Under current law, there is a crime of retaliation against a judge if an individual makes a credible threat or commits an act of harassment or an act of harm or injury upon a person or property as retaliation or retribution against a judge. The act creates a similar crime of retaliation against an elected official if an individual knowingly makes a credible threat as retaliation or retribution against an elected official or the official's family or arising out of the status of the person as an elected official. Retaliation against an elected official is a class 6 felony.The act makes following appropriations from the general fund to the department of corrections to comply with the 5-year corrections appropriation requirement:For fiscal year 2022-23, $16,279; For fiscal year 2023-24, $18,415; For fiscal year 2024-25, $18,415; and For fiscal year 2025-26, $18,415. For fiscal year 2021-22, the act appropriates $109,462 from the capital construction fund to the corrections expansion reserve fund.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The act implements the recommendation of the department of regulatory agencies' sunset review and report concerning the "Michael Skolnik Medical Transparency Act of 2010" to continue the act for 7 years, until 2028.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
With regard to the Colorado professional fire fighters special license plate, the act:Reduces from 20 years to 15 years the length of time an organization must be in existence to qualify to issue the license plate; and Specifies the evidence an organization is to submit to demonstrate compliance with the requirement that an organization have at least 3,000 members residing in Colorado.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act continues the homeland security and all-hazards senior advisory committee until September 1, 2031.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act creates concurrent legislative jurisdiction between the state of Colorado and the United States over specified real property constituting the United States Army Pueblo chemical depot.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The bill prohibits the division of parks and wildlife from awarding more than one-third of big game hunting licenses to nonresidents in a limited license draw. This prohibition does not apply to leftover licenses. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The act transfers a total of $20 million from the general fund to the capital construction fund in the 2020-21 state fiscal year for single-phase projects at 12 state parks.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)