Supplemental appropriations - department of revenue. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of revenue. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Nationally certified school professionals - annual stipends. The act adds nationally certified school psychologists as school professionals eligible for annual stipends awarded by the department of education (department) if the school psychologist meets the requirements set forth in the act. The act clarifies that school counselors, who hold a certification from the national board for certified counselors or from the national board for professional teaching standards, are school professionals who have been eligible for annual stipends awarded by the department since the initial award was distributed during the 2009-10 school year. The act corrects the name of the national board for professional teaching standards by removing the word "principal" from the title. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Supplemental appropriation - department of human services. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of human services. The general fund, cash funds, and federal funds portions of the appropriation are decreased and the reappropriated funds portion is increased, resulting in an overall decrease to the department. The 2017 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of human services. The cash funds and federal funds portions of the appropriation are increased and the reappropriated funds portion is decreased, resulting in an overall increase to the department. Appropriations made in Senate Bill 18-254, concerning reforms to child welfare services, are amended to specify that money appropriated is for foster and adoptive parent recruitment, training and support. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Manufactured homes - sales tax exemption clarification. As it existed before the enactment of the act, the state sales and use tax exemption statute (exemption statute) exempted from state sales tax, and through operation of another statute also exempted from local sales taxes, 48% of the purchase price for the initial sale of "factory-built housing" and 100% of the purchase price for any subsequent sale of a "manufactured home" (sales tax exemption). The exemption statute referenced another statute defining "factory-built housing", but in Senate Bill 03-182, concerning the consolidation of programs implemented by the department of local affairs that pertain to the regulation of construction, the general assembly replaced the existing definition of "factory-built housing" with a new definition of "factory-built residential structure", and the statute referenced in the exemption statute actually defines the latter term. This definition of "factory-built residential structure" includes only "structures designed to be installed on a permanent foundation" and therefore arguably limited the sales tax exemption, which had previously clearly applied to structures designed for occupancy in either temporary or permanent locations, to only those structures designed to be installed on permanent foundations. The act clarifies the scope of the sales tax exemption by amending the exemption statute to exempt "manufactured homes" instead of "factory-built housing", which clarifies that the sales tax exemption applies to homes designed to be installed on either temporary or permanent foundations. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Department of public health and environment - fire safety - life safety - rule-making authority - repeal. The act repeals statutory provisions that require the department of public health and environment (department) to adopt rules relating to fire safety of health facilities and allow the department to establish a life safety code for health facilities, because these functions were transferred to the department of public safety.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Supplemental appropriations - department of public safety. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of public safety. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Supplemental appropriations - department of transportation. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of transportation. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Supplemental appropriations are made to the department of military and veterans affairs. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) Read More
Supplemental appropriation - department of public health and environment. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of public health and environment. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased. Appropriations made in House Bill 18-1400, concerning an increase in fees paid by stationary sources of air pollutants, is increased. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Colorado water institute recreation. The Colorado water institute was created in 1981 and automatically repealed in 2017. The act recreates the institute.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
State board of health - repeal of approval for retention of counsel. The act removes the requirement that the state board of health (state board) approve the retention of counsel when the executive director of the department of public health and environment seeks to bring an action to enjoin, prosecute, or enforce public health laws or standards and the local district attorney fails to act. The act also removes the requirement that an agency, through its county or district board of health or through its public health director, acquire the approval of the state board before retaining counsel to defend the agency and its officers and employees against actions brought against them. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Commercial driver's licenses - interstate commerce - 18 to 21 years of age. The act authorizes the department of revenue to adopt rules authorizing a person who is at least 18 years of age but under 21 years of age to be licensed to drive a commercial vehicle in interstate commerce if the person holds a commercial driver's license and operation of a commercial vehicle in interstate commerce by a person in that age range is permitted under federal law.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
