Current law requires that a local board of health set the permit fee for an on-site wastewater treatment system permit in an amount to recover the actual direct and indirect costs associated with the permit and sets a $1,000 cap on the fee. The act repeals the dollar limitation on the fee. Upon request, the local board of health shall provide a permittee with a statement that specifies how the permit fee amount was calculated. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act: Establishes a hold harmless provision for vendors who use the state's geographic information system database (GIS database) to determine the jurisdictions to which sales or use tax is owed and to calculate appropriate sales or use tax rates for individual addresses; Requires the department of revenue to notify vendors when the GIS database is online, tested, and verified by the department of revenue to be operational, supported, and available for use; Specifies that the notification to vendors may be provided in any way that the department of revenue deems appropriate and must be accomplished within existing resources; Requires the department of revenue to ensure that the GIS database data is at least 95% accurate based on a statistically valid sample of addresses from the database, or based on another acceptable method of proving accuracy; Requires the executive director of the department of revenue to promulgate rules for the administration and use of the GIS database; Specifies that the statutory section regarding certified address location databases used for collecting and remitting sales and use tax is repealed 90 days after the date that the revisor of statutes is notified by the department of revenue that a geographic information system that meets the defined scope of work set forth in the request for solicitation is online, tested, and verified by the department of revenue to be operational, supported, and available for use; and Requires the department of revenue to notify the revisor of statutes no later than 15 days after such a system is online, tested, and verified by the department of revenue to be operational, supported, and available for use.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2019 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of personnel. The general funds and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased and cash funds portion is decreased, resulting in a decrease in the amount appropriated to the department. Appropriations made in Senate Bill 19-135, concerning methods to determine whether disparities involving certain historically underutilized businesses exist within the state procurement process, are amended to clarify that the money appropriated is for personal services. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, the Centennial south campus of the Centennial correctional facility is only able to house inmates under limited circumstances. The act opens the facility for up to 650 close custody inmates. The act requires the executive director of the department of corrections (department), to develop and rely upon criteria for the protection of the health, safety, and financial interests of the state of Colorado related to housing out-of-state prisoners in private prisons in Colorado. The act gives the executive director the authority to rescind his or her approval for placement of out-of-state prisoners in a Colorado private prison. The act directs the division of local government (division) in the department of local affairs to contract with a nationally recognized research and consulting entity to study future prison bed needs in Colorado. While conducting the study, the entity shall solicit input from local communities and other interested parties or issue experts, including but not limited to public safety experts, victim's advocates, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and community reentry providers and shall convene an advisory committee with representatives from the areas that have a private prison to consult with the entity during the study. The division shall hold public hearings in the areas that have a private prison to allow public input on the study. The study must include: An analysis of the economic and other impacts that potential prison closure would have on local governments and the wider community and recommendations on strategies to diversify the local economy; A utilization analysis of all state and privately operated facilities and all other facilities that can be used for housing inmates; and An analysis of the feasibility of the department to obtain privately owned facilities or utilize unused state-owned buildings in Colorado. The division shall report the study to the judiciary committees of the senate and house of representatives during the committees' SMART Act hearings held during the 2021 session. The act adds to the list of achievements that allow an inmate to receive earned time showing exemplary leadership through mentoring, community service, and distinguished actions benefitting the health, safety, environment, and culture for staff and other inmates. Under current law, an offender is not entitled to an evidentiary hearing for resentencing when the offender is rejected for placement in a community corrections program. The act requires the sentencing court to provide the offender with a new sentencing hearing for any termination from a community corrections program. The act amends the escape statutes to exclude from the concepts of custody or confinement for purposes of escape: Direct sentences to, or transitioning from the department to, a community corrections program; Participating in a work release or home detention program; Intensive supervision program or any other similar authorized supervised or unsupervised absence from a detention facility; Being housed in a staff-secure facility; or Placement in an intensive supervision parole program. The act creates a new crime of unauthorized absence if the person is serving a supervised sentence outside of a prison and: Leaves or fails to return to his or her residential or facility location without permission of the supervising agency and in violation of the terms and conditions of supervision; or Removes or tampers with an electronic monitoring device required by the supervising agency to be worn by the person in order to monitor his or her location without permission and with the intent to avoid arrest, prosecution, monitoring, or other legal processes. The act appropriates $250,000 from the general fund for the required study. The act makes adjustments to the appropriations to department of corrections for the operation of the Centennial south campus of the Centennial correctional facility. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act enacts the "Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act of 2020", also known as the "CROWN Act of 2020", which specifies that, for purposes of anti-discrimination laws in the context of public education, employment practices, housing, public accommodations, and advertising, protections against discrimination on the basis of one's race include hair texture, hair type, or a protective hairstyle commonly or historically associated with race, such as braids, locs, twists, tight coils or curls, cornrows, Bantu knots, Afros, and headwraps. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Existing law authorizes the executive director of a state agency to assign a state-owned motor vehicle to an officer or employee of the state agency (officer or employee) for commuting. A state-owned motor vehicle may also be used by an officer or employee for traveling away from home in connection with his or her job responsibilities. Pursuant to federal internal revenue service regulations, the commuting use of a state-owned motor vehicle is taxable to an officer or employee while the use of a state-owned motor vehicle for traveling away from home is not taxable to an officer or employee. Currently, a state-owned motor vehicle may be parked at an officer or employee's residence for more than one day per month only if the executive director of the state agency has assigned the vehicle to the officer or employee. The parking limitation does not distinguish between use of the state-owned motor vehicle for commuting and use of the vehicle for traveling away from home. This has caused confusion among state agencies regarding whether use of the vehicle is taxable to the officer or employee when a vehicle is parked at an officer or employee's residence for more than one night for the purpose of traveling away from home rather than for commuting. The act clarifies the provision regarding the number of nights a state-owned motor vehicle may be parked at an officer or employee's personal residence and specifies that the limitation does not apply if the officer or employee is using the state-owned motor vehicle for the purpose of traveling away from home. In addition, the act clarifies that commuting does not include traveling away from home as defined by the federal internal revenue service and that an officer or employee shall not use a state-owned motor vehicle for commuting unless such use is authorized pursuant to law. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act enacts the softbound volumes of the Colorado Revised Statutes 2019 as the positive and statutory law of the state of Colorado and establishes the effective date of said publication. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
A pilot program (program) created in 2017 authorized third-party transportation associations or organizations approved by the chief of the Colorado state patrol to perform vehicle identification number (VIN) verification inspections for commercial vehicles. The statute authorizing the program repealed, in accordance with its provisions as enacted, effective January 1, 2020. The act recreates the program as a permanent program. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act changes the date that the statutory revision committee is required to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly from on or before November 15 of each year to on or before July 1 of each year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2019 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, and state planning and budgeting. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased and the federal funds portion is decreased, resulting in no change in the total amount appropriated to the department. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2019 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of law. The general funds portion of the appropriation is increased and federal funds portion is decreased, resulting in no change in the amount appropriated to the department. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2019 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of natural resources. The general funds and cash funds portions of the appropriation are increased and federal funds portion is decreased, resulting in an increase in the amount appropriated to the department. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
