The act directs the Colorado state forest service (forest service) to establish a rural grant navigator grant program to provide grant money to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) providing outreach and technical assistance, including grant writing assistance, to rural communities seeking to apply for state or federal grants for wildfire mitigation and preparedness (wildfire-related grants). On or after March 1, 2025, an NGO may apply to the forest service for grant money in accordance with application and eligibility guidelines that the forest service establishes with input from NGOs that assist Colorado communities with wildfire mitigation and preparedness. On or before March 1, 2026, and on or before March 1 of every year thereafter, the forest service is required to prepare a report summarizing its work to award grants to NGOs assisting rural communities with identifying and applying for wildfire-related grants. The forest service is required to submit the report to the wildfire matters review committee or, if the committee no longer exists, to the legislative committees with jurisdiction over natural resources matters. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, $300,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of higher education for use by the forest service to implement the act. APPROVED by Governor May 20, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The act repeals the pollution prevention advisory board and the pollution prevention advisory board assistance committee when the act takes effect, repeals the recycling resources economic opportunity program on October 1, 2025, and repeals the front range waste diversion enterprise and replaces it with the Colorado circular communities enterprise (enterprise). The enterprise, in merging and modernizing the purposes of the recycling resources economic opportunity program and the front range waste diversion enterprise, awards grants and other funding and provides technical assistance to local governments, nonprofit and for-profit businesses, public and private schools, and institutions of higher education throughout the state that pursue a circular economy for waste management, including waste diversion and aversion. The act also creates the statewide voluntary sustainability program to support businesses engaging, or looking to engage, in sustainability efforts. Under current law, user fees are imposed on operators of attended solid waste disposal sites (operators) to finance the recycling resources economic opportunity program and the front range waste diversion enterprise. The act applies those fees to the enterprise, requiring operators of sites located outside of the front range to pay a fee of either 2 or 4 cents per load transported for disposal and requiring operators of sites located in the front range, between July 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024, to pay a fee of 74 cents per cubic yard per load transported for disposal and, on and after January 1, 2025, to pay a fee of 78 cents per cubic yard per load transported for disposal. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Units that combust municipal solid waste (combustion units) that are in existence in the state on or before July 1, 2024, are eligible, pursuant to section 2 of the act, for a state incentive to conduct technological upgrades. Section 2 clarifies that, on and after January 1, 2025, combustion and combustion units do not meet certain environmental standards established by state law or rules. In addition, section 2 prohibits combustion units that target plastic as a feedstock from eligibility for any state incentives not granted or awarded, or that apply to income tax years, before January 1, 2025, with certain exceptions. Sections 3 and 4 clarify that a solid waste-to-energy incineration system includes pyrolysis and gasification processes. Section 5 changes current law to specify that synthetic gas produced by the pyrolysis of waste materials is not an eligible energy resource for the purpose of certain state-level renewable energy standards. Section 6 changes current law to specify that methane derived from the pyrolysis of municipal solid waste is not recovered methane that is a clean heat resource for the purpose of clean heat plans. VETOED by Governor May 17, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Section 1 of the act creates the office of sustainability (office) in the department of personnel (department). The office is required to work with state agencies to implement environmentally sustainable practices. Section 1 also creates the state agency sustainability revolving fund (revolving fund) and directs the state treasurer to transfer $400,000 from the general fund to the revolving fund each year. The office may use the money in the revolving fund for the purposes of operating the office and replacing the state's gas- and diesel-powered equipment located in ozone nonattainment areas as designated by the U.S. environmental protection agency. Section 1 also requires the office to review and coordinate state agencies' applications for elective pay funding available under the federal "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" (IRA). State agencies are required to submit elective pay applications directly to the office of the state controller. The inflation reduction act elective pay cash fund (cash fund) is created, and all money received by the state or state agencies pursuant to the elective pay provisions of the IRA must be deposited into the cash fund to be used for the purposes of the office. Subject to specified exceptions, section 3 requires, on and after January 1, 2025, recipients of state financial assistance for new building construction projects that include energy-consuming products covered by the Energy Star program (covered energy-consuming products) to use covered energy-consuming products certified by the Energy Star program (requirements). A state agency that provides or administers state financial assistance for a new building construction project (state agency) shall include certain requirements in the state agency's criteria for receiving state financial assistance and request an attestation signed by the recipient of the state financial assistance that declares that the requirements have been or will be followed or that the recipient is requesting a waiver from the requirements. A state agency may issue a waiver from the requirements based on certain evidence and an attestation from a licensed professional engineer or design professional. If the attorney general, by a preponderance of the evidence, believes that a recipient of state financial assistance has violated the requirements, the attorney general may bring a civil action to seek a civil penalty of up to the total amount of state financial assistance received by the violator. Section 4 amends the state efficiency standard for residential windows, residential doors, and residential skylights sold in Colorado on and after January 1, 2026 (standard). If the executive director of the department of public health and environment determines that the standard cannot reasonably be met by manufacturers, the executive director shall set an alternative standard which may be applied instead of the standard. Such an alternative standard, if set, must be displayed on the public website of the department of public health and environment no later than June 1, 2025. Section 6 clarifies law relating to the geothermal energy grant program within the CEO (grant program) by specifying that: The grant program applies to both heating-only and combined heating and cooling systems; At least 25% of the grant money must be awarded to projects in low-income, disproportionately impacted, or just transition communities; and The CEO may utilize grant program money to facilitate the growth of the geothermal sector and awareness of relevant state programs in Colorado. Section 7 allows money in the decarbonization tax credits administration cash fund to be used to repay administrative costs associated with administering the decarbonization tax credits, and specifies that all such administrative costs must be repaid on or before June 29, 2024. The amount of money that must remain in the fund after other unexpended and unencumbered money has been transferred to the general fund on June 30 of each year is increased from $100,000 to $300,000. Section 8 extends the deadline for the energy code board to develop a model low energy and carbon code from June 1, 2025, to September 1, 2025, and specifies that the model low energy and carbon code can include both appendices and resources to the international energy conservation code. Section 9 decreases the amount of money in the energy fund that the CEO is authorized to use to issue grants to local governments to support their adoption and enforcement of the 2021 international energy conservation code, an electric ready and solar ready code, and a low energy and carbon code from $2,000,000 to $1,875,000 and increases the amount of money that the treasurer is required to transfer into the energy fund for CEO to use to administer the energy code board from $150,000 to $275,000. Section 10 authorizes grantees to use money received through the CEO's high-efficiency electric heating and appliances grant program for equipment used to dry clothes and for other purposes as determined by the CEO. Section 13 requires the CEO, on or before August 1, 2024, to commence a study to explore how to accelerate adoption of heat pump technology in Colorado through a technical standard for applicable air conditioners. The CEO is required to provide to the general assembly a progress report, interim results and legislative recommendations, and, on or before June 1, 2025, a final study and final legislative recommendations. Section 14 repeals the requirement that a person using any portion of a transfer facility for the provision of retail or commercial goods or services or for the provision of residential uses pay rent at fair market value for such use. Section 15 clarifies that, for purposes of the industrial clean energy tax credit, an industrial study includes a pre-front-end or front-end engineering design study that meets or exceeds the standards established by the CEO or any other industrial studies as outlined in program standards and an owner includes a project developer. Section 15 also increases the amount of the credit that can be claimed from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 and specifies that an owner that claims the industrial clean energy tax credit cannot, for the same greenhouse gas emission reduction improvements, claim the enterprise zone investment tax credit or receive grant money under the industrial and manufacturing operations clean air grant program. Section 16 clarifies several definitions related to the tax credit for expenditures made in connection with a geothermal energy project and adds several definitions. Section 16 also adds tribal governments as eligible taxpayers that may claim the tax credit. Section 17 adds tribal governments as qualified entities that may claim the geothermal electricity generation production tax credit, and requires the CEO to annually review and evaluate the effectiveness of the tax credit. Section 18 clarifies and adds several definitions related to the heat pump technology and thermal energy network tax credit, adds new standards for taxpayers to be eligible to claim the credit, and requires the CEO to substantiate that eligible taxpayers are meeting those standards periodically rather than annually. Section 20 repeals a provision that required the state treasurer to credit an amount of severance taxes to certain cash funds to repay costs associated with administering the decarbonization tax credits. Section 21 requires the CEO to prioritize high-efficiency homes and buildings when providing loans and grants from the sustainable rebuilding program to homeowners and business owners that are seeking to rebuild. Money from the sustainable rebuilding program may also be used to provide loans and grants through the disaster resilience rebuilding program which is administered by the department of local affairs. Section 22 extends the date by which the public utilities commission must determine mass-based greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for clean heat plans for 2035 from December 1, 2024, to December 1, 2025. Section 23 requires investor-owned utilities, on or before August 1, 2027, to submit to the public utilities commission a proposal for a voluntary rate or rates for energy supplied to residential customers who utilize a heat pump as their primary heating source, which, if cost-justified, are designed to lower the energy bills of those customers. Section 24 specifies that an appropriation made to the department of higher education and related to the biochar in oil and gas well plugging working advisory group for state fiscal year 2023-24 is further appropriated to the department for state fiscal year 2024-25 to the extent that it is not expended prior to July 1, 2024. To implement the act: Section 25 reduces state fiscal year 2024-25 appropriations from various cash funds to the department of revenue by an aggregate amount of $1,770,160 and offsets the decrease by increasing state fiscal year 2024-25 appropriations to the department of revenue from the decarbonization tax credits administration cash fund by $1,770,160; and Section 26 appropriates $1,058,596, of which $958,596 is from the decarbonization tax credits administration cash fund and $100,000 is from the general fund, to the office of the governor for use by the CEO. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires a mortgage servicer, upon the request of a borrower, to disclose certain information to the borrower concerning the disbursement of insurance proceeds to the borrower in the event that a residential property that is subject to a mortgage is damaged or destroyed and an insurance company pays a claim associated with such damage or destruction. In the event that a residential property is damaged or destroyed, a borrower, after consulting with the borrower's contractor, must create a written repair plan or a written rebuild plan and submit the plan to the mortgage servicer for approval. The mortgage servicer must indicate approval or disapproval within 30 days after receiving the submitted plan. The plan must include specific milestones that require the mortgage servicer to disburse insurance proceeds. However, a mortgage servicer must also disburse insurance proceeds to a borrower in specified amounts, depending on the amount of the insurance proceeds and whether the borrower is delinquent in making payments on the mortgage. For the purpose of such disbursements: A mortgage servicer must make the first disbursement within 14 days after the mortgage servicer receives the insurance proceeds if the mortgage is insured by the federal government or securitized by the federal national mortgage association or the federal home loan mortgage corporation and as soon as reasonably possible and no later than 30 days after the mortgage servicer receives the insurance proceeds if the mortgage is not insured by the federal government or securitized by the federal national mortgage association or the federal home loan mortgage corporation; and A mortgage servicer may disburse funds directly to a designee of a borrower so long as the designee is agreed to by both the borrower and the mortgage servicer and the designation is permitted by federal and state law and any associated rules. With certain exceptions, a mortgage servicer must promptly disburse to a borrower any amount of insurance proceeds in excess of the remaining amount that the borrower owes on the mortgage. A mortgage servicer must hold in an interest-bearing account any insurance proceeds that the mortgage servicer does not immediately disburse to a borrower. A mortgage servicer must ensure that any interest that is credited to the account is credited and disbursed to the borrower. A mortgage servicer must retain for at least 4 years all written and electronic communications between the mortgage servicer and a borrower. The act repeals certain provisions of existing law concerning the disbursement of insurance proceeds following a claim of property damages. APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires the clean transit enterprise (enterprise) to impose a production fee for clean transit (production fee for clean transit) to be paid quarterly by every producer of oil and gas in the state (producer). The production fee for clean transit applies to all oil and gas produced by the producer in the state on and after July 1, 2025. No later than one week after October 1, 2025, and no later than one week after the first day of each calendar quarter thereafter, the energy and carbon management commission (commission) must calculate the average Henry Hub natural gas spot price reported by the United States energy information administration (average gas spot price) and average west Texas intermediate spot price reported by the United States energy information administration (average oil spot price) for the previous quarter and publish the average gas spot price and average oil spot price on the commission's website. No later than one month after the commission publishes the average gas spot price and average oil spot price on the commission's website, the enterprise must set the production fee amounts for the previous calendar quarter, which are determined by the enterprise based on the average gas spot price and average oil spot price calculated by the commission; notify the executive director of the department of revenue (executive director) of the production fee amounts set; and publish the production fee amounts on the enterprise's website. Prior to adopting the production fee amounts, the enterprise must consult with the commission on the production fee amounts. On or before the last day of the second month following the previous calendar quarter, every producer must file a return with and pay the production fee for clean transit for the previous calendar quarter to the executive director in accordance with applicable department of revenue procedures. The state treasurer must first credit the costs to the department of revenue for administering the production fees for clean transit, which money is credited to the oil and gas production fees collection fund created in the act, and then credit the remaining production fees for clean transit in the following manner: 70% to the local transit operations cash fund to be used for expanding local transit service and prioritizing transit improvements in certain communities; 10% to the local transit grant program cash fund to be used for providing competitive grants to certain eligible entities for expenses associated with providing public transportation; and 20% to the rail funding program cash fund to be used for passenger rail projects and service. No later than March 1, 2030, and every fifth March 1 thereafter, the enterprise must complete an analysis of the production fee amounts and post the analysis on the enterprise's website. The act also requires the regional transportation district to prioritize completion of the northwest rail line to Longmont and the north lines of the transportation expansion plan adopted by the regional transportation district board (plan). On or before July 1, 2025, the regional transportation district is also required to submit a report to the governor and the general assembly that demonstrates how the regional transportation district will fulfill certain commitments made in the plan. The act also requires the division of parks and wildlife (division) to impose a production fee for wildlife and land remediation (production fee for wildlife and land remediation) to be paid quarterly by every producer. The production fee for wildlife and land remediation applies to all oil and gas produced by the producer in the state on and after July 1, 2025. No later than one month after the commission publishes the average gas spot price and average oil spot price on the commission's website, the division must set the production fee amounts for the previous calendar quarter, which are determined by the division based on the average gas spot price and average oil spot price calculated by the commission; notify the executive director of the production fee amounts set; and publish the production fee amounts on the division's website. Prior to adopting the production fee amounts, the division must consult with the commission on the production fee amounts. On or before the last day of the second month following the previous calendar quarter, every producer must file a return with and pay the production fee for wildlife and land remediation for the previous calendar quarter to the executive director in accordance with applicable department of revenue administrative procedures. The state treasurer must credit the production fees for wildlife and land remediation in the following manner: First, the costs to the department of revenue for administering the production fees for wildlife and land remediation are credited to the oil and gas production fees collection fund for use by department of revenue; and Second, the remaining amount of production fees for wildlife and land remediation are credited to the climate resilient wildlife and land cash fund to be used for certain wildlife and land remediation purposes. No later than March 1, 2030, and every fifth March 1 thereafter, the division must complete an analysis of the production fee amounts and post the analysis on the division's website. Along with publishing the average gas spot price and average oil spot price on the commission's website, the commission is required to routinely provide written guidance to the enterprise and the division on factors relevant to the production fee amounts for the production fee for clean transit and the production fee for wildlife and land remediation. The act also establishes: Certain department of revenue administrative procedures, including certain registration and return filing requirements, for the collection of the production fees for clean transit and the production fees for wildlife and land remediation; A petty offense and civil penalty for a producer's failure to register with the department of revenue; and The accrual of interest and penalties for a producer's failure to pay or correctly account for any production fees for wildlife and land remediation or production fees for clean transit or to keep complete and accurate records. If a constitutional amendment is adopted at the 2024 statewide general election that requires voter approval of fees assessed for the purpose of funding mass transportation, the act creates certain definitions that apply to the constitutional amendment. If a constitutional amendment is adopted at the 2024 statewide general election that defines a "fee" for the purposes of state constitutional law, the act clarifies what fees and fee increases the constitutional amendment applies to and creates certain definitions that apply to the constitutional amendment (fee definition provision). Provisions of the act are contingent upon Senate Bill 24-184 being enacted and becoming law. APPROVED by Governor May 16, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 16, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The bill requires the division of insurance (division) to conduct or cause to be conducted a study of construction liability insurance for construction professionals in Colorado. The study must identify the following: All insurers offering construction liability policies in Colorado (policies); The rates charged by insurers for policies and the basis for the rates, including data for the past 5 years, if available; Risk factors, classifications, and coverage descriptions insurers use to set policy rates; A comparison of the policy rates insurers charge with rates charged by other states in the region to cover similar residential projects; Policy coverage terms; and Common limitations or exclusions from policy coverage. The bill requires that, at least 14 days prior to closing the sale of a new residence, the seller of the residence provide the purchaser and the county clerk and recorder's office for the county where the new residence is located with information regarding the insurance coverage for the property subject to the sale, including: Identification of each policy and the coverage provider that may provide coverage for a construction professional's work on the residence; The amount of the policy limits for each policy identified; The policy period for each policy identified, including whether the policy provides coverage on a claims-made basis or occurrence basis; and Identification of relevant exclusions from coverage.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Wildfire Matters Review Committee. The bill assists local governments with disaster-related programs in 2 ways. First, section 1 of the bill establishes by establishing the slash removal pilot program (pilot program) under the wildfire mitigation incentives for local governments grant program, which is administered by the forest service. The pilot program supports county efforts to efficiently and effectively remove slash through methods other than burning . The forest service must establish the policies and procedures by which it will select counties for the pilot program and implement the pilot program. Second, section 2 requires the division of homeland security and emergency management in the department of public safety to provide guidance to local governments on the following issues concerning debris removal: Negotiating debris removal program terms with the federal emergency management agency to provide predictability for homeowners and ensure that there are not duplicate payments for debris removal; Developing standard right of entry forms that include opt-in and opt-out provisions and clear insurance assignment of benefit language; Establishing right-of-way cleanup procedures, including the removal of private vehicles, for public roadways; Considering the removal of hazardous materials and other safety and environmental concerns; and Ensuring that local debris removal programs are limited to residential debris removal and do not include commercial debris removal. (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.)
Section 1 of the bill, on and after January 1, 2027, prohibits the sale and distribution of certain air conditioners that are manufactured on or after January 1, 2027, (covered HVAC) unless the covered HVAC complies with certain technical standards (technical standards). On or before January 1, 2029, and again on or before January 1, 2034, the executive director of the department of public health and environment (executive director) must assess compliance with the technical standards. On or before February 1, 2029, and again on or before February 1, 2034, the executive director must prepare a report of the assessments. Before January 1, 2027, the executive director must establish a secure process that allows an individual to make an anonymous report of a violation of the technical standards. In the case of the first 2 violations of the technical standards, the executive director must send a warning letter to the alleged violator. In the case of a third or subsequent violation, the attorney general may bring a civil action to seek a civil penalty of no more than $2,000 per ton of cooling and certain other remedial actions. Section 3 , on or before January 1, 2026, and every other January 1 until January 1, 2034, requires the Colorado energy office (energy office) to conduct a market study or literature review to estimate the average cost difference for certain income-qualified households and income-qualified housing providers between installing a covered HVAC that meets the technical standards and installing a covered HVAC that does not meet the technical standards (study). On or before January 1, 2027, the energy office shall establish a program to offer certain financial incentives to certain income-qualified households and income-qualified housing providers to cover the average cost difference described in the energy office's most recent study. For income tax years commencing on and after January 1, 2024, but before January 1, 2034, section 4 creates a refundable, assignable state income tax credit that a home builder or an HVAC contractor that installs certain cold-climate heat pumps or ground-source heat pumps (eligible heat pump) can claim in the tax year that the eligible heat pump is placed into service. The amount of the tax credit is $5,000 per installation of an eligible heat pump, but the amount claimed may be increased based on certain criteria. A home builder or an HVAC contractor must provide certain verification information to the department of revenue to qualify for the tax credit. Section 5 : Makes certain changes to definitions; Changes the state income tax credit amounts that may be claimed for the installation of certain other heat pumps; and Requires the energy office to post information about the tax credit on the energy office's website. Section 6 makes certain changes to definitions. Section 8 , on or before April 1, 2025, requires a public utility that provides electricity to submit to the public utilities commission a proposal for a specific voluntary rate or rates for electricity supplied to residential customers who utilize a heat pump as their primary heating source. Section 9 requires, on and after January 1, 2025, recipients of state financial assistance for new building construction projects that include energy-consuming products covered by the Energy Star program (covered energy-consuming products) to use covered energy-consuming products certified by the Energy Star program (requirements). On and after January 1, 2025, a state agency that provides or administers state financial assistance for a new building construction project (state agency) must include certain requirements in the state agency's criteria for receiving state financial assistance and request an affidavit signed by the recipient of the state financial assistance that declares that the requirements have been or will be followed or that the recipient is requesting a waiver from the requirements. A state agency may issue a waiver from the requirements based on certain evidence and an attestation from a licensed professional engineer or design professional. On or before December 1, 2024, the energy office must distribute and periodically update certain guidance and forms related to the requirements. If the attorney general has probable cause to believe that a recipient of state financial assistance has violated the requirements, the attorney general may bring a civil action to seek a civil penalty of up to the total amount of state financial assistance received by the violator. Current law prohibits a person from selling or leasing new residential windows, residential doors, and residential skylights in the state on and after January 1, 2026, unless the product satisfies certain criteria under the Energy Star program. Section 10 changes current law to require new residential windows, residential doors, and residential skylights to instead satisfy certain standards in the International Energy Conservation Code.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Current rules of the energy and carbon management commission (commission) require oil and gas operators to submit certain reports (covered report) to the commission in the event of a spill or release of a hazardous chemical (incident). The bill enacts the "Community Right to Know Act" to create additional notification requirements in the event of an incident (notification requirements). On and after July 1, 2024, oil and gas operators must, within 24 hours after the discovery of an incident, submit a covered report to the commission and the following state agencies (notification agency): For an incident involving air emissions or water contamination, the department of public health and environment; For an incident involving public conveyances, the department of transportation; and For an incident that results from a clear act of sabotage, vandalism, or a terrorist activity, the division of homeland security and emergency management in the department of public safety. The oil and gas operator must also, within 24 hours after the operator's submission of the covered report to a notification agency, deliver the covered report to certain persons that are located near the well site where the incident was caused (affected persons). Within 24 hours after the receipt of a covered report from an oil and gas operator, a notification agency must: Confirm with the oil and gas operator that the oil and gas operator has provided the covered report to any affected persons; Provide the covered report to any affected persons that have not yet received a covered report from the oil and gas operator; Provide the covered report to the county public health department and the county emergency notification party of the county or counties where the incident occurred; and On and after July 1, 2025, provide the covered report to the person designated by the executive director of the department of local affairs (DOLA) to receive covered reports from the notification agencies (designated person). On and after July 1, 2025, no later than 24 hours after the receipt of a covered report for a certain heightened level of an incident (warning-level covered report) from a notification agency, if the county public health department has an existing opt-in notification system, the county public health department must notify medical professionals in the county that have opted in to the county public health department's notification system about the incident. On and after July 1, 2025, no later than 24 hours after the receipt of a warning-level covered report from a notification agency, the county emergency notification party must: If the county has an existing opt-in public emergency notification system, notify all individuals residing in the county that have opted in; and If the county does not have an existing opt-in public emergency notification system but has an existing public emergency notification system, notify all individuals residing in the county. On and after July 1, 2024, DOLA must maintain and routinely update a list of contact information for the county public health department and the county emergency notification party for each county in the state on DOLA's website. The bill also creates the hazardous chemical notification committee (committee) in DOLA. On or before July 1, 2025, the committee is required to develop content for a hazardous chemical notification website (website) that includes certain informational and educational content about hazardous chemicals, including short-term and long-term adverse health impacts, and an entry for each covered report received by the designated person on and after July 1, 2025. Beginning in the 2026 calendar year, and in each calendar year thereafter, the committee must meet on a quarterly basis to make updates to the content of the website. On or before July 1, 2026, and on or before each July 1 thereafter, DOLA must submit a written report (hazardous chemical notification report requirement) to the health and human services committee of the house of representatives and the health and human services committee of the senate, which report must include a summary of the notifications made by oil and gas operators, the notification agencies, county public health departments, and county emergency notification parties in the previous year. On or before July 1, 2025, and each calendar year thereafter, county public health departments and county emergency notification parties are required to provide a training to medical professionals and the public on the short-term and long-term adverse health impacts of exposure to hazardous chemicals and the notification requirements (training requirement). The bill provides for a repeal of the committee, the hazardous chemical notification report requirement, and the training requirement, effective September 1, 2034, after review in accordance with the general assembly's sunset review process. The bill also: Creates a $1,000 per day penalty for an oil and gas operator that does not comply with the notification requirements (violation); and Provides that if an oil and gas operator commits a violation 3 or more times, the oil and gas operator may not claim a waiver of liability for damages related to the third or subsequent violation.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)