Section 1 of the bill requires an entertainment facility with a seating capacity of 7,000 seats or more to designate and enforce at least 4% of its seating capacity as substance-free seating. Substance-free seating is defined as seating where the use of alcohol, electronic smoking devices, marijuana, and tobacco (prohibited substances) is banned. Substance-free seating must include seats that are accessible to persons with disabilities and cannot be limited exclusively to seats that are higher than or farther away from the sport or entertainment activity relative to the majority of seats at the facility. Written policies and procedures, including those that enforce the ban on prohibited substances, are required. Signs regarding the ban must be prominently displayed in and around the substance-free seating sections. Failure by an entertainment facility to comply with the requirement for designating and enforcing 4% or more substance-free seating is deemed "good cause" for refusal or denial of an alcohol beverage license renewal or initial license issuance by the state licensing authority as part of the existing regulatory scheme for such licenses. Failure to comply is also a basis for other license-related discipline, including suspension, revocation, or fine. Sections 2 and 3 make conforming amendments to the statutory scheme for regulation of smoking. Section 4 makes conforming amendments to the statutory scheme for regulation of alcohol.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
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Currently, in a county with a population of 70,000 or more, the board of county commissioners (board) may consist of 3 commissioners from 3 districts, with one commissioner elected from each district by voters of the whole county. Alternatively, the board may consist of 5 commissioners, the county may be divided into 3 or 5 districts, and the commissioners may be elected pursuant to one of 10 alternative methods. The bill eliminates this discretionary system and instead requires that all counties with a population of 70,000 or more have 5 commissioners, with at least 3 commissioners elected only by voters resident in the district from which each commissioner runs for election. The bill allows the counties to choose between 3 election alternatives: 3 commissioners resident in 3 districts elected by voters resident in those districts and 2 commissioners elected at large; 4 commissioners resident in 4 districts elected by voters resident in those district and one commissioner elected at large; or 5 commissioners resident in 5 districts elected only by voters resident in those districts. The bill makes conforming amendments to statutory provisions concerning commissioner districts and election petition statutes. The bill does not affect counties that have adopted home rule. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
In addition to the protection and security services currently provided to members of the general assembly by the Colorado state patrol, the Colorado state patrol is authorized to provide other protection and security services to a member of the general assembly as requested by the executive committee of the legislative council and as deemed necessary by the chief of the Colorado state patrol. The executive committee of the legislative council is required to establish a process by which a member of the general assembly may request other protection and security services from the Colorado state patrol. The Colorado state patrol is required to ensure that members of the general assembly are aware of the protection and security services that may be requested from the Colorado state patrol. The Colorado state patrol is required to provide protection and security services to the secretary of state, attorney general, and state treasurer (statewide constitutional officers) upon request of the statewide constitutional officer. The Colorado state patrol is required to designate state patrol officers to be available to provide protection services to statewide constitutional officers and the chief of the Colorado state patrol is required to determine the priority in assigning state patrol officers among each statewide constitutional officer. The act specifies that it is not intended to provide around-the-clock protection for a statewide constitutional officer unless there is a credible threat as determined in the discretion of the chief of the Colorado state patrol. For the 2022-23 state fiscal year, $1,115,090 is appropriated to the department of public safety from the general fund to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires each student identification card issued to a public school student to contain the phone number, website, and text talk number for the 24-hour telephone crisis service center (Colorado crisis services) and Safe2Tell. If the school does not issue identification cards, the school shall request and display outreach materials from Colorado crisis services and send that information to parents and guardians at the beginning of each school year. The act requires the department of human services (department) to notify each public and private school in the state about services provided by the behavioral health crisis response system and the possibility of peer-to-peer counseling as part of the offered services. The department shall provide behavioral health crisis response system awareness and educational materials to each public and private school in the state. $267,065 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of human services for use by the behavioral health administration to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Colorado law allows the department of revenue (department) to register a vehicle for less than a year so that all of the vehicle owner's registrations for all of the owner's vehicles expire at the same time. The taxes and fees are prorated. Section 2 of the act clarifies that the surcharges are also prorated. Colorado law sets the late registration fee for camper trailers and multipurpose trailers at $10. Section 3 sets trailer coaches at the same late registration fee. Colorado law prohibits transferring a license plate with a vehicle, but exempts certain plates. Section 4 adds distinctive special license plates, group special license plates, and special alumni license plates to the exemption and adds intrastate commercial vehicle, trailers, and special mobile machinery to the types of plates that cannot be transferred. Section 5 clarifies that the owner of an inoperable vehicle undergoing maintenance, repair, restoration, rebuilding, or renovation must pay an annual specific ownership tax. Upon payment of the tax, the owner will receive evidence of registration to affix to the vehicle, such as a license plate or decal, and isn't charged surcharges or fees if the owner keeps the vehicle on private property for the purposes of maintenance, repair, restoration, rebuilding, or renovation. Section 6 creates a license plate to celebrate Colorado's 150th anniversary of becoming a state. Colorado law requires the owner of a truck to present a certified scale ticket showing the weight of the truck if the truck is subject to certain weight-based fees, has not been modified, and weighs between 4,500 pounds and10,000 pounds. Section 7 authorize the owner to present a manufacturer's certificate of origin, certificate of title, certified scale ticket, or other documents or systems as determined by rule. The department uses a table to compute certain registration fees that are based on weight for vehicles that weigh less than 10,000 pounds. Section 8 lowers this weight to 6,000 pounds. Colorado law requires an applicant for a certificate of title for a motor or off-highway vehicle to provide any lien document as an original or as a copy, which must be certified by the lienholder to be a true copy of the original lien. Similarly, a lienholder that is filing a lien must file any lien document as an original or a copy, which the lienholder must certify is a true copy. Sections 9, 10, and 11 repeal the requirement that the lienholder certify the copy. Section 9 and 11 also remove language that says that vehicle lien filings are public records. To release a lien on a motor or off-highway vehicle, current law requires the lienholder to file a lien release, which must include a written declaration that is made under penalty of perjury. Section 12 adds an option that the lienholder may file a notarized declaration. Colorado law requires a motor vehicle dealer to pay a $25 fee to the executive director of the department for a certificate of title. Section 13 clarifies that the fee can be paid to a county clerk or third-party vendor, which is typically the entity that is processing the transaction. Section 14 splits this $25 dollar fee, if paid to the county clerk, so that the county clerk retains $21.80 and forwards the rest to the department. Colorado law requires a vehicle owner to obtain a bonded certificate of title if the vehicle owner cannot present the ordinary proof of ownership. To obtain a title in lieu of a bonded title on a collector's item, street-rod vehicle, or horseless carriage of 25 years old or older, the applicant must present, among other things, a notarized bill of sale. Section 15 repeals the requirement that the bill of sale be notarized. To register a motor vehicle, a vehicle owner must pay a road safety surcharge and a bridge safety surcharge. Section 16 sets the road safety surcharge at $16 for trailer coaches, which are trailers that are at least 26 feet long and used for temporary living quarters. Section 17 sets the bridge safety surcharge at $13 for trailer coaches. Section 18 appropriates $318,840 to the department to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The office of information technology (office) is required to initiate the procurement of information technology (IT) resources and is required to participate in other IT procurement-related activities on behalf of a state agency; except that a state agency may initiate solicitations and contracts for IT resources with prior approval of the procurement official of the office. If a state agency does not receive written approval or disapproval from the procurement official for the office within 30 business days after submitting a procurement request to the office for review, the state agency may assume that it has received the prior approval of the office and is authorized to initiate the procurement or solicitation process. The balance of the existing technology risk prevention and response fund (fund) is capped at $50 million. The office may contribute money to the fund from the operations and maintenance fees associated with the billing practices of the office. Any money appropriated from the general fund to the office or a state agency for the procurement of IT resources or projects that is unexpended or unencumbered at the end of a fiscal year as a result of savings achieved in connection with such procurement must be transferred to the fund. A contract for the licensing of software applications that are designed to run on generally available desktop or server hardware cannot limit a governmental body's ability to install or run the software on the hardware of the governmental body's choosing. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act creates the Colorado nonprofit security grant program to provide money to qualified nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist attack and that applied for, but did not receive, a grant from the federal nonprofit security grant program. Grant recipients may use the money for the following security-related activities: The installation of security equipment on real property owned or leased by the nonprofit organization; Security-related planning, exercises, training, and contracted security personnel; New or existing infrastructure; except that priority must be given to existing infrastructure projects; or Any other approved security enhancements. The act appropriates $500,000 from the general fund to the department of public safety for use by the division of homeland security and emergency management. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
In order to recompense the public employees' retirement association (PERA) for the cancellation of a previously scheduled July 1, 2020, direct distribution of $225 million, the act requires an additional direct distribution to PERA of $380 million to be made on the effective date of the act or as soon as possible thereafter. The act also reduces the $225 million July 1, 2023, direct distribution to PERA that is scheduled under current law by at least $155 million but no more than $190 million, depending upon the amount of investment income earned by PERA on the additional $380 million direct distribution so that the July 1, 2023, direct distribution will be between $35 million and $70 million. Finally, the act reduces the $225 million July 1, 2024, direct distribution to PERA that is scheduled under current law by the lesser of an amount equal to 7.25% multiplied by $380 million or an amount equal to PERA's annual rate of return on investments as reported in PERA's 2022 annual report multiplied by $380 million; except that there is no reduction if the rate of return is zero or less. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Colorado law requires a person to register the person's motor vehicle within 90 days after moving to Colorado. Section 2 of the act requires a person who registers a vehicle after moving to Colorado to: Provide documentation of the vehicle's previous registration that contains the registration dates or the vehicle's bill of sale; Provide evidence of the date that the person became a Colorado resident; and Pay the vehicle's registration taxes and fees that are prorated from the date the person became a Colorado resident to the date the person applied to register the vehicle, unless the vehicle is used for interstate commerce or unless the owner registered the vehicle within 90 days after becoming a resident. The act requires an owner who fails to register the vehicle within 90 days after moving to Colorado to pay assessed back taxes and fees. The allocation and use of the taxes and fees does not change. Section 3 imposes late fees for failing to register a vehicle when appropriate after obtaining temporary tags for the vehicle. Section 3 also imposes prorated registration taxes and fees to capture missed revenue if a person fails to register a vehicle when required by law. Section 4 lowers the registration fee that is based on the age of a vehicle: For motor vehicles less than 7 years old, the fee is lowered from $12 to $9; For motor vehicles at least 7 years old but less than 10 years old, the fee is lowered from $10 to $7; and For motor vehicles 10 years old or older, the fee is lowered from $7 to $5. The department of revenue (department) may adjust the fees to make the act revenue neutral but may not lower a fee below one dollar or raise the fees above the original amount from which the act lowered the fees. In 2026, this fee decrease repeals, and the fees return to their original amounts. One dollar of the fee is retained by the department and used to offset the cost to the department and the authorized agents to implement the act. Colorado law imposes a fee of $1.50 on motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers. The fee is sent to the county where the vehicle is registered for its road and bridge fund. Section 5 lowers this fee to $0.94 to offset the increased taxes and fees collected by the county under sections 2 and 3. The department will annually adjust the fee amount to keep the act revenue neutral to the counties. This process is repealed on July 1, 2026, so that the fee returns to $1.50. To implement the act, $248,249 is appropriated to the department of revenue from the Colorado DRIVES vehicle services account in the highway users tax fund. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Section 1 of the act relocates existing statutes that require contractors to offer certain resource efficiency options when constructing certain buildings. Section 1 also requires certain new commercial buildings and multifamily residences to include electric vehicle charging as follows: If the building is 25,000 square feet or more or the building is part of a project that is 40,000 square feet or more of floor space in more than one building, with a total of 25 or more sets of living quarters or commercial units among all the buildings: 25% of the parking spaces used by the occupants of the building must be EV capable, which means that the building is ready to run the wiring and install a 208 to 240 volt receptacle; 10% of the parking spaces used by the occupants of the building must be EV ready, which means that each parking space has a working 208 to 240 volt receptacle; and If the building is multifamily housing with at least 3 units and at least 10 parking spaces, the building must have: In 50% of the units, a parking space used by the occupants of the building that is EV capable; In 20% of the units, a parking space used by the occupants of the building that is EV ready. The act applies to the construction of a new high-occupancy building project or to the renovation of 50% or more of an existing high-occupancy building project and to: A contract executed on or after July 1, 2023, to construct a high-occupancy building project; The planning of or drafting for the design of a high-occupancy building project on or after August 10, 2022; and The laying out of or construction of a high-occupancy building project on or after August 10, 2022. Section 3 requires a project to comply with these provisions to obtain a building permit. The state electrical board is required to set standards for waiving the requirement to comply with these provisions for renovations. Local governments that perform inspections may also issue such a waiver. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)