Colorado Bills

signed · Colorado · Senate May 24, 2025

SB 25-302: Achieving a Better Life Experience Tax Deduction

The act extends the achieving a better life experience state income tax deduction (ABLE deduction) until December 31, 2030. The act specifies that the purposes of the ABLE deduction are to provide support to individuals with disabilities and their families and to provide an incentive for individuals with disabilities and their families to set aside money in an account to cover future disability-related expenses. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✓ Budget & Taxes

Cathy Kipp (D) Cleave Simpson (R) Lorena García (D) Yara Zokaie (D) · 18 co-sponsors

signed · Colorado · House May 24, 2025

HB 25-1152: Tech Accessibility Liability Contractor

Under current law, certain provisions are required in a public school contract (contract), and if the provisions are omitted from a contract, the law deems that the provisions are automatically included in the contract. The act clarifies that the list includes that a contractor is required to comply with accessibility standards adopted by the office of information technology for an individual with a disability. The act adds a provision to the list to require a contractor to indemnify, hold harmless, and assume liability on behalf of a public school contracting entity, the public school, and the public school's employees and agents, for all remedies for noncompliance with standards that ensure technology accessibility to persons with disabilities. The act requires that a contract or agreement entered into between a state agency or public entity and a contractor must require a contractor to comply with accessibility standards adopted by the office of information technology for an individual with a disability. Additionally, the contractor must indemnify, hold harmless, and assume liability on behalf of a state agency or public entity's officers, employees, and agents for all remedies for noncompliance with standards that ensure technology accessibility to persons with disabilities. If the provisions are omitted from a contract, the law deems that the provisions are automatically included in the contract. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✓ Education ✓ Technology

signed · Colorado · House May 24, 2025

HB 25-1167: Alternative Education Campuses

For alternative education campuses (AECs), the act: Directs the department of education (department), when administering state education grants, to allocate priority points to AECs; Authorizes AECs to include certain high-risk students in the AEC's pupil count who are 21 years of age or younger during the budget year; Requires the department to prepare and post an annual report on enrollment trends, student demographics, and student mobility in AECs; and Exempts an AEC from losing its designation due to a fluctuation in enrollment for one school year. The act appropriates $9,613 from the general fund to the department for accountability and improvement planning. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✓ Education

signed · Colorado · House May 24, 2025

HB 25-1248: Protect Students from Restraint & Seclusion Act

Under current law, the "Protection of Individuals from Restraint and Seclusion Act" contains parameters concerning exceptions for the use of restraint and seclusion for various agencies, including for public schools. The act removes public schools from the "Protection of Individuals from Restraint and Seclusion Act" and creates the "Protection of Students from Restraint and Seclusion Act" that is specific to local education providers. The act: Prohibits any form of restraint, as defined in the act, (restraint) and seclusion, except as provided; Establishes guidelines for acceptable use of restraint and seclusion; Requires a local education provider that uses restraint or seclusion to train its employees and agents; Requires a local education provider to document instances of restraint or seclusion and notify the student's family of certain instances of restraint or seclusion; No later than July 1, 2025, requires each local education provider to establish an annual review process for their use of restraint and seclusion; and Annually, beginning June 30, 2026, requires each local education provider to submit a report to the department of education summarizing their use of restraint and seclusion. The state board of education shall adopt rules for the implementation of the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✓ Education

signed · Colorado · House May 24, 2025

HB 25-1244: Welcome, Reception, & Integration Grant Program

The statewide welcome, reception, and integration grant program provides grants to community-based organizations that provide culturally and linguistically appropriate navigation of services to migrants who have arrived in the United States within the past year and do not qualify for federal support services or refugee resettlement assistance benefits. The act removes the requirement that a migrant must have arrived in the United States within the past year and instead requires community-based organizations to prioritize assisting migrants who have arrived in the United States within the past 3 years. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✓ Immigration

signed · Colorado · Senate May 24, 2025

SB 25-195: Sunset Rural Alcohol & Substance Abuse Treatment

The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies in its 2024 sunset review and report on the rural alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment program by continuing the program until September 1, 2030. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✓ Healthcare

signed · Colorado · Senate May 24, 2025

SB 25-184: Sunset HOA Information & Resource Center

The act implements the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies (department) in its sunset review and report on the HOA information and resource center (center). The center was scheduled to repeal on September 1, 2025. The act: Continues the center until September 1, 2030; Clarifies that the director of the division of real estate in the department is the appointing authority for the HOA information officer who is the head of the center; and Makes a technical change to refer to the HOA information officer by title, rather than by "he or she", to reflect gender-neutral language in statute.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

signed · Colorado · Senate May 24, 2025

SB 25-277: Sunset Title Insurance Commission

The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies in the department's 2024 sunset report that the title insurance commission be repealed. The act also requires the commissioner of insurance to hold twice each year a meeting of representatives of the title insurance industry, who are referred to as the "title insurance advisory group" (advisory group). The commissioner or the commissioner's designee must attend each of the 2 meetings, and the commissioner must respond in writing to formal, written proposals or recommendations presented to the commissioner by the advisory group at a meeting. The advisory group is repealed, effective September 1, 2029, subject to a sunset review. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

signed · Colorado · House May 24, 2025

HB 25-1230: Changes Violation Driver Overtaking School Bus

The act permits the state, a county, a city and county, a school district, or a municipality to, with approval from a school district's board of education, install and utilize automated vehicle identification systems (system) on the school district's school buses to detect a driver of a vehicle that overtakes a stopped school bus with actuated visual signal lights in violation of current law. A school district that installs and utilizes a system for this purpose must enter into a memorandum of understanding with one or more law enforcement agencies. If a system detects a violation, the state, a county, a city and county, or a municipality may impose a civil penalty of up to $300. The act creates a rebuttable presumption that when an image produced by a system includes an electronic indicator signifying that a school bus's visual signal lights are actuated, the visual signal lights are presumed to be actuated and operational and the school bus is presumed to be stopped to receive or discharge school children. The act mandates that the fines collected through the use of the system must not be used as the basis for the compensation to the system manufacturer or vendor and that the compensation must not be based exclusively upon the number of citations issued or revenue generated by the system.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Topics ✓ Transportation

signed · Colorado · House May 24, 2025

HB 25-1325: Update References to Eligible Person

In 2023, Senate Bill 23-261 created a new definition of "direct care consumer" and defined the term as "an eligible person, as defined in section 25.5-6-1101 (4)". That same year, Senate Bill 23-289 amended the definition of "eligible person" in section 25.5-6-1101 (4), leaving an incorrect reference to "eligible person" in Senate Bill 23-261. The act makes technical changes to correct the incorrect reference. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

signed · Colorado · House May 24, 2025

HB 25-1316: Changes to Definitions Monitoring of Prescription Drugs

The act repeals a definition of drug abuse from, and adds a definition of substance use disorder to, the state laws regulating electronic monitoring of prescription drugs. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

signed · Colorado · House May 24, 2025

HB 25-1308: Office of Information Technology & Extend Annual Report Deadline

The act extends the deadline for the office of information technology's first annual report on the statewide longitudinal data system from April 15, 2026, to September 15, 2026. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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