With respect to mandatory coverage for fertility diagnosis and treatment and fertility preservation services (fertility services) under health benefit plans, the act requires large employer health benefit plans issued or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2023, to cover fertility services and requires the division of insurance to implement the coverage requirement. In addition, for individual and small group policies and contracts, the act requires coverage for fertility services under individual and small group policies and contracts issued or renewed in this state 12 months after the federal department of health and human services determines that coverage for fertility services does not require defrayal by the state, and requires the division to implement the fertility services coverage requirement once effective. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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Sections 1 and 4 of the act allow a board of directors of an irrigation district (board) to borrow money, which the irrigation district may use to make loans to landowners to be used to make improvements to private water delivery systems or for other types of projects that improve: Water conservation or efficiencies on landowner property; or Landowner delivery or drainage systems. An obligation or contract to borrow such money is exempt from the existing requirement that a contract purporting to bind the district to pay a certain sum must be ratified by a certain number of district voters. Additionally, the district cannot assess landowners to raise money to fund the loans. In case of default in the payment of any loan installment, the county treasurer may assess upon the eligible real property a tax lien for the payment of the whole of the unpaid installment but is prohibited from assessing a tax lien for the entire value of the landowner's portion of the irrigation loan issued by the water district. Sections 2 and 5 require each irrigation district to include in its annual appropriation resolution: The amount needed to meet loan obligations; All amounts payable by landowners to the irrigation district in accordance with loans issued to the landowners; and The amount payable by each tract within the irrigation district for which a landowner has received a loan. Sections 3 and 6 state that the county treasurer will receive $5 per tract assessed for loans issued to landowners by an irrigation district, and this $5 will be assessed against each participating tract. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The bill requires the real estate commission to promulgate rules requiring that certain commission-approved forms closing-statement form s require notification to buyers or tenants as to whether a real estate transaction is based upon uses a land survey plat or an improvement location certificate. Current law forbids designating or construing an improvement location certificate as being a land survey plat or improvement survey plat. The bill clarifies that a real estate documents and forms shall not designate or construe such a certificate commission-approved closing-statement form is not designated or construed as being a land or improvement survey plat. (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 bill clarifies the meaning of terms related to landowner liability and declares that the Colorado court of appeals and supreme court decisions in Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Inc. v. Wagner should not be relied upon to the extent that those decisions determined: The foreseeability of third-party criminal conduct based upon whether the goods or services offered by a landowner are controversial; and That a landowner could be held liable as a substantial factor in causing harm without considering whether a third-party criminal act was the predominant cause of that harm.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
During the 2021 session, the general assembly created a civil infraction as penalty for violations of the law that do not rise to criminal conduct and included procedures for civil infractions. The act repeals those provisions and replaces them with new procedures for handling civil infractions. The act makes conforming amendments related to civil infractions. The act makes clean-up changes to other provisions to conform to changes made to criminal sentencing provisions during the 2021 session. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies' sunset review and report concerning the committee on juvenile justice reform by repealing the committee. The act requires the committee to complete all its tasks before the repeal of the committee on December 31, 2022. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, it is a class 2 misdemeanor to practice the following professions without an active license, registration, or certification: Professional engineering, architecture, audiology, dentistry, direct-entry midwifery, medicine, physician assistant, anesthesiologist assistant, professional nursing, nursing home administration, optometry, pharmacy, pharmacy technician, and respiratory therapy. The act makes it a class 6 felony to practice any of these professions intentionally without a license, registration, or certification and fraudulently representing that the person has a license, certification, or registration. The act states the purposes of probation are to: Serve as a sentencing option and a response to crime in order to moderate and deter future criminal behavior and victimization; Support persons in behavior change through the coordination and provision of effective and individualized services which may include, but are not limited to, educational, therapeutic, restorative, and skill-building services; Hold persons accountable for their behavior through supervision and interventions that promote reparation of harm to the community and victims, which reparation includes, but is not limited to, restitution to victims; Serve as a cost-effective option for persons appropriate for community supervision; and Honor the statutory and constitutional rights of victims of crime. The act requires a probation officer to issue a summons when a probationer has allegedly violated a condition of probation or the officer is seeking probation revocation, with some exceptions. The act requires the state court administrator to develop a system of structured and individualized behavior responses to guide probation officers in determining how best to respond to probation violations. Under current law, when a parolee has a technical violation of parole, a brief period of confinement in a county jail may be imposed as a sanction. The act allows that confinement to also be served in a department of corrections facility. The act specifies that for a theft that involves public benefits, the value of the benefits involved for purposes of determining the level of the offense is calculated by the difference between the value of the benefits received and the value of benefits the recipient was eligible for. Under current law, it is illegal for someone to possess a firearm if the person was convicted of or adjudicated for a victim's right act crime that is a felony. The act adds more felony offenses to the convictions that prohibit a person from possessing a firearm. Under current law, it is illegal for someone to possess a firearm if the person was previously adjudicated for a victim's right act crime that is a felony offense. The act allows a person in that situation who has good cause for possessing a firearm to petition the court for an order determining that the crime does not apply to the person. The act appropriates $53,390 to the judicial department from the general fund and authorizes 0.7 FTE for probation programs. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The starting point for determining state income tax liability is federal taxable income. Federal taxable income is adjusted for additions and subtractions (deductions) that are used to determine Colorado taxable income, which amount is multiplied by the state's income tax rate of 4.55%. For the next 7 income tax years, the bill allows an individual to claim a deduction for qualifying out-of-pocket medical expenses, if the expenses are not: Claimed as a deduction on the taxpayer's federal income tax return; Paid or reimbursed from a medical savings account; or Paid or reimbursed by the taxpayer's insurance company.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The concurrent resolution requires any bill that imposes a new fee, authorizes the imposition of a new fee, increases an existing fee, or authorizes the increase of an existing fee to be approved by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to each house of the general assembly, taken on 2 separate days in each house, to become law. The concurrent resolution defines a "fee" as a charge that is levied to defray the cost of a particular government service provided to those charged or to mitigate the impact of an activity engaged in by those charged and that is not levied for the purpose of raising any revenue for a general public purpose. (Note: This summary applies to this concurrent resolution as introduced.)
The act clarifies the opportunities available to inmates imprisoned by the department of corrections (department). The act clarifies that the rehabilitation and work opportunities available to inmates are to promote the person's successful rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration into the community. The act clarifies a distinction between external programs, which occur in partnership with employers outside of department facilities, and internal programs, which occur inside a department facility and may be in partnership with employers outside of department facilities. The act amends inmate compensation and permissible deductions from an inmate's account. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)