The 2025 general appropriations 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, and the cash funds and reappropriated funds portions are decreased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The 2025 general appropriations act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of healthcare policy and financing. The federal funds portion of the appropriation is increased. A new appropriation to the department for overexpenditures of line item appropriations in the 2024 long bill is made. Amends Senate Bill 25-290, concerning the creation of the provider stabilization fund to make provider stabilization payments to eligible safety net providers that serve low-income, uninsured populations in the state, to increase the amount appropriated to the department from the provider stabilization fund for provider stabilization payments related to other medical services.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act prohibits the department of health care policy and financing (department) from making a wage enhancement supplemental payment to an eligible nursing home provider regardless of when the services were provided. The act reduces the 2025-26 state fiscal year appropriation to the department for medical and long-term care services for medicaid eligible individuals by $4,359,961.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The bill creates the Colorado school district superintendents council (council) in the department of education (department) to coordinate with school districts regarding proposed guidance policies developed by the department and to cooperate with and secure the assistance of school districts in formulating, coordinating, and recommending guidance policies to the department. The department is required to send the council proposed guidance policies, and the council shall review, discuss, and vote on the proposed guidance policies within 45 days after receiving the policies. The proposed guidance policies must not go into effect until the council has taken formal action by a majority vote on the policies. The department is required to consider and incorporate the council's recommendations involving department guidance policies that impact local control.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Beginning January 1, 2028, the bill requires a person that owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a building, structure, facility, or installation that emits or may emit an air pollutant (owner or operator) to make all emissions records that the owner or operator is required by state or federal law to maintain (records) publicly available and accessible on the owner or operator's public website. Except in certain circumstances, the owner or operator is required to update the records following the same schedule as the records are made available to the state or the United States. These requirements apply only to records that are generated on or after December 1, 2027.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill creates the Colorado-Ireland trade commission (commission) in the Colorado legislature. The commission is comprised of 11 members. Members of the commission serve without compensation and do not receive reimbursement for expenses incurred in furtherance of the commission's responsibilities. The commission is required to:Meet twice per year, with a quorum of at least 6 members;Annually submit a report to the members of the general assembly and the governor with the number of times the commission met in the preceding 12 months, the minutes of commission meetings, and any recommendations or requests that may assist the commission's work; andWork to advance bilateral economic interests and investments between Colorado and Ireland.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws. The bill enacts the "Uniform Assignment for Benefit of Creditors Act". An assignment is a transfer by a person (assignor) of all of the person's assets to another person (assignee) for the benefit of the assignor's creditors (assignment). The bill prohibits certain persons from serving as an assignee, including creditors, affiliates, or insiders of the assignor, and creates requirements for an assignment agreement. The bill establishes specific duties for the parties to an assignment, including:The assignor must preserve and turn over assets, provide information necessary to administer the assignment estate, and verify a list of all known creditors and assets under penalty of perjury;The assignee has a fiduciary duty to the assignment estate and must manage the assignment estate in good faith to maximize distributions and wind up the assignment in a timely manner; andThe assignee shall notify known creditors of the assignment, maintain a separate deposit account for money, collect on or dispose of assets, and provide financial summaries to creditors at least every 6 months. The assignee is authorized to perform specific acts in furtherance of the assignee's duties, including operating the assignor's business, incurring debt, settling claims, and avoiding certain transfers that a creditor could have avoided under other law. The assignee may allow or dispute a creditor's claim against the assignment estate as specified in the bill. The priority of distributions from the assignment estate is specified in the bill. The assignor and assignee are not personally liable for each other's acts. However, an assignee is personally liable for a breach of fiduciary duty. A court may remove an assignee for cause or if removal best serves the interests of the creditors. The assignee is discharged from the assignee's duties upon sending a final accounting and distributing all assets.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
On and after January 1, 2029, the bill prohibits a person from selling, offering for sale, or otherwise distributing in the state field crop seeds coated or treated with systemic insecticide (coated or treated seeds), which is an insecticide designed to be absorbed by plants, unless the buyer presents at the point of sale a certificate authorizing the purchase of such seeds from a seed dealer and the use of such seeds on agricultural property.A person may apply to the commissioner of agriculture (commissioner) for approval to serve as a third-party verifier (approved third-party verifier) to determine whether a specified use of coated or treated seeds is necessary and appropriate. On and after January 1, 2029, a person that seeks to apply such coated or treated seeds on agricultural property must work with an approved third-party verifier to determine if such use is necessary and appropriate.The approved third-party verifier shall conduct a pest risk assessment and prepare a report on the assessment. If the approved third-party verifier determines that the use of coated or treated seeds is necessary and appropriate on the agricultural property, they may issue a certificate authorizing the use of coated or treated seeds on the agricultural property for a period up to one year.The commissioner shall adopt rules to implement a program ensuring that coated or treated seeds are used on agricultural property only when needed and expected to be effective and may enforce against an approved third-party verifier's or seed dealer's noncompliance with the requirements of the bill, including by suspending or revoking approval of the third-party verifier or the seed dealer's license or by assessing a fine in an amount not to exceed $50,000 per violation. Approved third-party verifiers and seed dealers must annually report to the commissioner, and the commissioner must include a summary of the reports and the implementation of the bill in the commissioner's annual "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act" presentation to the general assembly.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill requires the board of governors of the Colorado state university system to comply with a noise or sign ordinance imposed by a local government with jurisdiction over university land.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Under current law, a unit owner in a homeowners' association (HOA) may notify the HOA that the unit owner prefers to receive correspondence and notices from the HOA in a language other than English. The HOA is then required to send the unit owner correspondence and notices in both English and the preferred language.The bill:Authorizes the HOA to require that the unit owner first demonstrate the need for correspondence and notices in the preferred language before sending correspondence and notices to the unit owner in the preferred language; and Removes the requirement that the HOA send correspondence and notices to the unit owner in both English and the unit owner's preferred language, instead requiring that the HOA send the correspondence and notices only in the unit owner's preferred language.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill requires a pregnant person's health-care provider to offer a pregnant person the option to fill out a "Do Not Abort" form that expresses the person's wishes to not receive an abortion in the event the person is incapacitated or incapable of communicating. If the pregnant person fills out a "Do Not Abort" form, the health-care provider shall input the form into the pregnant person's medical record.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill creates the "Unmanned Aircraft Systems Rights and Authorities Act". The bill does the following:Authorizes an individual to operate an unmanned aircraft system (drone system) for recreational purposes in this state;Authorizes a person to operate a drone system for commercial purposes within this state if the business is lawful and the operation is in compliance with state and federal law;Prohibits the state or a political subdivision of the state (local government) from requiring the registration of an unmanned aircraft or a drone system beyond what may be required by state and federal law;Clarifies that the operation of a drone system in compliance with federal law does not, standing alone, give rise to legal liability;Establishes and limits the regulatory authority of the state; andEstablishes and limits the regulatory authority of a local government.In connection with establishing and limiting the regulatory authority of the state, the bill authorizes the state to regulate the use of drone systems owned by or used by the state or launching from or landing on state property. Exceptions to the state's regulatory authority are made for emergencies, maintenance, technical malfunctions, and law enforcement.In connection with establishing and limiting the regulatory authority of local governments, the bill prohibits a local government from regulating ownership, operation, design, manufacture, testing, maintenance, licensing, registration, certification, or equipment requirements or qualifications, training, or certification of a pilot, operator, or observer. A local government may regulate the use of drone systems owned by or used by the local government or launching from or landing on local government property. A local government's resolution or ordinance that is general in nature, such as a nuisance regulation, applies to a drone system.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
