Current law allows qualified peace officers to stop a conveyance, including a boat trailer and a boat, and inspect the conveyance for the presence of aquatic nuisance species before the boat is launched onto waters of the state and before departing from the waters of the state or a vessel staging area, and to impound and quarantine a conveyance that is contaminated until it is decontaminated. Authorized agents can detain and inspect conveyances but cannot impound or quarantine conveyances.Section 1 of the act directs the division of parks and wildlife in the department of natural resources to investigate the methods that other states are using with respect to the location and operation of check stations and report regarding its investigation and the operation of check stations pursuant to the act to the general assembly's committees with jurisdiction over wildlife.Section 2 authorizes a qualified peace officer to stop and inspect for the presence of aquatic nuisance species a conveyance that has encountered an aquatic nuisance species check station.Section 3 prohibits a person who encounters a check station from knowingly or willfully failing or refusing to stop at the check station while transporting a conveyance during the check station's hours of operation without presenting the conveyance for inspection and specifies that doing so is a civil infraction with a $100 fine.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The act adds the terms "gender expression" and "gender identity" to statutes prohibiting discrimination against members of a protected class, including statutes prohibiting discriminatory practices in the following areas:Membership of the Colorado civil rights commission; Employment practices; Housing practices; Places of public accommodation; Publications that advertise places of public accommodation; Consumer credit transactions; Selection of patients by direct primary health care providers; Sales of cemetery plots; Membership in labor organizations; Colorado labor for public works projects; Issuance or renewal of automobile insurance policies; The provision of funeral services and crematory services; Eligibility for jury service; Issuance of licenses to practice law; The juvenile diversion program; Access to services for youth in foster care; Enrollment in a charter school, institute charter school, public school, or pilot school; Local school boards' written policies regarding employment, promotion, and dismissal; The assignment or transfer of a public school teacher; Leasing portions of the grounds of or improvements on the grounds of the Colorado state university - Pueblo and the Colorado school of mines; Enrollment or classification of students at private occupational schools; Training provided to peace officers concerning the prohibition against profiling; Criminal justice data collection; Employment in the state personnel system; The availability of services for the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections; Membership of the health equity commission; The availability of family planning services; Requirements for managed care programs participating in the state medicaid program and the children's basic health plan; The treatment of and access to services by individuals in facilities providing substance use disorder treatment programs; Employment practices of county departments of human or social services involving the selection, retention, and promotion of employees; Practices of the Colorado housing and finance authority in making or committing to make a housing facility loan; The imposition of occupancy requirements on charitable property for which the owner is claiming an exemption from property taxes based on the charitable use of the property; Practices of transportation network companies in providing services to the public; and The determination of whether expenses paid at or to a club that has a policy to restrict membership are tax deductible.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act amends the definition of "telemedicine" in the "Colorado Medical Practice Act" to state that the term means the delivery of medical services through technologies that are used in a manner that is compliant with the federal "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996", including information, electronic, and communication technologies, remote monitoring technologies, and store-and-forward transfers, to facilitate the assessment, diagnosis, consultation, or treatment of a patient while the patient is located at an originating site and the person who provides the service is located at a distant site. The act amends and preserves the existing statutory definition of "telemedicine" for purposes of the "Colorado Medical Assistance Act".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act appropriates $54,276,399 to the legislative department for the payment of expenses in the 2021-22 state fiscal year. Additionally, the act appropriates $25,000 to the youth advisory council cash fund within the legislative department.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act creates concurrent legislative jurisdiction between the state of Colorado and the United States over specified real property constituting the United States Army Pueblo chemical depot.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)