Rep. Shannon Bird

Effective January 1, 2025, the act terminates a program that has allowed the owner of real or business personal property that was destroyed by a natural cause to be reimbursed by the state for the amount of property tax levied on the destroyed property in the property tax year in which it was destroyed. The program statute is repealed, effective July 1, 2025. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act requires the state treasurer to make the following transfers of money from certain cash funds to the general fund. On June 30, 2025, the state treasurer is required to transfer the following amounts to the general fund: $6,338,640 from the legislative department cash fund; $500,000 from the scale-up grant fund; $500,000 from the qualified apprenticeship intermediary grant fund; $700,000 from the petroleum cleanup and redevelopment fund; $15,000,000 from the major medical insurance fund; $200,000 from the division of securities cash fund; $200,000 from the division of banking cash fund; $200,000 from the division of real estate cash fund; $1,372,843 from the division of professions and occupations cash fund; $1,750,000 from the prescription drug monitoring fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the high-cost special education trust fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the dropout prevention activity grant fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the full-day kindergarten facility capital construction fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the financial reporting fund; The excess uncommitted reserve balance of the private occupational schools fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the private activity bond allocations fund that exceeds $100,000. This transfer is an annual transfer at the end of each state fiscal year. $3,068,634 from the peace officers behavioral health support and community partnership fund; $200,000 from the witness protection fund; $500,000 from the state's mission for assistance in recruiting and training (SMART) policing grant fund; $7,000,000 from the technology risk prevention and response fund; $11,011,550 from the advanced industries acceleration cash fund; $8,500,000 from the innovative housing incentive program fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the state employee reserve fund; The balances of the following cash funds, which were previously repealed: The rural schools cash fund; The teacher residency expansion program fund; and The public education fund; $200,000 from the affordable housing and home ownership cash fund; $1,800,000 from the vital statistics records cash fund; $14,000,000 from the electrifying school buses grant program cash fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the Colorado health care services fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the pediatric hospice care cash fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the primary care provider sustainability fund; $620,000 from the agriculture management fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the rodent pest control fund; $250,000 from the diseased livestock indemnity fund; $20,000 from the cervidae disease revolving fund; $200,000 from the board of assessment appeals cash fund; $10,000,000 from the local government severance tax fund; $200,000 from the Colorado telephone users with disabilities fund; $700,000 from the highway-rail crossing signalization fund; and $71,400,000 from the multimodal transportation and mitigation options fund. On July 1, 2025, the state treasurer is required to transfer the following amounts to the general fund: $125,000 from the energy fund; $154,862 from the innovative energy fund; $900,000 from the cannabis resource optimization cash fund; $512,570 from the community access to electric bicycles cash fund; $3,304,500 from the universal high school scholarship cash fund; $5,000,000 from the supplemental state contribution fund; The balance of the nutrients grant fund, which was previously repealed; $6,000,000 from the community impact cash fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the electrifying school buses grant program cash fund; The unexpended and unencumbered balance of the natural disaster grant fund; $680,000 from the state funding for senior services contingency reserve fund; and $100,000 from the nuclear materials transportation fund. On June 30, 2026, the state treasurer is required to transfer $7,710,500 from the advanced industries acceleration cash fund to the general fund. The act also repeals the financial reporting fund, the state employee reserve fund, the Colorado health care services fund, the pediatric hospice care cash fund, and the primary care provider sustainability fund. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act establishes certain requirements for social media companies and social media platforms in order to protect users. Specifically, the act: Relocates, with amendments, certain language requiring a social media platform to include a function that provides minor users information about their engagement in social media, which language was enacted in 2024 by House Bill 24-1136; Requires a social media company to publish policies for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company (published policies) and establishes mandatory contents for published policies; Requires a social media company to submit to the department of law an annual report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company, information concerning the published policies and violations of the published policies; Requires a social media company to annually make publicly available a report that includes, for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company, certain data concerning how minor users used the social media platform; In satisfying the reporting requirements described in the act, requires a social media company to make commercially reasonable efforts to identify the age categories of users; Requires a social media company, upon the notification of a user's alleged violation of the published policies or of state law, to determine within 48 hours whether the violation occurred and, if so, to remove the user from the applicable social media platform within 24 hours after the determination is made; Requires a social media platform with at least one million discrete monthly users to provide a streamlined process to allow Colorado law enforcement agencies to contact the social media company that operates the social media platform and, under certain conditions, to comply with a search warrant within 72 hours after receiving the search warrant; Makes a violation of the new requirements an unfair or deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act", to be punished accordingly; and Authorizes the attorney general to adopt rules to carry out the new requirements. VETOED by Governor April 24, 2025(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act authorizes the department of education to expend money appropriated for school transformation grants: On costs incurred in administering the grant program; and To contract with a public or private entity to provide permissible grant uses to multiple school districts or charter schools that are eligible for a grant.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act repeals the Colorado student leaders institute (institute), created in the department of education (department), on September 1, 2026. Before institute's repeal, the act requires the department, in collaboration with the host institution of higher education that operates the institute and the advisory committee, to return, to the extent possible, money remaining in the Colorado student leaders institute cash fund (cash fund) to each grantor, donor, or student in an amount that is proportional to the grantor's, donor's, or student's share of the total amount of gifts, grants, donations, or student contributions deposited in the cash fund. If any money remains in the cash fund on August 31, 2025, the state treasurer shall, prior to the repeal of the cash fund, transfer all unexpended and unencumbered money in the cash fund to the general fund. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act permits an offender to refuse placement in a community corrections program after the offender has been accepted for placement by a community corrections board and a community corrections program rather than before placement. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act reduces the portion of the salary of the assistant district attorney for each judicial district that the state must pay on and after July 1, 2026, from 50% to 25%. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act requires the executive director (director) of the department of corrections (department) to report specified information on inmate population, bed capacity, and vacancy rates on a monthly basis. The act also requires the director to report to the joint budget committee and the office of state planning and budgeting: When opening or closing a facility or relocating more than 20 inmates; and By August 1, 2025, and by each August 1 thereafter, information on FTEs by facility, location, and subprogram. The act requires future budget requests to include worksheets identifying calculations for FTE and operating expenses and requires the department to include a report describing supplemental budget requests and budget amendments as part of its "SMART Act" presentation. If the director or department fails to provide the information required, the act authorizes the joint budget committee to reduce appropriations for salaries of unclassified department employees. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act requires the state treasurer, on July 1, 2025, to transfer $842,346 from the general fund to the broadband infrastructure cash fund (fund). Current law lists the correctional facilities where the money in the fund may be used to install broadband infrastructure. The act adds the Colorado territorial correctional facility to the list. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

In state fiscal year 2023-24, the general assembly appropriated $1,400,000 from the general fund to the department of labor and employment to be used for the construction registered apprenticeship grant program. The act reverts $222,701 of that appropriation back to the general fund on or before June 30, 2025. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)