Beginning in 2024, the act requires the department of higher education (department) to submit, as a part of its annual "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act" hearing, data related to postsecondary outcomes for students with a disability. The department shall gather the data in collaboration with institutions of higher education (institutions). The act creates the postsecondary services advisory committee (committee) in the department for the purpose of making recommendations to institutions and the general assembly concerning necessary services and best practices to improve successful outcomes for students with disabilities at institutions. The committee is required to complete and submit a report to the education committees of the house of representatives and the senate by June 15, 2023, and June 14, 2024. The committee is repealed on June 30, 2024. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The act repeals the municipal bond supervision advisory board. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
In reporting levels of attainment on the performance indicators by each public school, school district, the charter school institute (institute), and the state as a whole, the act requires the department of education (department) to include for the 2021-22 school year data concerning the percentage of students who contributed to the state longitudinal academic growth indicator. Under current law, the department is required to annually determine the levels of attainment on various performance indicators for each public school, school district, the institute, and the state as a whole. Furthermore, under current law, the department is not required to determine the levels of attainment of each public school, school district, the institute, or the state as a whole for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. For the 2021-22 school year, the act requires the department to determine the level of attainment for each public school, school district, the institute, and the state as a whole, based on the statewide targets required for the 2018-19 school year. Under current law, for purposes of calculating a school district's or the institute's consecutive years on performance watch, the department is required to count the school district's accreditation rating for the 2022-23 school year as if it were consecutive to the 2019-20 school year. The act suspends counting a school district's accreditation rating until the 2023-24 school year. Under current law, so long as a school district or the institute performs at a level consistent with being accredited with priority improvement plan or lower, a state review panel is required to consider various criteria in evaluating performance and recommending actions. The act adds to these criteria consideration of a school district's or the institute's 2022-23 accreditation category or the public school's 2022-23 plan type. Under current law, the school transformation grant program generally provides funding to school districts, the institute, and charter schools that are implementing priority improvement or turnaround plans. For grants awarded in the 2022-23 budget year, the act extends grant eligibility to school districts, the institute, and charter schools that are implementing improvement plans. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act updates and clarifies language related to the foster youth in transition program (program), including: Defining "dependent on the court" as being under the juvenile court's jurisdiction; Directing the court to advise the juvenile of specific services; Repealing certain provisions related to continuing jurisdiction of the court; Adding provisions to the program for juveniles or youths who were in a dependency and neglect case or other case pursuant to the Children's Code; Updating and specifying the form and content of the petition for the program; and Adding language and requirements concerning the initial hearing related to the program.(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 act increases, from 10% to 100%, the amount of tuition revenues that a governing board of an institution of higher education or group of institutions of higher education designated as an enterprise may pledge in a contract for the advancement of money. If an institution of higher education issues a revenue bond and the governing board of the institution wants the bond to be an intercept bond, the act raises the amount of the pledged revenue for the new intercept bond from not less than 10% of tuition to not less than 100% of tuition if the institution is an enterprise. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act authorizes the state review panel to recommend that a district public school be converted to a community school if the district public school fails to make substantial progress under its turnaround plan. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act expands a program, which had been scheduled to repeal on July 1, 2023, that allows a public employees' retirement association (PERA) service retiree to work full-time without any reduction in the service retiree's retirement benefits for a rural school district that has a critical shortage of qualified individuals with specific experience, skills, or qualifications that the service retiree has by: Making the program permanent; Adding school nurses and paraprofessionals to those who are eligible for post-PERA retirement full-time employment; and Allowing a board of cooperative services or a charter school that is located within a rural school district and that has such a critical shortage to participate in the program. The act also requires PERA to submit additional reports, containing the same types of information as the initial report that PERA submitted as required by law in 2020, to the finance committees of the general assembly on or before December 1, 2025, and on or before December 1 of each fifth year thereafter. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)