Sen. Rob Woodward

The act strikes references in a common health-care provision in title 12 of the Colorado Revised Statutes to "applicable licensing board" and "board" and replaces those references with the term "regulator", which is defined, for purposes of the regulation of professions and occupations under title 12, as the entity with regulatory authority concerning a particular profession or occupation. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act allows the Colorado state fair authority (authority) to collaborate with a state agency to develop an industry display at the Colorado state fair and industrial exposition. The act also: Clarifies that the authority may receive information related to an industry display from an industry representative; Requires the board of commissioners of the authority to establish a process for approving industry displays; and Clarifies that the hiring authority of the manager of the Colorado state fair authority is the commissioner of agriculture.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies' sunset review and report concerning the strategic action planning group on aging by repealing the planning group. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act authorizes a local government to designate all or a portion of a highway under its jurisdiction for over-snow use only when snow-packed conditions exist on the highway or for a designated continuous seasonal period for which the local government determines that snow-packed conditions are likely to exist on the highway. "Over-snow use" is defined as travel on top of snow by human-powered or animal-powered means or by an off-highway vehicle that is primarily designed or altered for use over snow and runs without tires on a continuous belt track or on one or more skis while in use over snow. A local government may limit an over-snow use designation to human-powered or animal-powered travel, or both, and the act does not prohibit a local authority from entering into a private winter maintenance agreement when wheeled winter access is requested along a highway. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act makes technical changes to the "Colorado Corporations and Associations Act" and the "Colorado Business Corporation Act" as follows: Changes references to "owners' interest" to "owner's interest"; Repeals a provision exempting certain domestic entities from a provision allowing reinstatement of an entity after an administrative dissolution upon compliance with certain conditions; and Makes clarifying changes to the provision requiring notification of ratification of defective corporate actions to holders of valid and putative shares.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The concurrent resolution requires any bill that imposes a new fee, authorizes the imposition of a new fee, increases an existing fee, or authorizes the increase of an existing fee to be approved by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to each house of the general assembly, taken on 2 separate days in each house, to become law. The concurrent resolution defines a "fee" as a charge that is levied to defray the cost of a particular government service provided to those charged or to mitigate the impact of an activity engaged in by those charged and that is not levied for the purpose of raising any revenue for a general public purpose. (Note: This summary applies to this concurrent resolution as introduced.)

For some, but not all, exemptions from state and state-collected local sales and use taxes, a person who wishes to establish the right to obtain an exemption is either explicitly required by state law or required by the department of revenue (department) as it administers and enforces state law to complete a form created by the department, which, depending on which exemption is sought, may be described as an affidavit, application, certificate, certification, declaration, or statement. The act requires the department to examine its forms and requirements relating to their use and, to the extent feasible without impairing the proper administration of the exemptions, simplify the forms and related requirements for persons making tax-exempt purchases. Exceptions to existing statutory requirements relating to the forms are made for any simplifications made by the department. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Section 1 of the bill makes a legislative declaration. Current law gives the governor extraordinary powers when the governor declares a disaster emergency. Current law specifies that a state of disaster emergency ends after 30 days unless continued by the governor. It also authorizes the general assembly to end the state of disaster emergency by joint resolution. Section 2 limits the ability of the governor to continue a declared disaster emergency by requiring the general assembly to affirmatively act by joint resolution to continue a declared disaster emergency beyond 12 months. Unless the general assembly acts by joint resolution to continue the state of disaster emergency, the state of disaster emergency that the governor has continued for 30-day increments terminates on the three hundred sixty-fifth day after the governor first declared a state of disaster emergency. Thereupon, the governor must issue an executive order or proclamation ending the state of disaster emergency. Current law gives local health departments many powers to address epidemics. Many of these powers impose duties on people. Section 3 requires the governing body of a local government to approve any portion of a local health department's public health order that imposes duties on a class of people. If a duty relates to an emergency (emergency duty), the local health department may impose the emergency duty immediately but must submit the duty to the governing body within 7 days after adoption for the governing body's review and approval. To continue in effect, the governing body must approve the duty within 30 days after the public health order was issued and during each calendar month it continues in effect. A terminated emergency duty may not be reimposed unless a new emergency arises or the governing body approves it being reimposed. Section 3 does not apply to a temporary emergency duty placed only on a single individual so long as the local health department has reasonable evidence to believe the individual is infected with a disease that causes an epidemic or was infected within the last 30 days. Current law gives the department of public health and environment (department) many powers to address epidemics. Many of these powers involve the imposition of duties on people. Section 4 requires that the department submit the imposition of an emergency duty on a class of people to the governor and general assembly for approval. The emergency duty must be submitted to: The governor within 7 days after adoption; and The general assembly: Within 7 days after adoption if the emergency duty is imposed within the first 100 days of a regular session of the general assembly; or Within the first 30 days of the next regular session of the general assembly if the duty is imposed in the last 20 days of a regular session of the general assembly or in between regular sessions of the general assembly. For the emergency duty to continue: The governor must approve the emergency duty within 30 days after the department imposes the emergency duty and each calendar month that the department intends the emergency duty to remain in effect; and The general assembly must approve the emergency duty each year that the department intends the emergency duty to remain in effect. A terminated emergency duty may not be reimposed unless a new emergency arises or the governing body and general assembly approve it being reimposed. Section 4 does not apply to a temporary emergency duty placed only on a single individual so long as the department has reasonable evidence to believe the individual is infected with a disease that causes an epidemic or was infected within the last 30 days.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

The act requires an online marketplace (marketplace) to require each high-volume third-party seller (seller) selling through its marketplace to disclose to the marketplace, and the marketplace to verify: The seller's bank account number; The seller's contact information; and The seller's business tax identification number or individual taxpayer identification number. A marketplace must suspend any future sales activity of a seller that does not provide the information. The marketplace also must require a seller with an aggregate total of $20,000 or more in annual gross revenues on the marketplace to disclose to the consumer the identity of the seller, including: The full name of the seller; The physical address of the seller; Whether the high-volume third-party seller used a different seller to supply the consumer product to the consumer upon purchase; and If requested by the purchaser, information relating to any seller that supplied the consumer product to the purchaser when the seller is different than the high-volume third-party seller listed on the product listing prior to purchase. The marketplace must disclose to consumers a reporting mechanism for consumers to report suspicious marketplace activity. A violation of the disclosure requirements is a deceptive trade practice. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Current law limits the number of days that a retired teacher who is a public employees' service association (PERA) retiree can work as a substitute teacher for a PERA employer without reduction in PERA retirement benefits. The act temporarily waives these limits for qualified service retirees in any school district or charter school while there are critical substitute teacher shortages. This temporary waiver does not count against the additional 10 service retirees that a state college or university or an employer in the school division or the Denver public schools division of PERA may hire. For purposes of the act, "substitute teacher" is defined to have no restriction in the length of a continuous assignment. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)