The act requires kindergarten through twelfth grade public schools (school), and strongly encourages nonpublic schools, to provide annual seizure-related training to school personnel who have direct contact with or supervise students who have a seizure disorder.The parent or legal guardian (parent) of a student who has been diagnosed with a seizure disorder, including epilepsy, (student) is encouraged to submit a signed, individualized seizure action plan (plan) to the school if the student may need assistance with seizure-related care in a school setting. The plan must be developed in coordination with recognized sources on epilepsy and seizure disorders and in consultation with a state organization that represents school nurses. The seizure action plan must be in accordance with the guidelines developed by the department of education. The parent is encouraged to provide updated information to the plan when necessary.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The act modifies requirements for an existing loan program (program) created to assist transitions of businesses to employee-owned businesses. The act repeals statutory eligibility requirements and requires the office of economic development (office) to establish eligibility criteria for the program. The criteria must include an annual gross revenues limitation for participation in the program for businesses, which amount may be set at up to or less than $50 million. The criteria must also establish requirements for the number of employees who will be offered the option to participate in the employee-ownership opportunity.A loan under the program may be used toward the purchase of the business by the employees. The act repeals requirements related to the size of the loans and how the loans must be held and requires the office to establish requirements for the terms of the loans pursuant to existing statutory requirements.Under the current statute, the program is repealed effective July 1, 2022. The act extends the program through July 1, 2025.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The property tax administrator is required by law to prepare and publish manuals, appraisal procedures, instructions, and guidelines (property tax materials) concerning the administration of the property tax. Beginning January 1, 2022, section 1 of the bill requires the administrator to conduct a public hearing on a proposed change to the property tax materials prior to submitting the proposed change to the advisory committee to the property tax administrator (advisory committee). The administrator must publish notice of the hearing and mail notice to those people who so request. At the hearing, interested persons may submit information and the administrator is required to consider these submissions. Any interested person may also petition the administrator for the issuance, amendment, or repeal of any property tax material. At least 2 weeks prior to the advisory committee reviewing a proposed change to the property tax materials, section 2 requires the property tax administrator to publish notice about the proposed change. Under current law, an assessor may, with the permission of the board of county commissioners, include an estimate of property taxes owed in a notice of valuation. Section 3 requires an assessor to include this estimate and allows the assessor to include a range of values. If in the consideration of a protest an assessor finds that he or she made a systematic error and the valuations of other similar properties are incorrect, section 4 requires the assessor to correct the error for the other similar properties.Sections 4 through 9 extend all deadlines related to protests of the valuation of real or personal property and for appeals to the county board of equalization to the same day of the following month. The deadline for a county assessor to report the total valuation for assessment of land and improvements within a county is likewise delayed.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The act makes it a deceptive trade practice for a person to knowingly or intentionally manufacture, import, distribute, sell, offer for sale, install, or reinstall a device intended to replace a supplemental restraint system component if the device is:A counterfeit supplemental restraint system component; A nonfunctional airbag; or Any object in lieu of a supplemental restraint system component that was not designed in accordance with federal safety regulations for the make, model, and year of the motor vehicle in which it is or will be installed. The act also prohibits a motor vehicle repair facility or any employee or contract laborer of the facility from installing or reinstalling any device that causes the motor vehicle's diagnostic systems to fail to warn that:The motor vehicle is equipped with a counterfeit supplemental restraint system component; The motor vehicle is equipped with a nonfunctional airbag; or No airbag is installed.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Current law requires the commissioner of insurance (commissioner) to appoint 2 members to the workers' compensation classification appeals board who are salaried employees of an insurance company that issues workers' compensation insurance policies in this state or who are representatives of Pinnacol Assurance, but both members may not be representatives of Pinnacol Assurance or of the same insurance company.The act requires the commissioner to appoint:One member who is a salaried employee of an insurance company or a representative of Pinnacol Assurance; and One member who is a salaried employee of an insurance company, a representative of Pinnacol Assurance, or an insurance agent. The act maintains the prohibition against appointing a representative of Pinnacol Assurance or of the same insurance company to both positions on the board. The act also gives the commissioner the option to appoint an insurance agent to serve as an alternate member if one of the appointed members recuses himself or herself. The act continues the workers' compensation classification appeals board until 2032.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, if the Colorado educational and cultural facilities authority has issued qualified charter school bonds for a charter school that fails to immediately restore its qualified charter school debt service reserve fund (reserve fund) to the applicable reserve fund requirement, the general assembly may, but is not required to, appropriate money to restore any or all reserve fund requirements for an aggregate outstanding principal amount of bonds not to exceed $500 million. The act increases the cap for the aggregate outstanding principal amount of qualified charter school bonds for which the general assembly may restore reserve fund requirements to $750 million.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The responsibilities of the statewide internet portal authority (SIPA) include developing the officially recognized statewide internet portal, entering into a contract with a statewide internet portal integrator for the development, support, maintenance, and enhancement of the equipment and systems used for the statewide internet portal, and providing appropriate administration and oversight of the statewide internet portal integrator. Current law specifies that SIPA may not enter into a contract with a statewide portal integrator unless the statewide portal integrator was chosen by the authority pursuant to a request for proposals.The act retains the requirement for a competitive solicitation for the contract with the statewide portal integrator, but authorizes competitive solicitation methods other than a request for proposals, including the invitation to negotiate.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act defines and exempts a financial organization loyalty card from the property that is subject to the "Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act". The act also repeals the presumption of abandonment in the act that took effect on July 1, 2020, for demand, savings, or time deposits with a financial organization, and replaces it by reenacting the similar version that was in effect prior to July 1, 2020, which has the same 5-year period for property to be presumed abandoned but has different owner activities that rebut the presumption of abandonment. The act also delays the time that a financial organization is required to deliver this property to the administrator if a penalty or forfeiture in the payment of interest would result from the delivery of the property. With respect to the administrator's reporting of information about an apparent owner, the act:Repeals the requirement that the administrator's record of persons, which includes the apparent owner's name and last-known address, be available for inspection; and Repeals the administrator's authority to identify the physical address of an apparent owner in published notices and on the website.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, when a property owner appeals the valuation of property set by a county board of equalization, the valuation may not be increased on appeal. The act removes this restriction.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)