Committee on Legal Services. Current law directs the office of legislative legal services to study the organizational recodification of title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, which relates to professions and occupations. One recommendation of the study is to relocate laws located in title 12 that are administered by the department of revenue, as well as other isolated laws administered by the department of revenue, to a new title 44, which will consist solely of laws administered by the department of revenue that regulate a variety of activities. To implement this recommendation, section 1 of the bill creates title 44 and section 2 relocates a law that creates the liquor enforcement division and state licensing authority cash fund from title 24 to the new title. Section 3 repeals the relocated law from its current location. Sections 4 and 5 make conforming amendments necessitated by the relocation of the law.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
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Committee on Legal Services. Current law directs the office of legislative legal services to study the organizational recodification of title 12, which relates to professions and occupations. To implement the initial recommendations of the study, section 1 of the bill relocates article 37.5 of title 12, the 'Colorado Parental Notification Act', to a new part in article 22 of title 13. Section 2 of the bill makes a conforming amendment, and section 3 repeals the part where the law was previously codified. Section 4 of the bill relocates article 26 of title 12, firearms dealers, to a new part in article 12 of title 18. Section 5 of the bill relocates article 26.1 of title 12, gun show background checks, to a new part in article 12 of title 18. Sections 6 and 7 of the bill make conforming amendments, and section 8 repeals the part and article where the laws were previously codified. Section 9 of the bill relocates part 3 of article 55 of title 12, the 'Uniform Unsworn Declarations Act', to a new article in title 13. Section 10 of the bill makes a conforming amendment, and section 11 repeals the part where the law was previously codified.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Committee on Legal Services. This bill enacts the softbound volumes of Colorado Revised Statutes 2017, including the corrected replacement volume consisting of titles 42 and 43, as the positive and statutory law of the state of Colorado and establishes the effective date of said publication.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Committee on Legal Services. Current law directs the office of legislative legal services to study the organizational recodification of title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, which relates to professions and occupations. One recommendation of the study is to relocate laws located in title 24 that are administered by the department of revenue to a new title 44, which will consist solely of laws administered by the department of revenue that regulate a variety of activities. To implement this recommendation, section 1 of the bill creates title 44 and section 2 relocates laws related to the gambling payment intercept program from title 24 to the new title. Section 3 repeals the relocated laws from their current location. Sections 4 through 7 make conforming amendments necessitated by the relocation of the laws.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Police Officers' and Firefighters' Pension Reform Commission. Current law allows an employer that is affiliated with the fire and police pension association (FPPA) and that provides a money purchase plan for its employees to apply to the board of directors of FPPA (board) to cover some or all existing members of the money purchase plan under either the statewide hybrid plan or the statewide defined benefit plan, both of which are part of the defined benefit system. Current law requires the employer to apply to the board separately for each plan. In addition, the employer may apply to cover only existing employees under the statewide hybrid plan or the statewide defined benefit plan. The bill allows an employer that provides a money purchase plan to apply to the board, with a single application, to cover some or all of the existing members of its money purchase plan in the defined benefit system. In addition, the bill allows an employer that provides a money purchase plan to apply to the board to cover all new employees hired on or after a date certain and who are members of the FPPA to participate as a group in either the statewide hybrid plan or the statewide defined benefit plan through the defined benefit system. The bill eliminates certain statutory requirements in connection with an employer's participation in the defined benefit system and instead authorizes the board to determine the terms, process, certifications, and schedules that will govern an employer's participation in the defined benefit system. The bill also repeals the separate application process for entry into the statewide defined benefit plan. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Committee on Legal Services. Current law directs the office of legislative legal services to study the organizational recodification of title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes, which relates to professions and occupations. One recommendation of the study is to relocate laws located in title 12 that are administered by the department of revenue to a new title 44, which will consist solely of laws administered by the department of revenue that regulate a variety of activities. To implement this recommendation, section 1 of the bill creates title 44 and section 2 relocates laws related to the regulation of limited gaming from title 12 to the new title. Section 3 relocates laws related to the tribal-state gaming compact from title 12 to the new title. Section 4 repeals the relocated laws from their current location. Sections 5 through 45 make conforming amendments necessitated by the relocation of the laws.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) , Read More
Sections 2 through 4 of the bill establish a licensure requirement for retailers who sell cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine products (products). Beginning January 1, 2019, it is illegal for any person doing business in the state to sell or offer for sale products without first obtaining a license as a retailer from the division of liquor enforcement in the department of revenue (division). A retailer with more than one location is required to have a separate license for each location. The division will establish the license application and is required to grant a license to an applicant if it meets the statutory requirements. There is no fee for a license and the license is valid until it is surrendered or revoked. A retailer is required to conspicuously display the license. Section 1 permits money that is appropriated to the division from the tobacco education programs fund to be used for the licensure of retailers, and it increases the required annual appropriation from the fund from $300,000 to $1 million. Section 6 prohibits an entity from receiving a grant for tobacco education, prevention, and cessation if any money would be used to: Advocate for a local government to impose a license requirement, fee, or tax on a retailer or impose a tax on tobacco products in any manner; or Support a statewide ballot measure that would impose a local license requirement, fee, or tax on a retailer or impose any type of tax on cigarettes or tobacco products. An entity is likewise prohibited from using a grant award to supplant other money that is in turn used for these prohibited purposes. Any prior grant that was to be used for these prohibited purposes must instead be used for tobacco education, prevention, or cessation. Under current law, an amount equal to 27% of gross cigarette sales are distributed to cities and counties in the state, but to be eligible for this distribution a city and county must not impose a fee, license, or tax on any person as a condition for engaging in the business of selling cigarettes or impose a tax on cigarettes. Section 8 expands the condition for receiving state money to include the same prohibitions for other tobacco products and nicotine products and it establishes another condition that a local government must not ban any person from selling cigarettes, other tobacco products, or nicotine products for any period of time.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More
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Committee on Cost-benefit Analysis of Legalized Marijuana in Colorado. The state constitution grants a person the authority to assist another person in cultivating medical and recreational marijuana plants. The bill states that a person is not in compliance with the authority to assist another individual and is subject to marijuana cultivation criminal offenses and penalties if the person possesses any marijuana plant that he or she is growing on behalf of another individual, unless he or she is the primary caregiver for the individual and is in compliance with the requirements of section 25-1.5-106. The bill creates the gray and black market marijuana enforcement grant program (grant program) in the division of local government in the department of local affairs (division). The grant program awards grants to local governments to reimburse the local governments, in part or in full, for law enforcement and prosecution costs associated with gray and black marijuana markets. A rural local government has priority in receiving grants. The general assembly may appropriate money from the marijuana tax cash fund or the proposition AA refund account to the division for the grant program. The bill appropriates $5,945,392 from the marijuana tax cash fund to the division to fund the grant program. The division shall adopt policies and procedures for the administration of the grant program, including rules related to the application process and the grant award criteria. The division shall include information regarding the effectiveness of the grant program in its SMART presentation beginning in November 2019. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
The bill eliminates certain mandatory conditions of parole while preserving the discretion of the state board of parole (board) and parole officers to impose such conditions. Specifically, the bill removes the requirement that: The board fix the manner and time of payment of restitution as a condition of every parole; Every parolee obtain the knowledge and consent of his or her community parole officer before changing residence, instead requiring a parolee to notify his or her parole officer before any change of residence; Every parolee submit to urinalysis or other drug tests; Every parolee not associate with any other person on parole, on probation, or with a criminal record or with any inmate of a correctional facility without the permission of his or her community parole officer; and The board require every parolee at the parolee's own expense to submit to random chemical testing of a biological substance sample from the parolee to determine the presence of drugs or alcohol.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)