Under current law, revenue from an assessment on employers' unemployment insurance premiums, not to exceed $10 million per year and not to exceed cumulative revenue of $100 million, is allocated to the employment and training technology fund (technology fund) in the division of unemployment insurance (division) in the department of labor and employment to fund employment and training automation initiatives established by the director of the division. Any amount of revenues from the assessment that exceeds the $10 million annual cap or the $100 million cumulative revenue cap is allocated to the unemployment compensation fund. Additionally, if the balance in the unemployment compensation fund falls below $100 million, the balance in the technology fund is allocated to the unemployment compensation fund.The act:Eliminates the allocation of the technology fund balance to the unemployment compensation fund when the unemployment compensation fund balance falls below $100 million; Eliminates the $10 million cap on annual allocations to the technology fund and adds a new $7 million annual cap starting July 1, 2023; Adds a cap of $31 million on cumulative revenue to the technology fund until June 30, 2023; Transfers any amounts credited to and remaining in the technology fund between July 1, 2020, and the effective date of the act to the unemployment compensation fund; and Repeals the assessment for the technology fund on June 30, 2031.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act modifies the definition of the term "residential land" for the purpose of property tax classification. Currently, a parcel of land without a residential improvement is classified as residential land if it is contiguous with a parcel of land under common ownership upon which a residential improvement is located and if it is used as a unit in conjunction with the residential improvements located thereon. The act modifies classification for this type of parcel by:Requiring the parcel to have the identical owner as the adjacent parcel based on the record title; Requiring the parcel to have a related improvement that is essential to the use of a residential improvement located on the identically owned contiguous residential land; and Specifying that contiguity in this instance is not interrupted by an intervening local service street, alley, or common element in a common-interest community. The act also removes from the definition parcels of land in a residential subdivision, the exclusive use of which land is established by the ownership of such residential improvements.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act amends provisions concerning students in out-of-home placement that mandate cooperation between schools and county departments of human or social services (county departments) relating to education. Specifically, the act:Amends the definition of "student in out-of-home placement" to align with those students in custody of county departments; Streamlines billing practices for transportation services provided to students in out-of-home placement by requiring the use of invoices and forms approved by both the department of education and the state department of human services; and Authorizes school districts and the state charter school institute in establishing transportation plans with county departments, as required by law, to establish transportation plans by region or through a board of cooperative services.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act states that the department of health care policy and financing (department) may expand the Canadian prescription drug importation program (program) to allow a manufacturer, wholesale distributor, or pharmacy from a nation other than Canada to export prescription drugs into the state under the program if certain conditions are met. If, upon the satisfaction of these conditions, the department decides to expand the program, the executive director of the department shall notify the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and specified legislative committees of the department's intent to do so.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act limits the conditions under which the appropriate regulatory authority in the department of revenue and the department of regulatory agencies may use a driver's history to make certain decisions about a license, permit, certification, or registration that is necessary to practice an occupation or profession or to operate a business. Felonies and misdemeanors are excluded from the meaning of "driver's history".The decisions that are limited by the act concern:Issuing, renewing, reinstating, or reactivating the license, permit, certification, or registration; and Taking disciplinary action against the holder of the license, permit, certification, or registration. The events in a driver's history used to make these decisions may be used only if the event is relevant to the profession or occupation and:The profession or occupation involves driving; The event is a part of a pattern of behavior; or The event occurred within 3 years before the person applied for the license, permit, certification, or registration or the act upon which the discipline is based.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act allows an adult with a disability (adult) to voluntarily enter into a supported decision-making agreement (agreement) with one or more members of the supportive community. Under the agreement, the adult may request the member of the supportive community to do any of the following:Provide supported decision-making, including assistance in understanding the options, responsibilities, and consequences of the adult's life decisions, without making those decisions on behalf of the adult; Assist the adult in accessing, collecting, obtaining, and understanding information that is relevant to a given life decision from any person; and Assist the adult in communicating the adult's decisions to appropriate persons when expressly authorized by the adult. The agreement may be in any form but is only valid if it contains certain information and is voluntarily signed by the adult and each member of the supportive community in the presence of 2 or more attesting and disinterested witnesses who are 18 years of age or older, or a notary public.The act requires any person who receives the original or a copy of the agreement to rely on the agreement. A person is not subject to criminal and civil liability and does not engage in professional misconduct for an act or omission if the act or omission is done in good faith and in reliance on an agreement.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
In honor and memory of Carrie Ann Lucas, the act names section 24-34-805 of the Colorado Revised Statutes the "Carrie Ann Lucas Parental Rights for People with Disabilities Act".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act appropriates $54,276,399 to the legislative department for the payment of expenses in the 2021-22 state fiscal year. Additionally, the act appropriates $25,000 to the youth advisory council cash fund within the legislative department.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, it is a class 1 felony as it pertains to first degree murder if a person commits or attempts to commit certain specified felonies and the death of a person, other than one of the participants, is caused by anyone during the crime. The act changes the current law by:Moving the crime from first degree murder to second degree murder and changing the penalty from a class 1 felony to a class 2 felony that is subject to crime of violence sentencing; Requiring the death be caused by a participant; and Repealing certain elements of the affirmative defense.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act addresses multiple recommendations from the Colorado behavioral health task force (task force), created in 2019, related to the creation of a behavioral health administration (BHA). The BHA would be a single state agency to lead, promote, and administer the state's behavioral health priorities.The act requires the department of human services (department) to submit a plan for the creation of the BHA on or before November 1, 2021, to the joint budget committee and to the department's committees of reference. The act outlines what the plan must, at a minimum, include. The essential duties of the BHA, once established, are set forth.A timeline is described for the establishment of the BHA in the department and for a future determination of the state department in which the BHA will exist, if different than the department of human services.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act removes the existing restriction on pumped hydroelectric facilities as a source of recycled energy, which is included in the definition of an eligible energy resource under the renewable energy standard statute, and instead includes any pumped hydroelectric facility under 15 megawatts that:Does not combust fossil fuel to pump water; Is not located on a natural waterway; Includes measures to prevent fish mortality in the facility; Does not impact any decreed in-stream flow; and Does not cause any violation of state water quality standards when operated.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act authorizes local governments to prohibit the operation of motor vehicles or off-highway vehicles on roughed-in roads, which are areas where the ground has been cut with the intention to make a road but has not been improved enough to qualify as a road.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
