Effective June 30, 2019, the bill repeals the mill levy equalization fund through which the general assembly appropriated money to the state charter school institute for distribution to institute charter schools. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
Current law normally requires motor vehicles registered in Colorado to transmit at least 70% of light through the windshield and 27% of light through other windows. The bill requires motor vehicles registered outside Colorado but operated in Colorado to transmit at least 20% of light through windows other than the windshield. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
Current law requires the sheriff of each county to obtain peace officer certification within one year of taking office. The bill modifies this provision to require the sheriff to have a valid certification or provisional certification from the Colorado peace officer standards and training board in order to be nominated, elected, or appointed to the office of sheriff.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
To protect clean water supplies and public health and safety as a matter of statewide concern, the bill prohibits a person from camping within 100 feet of an urban environmentally sensitive area unless a state or local governmental agency has approved the area for camping. A county or district public health agency that has one or more environmentally sensitive areas within the agency's jurisdiction shall conduct and periodically update an environmental impact study of all environmentally sensitive areas within the agency's jurisdiction to evaluate the public health risks associated with unauthorized camping in the environmentally sensitive areas. Upon conclusion of the study or update, each agency shall adopt or update and implement an environmental mitigation plan to avoid, minimize, and remediate the risks. An agency may apply to the applicable local government to use Great Outdoors Colorado money to conduct and update an environmental impact study or to implement a mitigation plan.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
The bill states that food is misbranded as "meat" or a cut of meat if it does not come from animals and that lab-grown meat is misbranded as "meat" or a cut of meat unless these terms are not modified by "lab-grown" or "artificially cultured".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
Current law allows specified intervening professionals to transport to a treatment facility any person who appears to be in need of an immediate evaluation for treatment of a mental health disorder to prevent physical or psychiatric harm to others or to himself or herself. The authority to involuntarily hold such a person in custody expires upon the delivery of the person to the facility. The bill adds language to clarify that the authority to hold the person remains in effect until the evaluation is completed and a determination is made concerning the need for continued emergency evaluation and treatment.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
Prior to adopting rules under the "State Administrative Procedure Act" (APA), a state agency (agency) is required to prepare a regulatory flexibility analysis in which the agency considers using regulatory methods that will accomplish the objectives of applicable statutes while minimizing the adverse impact on small businesses. For purposes of the regulatory flexibility analysis, the bill defines "small business" as a business that is independently owned and operated and employs 100 or fewer employees. When preparing the regulatory flexibility analysis, an agency is required to consider methods to reduce the impact on small businesses, including the following: Establishing less stringent compliance or reporting requirements; Establishing less stringent schedules or deadlines for compliance or reporting requirements; Consolidating or simplifying compliance or reporting requirements; Establishing different performance standards; and Exempting small businesses from compliance requirements. The agency is also required to: Determine the necessity for the proposed rules; Identify the fiscal impact of the rules; Identify and analyze the least costly alternatives to the rules and adopt the least costly alternatives unless the agency provides written justification for adopting a more costly regulatory approach; and Analyze whether small businesses should be exempted from the rules or whether less burdensome rules should be applied to small businesses and adopt exemptions or less burdensome rules, unless the agency provides written justification for a more burdensome regulatory approach. The agency is required to file the regulatory flexibility analysis with the secretary of state for publication in the Colorado register at the same time that it files its notice of proposed rule-making and the draft of proposed rules. The existing provision in the APA on forming a representative group to give input on proposed rules is amended to require an agency proposing rules that are likely to have an impact on small businesses to expand outreach to and actively solicit representatives of small businesses to participate in the representative group and in the rule-making hearing for the rules. The agency must make good faith efforts to expand outreach and notification to small businesses that lack a trade association or lobbyist to represent the types of small businesses impacted by the proposed rules. The executive director of the department of regulatory agencies (executive director), or the executive director's designee, shall develop a one-stop location on the department's website that provides a place for small businesses and the public to access the regulatory flexibility analyses that agencies prepare. A small business that is adversely affected or aggrieved by the failure of an agency to comply with the regulatory flexibility analysis requirements may: File a request with the executive director to require the agency to prepare a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed rules and to direct the agency to adjust the rule-making schedule to allow for the preparation of the cost-benefit analysis; or Request a hearing on the matter before an administrative law judge.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
Supplemental appropriation - judicial department. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the judicial department. 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 appropriation - department of personnel. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of personnel. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased and the reappropriated funds portion is decreased, resulting on an overall decrease to the department.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Supplemental appropriations - capital construction. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of corrections. The general fund portion of the appropriation is increased. The 2017 general appropriation act is amended to clarify a line item capital construction appropriation to the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, and state planning and budgeting. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
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Supplemental appropriations - department of law. The 2018 general appropriation act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of law. The general fund and cash funds portions of the appropriation are decreased and the reappropriated funds portion is increased, resulting in an overall increase to the department.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
