The bill adds to the responsibilities of the Colorado racing commission the protection of all participants, human and animal, involved in horse racing. The commission shall promulgate rules to ensure fair play, human and animal safety, and integrity in the sport of horse racing. The commission shall designate categories of licensees subject to for-cause testing or random testing to detect the presence of prohibited substances. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Joint Budget Committee. The bill amends the 'Increasing Access to Effective Substance Use Disorder Services Act' to: Clarify that a designated managed service organization (designated MSO) may use money allocated to it from the marijuana tax cash fund for expenditures for substance use disorder services and for any start-up costs or other expenses necessary to increase capacity to provide such services; Permit a designated MSO to spend an unused allocation in the next state fiscal year after it has been received, but requires any unspent amount after that time to be returned to the department of human services (department); Allow the appropriation of the money unspent by a designated MSO in the year it is received to roll forward to the next state fiscal year; Require a designated MSO to submit an annual expenditure report to legislative committees in addition to the department, which is currently the only entity that receives this report; Eliminate an annual mid-year expenditure report that a designated MSO is required to submit to the department and replaces it with a requirement that the designated MSO provide the department with information about expenditures as required by the department; Eliminate the requirement that a departmental report about expenditures to legislative committees must continue after the first report is made; and Require the department to report on outcomes related to the implementation of the act as part of its 'State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act' hearing.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
The bill prohibits a carrier that issues a health benefit plan that covers treatment for stage four advanced metastatic cancer from requiring a cancer patient to undergo step therapy prior to receiving a drug approved by the United States food and drug administration if use of the approved drug is consistent with best practices for treatment of the cancer and as long as the drug is on the carrier's prescription drug formulary. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
The bill makes appropriations for matters related to the legislative department for the 2018-19 state fiscal year. Additionally, the bill directs the state treasurer to transfer $850,000 from the preservation grant program account in the state historical fund to the legislative department cash fund for use in the project to restore the old supreme court chamber in the state capitol building. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Statutory Revision Committee. The bill repeals laws ordered permanently enjoined from enforcement in Independence Inst. v. Gessler , 936 F. Supp. 2d 1256 (D. Colo. 2013). The laws: Require ballot issue petition circulators to be Colorado residents; and Limit the amount of per-signature compensation that ballot issue petition circulators may be paid.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
The bill creates a new article 7.4 in title 23, Colorado Revised Statutes, with the article heading "Military Members, Veterans, and Dependents", in order to locate physically within the same article, whenever practicable, higher education provisions relating to the military. Part 1 of article 7.4 includes general provisions, including cross references to provisions relating to the military in other articles of title 23. Part 2 of article 7.4 includes relocated provisions from article 7 of title 23 relating to in-state tuition classification relating to the military. Part 3 of article 7.4 includes a relocated provision relating to financial assistance for Colorado National Guardsmen and a cross reference to financial assistance programs in another article of title 23. The bill repeals the provisions that have been relocated to article 7.4 of title 23. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Early Childhood and School Readiness Legislative Commission. If a district chooses to use early childhood at-risk enhancement (ECARE) positions to enroll children in the district's full-day kindergarten program, children using the ECARE positions must satisfy at least one of the eligibility requirements of the Colorado preschool program.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Sunset Process - House Agriculture, Livestock, and Natural Resources Committee. The bill implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies to sunset the wildland-urban interface training advisory board.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Under current practice, expenditures by the Colorado oil and gas conservation commission to address the mitigation of adverse environmental impacts of oil and gas operations are paid from the environmental response account of the oil and gas conservation and environmental response fund, and the year-end balance of the account transfers into the fund. The bill specifies that the year-end balance of the account remains in the account. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Statutory Revision Committee. The bill repeals the process by which a vacancy in nomination may be filled for an election conducted under the 'Colorado Municipal Code of 1965' and makes conforming amendments.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
The bill authorizes a person to apply to the ground water commission (commission) for approval of an aquifer storage-and-recovery plan and requires the commission to promulgate rules governing the application process and the requirements that an aquifer storage-and-recovery plan must meet to be approved. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
The bill updates the 'Colorado Nursery Act', last amended in 2009, to protect nursery stock by: Updating definitions, including amending the definition of 'nursery stock' and adding a definition of 'noxious weed' ( section 2 of the bill); Removing an exemption from inspections for nurseries that only sell nursery stock grown in Colorado and not exported outside of Colorado ( section 3 ); Authorizing the commissioner of agriculture to promulgate rules to add additional information to the nursery stock labeling requirements ( section 4 ); Prohibiting a person from selling, offering for sale, or distributing noxious weeds or nursery stock that is infested with noxious weeds ( section 5 ); and Raising the $100 cap on the nursery stock business registration fee to a $300 cap ( section 6 ).(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
