The 2022 general appropriations act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of human services. The general fund, cash funds, reapproriated funds, and federal funds portions of the appropriation are increased. House Bill 22-1278 is amended to adjust the amount appropriated to the department of human services for use by the executive director's office. APPROVED by Governor March 6, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 6, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the state treasurer to transfer $5 million from the general fund to the Colorado economic development fund and requires the Colorado office of economic development (office) to use the transferred money in connection with the federal "Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act of 2022". The act also requires the office to submit an annual report to the joint budget committee detailing how the office is expending the transferred money. APPROVED by Governor March 6, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 6, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act authorizes the general assembly to appropriate up to $10 million from the severance tax operational fund (operational fund) to the wildfire mitigation capacity development fund (wildfire fund) for state fiscal year 2022-23 and makes a corresponding appropriation. The act authorizes the general assembly to appropriate up to $5 million from the operational fund to the wildfire fund for state fiscal year 2023-24 and for each state fiscal year thereafter. Such appropriations may be made only if less than 100% of the money available in the operational fund is used for current core programs. APPROVED by Governor March 6, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 6, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2022 general appropriations act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amounts appropriated to the department of local affairs. The general fund, cash funds, reappropriated funds, and federal funds portions of the appropriation are increased. APPROVED by Governor March 3, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 3, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2022 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, cash funds, and reappropriated funds of the appropriation are decreased and the federal funds are increased. A new appropriation to the department for overexpenditures of line item appropriations in the 2021 long bill is made. House Bill 22-1295, concerning department early childhood and universal preschool program, is amended to decrease the amount appropriated to the department for use by the executive director's office, transfers to/from other departments and it is subject to the (M) notation defined in the general appropriation act. The amount the department will receive in federal funds is increased. APPROVED by Governor March 3, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 3, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The general assembly recognizes that the actual funded pupil count was lower and the at-risk pupil count was higher than expected when the appropriation amount for the state share of total program funding was established during the 2022 legislative session, resulting in an overall increase in total program funding for the 2022-23 budget year. In addition, the local property tax revenue and specific ownership tax revenue are higher than anticipated, resulting in an increase in the local share of total program funding. The act declares the general assembly's intent to maintain the budget stabilization factor at the amount of the original appropriation for the 2022-23 budget year. The act decreases the appropriation for the state share of total program funding by $76,383,372 in cash funds from the state education fund and adjusts the 2022-23 state fiscal year long bill accordingly. APPROVED by Governor March 3, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 3, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act extends the deadline from January 1, 2023, to October 1, 2023, for when the department of public health and environment (department) must contract with an independent entity to conduct a study concerning House Bill 22-1326. The act extends the authority for the department to use the appropriation received in the 2022-23 state fiscal year to pay for the independent study through the 2024-25 state fiscal year. APPROVED by Governor March 3, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 3, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
For the 2022-23 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $5 million from the general fund to the department of health care policy and financing to distribute to the Denver health and hospital authority. APPROVED by Governor March 3, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 3, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
With exceptions for the departments of law, state, and the treasury, an executive branch agency and, for a project that is state-funded only, a state-supported institution of higher education is required to submit a budget request for an information technology project to the joint technology committee (JTC) as part of the budget process. In addition, the joint budget committee (JBC) may ask the JTC to review any budget request for an information technology project that was not required to be submitted to the JTC and instead was submitted directly to the JBC. The act clarifies that a review by the JTC as requested by the JBC may include a request for an information technology project submitted to the JBC by the legislative or judicial department, the department of law, the department of state, or the department of the treasury. The act requires the JTC to oversee any such information technology project that receives an appropriation from the information technology account (account) within the capital construction fund. The act also clarifies that the general assembly may appropriate money in the account for information technology projects that are not subject to review by the JTC and instead are submitted directly to the JBC by the legislative or judicial department, the department of law, the department of state, or the department of the treasury. APPROVED by Governor March 3, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 3, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires out-of-state online dealers and salespersons selling motor vehicles or powersports vehicles to submit to the jurisdiction of the motor vehicle dealer board (board) when selling to a Colorado consumer. The act does not require these online dealers and salespersons to obtain a Colorado dealer license or have a physical location in Colorado but requires them to comply with Colorado laws and the board's rules. APPROVED by Governor March 3, 2023 EFFECTIVE March 3, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law directs the office of alternate defense counsel (office) to contract with attorneys and investigators to provide legal representation to clients who are indigent. The act directs the office to also contract with other persons who are necessary to provide legal services to persons who are indigent. The act requires that the legal services provided by attorneys and other persons must be commensurate with the legal services that persons who are not indigent receive. APPROVED by Governor March 3, 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 requires 1 of the 7 members of the state board of psychologist examiners (board) to be a prescribing psychologist. The act allows a licensed psychologist to prescribe and administer psychotropic medications if the licensed psychologist holds a prescription certificate issued by the board. A licensed psychologist may apply to the board for a prescription certificate and must include in the application satisfactory evidence that the applicant: Has completed a doctoral program in psychology; Has completed a master of science in a clinical psychopharmacological program with specified areas of core instruction; Has passed the psychopharmacology examination for psychologists; Has completed a supervised and relevant clinical experience approved by the board; Has successfully undergone a process of independent peer review; and Maintains the required malpractice insurance. A licensed psychologist with a prescription certificate (prescribing psychologist) is authorized to prescribe and administer psychotropic medications if the prescribing psychologist: Maintains the required malpractice insurance; Completes at least 40 hours of continuing education every 2 years; and Maintains a collaborative relationship with the health-care provider who oversees the client's general medical care. The board is authorized to promulgate rules to: Implement procedures for obtaining a prescription certificate; and Establish grounds for denial, suspension, and revocation of the certificates. The Colorado medical board is required to review complaints regarding violations of the act and make recommendations to the board regarding disciplinary action. The act requires a prescribing psychologist to disclose to each patient that the psychologist is not a licensed physician. The act requires a prescribing psychologist to file with the board all individual federal drug enforcement administration registrations and numbers. The board and the Colorado medical board are required to maintain current records of every psychologist with prescriptive authority, including registrations and numbers. The department of regulatory agencies (department) is required to annually collect information regarding prescribing psychologists, to compile the information, and to share the information with the office in the department responsible for conducting sunset reviews for inclusion in each scheduled sunset review concerning the regulation of mental health professionals. APPROVED by Governor March 3, 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.)
