The 2025 general appropriations act is amended to balance and make adjustments to the total amount appropriated to the department of state. The cash funds portion of the appropriation is increased.(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 revenue. The general fund portion of the appropriation is decreased and the cash funds and reappropriated funds portions are increased.(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 military and veterans affairs. The general fund and cash funds portions of the appropriation are increased and the federal funds portion is 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 education. The general fund portion of the appropriation is decreased, and the cash funds, reappropriated funds, and federal funds portions are increased. Amends House Bill 25-1278, concerning modifications to the statewide education accountability system, to further appropriate the amount appropriated to the department to implement the act to the 2026-27 fiscal year. Amends Senate Bill 25-214, concerning reimbursements for eligible meals provided through the healthy school meals for all program, to transfer the appropriation for the healthy school meals for all program from the cash funds to a fund created in the healthy school meals for all program statute. The amount for school meal reimbursements is increased.(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 public safety. The general fund, cash funds, and reappropriated funds portions of the appropriation are increased and the federal funds portions is decreased.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Maddy summaryThis House Resolution honors Bob Holder, a wildlife manager from Colorado who has dedicated 50 years to protecting wildlife resources in southern Colorado. The measure formally recognizes his contributions to conservation efforts, including his work with black bear education, wildlife enforcement, and habitat preservation through land acquisitions and conservation easements. The resolution expresses gratitude for his service and directs that a copy be sent to Holder as a token of appreciation upon his retirement.
Maddy summarySJR 11 is a commemorative resolution designating a specific segment of U.S. Highway 34 (between Wilson Ave. and North County Rd. 23H) as the "Sgt. John 'Jack' Thurman Memorial Highway" in honor of a World War II Marine Corps veteran. The bill, which has no policy or funding provisions, simply names the highway section to recognize Sergeant Thurman's service at Iwo Jima, his military awards, and his post-war contributions as an architect and community leader in Colorado. It authorizes the Colorado Department of Transportation to accept donations for signage and explore maintenance agreements with local governments. This is a ceremonial designation with no direct impact on residents or new laws.
The act establishes a first and preferred opportunity for available employment for coal transition workers in coal transition communities (hiring preference). A business entity located in a coal transition community that is engaged in the business of constructing or operating railroads, utilities, energy generation facilities, or advanced manufacturing facilities (covered business) is required to comply with the hiring preference. A covered business does not include the state government or a local government. A covered business is required to make good faith efforts to provide a hiring preference to a coal transition worker who meets the qualifications for an employment position (qualified coal transition worker). A covered business may hire an individual who is not a qualified coal transition worker only if a qualified coal transition worker did not apply for employment with the covered business, each qualified coal transition worker declined a job offer from a covered business, or a qualified coal transition worker's qualifications did not meet the qualifications of other candidates for the same job. If a qualified coal transition worker applies for employment with a covered business, the covered business is required to report specified information annually to the just transition office. The executive director is required to adopt policies and procedures to implement the act. A hiring preference does not apply if a covered business places an existing employee in another employment position with the covered business or to the extent that a hiring preference conflicts with the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that applies to the relationship between a covered business and its employees. Currently, a public entity is not allowed to invest public funds in certain types of investments, such as equity instruments, instruments convertible to equity, or equity interests, or to deposit public funds with any person except certain depository institutions, which are primarily banks. The act authorizes a public entity to deposit or invest, either directly or through an investment firm or other third party authorized by the public entity, public funds from a payment or settlement that the public entity has received to offset the socioeconomic impacts to a community or government from the closure of a coal mine or coal power generating station in any investment permitted by an investment policy approved by the public entity.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Section 1 of the bill amends and relocates the current requirements for notification to the attorney general regarding certain mergers, acquisitions, or transfers of securities or assets. Current law prohibits the attorney general from charging a party to a merger a fee connected with filing of the merger or a fee for providing additional information regarding the merger. The bill allows the attorney general to charge each filing party a reasonable fee, not to exceed $5,000. Section 1 also requires that the parties to a merger, acquisition, or contracting affiliation of one or more health-care entities (material change transaction) comply with specified notice requirements at least 60 days before the closing of the material change transaction. If the material change transaction requires the filing of a premerger notification with the federal trade commission or the United States department of justice pursuant to the federal "Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976", the parties shall also submit notice to the attorney general. If the terms of the material change transaction are altered following the submission of the written notice to the attorney general, the parties must provide notice to the attorney general of the alteration.The attorney general may deem information and materials provided in compliance with the notice requirements as public records subject to disclosure under the "Colorado Open Records Act". Section 1 also prohibits a material change transaction if the material change transaction may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly or may harm consumer welfare. A party to a material change transaction shall not close the material change transaction until specified conditions are met. Sections 3 through 9 amend the current requirements for transactions that involve licensed hospitals and are subject to notice requirements to the attorney general (covered transactions) by:Including in the definition of a "covered transaction" a transaction that would result in the sale, transfer, lease, exchange, or other disposition of the management, control, or operations of a hospital;Requiring parties to a covered transaction to include, in the notice to the attorney general of the transaction, a statement describing the charitable missions of each nonprofit entity entering into the covered transaction and the services provided by each nonprofit entity in furtherance of the nonprofit entity's charitable purposes and charitable missions;Specifying that if a covered transaction will not result in a material change in the charitable purposes, charitable missions, or services provided in furtherance of the charitable purposes or missions of a nonprofit entity entering into the covered transaction, and will not result in a termination of the attorney general's jurisdiction over the charitable assets due to a transfer of a material amount of those assets outside of the state of Colorado, the parties may proceed with the covered transaction without additional review by the attorney general. The attorney general may perform specified actions to review, and use specified criteria to determine, whether the covered transaction will result in a material change.Authorizing the attorney general to exercise their common law authority to assess and review or challenge a covered transaction that will result in a material change in the charitable purposes, charitable missions, or services provided in furtherance of the charitable purposes or missions of a nonprofit entity entering into the covered transaction or will result in a termination of the attorney general's jurisdiction over the charitable assets due to a transfer of a material amount of those assets outside of the state of Colorado;Adding specified information to the notice requirements for covered transactions in which the parties involved in the transaction are all for-profit entities; andCreating notice requirements for and attorney general review of covered transactions involving a for-profit hospital and a nonprofit entity. Section 10 requires that, if certain health-care providers refer a patient to an entity for health-care services and the provider, or an immediate family member of the provider, has a financial relationship with the entity, the provider shall disclose the nature of the financial relationship to the patient at the time of the referral. The attorney general is required to study the effect of these provisions and the impact the provisions have on consumer knowledge and costs and submit a report on the findings of the study. Sections 11 through 30 make conforming amendments.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Maddy summarySJR 4 designates September 20-26, 2026, as "Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) Awareness Week" in Colorado. This symbolic resolution recognizes FTD - a terminal, incurable neurodegenerative disease affecting speech, behavior, and motor skills - and aims to increase public awareness of the condition. It directly supports Coloradans living with FTD, their families, and advocacy groups like the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, which focuses on research and care. The bill has no funding or regulatory provisions, as it is purely a recognition measure.
