Rep. Shane Sandridge

The bill requires the court, when determining the type of bond and conditions of release for a person arrested for violating a protection order, if it sets a bond with a monetary condition, to set the amount not less than: $10,000 for the person's first arrest for violating a protection order; and $25,000 for the person's second or subsequent arrest for violating a protection order. The bill does not prohibit the court from determining the type of bond or non-monetary conditions of release to a person's bond. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The Colorado constitution allows a veteran who has a service-connected disability rated as a 100% permanent disability to claim a property tax exemption for 50% of the first $200,000 of actual value of the veteran's owner-occupied primary residence. The concurrent resolution expands eligibility for the exemption to allow veterans with a disability that has been rated as at least a 50% permanent disability to claim the exemption. (Note: This summary applies to this concurrent resolution as introduced.)

The Colorado constitution allows a veteran who has a service-connected disability rated as a 100% permanent disability to claim a property tax exemption for 50% of the first $200,000 of actual value of the veteran's owner-occupied primary residence. The general assembly may enact legislation to raise or lower the $200,000 actual value limit but the 100% permanent disability requirement can only be changed through a constitutional amendment. For property tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2021, the bill increases from $200,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount of actual value of the owner-occupied primary residence of an eligible veteran with a disability of which 50% is exempt from property taxation. If at the 2022 general election the voters of the state approve a proposed constitutional amendment to make more veterans eligible for the exemption by allowing veterans who have a service-connected disability rated as a 50% or greater to claim the exemption, the bill makes a conforming statutory amendment to reflect the expansion of the exemption for property tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2023. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The act moves the COVID-19 relief program for minority-owned businesses from the minority business office to the Colorado office of economic development and expands the scope of the program to allow relief payments, grants, loans, and technical assistance and consulting support to small businesses disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.Additionally, the act extends the deadlines for allocating and distributing relief payments under the small business relief program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The bill provides funding as follows to support entities impacted by capacity restrictions imposed to address the COVID-19 pandemic: $37 million for direct relief payments to small businesses located in a county that is subject to, and in compliance with, severe capacity restrictions pursuant to a public health order, with payments allocated to the counties for distribution to eligible small businesses, which businesses include restaurants, bars, movie theaters, and fitness and recreational sports centers; $7.5 million for direct relief payments to eligible arts, culture, and entertainment artists, crew members, and organizations, with payments allocated by the creative industries division in the Colorado office of economic development; $6,775,000 $6,780,000 to the department of public health and environment to enable the department to contract with county or district boards of health to provide state funding in lieu of those local government agencies charging annual licensing fees to certain retail food establishments; $1.8 million $1,891,775 to the department of revenue to offset the department's waiver of certain liquor license fees; and $4 million for use by the minority business office in the Colorado office of economic development to provide direct relief payments, grants and loans, and technical assistance and consulting support to minority-owned businesses. (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.) (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

Under current law, the state licensing authority is required to treat a metered-dose inhaler the same as a vaporized delivery device for purposes of regulation and testing. The bill repeals this provision. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The bill extends the right to use deadly physical force against an intruder under certain conditions to include owners, managers, and employees of a business. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The bill protects minors from mutilation and sterilization. The bill creates a crime of unlawful sex reassignment treatment of a minor. A health care professional commits unlawful sex reassignment treatment of a minor if the person knowingly administers, dispenses, or prescribes a drug or hormone or orders or performs a surgical procedure for the purpose of facilitating sex reassignment of a minor. Unlawful sex reassignment treatment of a minor is a class 3 felony. A health care professional who is convicted of unlawful sex reassignment treatment of a minor is subject to professional disciplinary action. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The bill prohibits male students from participating on any athletic team for students in sixth through twelfth grade that participates in an athletic activity sponsored by a school and is designated for "females", "women", or "girls". If the participating student's sex is disputed, the student may prove that she is of the female sex by presenting a signed physician's statement indicating the student's sex based on the student's reproductive anatomy, levels of naturally occurring testosterone, and an analysis of the student's chromosomes.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Under eviction law, a court may enter an order on the issue of restitution of the premises without determining other claims raised in the case. Under current law, it is unclear whether an appellate court can hear an interlocutory appeal of just the order on restitution of the premises. The bill clarifies that appellate courts have jurisdiction to hear the interlocutory appeals. The bill also clarifies that if a tenant is appealing the order, the tenant must continue to pay rent due during the appeal.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)