To protect public health and the environment, a metropolitan sewage disposal district (district) is required to ensure that wastewater generated by local businesses is properly treated pursuant to the industrial pretreatment program (program) approved by the environmental protection agency. This requires district inspectors to inspect certain properties to investigate actual, suspected, or potential violations of the program. Under current law, the boundaries of a district may exist within multiple municipal and county lines, which makes it challenging for the district to obtain administrative inspection warrants when property owners deny district inspectors entry to a property. The act allows authorized inspectors of a district to enter and inspect, in a reasonable time and manner, any property for the purpose of investigating any violations of the program. If an inspection is denied, the act authorizes a district to obtain a warrant from the district court or county court upon a proper showing of the need for entry and inspection. APPROVED by Governor April 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The attorney general is authorized to appear for the state and prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings, civil and criminal, in which the state is a party or is interested when required to do so by the governor. In these circumstances, the act allows the attorney general to also expend funds, manage staff, and perform other administrative functions essential for the operation of a district attorney's office. If it is essential during this time for the attorney general to hire personnel, while the attorney general has the ultimate authority regarding hiring decisions, a committee consisting of the attorney general, a representative from the Colorado district attorneys' council, and the highest ranking attorney or official at the district attorney's office shall make recommendations regarding hiring decisions that the attorney general must consider. APPROVED by Governor April 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 17, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The constitution guarantees all persons the right to bail pending disposition of charges, with exceptions for capital offenses and crimes of violence under certain circumstances. The concurrent resolution amends the Colorado constitution to add an exception for the offense of murder in the first degree when proof is evident or presumption is great. (Note: This summary applies to this concurrent resolution as adopted.)
The act permits, subject to conditions, concurrent legislative jurisdiction between the state of Colorado and the United States over specified United States military installation property. APPROVED by Governor April 4, 2024 EFFECTIVE April 4, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, the statute of limitation to bring a claim against a real estate appraiser does not commence until the party filing the claim discovers, or should discover, an alleged defect in the appraisal. The bill requires a claimant to bring an action against a real estate appraiser or individual performing a real estate appraisal practice within 3 years after the date of report; except that, if a cause of action arises during the third year after the date of report, the action must be brought within 2 years after the date the cause of action arose 5 years after the date of report. The bill does not apply to actions for fraud brought against a real estate appraiser or individual performing an appraisal practice. (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 creates the Colorado small business innovative research matching money program (program) in the Colorado office of economic development (office). The program provides businesses with money to match money that a business received pursuant to a federal small business innovative research (SBIR) program award or a federal small business technology transfer (STTR) program award. To be eligible for an award from the program, a business must be Colorado-based and must maintain a meaningful nexus to the state for at least 3 years following the commercialization of a service, product, concept, design, or other marketable asset developed using money from the program. A business must also agree to certain reporting requirements. The office may award matching money in an amount up to 100% of a phase I federal SBIR program or federal STTR program award, not to exceed $100,000; or, up to 100% of a phase II federal SBIR program or federal STTR program award, not to exceed $250,000. Matching money comes from the Colorado small business innovative research matching fund created in the bill. A business that receives money from the program, commercializes a service, product, concept, design, or other marketable asset using the money from the program, and then fails to maintain a meaningful nexus to the state while continuing to market the asset, is required to repay all matching money awarded by the program plus interest. The office is required to adopt policies for the program that include eligibility requirements, application procedures, prioritization of funding applications, the number of awards and amount of money available for award in any fiscal year, timing of the issuance of money awarded, provision for repayment of money awarded, the allowable use of money awarded, requirements for additional nonstate public or private financing, the conduct of research in the state, requirements for and review of marketable assets, and provisions to ensure adequate consideration to the state in exchange for the amount of money awarded to a business. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The act enacts the softbound volumes of the Colorado Revised Statutes 2023, the subsequent changes approved by the voters at the statewide election on November 7, 2023, and the 2023 Colorado First Extraordinary Session Supplement as the positive and statutory law of the state of Colorado and establishes the effective date of said publication. APPROVED by Governor February 20, 2024 EFFECTIVE February 20, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law permits a plaintiff in a personal injury case stemming from a tort to claim interest at a rate of 9% on the damages alleged from the date the action accrued until the date the judgment is satisfied. Beginning July 1, 2024, the bill prohibits a plaintiff's attorney from collecting attorney contingency fees based on that portion of the ultimate damages award attributable to the 9% interest. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)