notice of violation or the final order of liability. The act requires a jurisdiction implementing a new system after July 1, 2023, to: Announce the implementation of the system through its website for at least 30 days prior to the use of the system; and Issue only warnings for traffic violations detected by the system for the first 30 days after the system is installed or deployed. Current law prohibits a jurisdiction from enforcing a penalty for a violation that is detected using a system unless the violation occurred within a school zone; within a residential neighborhood; within a maintenance, construction, or repair zone; or along a street that borders a municipal park. The act expands this list to include an automated vehicle identification corridor (corridor). A county or municipality may designate all or a portion of a street as a corridor within which the county or municipality may locate a system to detect traffic violations under specified circumstances. Before a county or municipality creates a corridor, it must: Post a permanent sign in a conspicuous place not fewer than 300 feet before the beginning of the corridor and a permanent sign not fewer than 300 feet before each camera within the corridor thereafter or a temporary sign not fewer than 300 feet before any mobile camera; Illustrate, through data collected within the past 5 years, incidents of crashes, speeding, reckless driving, or community complaints on a street designated as a corridor; and Coordinate between the local jurisdiction, the department of transportation, and the Colorado state patrol. If a municipality implements a corridor, it must publish a report on its website disclosing the number of citations and revenue generated by the corridor. The act authorizes the state to locate a system on a highway that is a part of the federal interstate highway system but prohibits a county, a city and county, or a municipality from locating a system or creating a corridor on any highway that is a part of the federal interstate highway system. The act prevents a jurisdiction from requiring an owner disclose the identity of a driver of the vehicle who is detected through the use of a system. However, the owner may be required to submit evidence that the owner was not the driver at the time of the alleged violation. The act permits a jurisdiction to compensate a manufacturer or vendor of system equipment for the value of services provided, in addition to compensating for the value of the system equipment as permitted under current law. The act imposes restrictions on when photographs may be taken by a system and on access to and use of photographs, video, and personally identifiable data created by systems and requires photographs and videos to be destroyed after a specified period, with certain exceptions. The act states that the provisions of current law, as amended by the act, do not apply to the use of systems for the purpose of collecting tolls, fees, or civil penalties on toll highways. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE June 5, 2023 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE June 1, 2024 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law provides a film production incentive that allows a production company a performance-based cash rebate equal to 20%, or in the discretion of the director of the office of economic development a higher amount, of qualified Colorado expenditures for films, television, series, commercials, and video games produced in the state. The act: Restructures the film incentive program, from its current state as a cash rebate program into a refundable income tax credit (credit) for qualified production companies only for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2024, but before January 1, 2025, and only if there are at least $50 million of excess state revenues for state fiscal year 2023-24 that are required to be refunded above amounts being refunded by specified existing or future refund mechanisms. Specifies that the credit is not otherwise allowed for any such income tax year unless the general assembly, acting by bill, specifies a maximum aggregate amount of such tax credits that is allowed for that income tax year; and Requires the office of economic development and the office of film, televison, and media to jointly review the effectiveness of the credit and report the results of the review to the house of representatives finance committee and the senate finance committee, or their successor committees, no later than February 4, 2025. The act also reduces the state fiscal year 2023-24 long bill appropriation from the Colorado office of film, television, and media operational account cash fund to the office of the governor for use by economic development programs for Colorado office of film, television, and media by $282,417. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2023 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause and takes effect 90 days after sine die. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act creates the Colorado multidisciplinary health-care provider access training program (program) to improve the health care of medically complex, costly, compromised, and vulnerable older Coloradans. The university of Colorado Anschutz medical campus shall develop, implement, and administer the program. The program may be offered to Colorado institutions of higher education with clinical health professions graduate degree programs. The program coordinates and expands geriatric training opportunities for clinical health professions graduate students (students) enrolled in participating Colorado institutions of higher education (participating institutions) across Colorado studying to become advanced practice providers; dentists; nurses; occupational therapists; pharmacists; physicians, including medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy; physical therapists; psychologists; social workers; and speech-language therapists. Students who successfully complete the program are awarded certificates and issued letters authorizing those students to become trainers for the program in clinics across the state. The act creates the Colorado multidisciplinary health-care provider access training program advisory committee (committee) to ensure that the training for the program is consistent and collaborative across the fields of study. The committee is required to: Appoint a program chair; Set the program's standards for training and delivery of multidisciplinary medical care to medically complex, costly, compromised, and vulnerable older Coloradans; Establish requirements for the program; Identify and invite institutions of higher education that offer appropriate clinical health professions graduate degree programs to become participating institutions; Collaborate with participating institutions across Colorado to enhance recruitment of students to enter a field specific to geriatrics and select students with an interest in geriatric care to participate in the program; Assist with updating the program's curricula; Analyze data collected by the program; Build a multidisciplinary network of trained geriatric clinicians to collaborate and provide opportunities for clinicians to work together to better understand the roles of each health-care discipline in urban, rural, and underserved communities when caring for older Coloradans; Improve placement of students in experiential clinical training opportunities, prioritizing rural and underserved communities; Coordinate with graduates of the program to become geriatric trainers for future students; and Increase the number of clinical training sites across Colorado, specifically in rural and underserved communities. The act requires a representative of the program to submit a report on July 1, 2025, and no later than July 1 each year thereafter, summarizing program data to the health and human services committee of the senate and the health and insurance committee of the house of representatives, or their successor committees. The report must include the following: The number of students participating in the program; The number of students who successfully complete the program; The subsequent locations and job placements of program graduates; The number of program graduates who become trainers; and The description of facilities where program graduates become trainers. The act appropriates $784,269 to the department of higher education from the general fund. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE June 5, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements some of the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies, as contained in the department's sunset review of the "Pesticide Applicators' Act", and makes additional modifications to the "Pesticide Applicators' Act as follows: Sections 1 and 2 of the act continue the "Pesticide Applicators' Act" for 11 years, until September 1, 2034; Section 3 updates the statutory definition of "use" to align with the federal definition adopted by the federal environmental protection agency; The commissioner of agriculture (commissioner) maintains a registry of pesticide-sensitive persons (registry) whose residences are listed in the registry. If a commercial, registered limited commercial, or registered public applicator (applicator) applies a pesticide near the residence of a pesticide-sensitive person included in the registry, the applicator is required to take reasonable actions to notify the pesticide-sensitive person of the pesticide application. Section 4 authorizes a pesticide-sensitive person to apply for inclusion of the person's primary work or school address in the registry as well. In addition, section 4 authorizes an applicator to provide electronic notice to pesticide-sensitive persons. Section 4 also requires that, on or before July 1, 2024, the department of agriculture (department) develop a searchable database of all properties that abut or are entirely located within 250 feet of a residential property listed on the registry for applicators to search. If an applicator will apply pesticides on a property included in the searchable database, the applicator is required to notify the relevant pesticide-sensitive person of the pesticide application. Section 5 increases the maximum civil penalty for a violation of the act from $1,000 to $2,500 for the first violation, which results in the possibility of a maximum civil penalty of $5,000 for a second violation; Section 6 requires that money collected for civil penalties imposed under the "Pesticide Applicators' Act" be credited to the general fund; Section 7 requires the commissioner to publish and periodically update information on the department's website about pesticide applicators' licensing and registration; Section 8 requires the commissioner to establish an online complaint process; Section 9 limits the number of terms that members of the advisory committee, appointed by the state agricultural commission to advise the commissioner, may serve to 2 terms, but allows a member representing the Colorado state university agricultural experiment station or extension service (CSU) or the Colorado department of public health and environment (CDPHE) to serve on the advisory committee for unlimited terms during the duration of the member's employment with CSU or CDPHE; and Sections 10 to 12 amends statutes governing local governments to mirror the language in the "Pesticide Applicators' Act" requiring a local government that adopts an ordinance about pesticides to submit information about the ordinance to the commissioner. Section 13 appropriates $72,150 for the 2023-24 state fiscal year from the plant health, pest control, and environmental protection cash fund to the department, which money is reappropriated to the office of information technology in the office of the governor to provide information technology services to the department. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2023 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause and takes effect 90 days after sine die.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act establishes the Colorado fostering success voucher program (program) in the department of human services (DHS). The purpose of the program is to provide housing vouchers and case management services to eligible youth. Case management service agencies are eligible to participate in the program if they are currently participating in a certain type of foster youth program. Eligibility criteria for youth include: Being at least 18 years of age but less than 26 years of age; Having had prior experience in one of several ways with the foster care or kinship care system; Experiencing homelessness or being at imminent risk of homelessness and agreeing to receive case management services; Being a Colorado resident; and Having an income level below that determined by the state department of local affairs (DOLA). DHS and DOLA shall develop a joint administration and implementation plan for the program. Availability, standards, and services for the program are listed in the act. For the 2023-24 state fiscal year, $2,674,677 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of human services for use by the division of child welfare. The division may use this appropriation for preventing youth homelessness and implementation of this act. For the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the general assembly anticipates that the department of human services will receive $22,096 in federal funds for use by the division of child welfare to implement this act. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE June 5, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law requires that certain entities submit a plan (clean energy plan) to the division of administration (division) in the department of public health and environment (department) and the public utilities commission (PUC) to reduce the entity's greenhouse gas emissions associated with the entity's electricity sales and to achieve at least an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions caused by the entity's Colorado retail electricity sales by 2030 relative to 2005 levels (2030 clean energy target). In addition to meeting the 2030 clean energy target, the act requires that any clean energy plan submitted to the division on or after January 1, 2024, achieve at least a 46% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions caused by the entity's Colorado electricity sales by 2027 relative to 2005 levels if the achievement of the 46% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions will maintain reliability and result in an incremental average annual cost of no more than 2.5% of the entity's system costs (new clean energy plan requirements). As part of any electric resource plan developed, finalized, or submitted on or after July 1, 2023, any entity that submits a clean energy plan to the division before January 1, 2024, is required to model: At least one portfolio that achieves the 2030 clean energy target; and At least one portfolio that achieves greater greenhouse gas emissions reductions than the reductions that the clean energy plan submitted before January 1, 2024, is projected to achieve by 2027 and the 2030 clean energy target. The act also requires any entity that submits a clean energy plan to the division on or after July 1, 2023, to base the entity's 2005 baseline greenhouse gas emissions, estimated 2027 greenhouse gas emissions, and estimated 2030 greenhouse gas emissions on: The greenhouse gas emissions from each resource that is used to supply electricity to the entity's retail electricity customers; and The greenhouse gas emissions from each resource that generates electricity and that is owned by the entity if the applicable greenhouse gas emissions are not otherwise required to be included in another entity's clean energy plan. The act also requires the division to independently confirm or calculate the data it uses in verifying a clean energy plan submitted to the division on or after July 1, 2023, and allow the public to access and provide comments about the data prior to the verification of a clean energy plan. No later than June 1, 2028, the division, for each entity that is required to submit a clean energy plan and does not have its electric resource planning process regulated by the PUC, must: Calculate the percentage of reduction in greenhouse gas emissions achieved by December 31, 2027, relative to 2005 levels; and Determine whether each entity has obtained all of the resources necessary to achieve the 2030 clean energy target. If the division determines that an entity has not obtained all of the resources necessary to achieve the 2030 clean energy target, no later than December 31, 2028, the entity must submit a report to the division identifying the resources that it has procured to achieve the 2030 clean energy target (report). If the entity does not submit the report on or before December 31, 2028, or if the division determines from the report that an entity has not obtained all of the resources necessary to achieve the 2030 clean energy target, the air quality control commission (AQCC) shall adopt rules that limit the greenhouse gas emissions by the entity to ensure that the entity achieves the 2030 clean energy target and the division shall amend any of the entity's operating permits for sources of greenhouse gas emissions to ensure that the entity achieves the 2030 clean energy target. The act also requires: If a utility's Colorado electricity sales between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2022, are equal to or greater than 300,000 megawatt-hours, the utility to submit a clean energy plan to the division; and The owner of an electric generating unit that has a nameplate capacity equal to or larger than 50 megawatts and emits greenhouse gases directly into the atmosphere to submit a clean energy plan to the division that covers all greenhouse gas emissions from the unit that are not otherwise required to be included in the clean energy plan of another entity. Any entity required to submit a clean energy plan to the division may designate another entity to submit a clean energy plan on its behalf or submit a joint clean energy plan with another entity. No later than October 1, 2024, the division shall submit a report to the general assembly that includes certain data regarding which electric utilities have submitted clean energy plans to the division and the electricity generation resources that are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions in the state. No later than December 31, 2024, the division shall issue guidance specifying the manner in which the division will track and account for greenhouse gas emissions associated with electric utility transactions in organized markets. No later than March 31, 2026, any entity that is required to submit a clean energy plan may inform the division in writing of any challenges that the entity is encountering in achieving the 2030 clean energy target (challenges). If an entity informs the division of any challenges, the division and the Colorado energy office must hold at least one stakeholder meeting in 2026 to discuss the challenges. If the entity informs the division that the entity is still encountering challenges after the stakeholder meeting, no later than December 31, 2026, the division shall report the challenges to the general assembly. The act defines "cooperative retail electric utility" as a retail electric utility that has: Indicated an intent to submit or, on or after December 1, 2020, has submitted a clean energy plan; and Provided a non-conditional notice that it is withdrawing from a wholesale generation and transmission cooperative after January 1, 2021, or enters into a partial requirements contract with a wholesale generation and transmission cooperative to obtain more than 5% of its firm capacity supply from a greenhouse-gas-emitting generation source other than the cooperative retail electric utility's wholesale generation and transmission cooperative (cooperative retail electric utility) provider. A cooperative retail electric utility must submit a clean energy plan to the division no later than 24 months after ceasing to be a member of a wholesale generation and transmission cooperative or after the date that a partial requirements contract begins. The division shall verify, in consultation with the PUC, that the cooperative retail electric utility meets the new clean energy plan requirements and the 2030 clean energy target. Upon the request of the cooperative retail electric utility, certain entities must provide any emissions data in their possession that is necessary for the cooperative retail electric utility to develop and submit a clean energy plan to the division. The act also defines "wholesale power marketer" as an entity operating in the state that supplies wholesale capacity or energy to a retail electric utility located in the state and that supplies 300,000 megawatt-hours or more of electricity to entities in the state annually (wholesale power marketer). A wholesale power marketer must submit a clean energy plan with the division if, on or after July 1, 2023: The wholesale power marketer sells, provides, arranges for, or contracts for the delivery of capacity or energy to a retail electric utility in the state; and The greenhouse gas emissions associated with the retail electric utility's operations are not otherwise required to be included in another entity's clean energy plan. The division must verify, in consultation with the PUC, that any clean energy plan submitted by a wholesale power marketer meets the new clean energy plan requirements and the 2030 clean energy target. A wholesale power marketer that supplies electricity to any entity must, upon request of the entity, provide any emissions data in its possession that is necessary for the entity to develop and submit a clean energy plan to the division. The act also defines "new electric utility" as any new electric utility that is incorporated, created, or otherwise formed on or after July 1, 2023, that: Serves retail customers in the state; and Sells 300,000 megawatt-hours or more of electricity in its first year of operation (new electric utility). A new electric utility must submit a clean energy plan to the division no later than 2 years after being incorporated, created, or otherwise formed. If a new electric utility does not submit a clean energy plan to the division within this time, the AQCC shall adopt rules to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by the new electric utility to ensure that the new electric utility meets the new clean energy plan requirements and the 2030 clean energy target. For the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $276,384 from the general fund to the department for the following uses: $189,420 for use by the air pollution control division for personal services related to stationary sources; $23,520 for use by the air pollution control division for operating expenses related to stationary sources; and $63,444 for legal services. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE June 5, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the department of corrections (department), by July 1, 2027, to implement policies and practices that conform to nationally recognized minimum standards concerning restraint and seclusion standards of inmates. The act requires the department to uniformly document restraint incidents. The act requires certain facilities to perform an evaluation of every individual at intake to assess the individual's risk of self-harm behaviors and whether the individual has previously been subjected to four-point restraints. The act prohibits the use of an involuntary medication on an individual, unless: The individual is determined to be dangerous to the individual's self or another person and the treatment is in the individual's medical interest; All less restrictive alternative interventions have been exhausted; and The involuntary medication is administered after exhaustion of procedural requirements, including majority approval by an involuntary medication committee comprised of medical professionals and the superintendent of the facility. The act requires the department to submit an annual report to the judiciary committees of the senate and house of representatives with data concerning the use of restraints and involuntary medication in the preceding calendar year, and present the findings at the department's annual "SMART Act" hearing. The act requires the department to include specific data concerning the placement of individuals in settings with heightened restrictions in its annual administrative segregation report. For the 2023-24 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $18,872 to the from the general fund, of which $12,000 is reappropriated to the office of information technology. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE June 5, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
For consumer credit transactions made or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, the act modifies the requirements for alternative charges for loans not exceeding $1,000 as follows: Reduces the permissible acquisition charge on the original loan from 10% to 8% of the amount financed and increases the permissible acquistion charge on any refinanced loan from 7.5% to 8%; Reduces the permissible amount for a monthly installment account handling charge; Increases the minimum loan term from 90 days to 6 months; Eliminates delinquency charges for the loan; Amends the conditions upon which an acquisition charge must be refunded to the consumer by eliminating the 60-day deadline for prepaying in full, refinancing, or consolidating a loan and changes how the unearned portions of the acquisition charge and monthly installment handling charges are calculated; Details the requirements for an application for the loan and specifies how the loan application requirements impact a determination of unconscionability of the loan; and Decreases the number of times a lender may refinance a consumer loan from 3 times in a year to once in a year. For consumer credit transactions made or renewed on or after July 1, 2024, the act: Opts Colorado out of the amendments to the "Federal Deposit Insurance Act", the federal "National Housing Act", and the "Federal Credit Union Act" and specifies that rates established in the Colorado "Uniform Consumer Credit Act" apply to consumer credit transactions in this state; and Repeals provisions specifying that lender or seller credit cards issued by a credit card bank or financial institution are subject to limitations on finance charges in statute and instead specifies that genera-purpose credit cards are not subject to limits on finance charges and fees applicable to consumer credit transactions specified in state law. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE June 5, 2023 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024 PORTIONS EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law prohibits a written rental agreement from including: An unreasonable liquidated damages clause that assigns a cost to a party stemming from an eviction notice or an eviction action for a violation of the rental agreement; or A one-way, fee-shifting clause that awards attorney fees and court costs only to one party. Any fee-shifting clause in a rental agreement must award attorney fees to the prevailing party in a court dispute. The act amends these prohibitions so that: A written rental agreement must not include any clause that assigns a penalty to a party stemming from an eviction notice or an eviction action that results from a violation of the rental agreement; and Any fee-shifting clause in a rental agreement must award attorney fees to the prevailing party only following a determination that the party prevailed and the fee is reasonable. With certain exceptions, the act also prohibits a written rental agreement from including: A waiver of the right to a jury trial; the ability to pursue, bring, join, litigate, or support certain class or collective claims or actions; the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing; or the implied covenant of quiet enjoyment; A provision that purports to affix any fee, damages, or penalty for a tenant's failure to provide notice of nonrenewal of a rental agreement prior to the end of the rental agreement; A provision that characterizes any amount or fee set forth in the rental agreement, with the sole exception of the set monthly payment for occupancy of the premises, as "rent" for which all remedies to collect rent, including eviction, are available; A provision that requires a tenant to pay a fee markup or for a service for which the landlord is billed by a third party; or A provision that purports to allow a provider operating under any local, state, or federal voucher or subsidy program to commence or pursue an action for possession based solely on the nonpayment of utilities. The act specifies that some of the new prohibitions do not apply to a rental agreement concerning the occupancy of a mobile home in a mobile home park or to a duplex or triplex or to an accessory dwelling unit of a residential premises if: The owner of the duplex, triplex, or residential premises uses the residential premises or at least one of the units of the duplex or triplex, as applicable, as the owner's primary residence; or The owner's primary residence is on the same lot as the duplex, triplex, or residential premises. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2023 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause and takes effect 90 days after sine die. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act establishes several measures that protect the best interests of a child or youth and that will not hinder reunification with the child's or youth's family when the child or youth has been temporarily placed outside the family home with a relative or kin (relative), including: Permitting a relative to appeal when denied placement of the child or youth with the relative; Requiring the department of human services (department), to use reasonable efforts to help a relative whose barrier to caring for the child or youth is a lack of resources; Amending the court's advisement to the parent so it is consistent with changes to statute; Specifying what information should be included in a notice to relatives when the child or youth has been removed from the child's or youth's home; Requiring that courts give preference to a relative unless placement with that relative would negatively affect the child's or youth's mental, physical, or emotional needs, or hinder reunification with the child's or youth's family; Providing options for a relative to be allowed to participate in a child's or youth's care and planning; Creating a rebuttable presumption that placement with a relative is in the child's or youth's best interest. The presumption may be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence, giving primary consideration to the child's or youth's mental, physical, and emotional needs, including the child's or youth's preference regarding placement. Requiring that caseworkers inform the court of efforts to identify and place a child or youth with a relative. Foster parents who have the child or youth in their care for 12 months or more may intervene, as a matter of right, with or without counsel, following adjudication. The purpose of intervention is to provide knowledge or information concerning the care and protection of the child or youth, including the child's or youth's mental, physical, and emotional needs. For the 2023-24 state fiscal year: $13,879 is appropriated to the department of human services from the general fund for use by the division of child welfare for Colorado TRAILS for the implementation of this act; and The general assembly anticipates that the department of human services will receive $7,473 in federal funds for use by the division of child welfare to assist in the implementation of this act. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2023 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause and takes effect 90 days after sine die. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act amends the "Uniform Consumer Credit Code" (code) by: Updating the renewal dates for entities required to be licensed under the code from January 31 of each year to July 1 of each year; Creating the consumer credit unit cash fund, into which all fees collected under the code on and after July 1, 2024, must be deposited; and Repealing the uniform consumer credit code cash fund and the collection agency cash fund and transferring the balances remaining in the funds to the consumer credit unit cash fund. The act amends language in the "Colorado Fair Debt Collection Practices Act" relating to the duty of the code administrator to maintain confidentiality to align with the code and the "Colorado Student Loan Equity Act". The act amends the "Colorado Student Loan Equity Act" by: Requiring licensed entities to include an annual report upon application for license renewal; Changing the term "private education loan" to "private education credit obligation" and updating corresponding terms accordingly; Defining the term "refinanced" and excluding student loans subject to refinancing from registration requirements; and Including a cosigner within the definition of "borrower". The act authorizes collection agencies, persons who provide debt-management services, and student loan servicers to allow their employees to work remotely. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2023 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2023 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause and takes effect 90 days after sine die. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
