The act requires the state board of education (state board) to stagger the review and revision of the preschool through elementary and secondary education standards as follows: On or before July 1, 2022, and on or before July 1 every 6 years thereafter, the state board shall review and revise approximately 1/3 of the preschool through elementary and secondary education standards; On or before July 1, 2024, and on or before July 1 every 6 years thereafter, the state board shall review and revise approximately 1/3 of the preschool through elementary and secondary education standards; and On or before July 1, 2026, and on or before July 1 every 6 years thereafter, the state board shall review and revise the remaining approximately 1/3 of the preschool through elementary and secondary education standards. The state board shall ensure that all preschool through elementary and secondary education standards are reviewed one time every 6 years. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Sponsored bills
If a court appoints as an emergency guardian or special conservator a professional person or public administrator, the act requires the court to also appoint a court visitor to interview the respondent and others and report to the court on the supported decision-making surrounding the respondent. Current law allows a court on its own motion or at the request of an interested person to conduct an emergency review of a fiduciary's actions. The act requires the judge to rule on the motion or request within 14 days. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under preexisting law, a county clerk may conduct a pilot kiosk program using private providers to issue driver's licenses, register motor vehicles, or issue certificates of title. The act eliminates the program's pilot status, converting it to a regular program, and makes the following substantive changes: Requires counties to provide services across county jurisdictions; Expands the services the program may provide; Authorizes mobile telephone and web-based services; Replaces the cap of $3.00 on the convenience fee for services with a requirement that the cap be negotiated between the county clerk and the private provider; Adds data security requirements for the private provider; and Limits the private provider's ability to retain and transfer data to those purposes contemplated by the motor vehicle statutes. $112,500 is appropriated from the Colorado DRIVES vehicle services account to the department of revenue to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act continues the nurse-physician advisory task force for Colorado health care (NPATCH) for 7 years, until September 1, 2027. Additionally, the act specifies that 3 of the NPATCH members must be licensed physicians recommended by and representing a statewide physicians' organization that represents multi-specialty physicians and whose membership includes at least one-third of the doctors of medicine and osteopathy licensed in the state. $15,554 is appropriated from the division of professions and occupations cash fund to the department of regulatory agencies for use by the division of professions and occupations for personal services needed to implement the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act gives home owners in a mobile home park the opportunity to make an offer to buy the park if the landlord anticipates selling it or changing the use of the land. A landlord must give notice of a pending sale to the home owners, the applicable municipality or county, the division of housing in department of local affairs, and each home owners' association, residents' association, or similar body that represents the residents of the park. A landlord must give notice of a pending change of use of the land to all home owners of the park at least 12 months before the change of use occurs. After receiving notice of a pending sale or change of use, home owners have 90 days to make an offer to purchase and arrange financing if necessary. A purchase may be made by an association representing at least 51% of the home owners. The landlord may request that information relating to any pending offer be kept confidential and, if the landlord so requests, the association is required to do so. If a sale of a mobile home park occurs and the home owners are not the buyers, the landlord must send the municipality or county and the division of housing an affidavit of compliance with the requirements of the act. The notice and purchase-option provisions do not apply if the proposed sale is to a family member of the landlord, another closely affiliated person or entity, or someone who is already a cotenant of the property or if a transfer occurs due to inheritance or eminent domain.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review and report on the "Nurse Practice Act", under which nurses are regulated by the state board of nursing (board), as follows: Continues the regulation of nurses by the board for 7 years, until September 1, 2027; Authorizes the board to enter into a confidential agreement to limit practice with a nurse who has a health condition that affects the ability of the nurse to practice safely and modifies grounds for disciplining a nurse to specify that a nurse may be disciplined for failing to notify the board of a health condition that limits the nurse's ability to practice safely, failing to act within the limits imposed by the health condition, or failing to comply with the terms of a confidential agreement entered into with the board; Adds, as a ground for disciplining a nurse, engaging in a sexual act with a patient during the course of care or within 6 months after care is concluded; Requires licensees and insurance carriers to report malpractice settlements and judgments; Modifies the grounds for discipline relating to alcohol or drug use or abuse to clarify that the use or abuse need not be ongoing to trigger discipline; Requires a nurse to report an adverse action or the surrender of a license within 30 days after the action; Requires a nurse to report a criminal conviction within 30, rather than 45, days after the conviction; Repeals the standards of "willful" and "negligent" with regard to certain grounds for disciplining a nurse; Changes the title "advanced practice nurse" and the acronym "A.P.N." to "advanced practice registered nurse" and "A.P.R.N."; Eliminates the age limit and the requirement to be retired for a nurse to obtain a volunteer license; Repeals the requirement for the director of the division of professions and occupations to consult with the board before appointing an executive administrator and other personnel for the board; and Repeals the requirement for at least one board member to sit on the panel to interview candidates for the board executive administrator position. In addition to implementing the sunset recommendations, the act: Reduces the number of experience hours required for an A.P.R.N. to obtain prescriptive authority from 1,000 hours to 750 hours and includes a legislative declaration stating that the experience hours should not be adjusted downward before the next sunset review of the "Nurse Practice Act"; Eliminates the requirement that an A.P.R.N. seeking or who has obtained prescriptive authority develop, maintain, or update an articulated plan and that the board audit those plans; Adds definitions of "collaboration", "delegation of patient care", and "licensed health care provider" to the "Nurse Practice Act" for purposes of clarifying the ability of nurses to delegate nursing tasks to other providers and assistive personnel; and Modifies the definitions of "practice of practical nursing" and "practice of professional nursing".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review and report on the certification of nurse aides by the state board of nursing (board) as follows: Continues the regulation of certified nurse aides by the board for 7 years, until 2027; Combines the laws regulating the practice of certified nurse aides with the "Nurse Practice Act"; Modifies the grounds for disciplining a certified nurse aide regarding the excessive use or abuse of alcohol or drugs; Eliminates an inconsistency regarding the waiting period to apply for a new certification following the revocation or surrender of a nurse aide certification; Repeals the requirement that the board send communications regarding disciplinary actions by certified mail; and Modifies the exception to uncertified nurse aide practice in a medical facility to allow an uncertified individual to practice for up to 4 months if the practice is within the scope of employment and is part of an approved training program prior to certification and the certification is not by endorsement. Additionally, the act permits a certified nurse aide, if deemed competent by a registered nurse to do so, to: Place into a minor client's mouth medication that has been sorted by the minor's parent or guardian; and Administer oxygen and change ostomy bags.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act acknowledges the challenges to the state's health care systems caused by the COVID-19 virus, which has resulted in hospitals, in their efforts to keep patients and employees in a safe environment and minimize the risk of spreading the virus, limiting patients' ability to have loved ones visit them during hospitalizations. The act encourages hospitals to follow infection prevention protocols and identify ways to improve patient visitation policies. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Beginning March 1, 2021, the act requires a health care provider (provider) to disclose to patients if the provider has been convicted of a sex offense or has been subject to final agency action resulting in probation or a limitation on practice when the discipline is based in whole or in part on the provider's sexual misconduct. The act specifies the content of the disclosure and requires the provider to obtain the patient's signed agreement to treatment and acknowledgment of receipt of the disclosure before rendering services to the patient. The disclosure requirement ends when a provider has satisfied the requirements of probation or other limitations on the provider's ability to practice. Additionally, a provider is not required to make the disclosure before providing professional services to a patient who is unconscious or otherwise unable to comprehend or sign the disclosure and for whom a guardian is unavailable; who seeks care at an emergency room or freestanding emergency department or at an unscheduled visit; who is unknown to the provider until immediately before the start of the patient visit; or with whom the provider does not have a direct treatment relationship or direct contact. Failure to comply with the requirements of the act constitutes unprofessional conduct or grounds for discipline under the practice act that regulates the provider's profession but does not create a private right of action. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act allows a homeless youth who is 15 years of age or older (youth) to consent to receiving shelter or shelter services from a licensed homeless youth shelter. The state department of human services shall promulgate rules for licensed homeless youth shelters to follow when a youth consents to receiving shelter or shelter services. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)