Water conservation - use of xeriscape and other drought-tolerant landscaping - common interest communities - special districts. Section 1 of the act augments an existing law that establishes the right of unit owners in common interest communities to use water-efficient landscaping, subject to reasonable aesthetic standards, by specifically extending the same policy to limited common elements, which are owned by the community and available for use by some but not all of the unit owners. Sections 2 and 3 extend existing water conservation requirements, currently applicable only to certain public entities that supply water at retail and their customers, to property management districts and other special districts that manage areas of parkland and open space. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Pharmacies - authority of hospice or convalescent center to operate as a pharmacy. The act allows a licensed hospice or convalescent center to procure, store, order, dispense, and administer prescription medications. 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
State board of health - repeal authority over money for state and local public works or public health functions. The act repeals the state board of health's authority to accept, use, disburse, and administer money allotted to the department of public health and environment for state and local public works or public health functions.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
School district capital construction assistance program - grants to support career and technical education. The act amends the "Building Excellent Schools Today Act" to allow the public school capital construction assistance board (board) to provide grants to support career and technical education capital construction, which is defined as: New construction or retrofitting of public school facilities for certain career and technical education programs; and Equipment necessary for individual student learning and classroom instruction, including equipment that provides access to instructional materials or that is necessary for professional use by a classroom teacher. The act requires the board to report annually to the capital development committee and to the education and finance committees of the house of representatives and the senate, or to any successor committees, concerning the issuance and denial of career and technical education capital construction grants during the preceding year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Education - performance indicators - graduation rate - counting students enrolled in special education services. Under the act, a student who is enrolled in special education services must be counted in the enrolling public high school's, school district's or institute's, and state's graduation rate in the year in which the student completes high school graduation requirements. The act does not limit the right to a free appropriate public education for a student as provided by the federal "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act", the "Exceptional Children's Educational Act", or any other federal or state law or rule. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Grand Junction regional center campus - department of human services - authority to either list all or a portion of the campus for sale or transfer. Current law requires the department of human services to list the Grand Junction regional center campus for sale. The act gives the department of human services other options by authorizing the department to either list all or a portion of the Grand Junction regional center campus for sale or to enter into a contract to transfer all or a portion of the campus to a state institution of higher education, to a local government, or to a state agency interested in its acquisition. Such transfer would, according to current statute, be required to be reviewed by the capital development committee.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
State board of health - water quality control - joint operating agreement approval - water conservancy district board of directors - rules. The act eliminates the requirement that the state board of health approve a municipality's entrance into a joint operating agreement with an industrial enterprise for work relating to sewerage facilities. The act also clarifies that the board of directors of a water conservancy district must comply with the rules of the water quality control commission concerning the manner in which watercourses of the district are used for waste disposal.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Respondent parents' counsel - access to judicial department information - representation in reinstatement petition. The act adds to the list of agencies and attorneys authorized to have statewide read-only access to the name index and register of actions for the judiciary department those attorneys who are either under contract with or authorized by the office of the respondent parents' counsel. The act clarifies that a parent whose rights in a parent-child relationship have been terminated and who has filed a petition to reinstate the rights of a parent-child relationship is entitled to appointed counsel through the office of the respondent parents' counsel, if income eligibility criteria are satisfied. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
State board of health - area trauma advisory councils - rules - repeal. The act repeals the requirement that the state board of health adopt rules and establish standards to ensure that area trauma advisory councils and managed care organizations are prepared for an emergency epidemic.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
State board of health - supervision of air quality control programs - repeal. The act eliminates the requirement that the state board of health supervise certain air quality control programs and removes statutory provisions relating to the air pollution variance board and the air quality hearings board.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Interdistrict transportation of students. The act restores the statutory language in section 22-32-113 to the language as it existed before the statute was amended by section 7 of House Bill 18-1306, concerning ensuring educational stability for students in out-of-home placement. Section 7 has been declared void by a Colorado court for violating section 21 of article V of the Colorado constitution that requires bills to contain a single subject clearly expressed in the bill's title. The act allows a school district to furnish transportation, or to reimburse parents or others for the cost of transportation, to and from its schools to students who are residents of another school district if the resident school district is adjacent to the school district of attendance and the resident school district consents to the transportation of its students to the adjacent school district. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Titles and interests - deeds for the conveyance of real property - standard forms - terms of warranty and exceptions. The act states that a licensed title insurance entity may prepare deeds for the conveyance of real property in accordance with statutory forms. Any deed prepared by a title insurance entity containing a covenant of warranty must: Include a limitation on the warranty of title; and Use the phrase "subject to statutory exceptions" and no other terms or descriptions, unless the preparing title insurance entity is otherwise instructed in writing by both the grantor and the grantee. The act provides new forms of deeds for the conveyance of real property under certain circumstances. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
