The act enacts the "Uniform Unregulated Child Custody Transfer Act" (act), drafted by the uniform law commission. The act applies to the parent, guardian, or custodian of a child, or an individual with whom a child has been placed for adoption, who wishes to terminate the parent-child relationship and is not transferring custody to family or friends. The act prohibits soliciting or advertising to transfer custody or transferring custody of a child by means other than a legal adoption or guardianship proceeding, a judicial award of custody, other judicial or tribal action, or Colorado's safe haven law. The act applies to the placement for adoption of a child who has been or is in foster care or institutional care, has previously been adopted, or is in the process of being adopted. The act requires child placement agencies facilitating an adoption to: Provide prospective adoptive parents with general information about adopting children, specific information about the prospective adoptee, and guidance and instruction on meeting the needs of the adoptee; and Upon the request of a child placed for adoption or the child's adoptive parents, provide information on accessing certain post-placement and post-adoption support services to the adoptee and parent to help preserve the adoption. APPROVED by Governor April 17, 2023 EFFECTIVE April 17, 2023(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws. The bill enacts the "Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act" as drafted by the Uniform Law Commission, which authorizes the use of arbitration in domestic relations cases. The bill: Establishes qualifications, duties, and authority of arbitrators; and Specifies on what grounds and how a party may ask a court to confirm, modify, or vacate an award by an arbitrator.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The act creates the offense of unlawfully aiming a laser device at an aircraft (offense), which is a class 6 felony. A person commits the offense when the person knowingly points, focuses, or aims a laser device at an aircraft while the aircraft is occupied and the incident is reported to law enforcement by the pilot or crew member of the impacted aircraft. The act provides exemptions for a person who points a laser device at an aircraft under certain circumstances. APPROVED by Governor March 23, 2023 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act repeals and reenacts the "Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act." The act applies to community property acquired by spouses while domiciled in a community property jurisdiction and makes clear that if the spouses partition or reclassify their community property or waive rights under the act, the act no longer applies to that property. The act creates a rebuttable presumption that all property acquired by spouses when domiciled in a jurisdiction where community property could be acquired is presumed to be community property. The act provides that upon the death of one community property spouse, half of the property the spouses purchased together belongs to the decedent and the other half to the surviving community property spouse. The act allows a court to recognize reimbursement rights and rights of redress in response to certain bad faith actions by one community property spouse that might impair the rights of the other community property spouse. APPROVED by Governor March 23, 2023 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Public notice for bids on special district construction contracts is currently required when the contract cost is $60,000 or more. The act increases the notice threshold to $120,000 or more and requires the amount to be adjusted for inflation every 5 years. APPROVED by Governor March 17, 2023 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2023 NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause and takes effect 90 days after sine die. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act enacts the softbound volumes of the Colorado Revised Statutes 2022 and the subsequent changes approved by the voters at the general election on November 8, 2022, as the positive and statutory law of the state of Colorado and establishes the effective date of said publication. APPROVED by Governor February 24, 2023 EFFECTIVE February 24, 2023 (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The bill requires the department of health care policy and financing (state department) to create a limited risk factors that influence health benefit (benefit) for medicaid recipients under 21 years of age who experience a qualifying risk factor that influences health. The bill requires the benefit to include access to certain behavioral health services. The bill requires the state department to implement the benefit no later than July 1, 2024. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)