To the extent possible, the department of education (department) is directed to streamline the application process and other requirements relating to the award of money to local education providers, including school districts, charter schools, and other authorized local education providers (local education providers), as defined in the act, to implement one or more extended learning opportunities to address COVID-19 learning impacts. The department is authorized to administer the programs as part of a single combined application, reporting, and evaluation process created by the department.Extended learning opportunities are defined in the act to include, in part, summer school programming, extended school days or extended school weeks, high-impact tutoring, creative enrichment tied to academic gains, social-emotional supports, and additional mental health supports tied to academic success.The combined application allows a needs-based approach to identify the programs and services that meet the needs of the eligible local education provider and allows the department to help match the local education provider with funding sources. In addition to a combined application, the department is authorized to streamline local-education-provider reporting to the department and department reporting to the general assembly and align reporting deadlines.The local education provider shall establish an internal progress-monitoring system to monitor progress using family- and community-informed practices to measure extended learning opportunities program effectiveness through student educational gains.The department shall ensure that eligibility requirements, application provisions, allowable uses of funding, data collection and reporting, and any other requirements specific to the program or funding source are met for all programs or services administered pursuant to this section.If required by law and subject to available funding, the department shall evaluate one or more extended learning opportunities implemented across local education providers using a common set of evaluation criteria and metrics.The state board may adopt any rules necessary for the implementation of the combined application, reporting, and evaluation process.The general assembly may appropriate money to the department for use by local education providers to implement extended learning opportunities.The act repeals the statute, effective July 1, 2026.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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For a mutual ditch corporation, the act clarifies that, subject to the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the corporation:When stockholder demand exceeds supply, the corporation may limit or otherwise rotate delivery of water ratably among the stockholders; and When a stockholder is not using some of or all of the available water under the stockholder's shares, the remaining stockholders taking delivery of water through the ditch may use any unused portion of the water that would otherwise have been available to the first stockholder. The act specifies that it is not intended to prevent a stockholder from changing the use of the water rights represented by the stockholder's shares, create any impediments to changes in use, affect storage water rights, or change the standards for water court approval to change a water right.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act allows a person to sell, without licensure, regulation, or inspection by a public health agency, rabbit meat if the animal was raised and processed by the seller and to sell shares in the meat of an animal, which includes cattle, calves, elk, sheep, hogs, bison, goats, and rabbits, but not fish, for future delivery if:The person displays at the point of sale a disclaimer or gives the purchaser a document with a disclaimer that: The seller is not licensed and the animals or meat are not subject to state regulation or inspection by a public health agency; and The animals or meat are not intended for resale; and The animals or meat are delivered directly from the seller to an informed end consumer and are sold only in Colorado. The purchaser is prohibited from reselling the animal, animal share, or meat. A seller is not liable in a civil action for damages caused by inadequately cooking or improperly preparing the animal or meat for consumption.The act also limits the number of brand inspections for an animal share sale to a single inspection before slaughter. The state board of stock inspection commissioners will promulgate rules establishing procedures for a single inspection.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
House Bill 14-1387, enacted in 2014, inadvertently removed, through the use of the definition of "real property", the authority of the department of personnel (department) to negotiate and execute leases for state use of privately owned property, including land, office space, buildings, and special use interests. This eliminated a decades-old policy for the department to serve as the central authority to assist state agencies and state institutions of higher education to lease needed office space and other property interests. The department has been operating under custom and practice to keep negotiating and executing such leases since House Bill 14-1387 was enacted.The act officially reinstates this authority to the office of the state architect in the department, which houses the real estate program. The real estate program is the program responsible for centralized leasing.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law authorizes the department of revenue (department) to make bulk electronic transfers, for a fee, of certain information obtained from applications for driver's licenses, motor vehicle registrations, motor vehicle titles, identification cards, and other official records and documents. The bulk electronic transfers are made to users and vendors who are permitted to transfer or resell such information. Notwithstanding the provisions of the federal "Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994", the bill prohibits the department from making bulk electronic transfers of information collected by the department to primary users and vendors who transfer or resell such information. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill requires, whenever possible, that a report of known or suspected child abuse or neglect made by a public school official or employee includes information as to whether the child who is the subject of the report has an individualized education program (IEP), as defined in statute. Unless the child is in imminent danger of child abuse or neglect, prior to reporting the suspected child abuse or neglect, a public school official or employee shall request an immediate advisory meeting concerning the child with a least one person who is a primary teacher or special education teacher of the child, if applicable, to share information concerning the child and any IEP or safety plan for the child. Public school officials or employees are encouraged to provide a child's IEP with any report of suspected child abuse or neglect made by a public school official or employee. The bill authorizes the state board of human services to adopt rules to include a notation or flag in a report or inquiry that the child who is the subject of the report or inquiry has been identified as a child who is neuroatypical. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Section 1 of the bill allows a person to sell, without licensure, regulation, or inspection by a public health agency, an animal or shares of the meat of an animal for future delivery if: At the point of sale, the person displays a conspicuous disclaimer or gives the customer a document with a disclaimer indicating that the seller is not subject to licensure and the animal or meat is not subject to state regulation or inspection by a public health agency and that the animal or meat is not intended for resale; and The animal or meat is delivered directly from the seller to an informed end consumer and is sold only in Colorado and the sale does not involve interstate commerce. A person who makes a purchase under the bill is prohibited from reselling the animal or animal share. The bill clarifies that the seller is not liable in a civil action for damages caused by inadequately cooking or improperly preparing the animal or animal share. Section 2 limits the number of brand inspections for an animal share sale to a single inspection before slaughter. Each purchaser must be listed on the inspection certificate. The state board of stock inspection commissioners will promulgate rules establishing procedures for a single inspection.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)