Statutory Revision Committee. The bill updates various statutes pertaining to the office of the state auditor (OSA). Currently, the legislative audit committee (LAC) has the discretion to direct the state auditor to conduct a performance audit of any public highway authority; except that the LAC may not do so in any year during which the interim transportation legislation review committee (TLRC) meets. However, the TLRC is statutorily required to meet every year. Consequently, section 1 of the bill repeals the timing limitation so that such a performance audit can be requested at any time. The executive director of the department of revenue (DOR) is currently required to account monthly to the state treasurer regarding working capital retained by DOR and to provide copies of this accounting to the governor and the state auditor. Because DOR does not retain working capital, section 2 repeals this obsolete provision. Additionally, the state treasurer must provide copies of receipts for money transmitted daily from the executive director of DOR to the state auditor, in addition to providing one copy to the executive director and retaining one copy for his or her files. Section 2 also removes the requirement to provide the state auditor these copies. Pursuant to a statute created in 1881, holders of warrants from counties with more than $50,000 in floating indebtedness may exchange those warrants for county bonds, if the exchange is approved by election. County bonds so exchanged must be registered with OSA, and a ten-cent fee must be paid to OSA for recording each bond. Because this registration provision is obsolete, section 3 repeals the registration and recording fee requirements. Section 4 repeals an obsolete provision relating to an audit of the estimated actual operating costs of the enhanced emissions inspections program contractor, which audit was required to be completed by the end of 2001. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Joint Budget Committee. If there is an insufficient cash balance in the risk management fund, the self-insured property fund, or the state employee workers' compensation account in the risk management fund (state self-insurance funds) to pay continuously appropriated premiums and claims-related expenses, the bill authorizes the executive director of the department of personnel to request the state treasurer to transfer money from another state self-insurance fund's reserve balance to the fund with the deficiency. The state treasurer is required to make the requested transfer and then, in the next annual general appropriations act, the general assembly is required to appropriate an identical amount to the fund from which the transfer was made. The department is prohibited from using the transferred amounts for the cost of operating the risk management system.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Statutory Revision Committee. The bill fixes an incorrect amending clause from Senate Bill 16-146, 'Concerning modernizing statutes related to sexually transmitted infections', that failed to repeal the entirety of part 14 of article 4 of title 25 prior to the repeal and relocation of sections in that part 14. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
The bill requires the Colorado office of economic development to establish and maintain an international sister-state relationship program. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Current law authorizes a regional transportation authority to seek voter approval for a uniform mill levy of up to 5 mills on all taxable property within its territory, but the authorization is scheduled to repeal on January 1, 2019. The bill extends the authorization until January 1, 2029. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
The bill clarifies that the Colorado dental board may promulgate rules for the use of lasers for dental and dental hygiene purposes within the defined scopes of practice and with appropriate supervision. The bill makes clarifications as to what is considered the practice of unsupervised dental hygiene. The bill also corrects a statutory reference. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Statutory Revision Committee. Pursuant to section 24-1-136 (11)(a)(I), Colorado Revised Statutes, any report that is required to be made to the general assembly by an executive agency or the judicial branch on a periodic basis expires on the day after the third anniversary of the date on which the first report was due unless the general assembly, acting by bill, continues the requirement. Sections 2, 6, 7, 9, and 10 continue indefinitely the reporting requirements contained in those statutory sections. Sections 1, 3, and 4 of the bill repeal reports from the state department and subsidiary officials that were scheduled to repeal according to section 24-1-136 (11)(a)(I). Currently there is no repeal date listed in the organic statute. Sections 5 and 8 add a repeal date in the organic statute that coincides with the scheduled repeal date specified in section 24-1-136 (11)(a)(I). (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Supplemental appropriations are made to the department of education. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Supplemental appropriations are made to the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, and state planning and budgeting. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Committee on Legal Services. This bill enacts the softbound volumes of Colorado Revised Statutes 2016 and the 2016 Special Supplement as the positive and statutory law of the state of Colorado and establishes the effective date of said publications. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Supplemental appropriations are made to the department of corrections. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Supplemental appropriations are made to the department of health care policy and financing. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
