State institutions of higher education - requirements for developmental education and basic skills courses - supplemental academic instruction. The act directs the Colorado commission on higher education (commission) to adopt a developmental education policy requiring the governing boards of state institutions of higher education (institutions) to maximize the likelihood of success in entry-level (gateway) college-level course work when placing students into developmental education. The act also specifies that institutions cannot place a student into developmental education based on a single instrument or test. For institutions authorized to offer developmental education, the act requires that, by 2022, such institutions shall directly enroll no more than 10 percent of students enrolling in the institution into stand-alone developmental education courses that may extend the student's time to degree. Instead, a student should be enrolled in a gateway college-level course with additional supports through supplemental academic instruction (SAI) or co-requisite remediation. The act allows institutions to pilot new approaches to remediate students who may not benefit from SAI or co-requisite remediation and to seek waivers from the commission to expand or duplicate successful pilots. The act authorizes all 4-year institutions to offer SAI, without approval from the commission, to students who need additional supports to be successful in college-level courses. The act clarifies and adds reporting requirements relating to developmental education and SAI. The act changes the term "basic skills" in statute to "developmental education" and makes conforming amendments throughout. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Early childhood leadership commission - infant and family child care strategic action plan. The act requires the department of human services (department), in consultation with the early childhood leadership commission (commission) and various stakeholders, to draft a strategic action plan addressing the declining availability of family child care homes and infant child care. The act requires the department to submit the completed strategic action plan to the commission; the state board of human services; the joint budget committee; the health and human services and education committees of the senate, or any successor committees; and the public health care and human services and education committees of the house of representatives, or any successor committees, no later than December 1, 2019. The act anticipates the department will receive $50,688 in federal funds to implement this act for the 2019-20 state fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Signals, signs, and markings - inoperable or malfunctioning signals - allowing a driver of a motorcycle to proceed past a malfunctioning traffic control signal. Under current law, when a driver approaches an intersection and faces a traffic control signal that is inoperative or that remains on steady red or steady yellow during several time cycles, the rules controlling entrance to a through street or highway from a stop street or highway apply until a police officer assumes control of traffic or until normal operation is resumed. If a traffic control signal at a place other than an intersection ceases to operate or malfunctions, drivers may proceed through the inoperative or malfunctioning signal only with caution, as if the signal were one of flashing yellow. The act states that when a motorcycle driver approaches an intersection and faces a traffic control signal that does not recognize the presence of the motorcycle, the provisions controlling entrance to a through street or highway from a stop sign or highway apply until a police officer assumes control of traffic or the traffic signal resumes normal operation. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Peace officer-involved shooting or fatal use of force - law enforcement agency policies. Law enforcement agencies must develop policies to support officers involved in a shooting or fatal use of force. The policies must address pre-incident training and preparation, support for the officer at the scene of the incident, post-incident support and services, guidelines for temporary leave or duty reassignment, and guidelines for return to duty. The policies must be completed by January 1, 2020. Law enforcement agencies are required to review the policies on a biennial basis.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Background checks - criminal history record check - name-based criminal history record check. Certain persons subject to a fingerprint-based criminal history record check must submit to a name-based criminal history record check when the fingerprint-based check reveals a record of arrest but does not show a disposition in the case. Specified provisions of the act are contingent upon House Bill 19-1172 becoming law. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
General appropriation act - 2019 - long bill. For the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, provides for the payment of expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state of Colorado, and of its agencies and institutions, for and during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019. The grand total for the operating budget is set at $31,933,536,156 of which $9,202,196,421 is from the general fund portion of the appropriation; $2,638,215,405 is from the general funds exempt portion; $9,281,575,477 is from the cash funds portion; $2,087,776,808 is from the reappropriated funds portion; and $8,723,772,045 is from the federal funds portion. The grand total for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019, capital construction projects is $260,727,454 of which $168,460,533 is from the capital construction fund portion of the appropriation; $72,690,215 is from the cash funds portion; $8,911,836 is from the reappropriated funds portion; and $10,664,870 is from the federal funds portion. The 2017 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the departments of education, health care policy and financing, and higher education. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the departments of corrections, education, health care policy and financing, higher education, human services, judical, personnel, and public health and environment. Appropriations made in House Bill 16-1398, concerning the requirement that the department of human services use a request-for-proposal process to contract with an entity to implement recommendations of the respite care task force, is amended to extend any unexpended money to the department of human services until the 2019-20 state fiscal year. Appropriations made in House Bill 18-1328, concerning the children's habilitation residential waiver program, is amended to reduce the amount appropriated to the department of health care policy and financing. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
State water plan - grant program - appropriations. Section 1 of the act: Creates the water plan implementation grant program (program); and Specifies criteria for expenditures by the Colorado water conservation board (board) for the program. The act appropriates: $8.3 million from the general fund to the department of natural resources (department) for use by the board to finance grants; and $1.7 million from the general fund to the department for use by the board for stakeholder outreach and technical analysis to develop a water resources demand management program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Emergency medical service providers - scope of practice - medical supervision of practice in a clinical setting - prehospital scope of practice - state board of health rules. The act expands an emergency medical service (EMS) provider's scope of practice by authorizing a provider to practice under the medical supervision of a licensed physician, physician assistant, advanced practice nurse, or registered nurse, who is immediately available and physically present at the clinical setting where the EMS provider is performing tasks and procedures within the EMS provider's scope of practice. The state board of health may promulgate rules regarding medical supervision of an EMS provider's performance of tasks and procedures in a clinical setting. The act also specifies the prehospital settings in which an EMS provider may perform patient care, which care is subject to medical direction by a physician.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Medicaid - PACE program funding - interim review of funding methodology - appropriation. The act directs the department of health care policy and financing (department) to negotiate the monthly contracted rate for PACE program services for the 2019-20 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, using an actuarially sound upper payment limit methodology that complies with federal law regarding PACE organizations. The act repeals provisions in statute directing the department to apply a grade of membership method in determining the upper payment limit methodology and tying the 2019-20 fiscal year appropriations to a new methodology or to the fiscal year 2016-17 appropriation. The act requires the department and PACE organizations to meet during the 2019 legislative interim to consider the appropriate funding methodology for PACE programs and other issues relating to PACE delivery models, administrative oversight and funding administrative services, and appropriations requests. For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $6,755,479 to the department of health care policy and financing for medical assistance premiums for the PACE program, with the expectation of receiving the same amount in matching federal funds. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Electric vehicle grant fund - administration. The act modifies the statute governing the electric vehicle grant fund (fund) as follows: Allows the fund to be used to administer grants for the installation of charging stations for electric vehicles; Allows the fund to prioritize the grants it will provide based on criteria defined by the Colorado energy office; Allows the fund to be used to fully fund the installation of charging stations and offset station operating costs; and Requires the money in the fund to be continuously appropriated to the Colorado energy office.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Children's basic health plan - dental services for pregnant women - appropriation. Current law requires the medical services board to include dental services for eligible children enrolled in a children's basic health plan. The act requires the board to include dental services to all eligible enrollees, which includes children and pregnant women. The act appropriates $66,955 to the department of health care policy and financing to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Sign language interpreters - title protection - certification - appropriation. The act adds "translator" and "certified translator" for sign language to the list of titles that a person certified by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc., may use. The act also authorizes the Colorado commission for the deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind to approve certifications of sign language interpreters to use the mentioned titles. $19,440 is appropriated from the Colorado telephone users with disabilities fund to the department of human services to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
