Juvenile court jurisdiction for guardianship and parental responsibilities proceedings - findings supporting federal special immigrant juvenile classification. The act extends the jurisdiction of the court for guardianship proceedings and proceedings concerning the allocation of parental responsibilities for certain unmarried youth under 21 years of age who meet the requirements for such orders, as well as criteria specified in the act, and for whom findings are sought from the court that may support an application for special immigrant juvenile classification under federal law. The act clarifies that juvenile courts exercising jurisdiction for certain purposes may also enter findings establishing eligibility for special immigrant juvenile classification under federal law.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Athletic trainers - regulation - change from registration to licensing. The act changes the terms describing the regulation of athletic trainers from "registration" to "license" and "licensure" and from "registrant" and "registered athletic trainer" to "licensee".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Life care institutions - reserve requirement - surety bond option. Current law requires life care institutions to maintain reserves through 1 or more of several options that all require liquidity. The act allows a surety bond as a type of allowable reserve.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Hospitals - healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise board - annual hospital expenditure report - hospital report card and hospital charge report recommendations. The act requires the department of health care policy and financing (department), in consultation with the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise board, to develop and prepare an annual report detailing uncompensated hospital costs and the different categories of expenditures made by hospitals in the state (hospital expenditure report). In compiling the hospital expenditure report, the department shall use publicly available data sources whenever possible. Each hospital in the state is required to make available to the department certain information. Prior to issuing the hospital expenditure report, each hospital referenced in the report has 15 days to review the report and submit clarifications or corrections to the department. Additionally, the department is required to provide a statewide hospital association any information it receives from hospitals in the development of the hospital expenditure report. The department is required to submit the hospital expenditure report to the governor, specified committees of the general assembly, and the medical services board in the department by January 15, 2020, and each year thereafter. The department is also directed to post the hospital expenditure report on the department's website. The act requires the department, in consultation with the department of public health and environment and the division of insurance, to determine whether the hospital report card and the hospital charge report that exist under current law require any structural or substantive changes. Any such recommendations to that effect are required to be made to the general assembly by November 1, 2019. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Criminal sentencing - misdemeanors and municipal violations - change maximum penalty from one year to 364 days. Under current law, the maximum sentence for a class 2 misdemeanor, level 2 drug misdemeanor, a misdemeanor without a fixed statutory penalty, and a municipal ordinance violation is one year. The act changes the maximum sentence to 364 days.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Enforcement measures available for the collection of delinquent taxes - department of revenue. The act specifies that the period of time wherein a tax must be assessed is extended in the case of a taxpayer whose assets are in the control or custody of a court or in the case of a taxpayer who has filed bankruptcy proceedings. The act also provides clarifications regarding: The department of revenue's authorization to sell a delinquent taxpayer's motor vehicle; Other remedies that a district court has available in the case of a delinquent taxpayer; and When property or rights to property must be surrendered to the executive director of the department of revenue and what the penalties are for failing to surrender such property.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Advance behavioral health orders for scope of treatment form. Under current law, an adult may establish advance medical orders for scope of treatment, allowing an adult to establish directives for the administration of medical treatment in the event the adult later lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to, withdraw from, or refuse medical treatment. The act creates a similar order for behavioral health orders for scope of treatment so that an adult may communicate his or her behavioral health history, decisions, and preferences. The act: Lists the requirements for a behavioral health orders for scope of treatment form; Details the duties and immunities of emergency medical services personnel, health care providers, and health care facilities with respect to treating an adult with behavioral health orders for scope of treatment; Details how a behavioral health orders for scope of treatment form is executed, amended, or revoked; and Prohibits an effect on a health insurance contract, life insurance contract, or annuity, by executing or failing to execute a behavioral health orders for scope of treatment.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
State board of health - preparation of department operational planning - repeal. The act repeals the requirement that the state board of health comply with certain statutory requirements concerning the preparation of operational planning functions as if the state board were the executive director of the department of public health and environment.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Teacher cadet program - early childhood education. The act clarifies that high school students who are interested in early childhood education may participate in the teacher cadet program in high schools.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Real estate appraisers - appraisal management companies - definition. The act amends the definition of "appraisal management company" to align with the definition in federal law. Specifies that certain sections take effect only if HB 19-1172 becomes law. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Educators in rural areas - financial incentives. Before passage of the act, the department of higher education (department) annually awarded up to 40 stipends of not more than $2,800 to students enrolled in teacher preparation programs who agreed to teach in a rural school or rural school district. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends and increases the stipend amount to $4,000. Before the act, the department also annually awarded up to 60 stipends to educators in rural schools and rural school districts who were seeking certain certifications. The act removes the limit on the number of stipends. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Safe haven program - information - comprehensive health education in schools. If a school district, charter school, institute charter school, or board of cooperative services (school) chooses to provide a local comprehensive health education program pursuant to article 25 of title 22, Colorado Revised Statutes, the school's curriculum must include information relating to state laws that provide for the safe abandonment of newborn children to specific persons, including firefighters and clinic or hospital staff, within 72 hours of birth.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
