The act amends the definition of "telemedicine" in the "Colorado Medical Practice Act" to state that the term means the delivery of medical services through technologies that are used in a manner that is compliant with the federal "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996", including information, electronic, and communication technologies, remote monitoring technologies, and store-and-forward transfers, to facilitate the assessment, diagnosis, consultation, or treatment of a patient while the patient is located at an originating site and the person who provides the service is located at a distant site. The act amends and preserves the existing statutory definition of "telemedicine" for purposes of the "Colorado Medical Assistance Act".(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The bill allows the state department of human services (state department), along with the child care allocation workgroup, to consider a utilization factor. This utilization factor would enable the state department to consider the volume of the eligible population and the service delivery cost to each county department of human or social services (county department) when allocating and distributing money for the Colorado child care assistance program (CCCAP). The bill further allows a county department to set its own eligibility levels for CCCAP, expressed as a percentage of the federal poverty level.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Section 39-21-102 accurately specifies the scope and applicability of article 21 of title 39 and establishes all the taxes that the department of revenue is responsible for administering. However, sections 39-21-119 and 39-21-120 attempt to reference similar lists of taxes in order to specify authorized methods of filing and paying the taxes. Unfortunately, some of the tax types are omitted in these sections, making these sections defective. The act removes the references to the tax types in sections 39-21-119 and 39-21-120 so that section 39-21-102 controls instead.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, a producer or purchaser is required to withhold an amount from each disbursement made to an interest owner in any oil and gas produced in the state and pay this amount to the department of revenue. The act fixes defects related to this law by:For purposes of electronic payments, replacing a cross-reference to a repealed subsection with a reference to the current statutory requirement; Expanding the defined term "producer" to be "producer or purchaser" to eliminate a redundancy in the law; and Repealing extraneous references to "oil shale" from the definition. The act also repeals obsolete filing requirements that applied prior to July 1, 2007.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act amends the composition of the Colorado opportunity scholarship initiative advisory board.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act removes an unused definition of "agricultural compounds" and a redundant reference to a sales and use tax exemption for poultry and livestock. The act also reorganizes special fuel and farm equipment sales and use tax exemptions so that they are in the same location.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act repeals a provision of law that creates the capitol dome restoration fund, which is obsolete. The capitol dome restoration was a capital project that commenced in 2010 and has since been completed. The statutory sections regarding the capitol dome restoration were repealed in July 2015 but the statute establishing the fund and the necessary transfers of money to the fund were inadvertently left in the statutes. The act addresses that defect.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The bill requires that proposed public school building sites be set back from existing oil and gas facilities a distance that is no less than: The setback distance required by the local government having land use jurisdiction over the site for locating new oil and gas facilities from public school properties; or If there are no local government setback requirements, the setback distance required by the oil and gas conservation commission for siting new oil and gas facilities from existing public school properties.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2021, but before January 1, 2026, the bill specifies that a qualified taxpayer is allowed an income tax credit in an amount equal to the income tax imposed on the qualified taxpayer in that income tax year so that the income tax due for the qualified taxpayer in that income tax year is zero. The bill defines a qualified taxpayer as: An individual who files a federal income tax return with federal taxable income in an amount less than $20,000; or Two individuals who file a joint federal income tax return with combined federal taxable income in an amount less than $40,000.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill prohibits the state and any of its departments, institutions, or agencies (state) from making it a condition of employment that an employee or a prospective employee execute a contract or other form of agreement that prohibits, prevents, or otherwise restricts the employee or prospective employee from disclosing factual circumstances concerning the individual's employment with the state (nondisclosure agreement) except where the nondisclosure agreement is necessary to prevent disclosure of: Factual circumstances relating to the employment that reasonably implicate privacy interests held by the employee who is a party to the agreement; and Matters required to be kept confidential by federal law or rules or by state statute or matters bearing on the specialized details of security arrangements or investigations. The bill prohibits nondisclosure agreements that prohibit state employees from disclosing factual circumstances concerning their employment. To the extent that an employer includes any such provision in any employment contract or agreement, the provision is deemed against public policy and unenforceable against a current or former employee who is a party to the contract or agreement except where the provision is intended to prevent disclosure of factual circumstances implicating the employee's privacy interests or matters required to be kept confidential under federal or state law or matters bearing on the specialized details of security arrangements or investigations. The bill prohibits the state from taking any retaliatory action against an individual on the grounds that the individual does not enter into a contract or agreement deemed to be against public policy and unenforceable under the bill. Any person who enforces or attempts to enforce a provision deemed against public policy and unenforceable under the bill is liable for the employee's reasonable attorney fees and costs in defending against the action. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)