The act removes the prohibition against an employee of a liquor-licensed drugstore who is under 21 years of age having contact with alcohol beverages at the liquor-licensed drugstore. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, the sales tax exemption for sales to residents of bordering states without retail sales taxes exempts from state sales tax all retail sales made within 20 miles of the Colorado border to residents of states that border Colorado and do not have a retail sales tax, so long as those residents are in Colorado for the primary purpose of making the purchase. The act repeals this exemption. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act specifies that a physician assistant who has been practicing for at least 3 years must comply with the same financial responsibility requirements to which physicians are subject, namely to maintain professional liability coverage of at least $1 million per incident and $3 million aggregate per year. Additionally, the act authorizes the Colorado medical board to exempt physician assistants from the financial responsibility requirements, or lessen the requirements, to the same extent permitted for physicians. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The "Colorado Municipal Election Code of 1965" (code) specifies procedures that municipal clerks are required to use when mailing ballots to voters who are covered by the federal "Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act" (UOCAVA). The code specifies that standard voting materials for the purposes of UOCAVA include a declaration prescribed to accompany a federal absentee write-in ballot; however, the municipal clerks are unable to use that declaration. The act repeals this requirement. The code also specifies that, to be valid, an active military or overseas voter must complete a signed affirmation required by federal law. The act specifies the language required to be included in the affirmation. The code currently requires all paper ballots, including mail ballots, to include a ballot stub and a duplicate stub on the top portion of the ballot. This requirement is unnecessary for mail ballots, as municipalities have other ballot verification methods. The act specifies that mail ballots are not required to include a stub and a duplicate stub. The act also amends several provisions in the code regarding mail ballot elections to be consistent with other general provisions in the code regarding municipal elections. Specifically: The provision in the code that requires nomination petitions in mail ballot elections to be corrected no later than 66 days before the election is amended to be consistent with the general provision that specifies such petitions must be amended prior to 63 days before the election; The provision in the code that requires a withdrawal affidavit for a mail ballot election to be filed by the close of business on the 63rd day prior to the election is amended to be consistent with the general provision that specifies such withdrawals must occur prior to 63 days before the election; and The wording of the self-affirmation that is required to appear on the envelope for a mail ballot is amended to be consistent with the wording of the self-affirmation that is required to appear on the envelope for an absentee ballot.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, the pre-1987 net operating loss deduction for individuals, estates, and trusts allows individuals, estates, and trusts to deduct Colorado net operating losses carried forward from tax years beginning prior to January 1, 1987, from their federal taxable income when computing their Colorado taxable income. But the latest year that an individual, estate, or trust could have used the pre-1987 net operating loss deduction and carried forward a net operating loss generated in 1987 was 2002. The act repeals the deduction. The act applies to income tax years tax beginning on or after January 1, 2021. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act recodifies statutory provisions governing the department of law (department), especially by replacing outmoded language with updated terms and usage. The act repeals outmoded language regarding internal divisions within the department, specifies the powers and duties of the attorney general, enumerates internal divisions of the department, updates the statutory provision authorizing the appointment of the chief deputy attorney general, and addresses the appointment and qualifications of the solicitor general. The act updates statutory provisions governing the victims' services coordinator. It updates statutory provisions governing money received by the attorney general. It also specifies that any money received by the attorney general belonging to the state or received by the attorney general in his or her official capacity must be paid as soon as practicable to the department of the treasury. Moreover, generally, the attorney general has such legal duties in regard to the activities of the state and its various departments, boards, commissions, bureaus, and agencies as are imposed by law. The act specifies requirements pertaining to the legal services the attorney general provides to state agencies and clarifies that nothing in the act is to be construed as affecting, limiting, or supplanting the common law authority of the attorney general or the department. The act specifies requirements governing the provision of identification cards to retired peace officers. The act addresses legal representation of the state auditor and specifies that the duty of providing legal representation or otherwise rendering legal services to the state auditor in connection with the auditor's performance of his or her functions and duties is shared between the office of legislative legal services and the attorney general. The act also repeals existing outmoded sections of law. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act changes the date that the statutory revision committee is required to report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly from on or before November 15 of each year to on or before July 1 of each year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act adds 2 voting positions to the Colorado youth advisory council for representatives from the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and reduces the number of at-large members from 5 to 3. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
County jails - data collection - appropriation. The act expands the information that a keeper of a jail (keeper) is required to maintain about the jail and the inmates confined in the jail. The keeper is required to submit a quarterly report of this information to the division of criminal justice within the department of public safety (division), and the division is required to publish that information in a searchable and sortable format. For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, $26,107 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of public safety for use by the division of criminal justice. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Colorado youth advisory council - review committee - appropriation. The Colorado youth advisory council review committee (review committee) is created to review the work of the Colorado youth advisory council (council) and recommend legislation affecting Colorado youth. The review committee is comprised of the legislative members of the council, 5 nonlegislative council members who are appointed by the council, and one member of the legislative council. The 5 legislative members of the review committee serve as voting members. All other members are nonvoting members. The review committee may meet up to 3 times each interim and recommend up to 3 bills to the legislative council. For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, the act appropriates $28,790 from the general fund to the legislative department to use as follows: $18,455 for use by legislative council staff; $6,889 for use by the committee on legal services; and $3,446 for use by the general assembly.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
