Colorado Bills

The bill reduces the premium paid by employers for the state's paid family and medical leave program, starting January 1, 2023, through June 30, 2023, from nine-tenths of 1% of wages per employee to eighty-one hundredths of 1% of wages per employee. The bill requires the state treasurer to transfer $57.5 million from the general fund to the family and medical leave insurance fund. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

To provide funding to improve economic conditions for Native Americans, if the federal government provides funding for the existing statutorily mandated and state-funded Native American tuition waiver program that allows a Native American who is either an enrolled member of an American Indian Tribal Nation or an Alaska Native Village recognized by the federal government or is a child or grandchild of such an enrolled member to attend Fort Lewis college on a tuition-free basis, the bill: Requires the statutorily mandated annual general fund appropriation to Fort Lewis college to pay the full cost of tuition for such students to be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the federal funding; Requires an amount of general fund money equal to the amount of the reduction in the annual general fund appropriation to be appropriated to the commission of Indian affairs (commission); Requires the commission to use the money to contract with a Colorado-based nonprofit organization that has a primary mission of improving economic socioeconomic conditions for Indians for coordination, oversight, and provision of programs and grants that support that mission; andRequires the commission and the nonprofit organization that it contracts with to jointly convene an advisory group to advise the commission and the nonprofit organization in establishing initial guidelines for programs and grants to be coordinated, overseen, or provided by the nonprofit organization and to provide ongoing advice to the commission and the nonprofit organization concerning the provision of such programs and grants; and Requires the nonprofit organization to report to the commission regarding its implementation of the contract at least once per year and to detail in its reports how it has expended the money provided to it by the commission. (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.) (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

The bill requires the real estate commission to promulgate rules requiring that certain commission-approved forms closing-statement form s require notification to buyers or tenants as to whether a real estate transaction is based upon uses a land survey plat or an improvement location certificate. Current law forbids designating or construing an improvement location certificate as being a land survey plat or improvement survey plat. The bill clarifies that a real estate documents and forms shall not designate or construe such a certificate commission-approved closing-statement form is not designated or construed as being a land or improvement survey plat. (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.) (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

The Colorado water conservation board (board) finances water projects throughout the state. Current law requires the board to prioritize projects that will increase the beneficial consumptive use of Colorado's undeveloped compact-entitled waters. The bill includes within this priority a specific priority for projects that increase or improve water storage the beneficial consumptive use of compact-entitled water in the South Platte river. basin as a means of increasing the beneficial consumptive use of undeveloped water entitled under the South Platte river compact and in a manner that reduces reliance on transmountain diversions. (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.) (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)