The act creates the connecting Coloradans experiencing homelessness with services, recovery care, and housing supports grant program (grant program), administered by the division of housing (division) in the department of local affairs (department). The grant program provides grants to local governments and nonprofit organizations to enable those entities to make investments and improvements in their communities or regions of the state to address and respond to the needs of people experiencing homelessness. The act requires the division to develop policies, procedures, and guidelines governing the administration of the grant program. The act specifies how grant funding is to be awarded and the eligible uses of grant money awarded under the grant program. The act specifies requirements for grant recipients. The act creates the connecting Coloradans experiencing homelessness with services, recovery care, and housing supports fund (fund) in the department. The act specifies requirements pertaining to the administration of the fund. The act requires a transfer of $105 million from the economic recovery and relief cash fund to the fund to administer the grant program. The act allows for up to $5 million of the money appropriated to the fund to be used for data collection and outreach efforts. The act sets forth specified reporting requirements pertaining to the grant program. The act requires the department, in conjunction with the department of health care policy and financing, to report to the house of representatives public and behavioral health and human services committee and the senate health and human services committee, and to its committee of reference during its "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act" hearing, any results, recommendations, and federal implications concerning any supportive housing pilot program currently being administered by the department in conjunction with the department of health care policy and financing. The act requires the division to report on the activities of the grant program as part of the regular annual public report prepared by the division on affordable and emergency housing spending. The act appropriates $9,218 to the office of information technology to provide information technology services for the department. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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Under current law, when a defendant is detained in jail on a municipal hold, the defendant must receive a hearing before the municipal court within 2 calendar days, excluding Sundays and federal holidays. Beginning January 1, 2023, the act requires the hearing to be held within 48 hours after the municipal court receives notice that the defendant is being held solely on a municipal hold. The act makes clarifying changes to the district attorney assistance for bond hearings grant program and repeals the district attorney assistance for bond hearings cash fund. The act decreases the 2022 long bill appropriation to the district attorney assistance for bond hearing cash fund by $600,000 and appropriates in the 2022 long bill $600,000 to the department of law for district attorney bond hearing grants. The act repeals the 2021 $150,000 appropriation to the district attorney assistance for bond hearing cash fund and appropriates for the 2021-22 fiscal year $150,000 to the department of law for district attorney bond hearing grants. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the act correct incorrect cross references to sales tax filing and remittance requirements for direct pay permit holders in local sales tax statutes. Section 5 corrects an incorrect cross reference in the definition of "auction sale", which is defined to include only the sale of tangible personal property, by replacing a cross reference to a supplemental definition of sale that includes "the transaction of furnishing rooms or accommodations" with a cross reference to the more general definition of "sale". (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law requires a transportation network company or its drivers to secure primary liability insurance coverage for the drivers for incidents involving the drivers during prearranged rides and for periods when a driver is logged into a transportation network company's digital network but not engaged in a prearranged ride. Section 1 of the act requires a transportation network company or its drivers to also secure insurance protection for drivers and for their riders against damages caused by uninsured motorists in the amounts of at least $200,000 per person and $400,000 per occurrence. The insurance policy must provide coverage to drivers and riders at all times the driver is engaged in a prearranged ride. Current law requires automobile liability and motor vehicle liability policies to provide coverage for damages caused by uninsured motorists; except that the named insured may reject such coverage in writing. Section 2 provides that, if the named insured is a transportation network company securing coverage for a transportation network company driver to protect against damages caused by uninsured motorists, the named insured may not reject the coverage for periods when the transportation network company driver is engaged in a prearranged ride. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
In 2021, the general assembly enacted legislation, SB 21-262, concerning transparency for special districts, that, among other things, required the disclosure of property tax information to purchasers of newly constructed residences within the boundaries of metropolitan districts. As part of this required disclosure, SB 21-262 required the owner of the property to provide to the seller a copy of the most current county assessor's property tax certificate. The county assessors do not issue tax certificates. The tax certificate is issued by the county treasurer. The act corrects this incorrect statutory reference by requiring that each owner of real property that sells real property that includes a newly constructed residence, concurrently with or prior to the execution of a contract to sell the property, provide to the purchaser of the property a copy of the most current certificate of taxes due or tax statement issued by the county treasurer that is applicable to the property as an estimate of the sum of additional mill levies levied by other taxing entities that overlap the property in which the newly constructed residence is located. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act strikes references to the federal food and drug administration in the health insurance code and replaces the references with the term "FDA", which is defined for the entire code to mean the federal food and drug administration. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act changes the term "name-based criminal history record check" to "name-based judicial record check" throughout the Colorado Revised Statutes. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act makes technical changes to the "Colorado Corporations and Associations Act" and the "Colorado Business Corporation Act" as follows: Changes references to "owners' interest" to "owner's interest"; Repeals a provision exempting certain domestic entities from a provision allowing reinstatement of an entity after an administrative dissolution upon compliance with certain conditions; and Makes clarifying changes to the provision requiring notification of ratification of defective corporate actions to holders of valid and putative shares.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act states that in a class action under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act", a successful plaintiff may recover actual damages, injunctive relief allowed by law, and reasonable attorney fees and costs. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act permits an attorney to access a suppressed court record related to an eviction proceeding, with permission of a party included in the record, for the purpose of: Providing legal advice to, or evaluating whether to enter an appearance on behalf of, the party included in the record; or Evaluating whether the matter is suitable for mediation or in preparation for a mediation between the parties included in the court record.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)