The act requires a coroner of a county with a population greater than 150,000 who is elected on or after November 5, 2024, to be either a death investigator certified by and in good standing with the American board of medicolegal death investigators or a forensic pathologist certified by and in good standing with the American board of pathology. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act adds firefighters to the class of people whose personal information is protected from publication on the internet by public entities upon a the request of a person in the class. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The snowmobile recreation fund is used to, among other things, establish and maintain snowmobile trails and related facilities. A resident of Colorado who uses a snowmobile on publicly owned land must register the snowmobile and pay a fee, which is deposited in the snowmobile recreation fund. The act replaces a $5 per registration cap with a 17% cap on the amount of the fee that can be used for administration purposes. The act creates an out-of-state snowmobile permit that an owner or operator of an out-of-state snowmobile must obtain and display to drive the snowmobile on publicly owned land. To get the permit, the owner must pay a fee in an amount set by the parks and wildlife commission. Exceptions are created for snowmobiles: Owned by governments; Operated in an organized event authorized by the government with jurisdiction over the land on which the snowmobile is operated; and Operated on publicly owned land for nonrecreational purposes. Concerning the requirement to register a snowmobile, the current exception on private-land commercial use is extended to all private land use by repealing the commercial use element. The fine for a violation is $100. Permits are valid for one year from October 1 to September 30 and are issued by agents of the director of the division of parks and wildlife. A search and rescue program pays for backcountry search and rescue operations. Snowmobile and off-highway vehicle registrations require the payment of a search and rescue fee, which entitles the payer of the fee to be covered by the program. The act adds the search and rescue fee to out-of-state snowmobile permits and off-highway use permits. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law exempts certain small cooperatives and limited-expense planned communities from most of the requirements of the "Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act", which governs the conduct of homeowners' associations (associations). A cooperative or planned community may avail itself of the exemption if: A cooperative was created on or after July 1, 1992, but before July 1, 1998, and either contains only units restricted to nonresidential use or contains no more than 10 units and is not subject to any development rights; A planned community was created on or after July 1, 1992, but before July 1, 1998, and contains no more than 10 units and is not subject to any development rights, or if a planned community provides in its declaration that the annual average common expense liability of each unit restricted to residential purposes may not exceed $400, as adjusted for changes in the consumer price index (CPI); A cooperative or planned community was created on or after July 1, 1998, and contains only units restricted to nonresidential use or contains no more than 20 units and is not subject to any development rights; or A planned community was created after July 1, 1998, and provides in its declaration that the annual average common expense liability of each unit restricted to residential purposes may not exceed $400, as adjusted for changes in the CPI. The act combines these exemptions, with amendments, to state that a cooperative or planned community may avail itself of the exemption if: A cooperative or planned community was created on or after July 1, 1992, and either contains only units restricted to nonresidential use or contains no more than 20 units and is not subject to any development rights; or A planned community provides in its declaration that the annual average common expense liability of each unit restricted to residential purposes must not exceed $400, as adjusted annually since July 1, 1999, for changes in the CPI. A cooperative or planned community that may avail itself of the exemption may elect instead to be subject to the entire "Colorado Common Interest Ownership Act" by adopting an amendment to its declaration evidencing its election. The act requires the HOA information officer in the department of regulatory agencies to provide notice of the act to cooperatives and planned communities that are affected by the act, including notice of the option to opt out of the exemption. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, "crimes of violence" are subject to enhanced sentencing. The act adds human trafficking of an adult or a minor for the purpose of involuntary servitude and human trafficking of an adult or a minor for sexual servitude to the list of crimes of violence that are subject to enhanced sentencing. Under current law, it is an affirmative defense to a charge of human trafficking for sexual servitude if the person being charged can demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that, at the time of the offense, the person was a victim of human trafficking for sexual servitude who was forced or coerced into engaging in the human trafficking of minors for sexual servitude. The act extends the affirmative defense if the person was forced or coerced into engaging in human trafficking for sexual servitude and removes the preponderance of evidence standard. The act makes the statute of limitations for human trafficking of an adult or a minor for the purpose of involuntary servitude and human trafficking of an adult for sexual servitude 20 years. The act does not change the unlimited statute of limitations for human trafficking for sexual servitude of a minor. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 11, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act strongly encourages a locally defined or interjurisdictional emergency management plan amended or created on or after July 1, 2024, and requires, when practicable, as determined after consideration of specified required factors, a locally defined or interjurisdictional emergency management plan amended or created on or after January 1, 2025, to address the needs of an individual with an animal during an emergency by: Including provisions for the evacuation, shelter, and transport of an individual with an animal and that animal; and Requiring, to the extent practicable, that at least one shelter established during an emergency is designated to accommodate an individual with an animal and that animal. The act also strongly encourages a city, county, or city and county to make available to the public, on or after January 1, 2025, information for animal emergency preparedness, including: Information for creating an evacuation plan and emergency checklist for individuals with animals consistent with recommendations publicly published by the United States department of agriculture and the federal emergency management agency; Local organizations that may provide emergency animal assistance; and Local emergency shelters, cooling centers, or warming centers, when active, that can accommodate an individual with an animal. Lastly, the act also strongly encourages a city, county, or city and county, on or after January 1, 2025, to implement disability etiquette and service animal training to ensure that emergency response personnel are well prepared to interact with individuals with disabilities and their service animals during emergency situations. APPROVED by Governor April 11, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 11, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Signed by the President of the Senate
On or before December 1, 2026, the bill requires a board of county commissioners or the governing body of a municipality to adopt a building code, or amend an existing building code, to allow up to 5 stories of a multifamily residential building to be served by a single exit. To satisfy this requirement, a local government shall incorporate by reference and adopt or adapt and adopt language from a portion of an existing building code that allows a single exit to serve no more than 5 stories of a group r-2 occupancy in the same building. If a local government so requests, the department of local affairs shall provide technical assistance to the local government in satisfying this requirement. The bill also clarifies that the adoption or amendment of a building code to satisfy the requirements of the bill does not qualify as adopting or enforcing a building code for the purpose of determining whether a board of county commissioners or the governing body of a municipality is required to adopt an energy code. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Federal law requires a state to comply with federal requirements regarding effective control, as described in federal law, of outdoor advertising along federal-aid highways (outdoor advertising) or be subject to the loss of 10% of its federal-aid highway funding. State law authorizes the department of transportation (CDOT) to adopt rules governing outdoor advertising but also, to ensure that the state does not lose any federal-aid highway funding, specifies that state law does not authorize the erection or maintenance of advertising devices that would disqualify the state from receiving federal-aid highway funding made available to states that exercise effective control of outdoor advertising (complying state funding). CDOT has adopted rules governing outdoor advertising in Colorado (the rules) for the purpose of establishing effective control through a statewide uniform program controlling the use of advertising devices in areas adjacent to the state highway system, but certain persons have alleged that CDOT's rules allow or might allow advertising devices to be erected and maintained that would disqualify the state from receiving complying state funding. The bill requires CDOT to hold a public hearing, on or before October 1, 2024, at which any person may identify any provision of the rules that the person believes allows or might allow the erection or maintenance of any advertising device that would disqualify the state from receiving complying state funding (disqualifying provision). CDOT shall review any provision identified and, if CDOT determines that the provision is a disqualifying provision, shall conduct new rule making to repeal or amend the disqualifying provision to mitigate the risk of losing complying state funding. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill creates the Colorado drug donation program (program) to facilitate the safe donation and redispensing of medicine, including prescription and nonprescription or over-the-counter drugs, FDA-approved drugs labeled for investigational use, and medical devices. Under the program, a donor donates medicine to a donation recipient for redispensing to eligible patients. Donated medicine is prioritized first for Colorado residents who are indigent, uninsured, underinsured, or enrolled in a public health benefits program (eligible patient). An eligible patient or the patient's health insurance is not charged for the medicine, other than handling or dispensing charges and other customary charges. Donors may include individual members of the public as well as drug manufacturers and distributors, pharmacies, clinics, health centers, government agencies, and other donors described in the bill (donor). Donors may donate to a donation recipient, including a wholesaler or distributor, hospital, pharmacy, clinic, and health-care provider or prescriber's office, among other entities (donation recipient). The donation recipient may: Transfer donated medicine to another donation recipient; and If the donation recipient is a prescription drug outlet, repackage donated medicine as necessary for storage, redispensing, administration, or transfer or replenish medicine previously dispensed to eligible patients. The bill includes provisions relating to: Record-keeping requirements for donated medicine; The type, condition, and age of medicine that may be donated; The segregation of medicine and inspection by a licensed pharmacist before medicine is accepted into inventory; The disposal of medicine that does not meet donation standards; and The repackaging, labeling, and redispensing of medicine to eligible patients. The state board of pharmacy is required to promulgate rules necessary to implement the program. When acting in good faith, without willful or wanton misconduct, the state board of pharmacy, donors, donation recipients, and other individuals and entities involved in the program are not subject to civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action relating to their participation in the program. The bill makes conforming amendments to existing law relating to the reuse of unused medications by other patients in correctional facilities and in certain licensed facilities, such as hospitals, hospices, and assisted living facilities. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Signed by the Speaker of the House
House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
