To protect bee and other pollinator populations throughout the state, the bill requires the commissioner of agriculture (commissioner), on or before March 1, 2021, to adopt rules to regulate the use of neonicotinoid pesticides and sulfoximine pesticides by classifying specific neonicotinoid pesticides and sulfoximine pesticides as restricted-use pesticides. The commissioner's rules must exempt from the restricted use of the pesticides their use as indoor pest control, personal care, and pet care products; however, the commissioner, thereafter, may amend the rules to disallow their use as indoor pest control, personal care, or pet care products if the commissioner determines that another commercially available product that is not a neonicotinoid pesticide or a sulfoximine pesticide is as or more effective than a neonicotinoid pesticide or a sulfoximine pesticide when used in accordance with the product's label directions for the same indoor pest control, personal care, or pet care use or uses. The commissioner's rules regarding the restricted use of neonicotinoid pesticides and sulfoximine pesticides must not apply to commercial applicators, limited commercial applicators, public applicators, qualified supervisors, certified operators, and private applicators. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
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On and after September 1, 2020, the bill prohibits the sale of flavored cigarettes, tobacco products, and nicotine products, including flavored electronic cigarettes, and products intended to be added to cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine products to produce a flavor other than tobacco. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Section 1 of the bill defines and exempts a financial organization loyalty card from the property that is subject to the "Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act", which is effective on July 1, 2020. Section 2 repeals the presumption of abandonment in the act for demand, savings, or time deposits with a financial organization, and section 3 replaces it by reenacting the current law, which otherwise is effective until July 1, 2020. The continued, current law has the same 5-year period for property to be presumed abandoned but has different owner activities that rebut the presumption of abandonment. It 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. Section 4 requires the administrator to record the partial last-known address, instead of the full address, for each person appearing on a holder's report provided to the administrator, and for this record to be available on the website or database maintained by the administrator, instead of through public inspection. (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.)
Current law requires health insurance carriers (carriers) to provide preventive health insurance coverage for colorectal cancer screenings in accordance with U.S. preventive services task force guidelines. The bill requires carriers to instead provide coverage for colorectal cancer screenings in accordance with American Cancer Society guidelines. The coverage must include coverage for a colonoscopy or other medical test or procedure for colorectal cancer screening and a follow-up colonoscopy, if necessary, and coverage for high-risk individuals additionally provide coverage for persons 45 years of age and older. (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 requires each district attorney's office to maintain a central record that tracks each case in which a jailhouse witness is endorsed by the state to testify against a suspect or defendant's interest. Each district attorney's office shall send the information to the Colorado district attorneys' council, which shall maintain a statewide record of the information division of criminal justice in the department of public safety on a monthly basis to be maintained in a centralized statewide record that is available to district attorneys throughout the state . The information is not subject to open records requests. A district attorney shall disclose all jailhouse witnesses who have been endorsed by the state and specified information pursuant to rule 16 of the Colorado rules of criminal procedure. In a criminal prosecution for homicide or sexual assault in which the state intends to introduce the testimony of a jailhouse witness, upon a motion of the defendant, the court shall conduct a pre-trial hearing to determine whether the jailhouse witness's testimony is admissible based upon specified factors. Unless the district attorney shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the jailhouse witness's testimony is reliable based on the specified factors, the court shall not allow the testimony to be heard at trial. If a jailhouse witness's testimony is admitted into evidence, the court shall may instruct the jurors to consider specific factors when assessing the jailhouse witness's testimony. If a jailhouse witness receives leniency related to a pending charge, a conviction, or a sentence for a crime against a victim, in connection with offering or providing testimony against a suspect or defendant, the prosecutor shall notify the victim. The bill appropriates $16,860 from the general fund to the department of public safety which is reappropriated to the office of information technology for information technology services to implement the act. (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.)
For renewal of an educator license, the act requires teachers, special services providers, principals, and administrators to complete 10 clock hours of the professional development required during the term of the license relating to increasing awareness of laws and practices relating to the education of students with disabilities in the classroom, including educating students with behavioral concerns or behavioral disabilities. The laws and practices include but are not limited to child find and inclusive learning environments. A licensee who has less than 3 years left in the license renewal period on June 30, 2020, has until the end of the next license renewal period to complete the professional development content requirement and may use classes and activities completed during a 5-year look-back period to comply with the content requirement. Nothing in the act prevents the licensee from applying a single professional development course to one or more content or hour requirements established in law. The act also requires each educator preparation program, alternative teacher program, and alternative principal preparation program to include course work that provides educator candidates or alternative teachers or principals with an overview of federal laws relating to the education of students with disabilities, individualized education programs, and child find and that teaches educators effective special education classroom practices, including but not limited to inclusive learning environments. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Preexisting law prohibits, with certain exceptions, a motor vehicle manufacturer from owning, operating, or controlling any motor vehicle dealer or used motor vehicle dealer in Colorado. The act creates a new exception that allows a manufacturer to own, operate, or control a motor vehicle dealer if the manufacturer makes only electric motor vehicles and has no franchised dealers of the same line-make. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act allows a vintner's restaurant licensee (licensee) to apply to the state licensing authority in the department of revenue for approval to manufacture vinous liquors on alternating proprietor licensed premises, which is a distinct and definite area that is owned by or in possession of the licensee and within which the licensee is authorized to manufacture and store vinous liquors. A licensee that is authorized to manufacture on alternating proprietor licensed premises is not permitted to conduct retail sales of vinous liquors on the alternating proprietor licensed premises. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
For 5 income tax years beginning with the current one, the bill creates an income tax credit for a taxpayer who makes a donation to a Colorado-based nonprofit organization whose purpose is to eradicate human trafficking or to a nonprofit organization that provides at least 25% of its services in the state for victims of human trafficking. The amount of the credit is equal to 25% of the taxpayer's monetary donation to the qualifying nonprofit and is in addition to any federal income tax deduction the taxpayer may claim. The maximum credit a taxpayer may claim for an income tax year is $100,000. The credit is not refundable, but a taxpayer may carry forward unused credits for up to 5 years.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
For the purpose of making the amount of plug-in electric motor vehicle registration fees roughly equal to the combined amount of registration fees and motor fuel taxes levied on motor vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, the bill authorizes the high-performance transportation enterprise to impose the following fees upon the registration of a plug-in electric motor vehicle: An inflation-indexed surface transportation infrastructure equivalent use fee to be imposed at a maximum initial rate of $120 and thereafter indexed to inflation; and A longevity fee that annually increases for each year in which a vehicle is in service until the vehicle reaches its 18th year of service. Fee proceeds are credited to the statewide transportation enterprise special revenue fund for use by the high-performance transportation enterprise in funding surface transportation infrastructure projects. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)