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
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For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2020, the bill allows an individual taxpayer or a corporation to claim a state income tax deduction on gains, to the extent included in federal taxable income, from the sale or exchange of virtual currency for other than cash or cash equivalents, up to $600 per sale or exchange. All sales or exchanges that are part of the same transaction or a series of related transactions are required to be treated as one sale or exchange. The executive director of the department of revenue is required to promulgate rules regarding the receipt of documentation related to virtual currency transactions for which gain or loss is recognized. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
The bill requires a county sheriff's office to investigate an alleged violation of the unlawful ownership of a dangerous dog crime or enforce the provisions of that statute. If a victim of that crime believes the county sheriff's office is not investigating the crime or enforcing the statute, the victim can file an affidavit with a judge having jurisdiction over the alleged crime. The judge then must require the county sheriff to appear to explain the refusal. If the judge finds that the county sheriff's refusal was arbitrary or capricious and without reasonable excuse, the judge shall order: The county sheriff's office to investigate the alleged offense or enforce the law; or The district attorney's office with jurisdiction over the crime to investigate the alleged offense or enforce the law. If a county sheriff's office refuses to comply with an order to investigate or enforce the law, the court shall order the county sheriff to reimburse the county for all general fund appropriations received in the last fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
The bill creates the "Colorado Right to Rest Act", which establishes basic rights for people experiencing homelessness, including but not limited to the right to rest in public spaces, to shelter themselves from the elements, to eat or accept food in any public space where food is not prohibited, to occupy a legally parked vehicle, and to have a reasonable expectation of privacy of their property. The bill prohibits discrimination based on housing status. The bill creates an exemption of the basic right to rest for people experiencing homelessness for any county, city, municipality, or subdivision that can demonstrate that, for 3 consecutive months, the waiting lists for all local public housing authorities contain fewer than 50 people. The bill allows the general assembly to appropriate money from the marijuana tax cash fund to the department of local affairs for the purpose of enabling governmental entities that do not meet the exemption requirement to reduce the housing waiting lists to fewer than 50 people for at least 6 months per year. The bill allows any person whose rights have been violated to seek enforcement in a civil action. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
The bill prohibits the department of transportation (CDOT) or any enterprise of CDOT from constructing or designating a managed lane on a state highway unless: CDOT or the enterprise, taking safety, productivity, and public cost considerations into account, considering multiple highway configuration options and both managed lane options that include tolling and managed lane options that do not include tolling, and balancing any safety impacts against the productivity and other benefits of capacity expansion and congestion relief, has thoroughly evaluated specified alternative means of increasing the capacity of and reducing traffic congestion on the state highway; CDOT or the enterprise has published detailed written, data-based findings that clearly establish that when compared to the addition of one or more managed lanes all of the alternatives evaluated are unfeasible or too unsafe to be implemented or would not provide adequate capacity expansion and congestion relief; and CDOT has complied with new requirements of the bill that it prepare and make readily available to the public on its website a written report of the results of its public outreach efforts relating to the managed lane and annually summarize the report for the transportation and local government committee of the house of representatives and the transportation and energy committee of the senate. "Managed lane" is defined to include a toll lane, a high occupancy toll lane, or a high occupancy vehicle lane. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
Beginning with the third quarter of the 2020-21 state fiscal year, the concurrent resolution allows the transfer of available net proceeds minus any money required to pay bonds issued by law by the Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) trust fund board of every state-supervised lottery game operated under the authority of section 2 of article XVIII of the state constitution to the state education fund.(Note: This summary applies to this concurrent resolution as introduced.) Read More
The bill prohibits a restaurant, food vendor, or other food service establishment from providing a single-use plastic beverage straw to a customer unless the customer requests a straw. The bill does not apply to the following: The use of a self-serve straw dispenser; A customer's order of food from a food service establishment through a drive-through window, for off-premises delivery through a third-party delivery service, or for delivery through the use of a digital or mobile application or website; or Prepackaged food that was filled, sealed, or packaged before the food service establishment received the prepackaged food at its retail premises. A local government shall not regulate the use of single-use plastic beverage straws. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
The bill requires the joint budget committee, for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2020, and for each fiscal year thereafter, to annually review 2 of the principal departments of state government using a zero-based budgeting method so that each principal department is reviewed once every 10 years. The joint budget committee must make appropriation recommendations based on such review. The bill requires the office of state planning and budgeting and each principal department subject to review to assist the joint budget committee with any additional information that the committee may need to complete the reviews.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
The bill establishes election day as a state legal holiday in place of Columbus day. "Election day" is defined to fall on the day of a general election in even-numbered years and the day on which ballot issues must be decided under the state constitution in odd-numbered years. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
