Rep. Shannon Bird

The act repeals proficiency tests administered by school districts. The act reduces the cash funds appropriation to the department of education for use by career pathways for basic skills placement or assessment tests by $50,000. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act repeals the computer science education for teachers grant program. The program offered grant money to teachers at public schools within the state who were seeking additional postsecondary education to provide computer science education to their students. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act repeals the recovery-friendly workplace program in the center for health, work, and environment at the Colorado school of public health. The program recognized and assisted employers that implemented recovery-friendly policies to help employees in recovery from substance use disorders. Appropriations made to the department of higher education in the annual general appropriation act for the 2025-26 state fiscal year are adjusted as follows: The general fund appropriation for the college opportunity fund program to be used for limited purpose fee-for-service contracts with state institutions is decreased by $412,577; and The reappropriated funds received from the limited purpose fee-for-service contracts with state institutions for the regents of the university of Colorado are decreased by the same amount.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act repeals the disordered eating prevention program (program) created in the department of public health and environment's (department) prevention services division. The act reduces the general fund appropriation made in the long bill to the department for the program by $91,398. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The radiation advisory committee provided the department of public health and environment (department) with technical advice related to the radiation control program implemented by the department. The act repeals the radiation advisory committee. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act repeals the "Inclusive Higher Education Act". The inclusive higher education act provided grants to state institutions of higher education to establish or expand inclusive higher education programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

In current law, there is a gray and black market marijuana enforcement grant program (program) that awards law enforcement grants related to marijuana enforcement. The act prohibits the program from awarding grants in fiscal year 2025-26 and repeals the program on June 30, 2026. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Maddy summarySenate Joint Resolution 25-017 designates the North Academy Bridge spanning Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs as the "Naval Aviation Pilot and Aviation Machinist Mate Petty Officer First Class Daniel T. Griffin Bridge." This resolution honors Daniel T. Griffin, recognized as the first Coloradan killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. It also allows the Colorado Department of Transportation to explore a cooperative agreement with the Colorado Springs City Council for the maintenance of the bridge's signs.

The bill requires the public utilities commission (commission) to evaluate electrical generation and grid resilience against geomagnetic storms (evaluation) and report the findings of the evaluation to the general assembly. The bill requires each electrical utility that is subject to the jurisdiction of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to annually submit a critical energy infrastructure information request to the federal energy regulatory commission. If the utility receives the permission, each of these electrical utilities must annually brief the general assembly on the utility's contingency action plan and any information necessary to: Evaluate the ability of and identify shortfalls to restoring electrical power operation, fuel delivery, and equipment function within specified time frames following certain types of geomagnetic storms; and Evaluate the certification of hardware and software monitoring and controlling systems for energy generation and distribution. The bill sets standards for the evaluation. Based on the evaluation, the commission shall adopt rules requiring an electrical utility to meet resiliency standards for geomagnetic storms. The rules include: Requiring the monitoring of the space weather prediction center of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration in order to isolate large power transformers and power generation from the grid; Mechanically isolating critical components if or when a coronal mass ejection is likely to cause geomagnetically induced currents; Restricting or closing fuel pipeline valves to mitigate damage in a sectional failure; Installing automatic neutral ground blocking devices in large power transformers; Ensuring that computer equipment can be mechanically isolated from the grid and sheltered from geomagnetically induced surges; Requiring all networked systems that operate electrical generation and distribution to be electronically and physically separable from the outside networks; and Requiring the cyber-certification of hardware and software that operate electrical generation and distribution. (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.)

The act requires a facility that uses animals for health-related research (health-related research facility) to offer a dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue for the purpose of adoption before euthanizing the animal. If the health-related research facility has an internal adoption program, the facility may first offer the dog or cat for adoption through the internal adoption program before offering the dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue. A health-related research facility that acts in good faith to transfer or adopt out a dog or cat to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue is immune from civil liability for acts or circumstances related to or resulting from the transfer or internal adoption of the dog or cat. A health-related research facility must submit an annual report to the department of agriculture that includes the following information for the previous year: The total number of dogs and cats that the health-related research facility transferred to an animal shelter or a pet animal rescue for the purpose of adoption; The total number of dogs and cats that the health-related research facility adopted out through an internal adoption program; and The name and address of each animal shelter or pet animal rescue to which the health-related research facility transferred a dog or cat for the purpose of adoption.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)