The bill establishes licensure requirements for business entities that perform community association management for common interest communities in the state. The division of real estate (division) in the department of regulatory agencies (department) is tasked with administering the regulatory program for community association managers (CAMs). To be licensed, a business entity must: Demonstrate compliance with insurance requirements specified by the director of the division (director) by rule; Designate an individual as the business entity's controlling manager who is responsible for the community association management activities of the business entity and its employees; Pay a fee based on the number of individuals who perform community association management on behalf of the business entity; and Obtain criminal history record checks for its controlling manager and each individual that performs community association management on behalf of the business entity. A business entity licensed as a CAM must ensure that its controlling manager and each individual performing community association management on behalf of the licensed entity is credentialed by the Community Association Managers International Certification Board or the Community Associations Institute and complies with periodic continuing education requirements. The bill sets forth various grounds for disciplining a licensed entity and directs the director to establish a points-based disciplinary system for determining the appropriate level of discipline to impose on a licensed entity based on the level of violation. The bill repeals the licensure of CAMs on September 1, 2029, and directs the department to conduct a sunset review of the licensure program before that date. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
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The act adds to the board of directors of the urban drainage and flood control district one director from Douglas county to be appointed by the governor as with existing director appointments representing various counties. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The bill specifies that, commencing January 1, 2023, a retail food establishment or third-party food delivery service (service) may provide a customer with single-use food serviceware or a single-use condiment that accompanies food ordered for delivery or carryout only if the customer requests single-use food serviceware or a single-use condiment or confirms that the customer wants single-use food serviceware or a single-use condiment when offered, with limited exceptions.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The act moves the broadband deployment board (board) from the department of regulatory agencies (department) to the office of information technology (office) and, on September 1, 2021, reduces the membership of the board from 16 to 11 members.The board is required to develop a request for proposal process through which the board will solicit bids for proposed projects that serve critically unserved areas of the state identified by the office. The board is required to reserve up to 60% of the money from the high cost support mechanism that is allocated for broadband deployment to award grants to proposed projects solicited through the request for proposal process. "Critically unserved" is defined in the act to mean a household or area that lacks access to at least one provider of nonsatellite broadband service delivered at measurable speeds of at least 10 megabits per second downstream and one megabit per second upstream or at measurable speeds of at least one-half of the minimum measurable speeds that qualify as broadband under the federal communications commission's definition, rounded up, whichever is faster.The act also:Requires an applicant or appellant to submit either written certification from a local entity indicating that the area to be served by the applicant's project is an unserved area or a statistically representative number of speed tests performed on an incumbent provider's network and conducted in accordance with industry-standard speed-test protocols; Gives additional consideration to proposed projects that would give discounted service for low-income households; Contractually requires an applicant receiving a grant award to: Report annually on the number of homes and businesses served by the grant-supported broadband network, the number of homes and businesses expected to be served in the following year, and the speeds, rates, and services offered to customers through the grant-supported broadband network; and Provide third-party performance-testing certification, after the grant money has been fully expended, that the project meets the original design of, and provides the measurable speeds, rates, and services set forth in, the application. Requires an applicant or appellant to submit to the office, in a form and manner determined by the office, certain granular mapping data, which data is not a public record under the "Colorado Open Records Act"; and Uses the request for proposal process, or a substantially similar process, for the disbursement of any federal money the board receives for broadband deployment projects and programs so long as using the request for proposal process complies with federal requirements for use of the money. For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, the act transfers $202,504 of the appropriation made in the annual general appropriation act from the department of regulator agencies to the office of the governor for use by the office of information technology to implement the act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act modifies the Colorado health service corps program administered by the primary care office (office) in the department of public health and environment, which program includes a loan repayment program, to allow geriatric advanced practice providers, defined as advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants with geriatric training or experience, to participate in the loan repayment program on the condition of committing to provide geriatric care to older adults in health professional shortage areas for a specified period.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $400,000 from the general fund to the Colorado health service corps fund for use by the office to help repay loans for geriatric advanced practice providers.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act adds a requirement, as part of mandatory health insurance coverage of preventive health care services, that health plans cover an annual mental health wellness examination of up to 60 minutes that is performed by a qualified mental health care provider. The coverage must:Be comparable to the coverage of a physical examination; Comply with the requirements of federal mental health parity laws; and Not require any deductibles, copayments, or coinsurance for the mental health wellness examination. The coverage applies to large employer plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, and to individual and small group plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2023, if the commissioner of insurance determines, and the United States department of health and human services confirms or fails to timely respond to a request for confirmation, that the coverage for an annual mental health wellness examination does not require state defrayal pursuant to the federal "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act". Additionally, the division of insurance (division) is directed to conduct an actuarial study to determine the effect of the coverage on insurance premiums.The act appropriates $26,353 to the division to conduct reviews of health plans to ensure compliance with the coverage required by the bill.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act creates in the department of education the menstrual hygiene products accessibility grant program to provide awards to eligible grant recipients in order to provide menstrual hygiene products at no expense to students.For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $100,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of education to implement the act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act directs the office of information technology (office) to:Develop a centralized, statewide search interface for access to all agency rule-making that is highly visible on the state's main website and that meets various standards specified in the act; and Make the search interface available for use by June 30, 2022. The secretary of state and other state agencies are directed to provide access to the code of Colorado regulations, the Colorado register, and rule databases to the office to facilitate the development of the interface.The act appropriates $368,194 from the general fund to the office of the governor for use by the office. The act also appropriates $108,718 from the department of state cash fund to the department of state.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act restructures the excise tax on gasoline and special fuel (fuels) by:Modifying the point of taxation; Eliminating the 3 tax deferred transactions; Exempting the tax from the import or removal of fuels by bulk transfer to, from, or within a terminal or refinery in certain circumstances; Permitting the 2% allowance to cover losses for terminals that are outside of the state; Requiring a terminal operator to verify that the person receiving the fuels is a licensee or is exempt from taxation; Specifying when the tax is imposed on an importer, blender, seller of liquefied petroleum gas or natural gas, user, and other distributor; Harmonizing provisions applicable to the exemption for governments; Explicitly identifying certain fuels used in aircrafts as being exempt; Codifying that a distributor has the burden of proving that fuels are exempt; Codifying the exemption for the removal of fuels from a terminal by a licensed exporter exclusively for delivery to another state; Requiring a terminal operator to be licensed, which is the current practice; Consolidating the penalties for acting without a license; Making conforming changes related to the aforementioned changes; Reorganizing and relocating provisions; and Modernizing language.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act prohibits a hospital, a health facility, and a person offering an individual or group health benefit plan from charging a living organ donor any deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, benefit maximums, waiting periods, or other limitations on coverage for health care services necessary for the living organ donation.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)