The act appropriates $61,419,806 to the legislative department for the payment of expenses in the 2022-23 state fiscal year. Additionally, the act appropriates $50,000 to the youth advisory council cash fund within the legislative department and further appropriates to the legislative council, for use in the 2022-23 state fiscal year for new member orientation, $17,500 that was appropriated to but not expended by the legislative council in the 2021-22 state fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act concerns provisions of a public school contract, which is defined in the act as an agreement between a public school contracting entity and a contractor where the principal purpose is to acquire supplies, services, or construction or to dispose of supplies for the direct benefit of or in support of a public school other than an agreement for the acquisition of certain types of professional services. For public school contracts executed on or after July 1, 2022, the act requires specified provisions to be included in a public school contract, states that a public school contract shall be deemed to include such provisions if they are inadvertently or otherwise omitted, and specifies that certain specified types of terms or conditions in a public school contract, including any provision that conflicts with Colorado law or rules or any provision required to be included in a public school contract, are void. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act allows the Colorado state fair authority (authority) to collaborate with a state agency to develop an industry display at the Colorado state fair and industrial exposition. The act also: Clarifies that the authority may receive information related to an industry display from an industry representative; Requires the board of commissioners of the authority to establish a process for approving industry displays; and Clarifies that the hiring authority of the manager of the Colorado state fair authority is the commissioner of agriculture.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, a vacancy in the office of many political officials is filled by a vacancy committee. A vacancy committee is selected by the relevant central committee. The act requires central committees to include at least all of the members of the relevant central committee on a vacancy committee. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act continues the school safety resource center advisory board indefinitely. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies' (department) sunset review and report on the licensing of massage therapists by: Continuing the licensing requirements for 9 years, until September 1, 2031; Granting sole discretion to the director of the division of professions and occupations to approve the licensure examination for massage therapists by repealing the reference to national licensure examinations as an option for massage therapist applicants to take in lieu of another examination approved by the director; and Adding, as grounds for disciplining a massage therapist, engaging in fraud, misrepresentation, deception, or cheating in taking or furnishing the results of a required examination or having the person's score on the examination invalidated by the testing provider because the person was determined to have cheated or engaged in fraud, misrepresentation, or deception in taking the examination.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies, as specified in the department's sunset review of the authority of the director of the division of workers' compensation to impose fines on an employer for a subsequent failure to carry workers' compensation insurance within 7 years after an initial failure to carry the required insurance, by continuing the director's authority for 11 years, until September 1, 2033. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act updates and clarifies language related to the foster youth in transition program (program), including: Defining "dependent on the court" as being under the juvenile court's jurisdiction; Directing the court to advise the juvenile of specific services; Repealing certain provisions related to continuing jurisdiction of the court; Adding provisions to the program for juveniles or youths who were in a dependency and neglect case or other case pursuant to the Children's Code; Updating and specifying the form and content of the petition for the program; and Adding language and requirements concerning the initial hearing related to the program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law states that, with certain exceptions, a unit owners' association (association) of a common interest community (community) may regulate the use of common elements of the community (common elements). The act states that, in regulating the use of common elements, an association shall preserve and protect unit owners' ability to use and enjoy common elements and shall not unreasonably restrict or prohibit unit owners' access to, or enjoyment of, any common element. During maintenance, repair, replacement, or modification of a common element, an association may restrict or prohibit unit owners' access to, and enjoyment of, a common element only to the extent and for the length of time necessary to: Protect the safety of any individuals, including unit owners and individuals performing the maintenance, repair, replacement, or modification of the common element; or Preserve the structural integrity or condition of a repair, replacement, or modification. If an association must restrict or prohibit unit owners' access to one or more common elements for more than 72 hours, the association shall provide an electronic or written notice to each unit owner and post a visible, clearly legible notice at each physical access point to the common element, which notice includes: A simple explanation of the reason for the restriction or prohibition; An indication of the estimated time or date upon which the restriction or prohibition will no longer exist; and A telephone number or e-mail address whereby a unit owner may pose questions or concerns about the restriction or prohibition for the consideration of the association.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies, as specified in the department's sunset review of the health-care work force data advisory group, to sunset the advisory group. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies' sunset review and report concerning the strategic action planning group on aging by repealing the planning group. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act authorizes a local government to designate all or a portion of a highway under its jurisdiction for over-snow use only when snow-packed conditions exist on the highway or for a designated continuous seasonal period for which the local government determines that snow-packed conditions are likely to exist on the highway. "Over-snow use" is defined as travel on top of snow by human-powered or animal-powered means or by an off-highway vehicle that is primarily designed or altered for use over snow and runs without tires on a continuous belt track or on one or more skis while in use over snow. A local government may limit an over-snow use designation to human-powered or animal-powered travel, or both, and the act does not prohibit a local authority from entering into a private winter maintenance agreement when wheeled winter access is requested along a highway. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
