Rep. Matt Gray

A commercial motor vehicle fleet owner that wishes to apply for an annual fleet overweight permit has been required to apply for separate annual fleet permits for vehicles that have a quad axle grouping for divisible vehicles or loads, and vehicle combinations with a trailer that have 2 or 3 axles for divisible vehicles or loads. The act allows a fleet owner that has a fleet consisting of vehicles from both of these categories to apply for a single annual fleet overweight permit. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The high-performance transportation enterprise (HPTE) enters into public-private partnerships, which are contractual agreements between HPTE and one or more private or public entities, to deliver or contribute to the delivery of surface transportation projects and provides an annual report on its activities to the legislative committees that have jurisdiction over transportation. The act requires HPTE to include in the annual report, for each of its executed or proposed public-private partnerships, summaries of: The processes that HPTE has used leading up to or anticipates using to lead up to its entry into the public-private partnership, including the processes for obtaining and responding to public questions, concerns, and other comments or input, the processes for keeping the state legislators and local elected officials who represent any area in which a surface transportation infrastructure project of the public-private partnership will be located informed and updated about the project and the public-private partnership, and the processes for selecting each partner to the public-private partnership; and The actual major financial, performance, and length-of-term provisions of its executed public-private partnerships and, to the extent feasible, the anticipated major financial, performance, and length-of-term provisions of its proposed public-private partnerships.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Workforce diploma pilot program - performance payments to qualified providers for student outcomes - appropriation. The act creates the workforce diploma pilot program (program) in the department of education (department) to award completion payments to qualified providers for the attainment of certain outcomes achieved by eligible students enrolled in the courses or programs, including earning high school diplomas, course credits, or industry-recognized training certificates. The department shall administer the program. The program will operate in any year in which the general assembly appropriates money for the program. Based on criteria listed in the act, the department shall prepare a list of qualified providers. A qualified provider may be a public, nonprofit, or private accredited, degree-granting organization with at least 2 years of experience in providing adult dropout recovery services resulting in an accredited high school diploma, as well as a local education provider, as defined for purposes of existing adult literacy and education programs. The act sets forth the amount of the payments qualified providers receive for each completion or attainment outcome achieved by their eligible students. The act includes performance standards for qualified providers and allows the department to suspend or remove providers from the list of qualified providers for failing to meet those standards. Qualified providers receiving payments must report certain information to the department. The department shall report to certain committees of the general assembly summarizing the information reported by qualified providers. The act repeals the program in 2022. For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $1,012,201 and 0.2 FTE from the general fund to the department of education to implement the program. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Elimination of duplicate regulations commission - health and safety requirements. The act creates the elimination of duplicate regulations commission (commission) within the department of education and establishes membership criteria. The act requires the commission to analyze and identify duplicate regulations promulgated among the agencies relating to health and safety requirements for school-aged child care programs (programs); identify which regulations may be eliminated, revised, or delegated to the appropriate agency to eliminate duplicate regulations; and ensure the efficient regulation of health and safety requirements for programs. The agencies are required to commence respective rule-making consistent with the outcomes of the commission. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Waste tires - increased fee assessed on new tires sold - rebates for waste tires processed - waste tire monofill requirements - appropriation. To encourage resource recovery, recycling, and reuse of waste tires, there is a waste tire fee assessed on each new tire sold in the state. Commencing on January 1, 2020, the act raises the waste tire fee from 55 cents to up to $2.00, as set by the solid and hazardous waste commission by rule, and, on January 1, 2024, reduces it to 55 cents and continues the fee collection through December 31, 2025. The act also recreates the end users fund, into which fund, on and after January 1, 2020, the state treasurer shall distribute a portion of the revenue collected from the waste tire fee for use by the department of public health and environment (department) to provide quarterly rebates to end users for the processing of waste tires into tire-derived products or fuel. The end users fund and the rebate program are repealed on July 1, 2026. The state treasurer is required to distribute the other portion of the fee revenue to the waste tire administration, enforcement, market development, and cleanup fund in an amount sufficient to offset the department's direct and indirect costs in implementing the waste tire program, which costs are capped at 50 cents per each new tire sold. The act prohibits the department from granting a waiver to an owner or operator of a waste tire monofill from requirements to process a certain number of waste tires and not to store waste tires unless the owner or operator has demonstrated an annual net reduction in the number of waste tires at the monofill or has experienced an emergency event at the monofill such as a fire or flood. $3,262,500 is appropriated to the department to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Impacts of new and emerging transportation technologies and business models - stakeholder group examination and policy recommendations report - department of transportation report and recommendations - rules. The act requires the department of transportation (CDOT) to convene and engage in robust consultation with a stakeholder group comprised of representatives of specified industries, workers, governmental entities, planning organizations, and interest groups that will potentially be affected by the adoption of new and emerging transportation technologies and business models. The stakeholder group is required to: Examine the economic, environmental, and transportation system impacts of the adoption of new and emerging transportation technologies and business models; Identify potential means of addressing the impacts that increase positive impacts and mitigate negative impacts; and Present to CDOT, no later than November 1, 2019, a report of policy recommendations regarding the impacts examined and means of addressing those impacts, potentially with funding from the imposition of fees on the use of a motor vehicle used for commercial purposes, as defined by the act. The report must identify potential fees that are structured and reasonably calculated to: Generate sufficient revenue for the state and local governments to mitigate specified impacts to the transportation system; Fund needed transportation infrastructure, including multimodal infrastructure and the infrastructure needed to support the adoption of zero-emissions vehicles; Defray the administrative costs of fee collection; Incentivize the adoption of zero-emissions vehicles for utilization as motor vehicles used for commercial purposes; and Incentivize multiple passenger ride sharing for motor vehicles used for commercial purposes and the use of such vehicles as a first and last mile solution for users of public transit. The act defines "motor vehicle used for commercial purposes": To include: A motor vehicle that is used to provide passenger transportation services purchased through a transportation network company, a peer-to-peer car sharing company, a car sharing company that does not use a peer-to-peer business model, or a company that provides taxicab service; A motor vehicle that is rented out by a rental car company; and A motor vehicle that is used for residential delivery of goods; and To exclude: A motor vehicle used to deliver goods that is used only to deliver goods: To addresses other than residences; or That are delivered as freight; A motor vehicle that has a gross vehicle weight rating of more than fourteen thousand pounds; or A motor vehicle that is operated for the purpose of transporting passengers: Under a contract with the regional transportation district a regional transportation authority, or any other governmental or public entity; or By a common carrier other than a company that provides taxicab service. CDOT is required to report on the progress and policy recommendations of the stakeholder group, CDOT's preliminary plans and recommendations regarding the development and promulgation of rules, and any recommendations that CDOT has regarding the need for related legislation during its 2019 annual presentation to legislative oversight committees required by the "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act". No later than October 1, 2020, within any statutory parameters established by the general assembly through legislation enacted during the 2020 legislative session, and giving strong consideration to the policy recommendations report provided by the stakeholder group, CDOT is required to promulgate rules to the extent necessary to effectively implement the act. If the general assembly does not impose fees on motor vehicles used for commercial purposes through legislation enacted during the 2020 legislative session and instead enacts legislation that authorizes CDOT or any CDOT enterprise to impose such fees, the rules may impose fees to the extent authorized by the legislation. During the 2020 legislative interim, CDOT must present a final written report regarding the stakeholder group, rule-making processes, and rules promulgated to the transportation legislation review committee. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Peer-to-peer car sharing - insurance - equipment - notifications. The act regulates peer-to-peer car sharing programs as follows: Requires the shared car to be covered by insurance from the driver or from the program, but if the program provides the insurance, the required coverage is 3 times the normal required coverage; If the required insurance is provided by the driver, the program must carry insurance to cover a lapse or lack of coverage, and this insurance may be purchased from a surplus lines insurer; Makes the insurance that satisfies the required coverage the primary insurance; Requires the program to notify the car owner that sharing the car may violate any lien on the car; The program must assume liability up to the required coverages, except liability caused by the shared car owner's material misstatement of fact or the shared car owner's actions in concert with a shared car driver who fails to return the shared car; Authorizes the shared car owner's insurer to exclude coverage when the car is being used in a program, and gives the insurer a right of contribution for any claims made as a result of the car sharing; Prohibits an insurer from refusing to insure a shared car outside the sharing solely because the car covered under the policy has been made available for car sharing; Sets record-keeping requirements; Clarifies that the program and a shared car owner are covered by the exemption set forth in federal law exempting rental companies from vicarious liability based on ownership of the car; Authorizes a program to be the named insured for a shared car; Requires the program to make certain disclosures and provide an emergency telephone number; Requires the program to verify that the driver is licensed to drive and keep records of this verification; Makes the program responsible for any equipment installed on the car for sharing purposes; Requires the program and the car owner, when there is a safety recall on the car, to remove the car from the program until the car is repaired; and Requires a program to enter into concession agreements with local airports to collect the airport fees on car sharing at an airport.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Income tax - credit - innovative motor vehicles. The act modifies the amounts of and extends the number of available years of the existing income tax credits for the purchase or lease of an electric motor vehicle, a plug-in hybrid electric motor vehicle, and an original equipment manufacturer electric truck and plug-in hybrid electric truck.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Income tax - combined reporting. Two or more corporations controlled by the same interests are required to file a combined report in certain instances for apportioning income for Colorado income tax purposes. The Colorado court of appeals recently interpreted existing law to exclude all holding companies purportedly without property or payroll from combined reports. The act clarifies that only corporations with property and payroll located outside the United States are excluded from a combined report. The act further clarifies when the treatment of the activities of a partnership is treated as the activity of a member of an affiliated group of corporations. The act requires the department of revenue to convene a stakeholder working group to discuss and report on issues related to combined tax reporting.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Returns - electronic filing and payment. The act requires taxpayers, not including individual income taxpayers, to both file tax returns and pay amounts due for specified taxes electronically.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More