Rep. Kyle Brown

Maddy summaryThis bill (SJR 25-002) is a procedural resolution establishing salary grades and pay ranges for specific legislative staff positions within the General Assembly. It directly affects Senate and House staff members by assigning standardized pay grades (e.g., 160SES, H1B5) to roles like Secretaries, Clerks, Policy Analysts, and Sergeants-at-Arms, with the Chaplain compensated at $25 per visit. The key mechanism is defining these compensation structures through detailed position classifications. This resolution does not create new policy but formalizes existing staffing and pay frameworks for legislative operations.

Maddy summaryThis procedural joint resolution (HJR 25-1002) schedules a ceremonial session for January 10, 2025, where Colorado's House and Senate will hear a message from Chief Justice Monica M. Marquez of the Colorado Supreme Court. It directs the appointment of a six-member committee (three from each chamber) to escort the Chief Justice to the session. The bill has no substantive policy impact - it solely establishes a formal procedure for this annual judicial communication event. It directly affects the legislative leadership and the Chief Justice's office by outlining the process for this specific ceremonial meeting.

Maddy summaryThis bill (HR 25-1002) is a procedural measure concerning House officers and employees. The provided context includes no bill text, summary, or specific provisions describing its content or effects. Without the actual text or a substantive description of the bill's requirements, mechanisms, or who it directly affects, a factual summary cannot be generated. The recent actions (introduced, passed, signed) only confirm procedural steps, not the bill's policy content.

The act prohibits the state, when communicating with or reaching an agreement with a state employee about a workers' compensation claim, from suggesting or requiring that: The state employee resign from state employment or refrain from seeking or obtaining employment with the state in the future; or Any other restrictions be placed on the state employee's ability to work for the state. The act voids any provision of a contract that restricts a state employee's ability to work for the state in violation of these prohibitions. If the state elects to self-insure workers' compensation claims, the act requires the department of personnel to send a request for interest to Pinnacol Assurance and at least 5 other insurance companies that provide workers' compensation insurance in Colorado. The requests for interest must be sent in 2026 and at least once every 3 years thereafter. Each request for interest must request the following information from each responding insurance company for the following calendar year: An estimate of the total cost to the state to purchase workers' compensation insurance; The company's ability to provide workers' compensation insurance that would cover all state employees; and A detailed description of the workers' compensation coverage that the company would provide. For each request for interest obtained, the department of personnel shall prepare and submit a report to the general assembly specifying: The name of the responding insurance company, unless the department received only one response, in which case the name of the sole responding insurance company is redacted from the report; The total cost estimated by the responding insurance company to provide workers' compensation insurance coverage to the state; Whether purchasing workers' compensation insurance from the responding insurance company would require the state to contract with a third-party administrator, and what the additional cost to the state would be, if any; A detailed description of the workers' compensation coverage that the responding insurance company would provide; The costs associated with the self-insurance selected by the state for the current calendar year; and Whether the state's costs related to self-insurance of workers' compensation claims increased or decreased compared to the previous calendar year. The act requires that the first report to the general assembly must specify, over the previous 3 years, to which insurance companies the state sent requests for interest, the total number of insurance companies that responded to the requests, and the estimated cost reported in each received response, if any. APPROVED by Governor June 7, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Regarding the regulation of natural medicine, the act: Authorizes the director of the division of professions and occupations in the department of regulatory agencies to approve facilitator education and training programs; Exempts facilitator education and training programs from regulation as private educational schools; Updates rule-making by the department of public health and environment and the state licensing authority related to laboratory testing and certification of natural medicine products; Prohibits individuals, rather than all persons, from having a financial interest in more than 5 natural medicine business licenses; Authorizes the state licensing authority to promulgate rules regarding requirements for the destruction of natural medicine or natural medicine products; Clarifies that a person may operate a natural medicine testing facility at the same location as a regulated marijuana testing facility; and Specifies which transfers and distributions of regulated natural medicine and regulated natural medicine products are authorized between persons licensed as healing centers, facilitators, natural medicine cultivation facilities, and natural medicine manufacturers. APPROVED by Governor June 6, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 6, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act requires the division of insurance (division) to conduct or cause to be conducted a study regarding the remediation of residential premises that have been damaged from smoke, soot, ash, and other contaminants as a result of a fire. The study focuses on existing practices for the remediation of homes that have been damaged by smoke, soot, ash, and other contaminants as a result of a fire and requires the division to make recommendations for establishing uniform standards related to such remediation. The division may contract with a third party to conduct all or part of the study. The division must submit a report of the study's findings and recommendations to certain committees of the general assembly by January 1, 2026. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, $219,909 is appropriated to the department of regulatory agencies for use by the division. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act prohibits price gouging in the provision of or offer to provide rent-based housing during a disaster period and within the designated disaster area if the disaster declaration specifically declares a material decrease in residential housing units. A violation of the act is an unfair and unconscionable act or practice. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 5, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act implements certain recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies (department), as specified in the department's sunset review of the "Bingo and Raffles Law" (law), as follows: Continues the regulation of charitable gaming under the law for 7 years, until September 1, 2031; Modifies the secretary of state's (secretary's) fining authority by increasing the maximum fine amount to $250 per violation and eliminating the provision for a fine in lieu of license suspension or revocation; and Makes technical changes to the law, including the use of gender-neutral language. The act also modifies the structure, powers, and duties of the Colorado bingo-raffle advisory board, recreated in the act as the Colorado charitable gaming board (board). The board's membership is reduced and one member must be the secretary's designee. All members who are licensees under the law are appointed by the governor. In addition to the secretary's designee, the secretary must appoint the member who is a registered elector with no connection to charitable gaming. The board must meet at least 6 times each year and fulfill the following duties: Conduct a continuous study of charitable gaming in Colorado to improve such gaming and ascertain any defects in existing laws or rules; Advise the secretary regarding subjects such as licensing requirements, qualifications, and special conditions; license revocations, suspensions, and summary suspensions; a schedule of fines and the amounts of fees to be imposed pursuant to the "Bingo and Raffles Law"; criteria and training for licensees, games managers, and other individuals involved in the conduct of charitable gaming; and standard licensee audit procedures; and At the board's discretion, submit an annual report to the general assembly including recommendations for legislation related to charitable gaming. The secretary is encouraged to collaborate with the board on proposals developed by the board related to existing and potential future types of charitable gaming activities and all charitable gaming rules. The act also clarifies the requirements and limitations for a strip bingo game. The act appropriates $226,445 for the 2024-25 state fiscal year from the department of state cash fund to the department of state for implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 5, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Current law authorizes an individual with a terminal illness to request, and the individual's attending physician to prescribe to the individual, medication to hasten the individual's death (medical aid-in-dying). The act modifies the medical aid-in-dying laws by: Providing an advanced practice registered nurse with the same authority to evaluate an individual and prescribe medication as a physician; Adding language specifying that if any end-of-life options conflict with requirements to receive federal money, the conflicting part is inoperative and the remainder of the law will continue to operate; and Reducing the waiting period between oral requests from 15 days to 7 days and allowing attending providers to waive the mandatory waiting period if the patient is unlikely to survive more than 48 hours and meets all other qualifications. The act also prohibits certain insurers from: Denying or altering health-care or life insurance benefits otherwise available to a covered individual with a terminal illness based on the availability of medical aid-in-dying; or Attempting to coerce an individual with a terminal illness to make a request for medical aid-in-dying medication. APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The temporary youth mental health services program (program), commonly known as "I Matter", is scheduled to repeal on June 30, 2024. The act continues the program until June 30, 2034. Under existing law, the selection of a vendor to create or use an existing online portal to facilitate the program (program vendor) is exempt from the requirements of the state's procurement code. The act repeals the exemption. Existing law requires the state department of human services to report to the general assembly about the program twice each year. The act requires one annual report, due June 30 of each year. The act requires the program vendor to annually deliver to the BHA information and data about the program and requires the BHA to conduct surveys of providers who participate in the program. The act appropriates $5 million from the general fund to the BHA for the program. APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 4, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)