The Colorado disability funding committee (committee) auctions Colorado motor vehicle license plate configurations to raise money for grants to assist persons with disabilities in accessing disability benefits and to fund new and innovative ideas that improve the quality of life and independence of persons with disabilities. Sections 1 through 5 and 13 of the act correct technical issues, consolidate statutory provisions, clarify the grant process, and clarify the license plate sales process in connection with the committee. Section 6 exempts the disability support fund, which supports the activities of the committee, from the limit on uncommited reserves in cash funds. Section 7 modifies the existing income tax credit for purchases of uniquely valuable motor vehicle registration numbers to specify that the amount of the credit allowed is 20% of the purchase price of the motor vehicle registration number. Sections 8 and 9 specify that the committee is authorized to spend money from the disabled parking education and enforcement fund (fund) for the existing purposes of the fund and to provide education regarding parking for persons with disabilities. Section 10 allows a person to reserve a license plate for which no motor vehicle has ever been registered if the person purchased the license plate configuration from the committee. Section 11 authorizes the department of motor vehicles to sell multiple historical license plate backgrounds to benefit the committee. In addition, section 11 makes clarifying changes regarding the administration of historic license plate background sales. Section 12 modifies the rehabilitation services that the department of labor and employment is currently required to provide at public cost without consideration of financial need. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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Current law requires the department of health care policy and financing (state department) to establish a schedule for a review of provider rates paid under medicaid so that each provider rate is reviewed at least every 5 years and to provide the schedule to the joint budget committee (JBC). Beginning July 1, 2023, the act requires the state department to establish a schedule so that each provider rate is reviewed at least every 3 years and to provide the schedule to the medicaid provider rate review advisory committee (advisory committee) in addition to the JBC. Current law authorizes the advisory committee or the JBC, by a majority vote, to direct the state department to conduct a review of a provider rate that is not scheduled for review during that year. Effective July 1, 2023, if the state department determines the request for an out-of-cycle review cannot be conducted, the act requires the state department to provide written notification to the advisory committee and the JBC within 30 days after the request is made stating the reasons the out-of-cycle request cannot be conducted. Effective July 1, 2023, the act requires the state department to conduct a public meeting at least quarterly to inform the state department's review of provider rates. Current law requires the advisory committee consist of 24 members. Effective December 1, 2022, the act decreases the advisory committee to 7 members and requires the members to have proven expertise related to medicaid in one or more specific areas. The advisory committee is currently scheduled to sunset September 1, 2025. The act moves the sunset to September 1, 2036. On or before December 1, 2023, and each December 1 thereafter, the act requires the advisory committee to present to the JBC an overview of the provider rate review process, a summary of the provider rates that were reviewed, and the strategies for responding to the findings of the provider rate review. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The bill establishes certain rights for a person who is protected through a legal guardianship relationship (protected person) and duties of a guardian or conservator (guardian). With certain exceptions, a guardian shall notify within 7 days one or more of the protected person's close family members and any person designated by the protected person when the protected person: Changes place of residence; Resides at a location other than the protected person's residence for more than 48 hours; Is admitted to a medical facility for acute care or emergency care; or Dies. The guardian, in conjunction with the protected person and any close family members, shall develop an initial care plan, to be updated annually. The care plan must include why the guardianship is necessary, any necessary restrictions placed on visitation or access to reporting, how the protected person's finances will be handled, and how the protected person and close family members can obtain answers to questions that arise. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The act requires, in state fiscal year 2022-23 only, and within available appropriations, that the department of education (department) distribute supplemental payments to facility schools approved by the department as of October 1, 2022. The supplemental payments must be above and beyond the current daily per pupil revenue rate as established for the 2022-23 state fiscal year. The act appropriates $5,134,000 to the department from the state education fund for supplemental payments to facility schools. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law allows the clerk of the court to retain 5% of the drug offender surcharge and the rural alcohol and substance abuse surcharge for the administration of the disbursement of the surcharges. The retained 5% of both surcharges are kept on a balance sheet account and expenses are identified to offset this revenue. To simplify the process by which this 5% of surcharge revenue is retained, section 2 of the act requires that the revenue be deposited directly into the judicial stabilization cash fund instead. Under current law, the courts' collections investigator program is funded by the fines collection cash fund and the judicial collection enhancement fund. To eliminate the inefficiency of administering 2 cash funds, section 1 eliminates the fines collection cash fund and requires all fines previously required to be deposited in that fund to instead be deposited in the judicial collection enhancement cash fund. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The state treasurer is required to transfer $24,131,390 from the revenue loss restoration cash fund to the judicial department information technology cash fund on July 1, 2022. The money transferred to the judicial department information technology cash fund is subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly to the judicial department for information technology infrastructure upgrades from the 2022-23 fiscal year through the 2024-25 fiscal year. The judicial department is required to expend or encumber the money transferred to the judicial department information technology cash fund prior to December 31, 2024. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, the state personnel director (director) of the department of personnel is required to annually conduct surveys and produce a report concerning compensation to determine any necessary adjustments to state employee salaries, state contributions for group benefit plans, and merit pay. The act instead requires the director to conduct surveys and produce the report every 4 years. The act also changes certain reporting deadlines of the director relating to the compensation report and removes certain substantive components of the report. The act decreases the general fund appropriation made to the department of personnel for use by the division of human resources for total compensation and employee engagement surveys related to state agency services in the annual general appropriation act for the 2022-23 state fiscal year by $300,000 and appropriates $147,429 from the general fund to the department of personnel for implementation of the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the state treasurer to credit any interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of federal funds that the state received from the federal coronavirus state fiscal recovery fund to the state emergency reserve cash fund, which is available for declared emergencies only as required by the taxpayer's bill of rights. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
In 2005, the voters approved referendum C, which authorized the state to retain state revenues up to the excess state revenues cap to be spent on specified uses (excess state revenues). The general fund exempt account (account) was created within the general fund and it includes an amount equal to the excess state revenues. There is a statutorily required allocation of the money in the account for uses that are consistent with the uses approved by the voters in referendum C. The actual amount of the excess state revenues, however, is not known until after the last day of the fiscal year. The act addresses the discrepancy between the amounts appropriated or transferred from the account and the actual amount of the excess state revenues. If the appropriations and transfers from the account are less than the actual excess state revenues, then some of the revenue in the general fund is also designated as excess state revenues. Appropriations from the general fund for medical and long-term care services for medicaid eligible individuals and the state share of districts' total program funding, or their successor line items, are designated as how the state uses this revenue. If the appropriations and transfers from the account are more than the actual excess state revenues, then a portion of the account, and a corresponding percentage of all appropriations and transfers from it, are designated as not being excess state revenues. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)