Rep. Edie Hooton

Safe haven program - information - comprehensive health education in schools. If a school district, charter school, institute charter school, or board of cooperative services (school) chooses to provide a local comprehensive health education program pursuant to article 25 of title 22, Colorado Revised Statutes, the school's curriculum must include information relating to state laws that provide for the safe abandonment of newborn children to specific persons, including firefighters and clinic or hospital staff, within 72 hours of birth.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Implementation of emergency medical and trauma care systems implementation - state board of health - identification of criteria for county regional systems - repeal. The act repeals language: Requiring the department of public health and environment to implement a statewide emergency medical and trauma care system by July 1, 1997; and Requiring the state board of health to cooperate with the department of personnel in adopting certain criteria that counties must identify in their own regional systems.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Colorado Cancer Drug Repository Act - repeal. The act repeals the "Colorado Cancer Drug Repository Act".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

When taxpayers must pay taxes via electronic funds transfer - consistent approach - timing of deadlines - department of revenue. The act authorizes the executive director of the department of revenue (director) to require the remittance of severance taxes electronically and allows the department to promulgate rules governing such electronic payment. The act authorizes the director to require a taxpayer to remit sales taxes by electronic funds transfers at an earlier hour on the deadline day for making a return and paying the taxes due than taxpayers who remit sales taxes by other means. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Pharmacies - authority of hospice or convalescent center to operate as a pharmacy. The act allows a licensed hospice or convalescent center to procure, store, order, dispense, and administer prescription medications. Specified provisions of the act are contingent upon House Bill 19-1172 becoming law. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Section 1 of the bill expands the definition of "eligible elector", as used in reference of persons voting in special district elections, to include a natural person who owns, or whose spouse or civil union partner owns, taxable real or personal property situated within the boundaries of the special district or the area to be included in the special district and who has satisfied all other requirements in the bill for registering to vote in an election of a special district but who is not a resident of the state. Section 2 prohibits a person from voting in a special district election unless that person is an eligible elector as defined by the bill. The section also requires any natural person desiring to vote at any election as an eligible elector to sign a self-affirmation that the person is an elector of the special district. The bill specifies the form the affirmation must take. Section 3 specifies procedures by which the eligible elector who is an eligible elector in another state becomes registered to be able to vote in the special district election. This section also contains an affirmation to be executed by the voter upon completing his or her application for registration. The oath or affirmation must be notarized by the elector. Section 3 also permits any special district organized under the laws of the state, upon passage of a resolution by the board of the district (board), to allow an elector whose eligibility has been established through the procedures specified in the bill to vote for candidates for the board of directors of the special district. The bill makes clear that no person who is designated as an eligible elector is permitted to cast a ballot at any special district election without first having been registered within the time and in the manner required by the bill. The bill only applies to a special district whose: Board, by resolution, permits an eligible elector who is not a resident of the state to vote in elections of the special district; and Regular special district election is not conducted as part of a general, primary, or coordinated election. A county clerk and recorder is not required to either contract with a special district that permits the registration of noneligible resident electors in connection with the provision of any services or to administer any regular special district election conducted by the special district. A person who is designated as an eligible elector in accordance with the bill is only permitted to vote in an election of the special district with which the person has registered and for a candidate for the board of directors of the special district who is listed on the ballot of the special district with which the elector is registered. A person who is designated as an eligible elector in accordance with the bill is only permitted to vote for candidates for the board and is not authorized to vote for any other candidates or ballot issues or ballot questions that may appear on the regular ballot of the special district. The bill describes procedures by which an eligible elector who is a resident of another state registers to vote with the special district. The form used to register an eligible elector under the bill must contain a question asking the elector to confirm that he or she desires to receive a ballot from the special district. Unless the elector has executed the form to indicate that he or she desires to receive a ballot from the special district, the designated election official is not required to send a ballot to the elector. The special district is solely responsible for maintaining the list of nonresident owners of property within the special district who are eligible to vote in an election of the special district. Section 4 contains procedures for verifying the signature of a ballot returned by a nonresident eligible elector with the signature of the elector on the notarized registration form required by the bill. Section 5 authorizes each special district board to select, in an exercise of its own discretion and by majority vote of the board's voting members, one or more additional board members, each of whom shall serve as a nonvoting member of the board. A member of the board appointed for this purpose must be a person who is a nonresident of the state but is otherwise eligible to cast a ballot in elections of the special district in accordance with the bill. A board with 3 members may appoint no more than one nonvoting member of the board. A board with 5 members may appoint no more than 2 nonvoting members of the board. The term of such board members is 4 years subject to renewal of one or more additional 4-year terms in the discretion of a majority of the voting members of the board. Any board member appointed for this purpose may be removed for cause at any time by a majority of the voting members of the board.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) 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

Manufactured homes - sales tax exemption clarification. As it existed before the enactment of the act, the state sales and use tax exemption statute (exemption statute) exempted from state sales tax, and through operation of another statute also exempted from local sales taxes, 48% of the purchase price for the initial sale of "factory-built housing" and 100% of the purchase price for any subsequent sale of a "manufactured home" (sales tax exemption). The exemption statute referenced another statute defining "factory-built housing", but in Senate Bill 03-182, concerning the consolidation of programs implemented by the department of local affairs that pertain to the regulation of construction, the general assembly replaced the existing definition of "factory-built housing" with a new definition of "factory-built residential structure", and the statute referenced in the exemption statute actually defines the latter term. This definition of "factory-built residential structure" includes only "structures designed to be installed on a permanent foundation" and therefore arguably limited the sales tax exemption, which had previously clearly applied to structures designed for occupancy in either temporary or permanent locations, to only those structures designed to be installed on permanent foundations. The act clarifies the scope of the sales tax exemption by amending the exemption statute to exempt "manufactured homes" instead of "factory-built housing", which clarifies that the sales tax exemption applies to homes designed to be installed on either temporary or permanent foundations. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Public health - radiation advisory committee - reimbursement for expenses. The act clarifies that members of the radiation advisory committee are reimbursed for necessary and actual expenses incurred in attendance at meetings or for authorized business of the committee.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Current law provides that a record may not be denied effect merely because it is electronic. The bill clarifies that this applies to documents needed to obtain a certificate of title and electronic signatures. The bill also clarifies that a written power of attorney is not needed merely because a record, document, or signature is in an electronic form. The department need not implement an electronic system as a result of these changes. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More