The act creates the Colorado disability opportunity office (CDOO) within the department of labor and employment (department). The executive director of the department is required to appoint the director of the CDOO. The CDOO is required to: Serve as a resource for state agencies, private and nonprofit organizations, and the public concerning disability issues in Colorado; Convene and coordinate a disability technical advisory committee; Ensure that goals of full societal integration for individuals with disabilities are met by meeting with stakeholders from entities around the state related to disabilities and with state agencies to develop recommendations on the administration of grants, restructuring of disability-related entities, and collaboration on overlapping aging and disability issues and other cross-agency efforts; and Submit the recommendations to the governor and state agencies. The CDOO is also required to: Implement a statewide strategy to facilitate economic stability for individuals with disabilities; promote successful economic, social, and community integration; and identify and address issues related to integration; Work toward enhanced inclusion and equitable opportunities for individuals with disabilities, as well as address concerns raised by disability populations; Coordinate with other entities to identify and eliminate barriers to prosperity for individuals with disabilities; As funding allows, undertake other projects, including analyzing economic and demographic trends, gathering insight and formulating and presenting recommendations to the governor and state agencies related to issues of concern and importance to individuals with disabilities in Colorado; and Promote the implementation of disability support through community-based initiatives and nonprofit organizations, which promotion includes economic opportunities, increased access to resources, and state education and outreach. The act also transfers the Colorado disability funding committee (committee) from the department of personnel to the CDOO. The transfer includes a transfer of the committee's responsibilities, including: The program to assist persons to obtain disability benefits; The program to investigate, fund, and pilot projects or programs to benefit individuals with disabilities; and The buying and selling of select registration numbers for license plates to raise funds for the disability support fund. The act appropriates $5,538,925 from the disability support fund to the department for use by the executive director's office, which may use the appropriation for the CDOO. The act adjusts appropriations from the disability support fund and the disabled parking education and enforcement fund to the department of personnel. APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2024 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
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The act prohibits the department of health care policy and financing (department) from requiring an adult to be prescribed an antipsychotic prescription drug that is included on the preferred drug list and used to treat a mental health disorder or mental health condition if: During the preceding year, the adult was prescribed and unsuccessfully treated with an antipsychotic prescription drug that is included on the preferred drug list and used to treat a mental health disorder or mental health condition and for which a single claim is paid; or The adult is stable on an antipsychotic drug used to treat a mental health disorder or mental health condition that is not included on the preferred drug list. The act appropriates $1,092,134 to the department. This appropriation consists of $888,555 from the general fund and $203,579 from the healthcare affordability and sustainability fee cash fund. The department may use this appropriation for medical and long-term care services for medicaid-eligible individuals. It is anticipated that the department will receive an additional $2,295,189 in federal funds for the implementation of this act. APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2024 EFFECTIVE June 3, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Effective October 1. 2025, the act amends the "Colorado Privacy Act" to add enhanced protections when a minor's data is processed and there is a heightened risk of harm to minors. The act applies to any entity that controls consumer personal data (controller) and that conducts business in Colorado or delivers products or services that are targeted at Colorado residents, regardless of the volume of or amount of revenue derived from that activity. A controller that offers an online service, product, or feature to a consumer who the controller knows or willfully disregards is a minor is required to: Use reasonable care to avoid any heightened risk of harm to minors caused by the service, product, or feature; and Conduct, and review as necessary, a data protection assessment for the service, product, or feature if there is a heightened risk of harm to minors and maintain documentation regarding the assessment for a specified period. Unless the minor or, for a minor who is under 13 years of age, the minor's parent or legal guardian has consented, a controller is prohibited from processing a minor's personal data: For targeted advertising, selling the minor's personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant consequences; For any processing purpose other than the purpose disclosed at the time the minor's personal data is collected or a purpose reasonably necessary for the disclosed processing purpose; or For longer than reasonably necessary to provide the service, product, or feature. Absent consent, a controller is also prohibited from: Using a system design feature to significantly increase, sustain, or extend a minor's use of the service, product, or feature; or Collecting a minor's precise geolocation, except under specified circumstances. Neither a controller nor a processor that processes personal data for a controller is required to implement an age verification or age-gating system or otherwise affirmatively verify the age of consumers, and a controller that conducts commercially reasonable age estimation is not liable for an erroneous age estimation. The attorney general and district attorneys are authorized to enforce the requirements of the act in the same manner as authorized under the "Colorado Privacy Act", including notifying a controller of, and allowing a controller time to cure, a violation. APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2024 EFFECTIVE October 1, 2025(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act creates a refundable income tax credit (credit) that is available for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2025, but prior to January 1, 2029, for a qualifying resident individual (individual) working in the care workforce in the amount of $1,200 for a single filer and $2,400 for 2 joint filers. To be eligible for the credit, an individual must: Have an adjusted gross income of no more than $75,000 as a single filer or $100,000 as a joint filer; and Be employed in the care workforce as a child care worker or a qualified direct care worker. To further the administration of the credit, the act: Requires the department of health care policy and financing, on or before September 30, 2025, and each September 30 thereafter, to provide the department of revenue an electronic report of the name and federal employer identification number of every long-term care employer that employs one or more direct care workers and provides services in Colorado during the calendar year; Requires the department of early childhood, on or before January 31, 2026, and each January 31 thereafter, to provide the department of revenue with an electronic report of child care workers eligible for the credit for the preceding calendar year; and Requires, on or before January 31, 2026, and each January 31 thereafter, every long-term care employer, excluding a consumer-directed care employer for which the department of health care policy and financing is required to file the return, that employed one or more direct care workers to make an information return to the executive director of the department of revenue for the preceding calendar year and requires the information return to be filed electronically. The act imposes a penalty of $500 on long-term care employers who fail to file the return on or before January 31, unless reasonable cause is shown. For the 2024-25 state fiscal year, $47,193 is appropriated from the general fund to the division of licensing and administration in the department of early childhood for the implementation of the act. APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act removes the ability of most firefighter employers to select accident insurance, self-insurance, or a self-insurance pool as options to provide statutorily required monetary benefits to a firefighter who has experienced a heart and circulatory malfunction. As a result, all firefighter employers except for those exempted by the act must participate in a multiple employer health trust in order to provide such benefits. The act exempts firefighter employers that are cities and counties or municipalities that, as of July 2022, have a population of 400,000 or more and, as of April 30, 2024, have enacted an ordinance to provide the required monetary benefits that remains in effect. APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 24, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act: Repeals the broadband deployment board (board); Transfers the function of awarding grant money in the high cost support mechanism from the board to the Colorado broadband office (office) and authorizes the office to award grants for middle mile infrastructure; pole replacements, attachments, and other infrastructure; and other underfunded broadband needs throughout the state (grant program); Authorizes the office to conduct or cause to be conducted studies to assess broadband needs in the state; Requires the office to solicit public input regarding the grant program; Requires the office to establish a work group of stakeholders to help review grant applications for the grant program; Authorizes the chief information officer in the office of information technology (OIT) to adopt rules regarding the grant program; and Repeals the grant-making function of the office on September 1, 2030, subject to review by the department of regulatory agencies. The act decreases appropriations made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2024-25 state fiscal year to the office of the governor as follows: The amount from various cash funds for health, life, and dental for the office of information technology is decreased by $25,826; and The amount from various cash funds for enterprise solutions for OIT is decreased by $254,276 and the related FTE is decreased by 2.0 FTE. APPROVED by Governor May 22, 2024 EFFECTIVE September 1, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
In current law, both a lodging facility and an entertainment facility are licensed as a lodging and entertainment facility licensee. The acts converts the licenses of lodging facilities to lodging facility licenses and the licenses of entertainment facilities to entertainment facility licenses. Additionally, the act creates a new catering license and an alcohol beverage shipper license. The act allows a brewery, a limited winery, and a distillery to manufacture alcohol beverages at up to 2 noncontiguous locations and sets an annual fee for such operations. Current law limits the amount of alcohol beverages certain retailers can purchase from retail liquor stores, liquor-licensed drugstores, and fermented malt beverage and wine retailers to $2,000 each year. The act increases the cap to $7,000 and requires the state licensing authority to annually adjust the cap consistent with inflation. For events where customers may consume alcohol beverages on the premises of an off-premises retailer, the act: Allows an off-premises retailer to conduct tastings; Allows tastings for all authorized retailers to begin at 10 a.m. instead of 11 a.m.; Allows retail liquor stores to hold educational classes; and Allows a distiller that operates a sales room to purchase and use common alcohol modifiers to mix with its spirituous liquors to produce cocktails. Under current law, liquor licenses are valid for a one-year period. The act allows certain qualifying licensees to apply for a 2-year license. The act also requires the state licensing authority to study the feasibility of adopting an online application and renewal system. The act removes the requirement that a local licensing authority schedule a public hearing on an application for a new retail liquor license. The act changes the requirement for a festival permittee to notify the state and local licensing authorities of the location and dates the licensee plans to hold multiple festivals from 30 business days to 30 calendar days before each festival. Regarding wholesalers, the act allows wholesalers of vinous or spirituous liquors to obtain an importer's license and allows all wholesalers to hold trade show events. The act allows a retail liquor store going out of business to sell its inventory to another retail liquor store. The act specifies that a liquor-licensed drugstore's use of an electronic funds transfer is not an extension of credit. The act allows an arts licensee to place limited advertising of the availability of alcohol beverages for sale on the licensed premises while an artistic or cultural production or performance is taking place. The act allows alcohol beverage sales on Christmas. APPROVED by Governor May 18, 2024 EFFECTIVE August 7, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
On and after February 1, 2026, the act requires a developer of a high-risk artificial intelligence system (high-risk system) to use reasonable care to protect consumers from any known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination in the high-risk system. There is a rebuttable presumption that a developer used reasonable care if the developer complied with specified provisions in the act, including: Making available to a deployer of the high-risk system a statement disclosing specified information about the high-risk system; Making available to a deployer of the high-risk system information and documentation necessary to complete an impact assessment of the high-risk system; Making a publicly available statement summarizing the types of high-risk systems that the developer has developed or intentionally and substantially modified and currently makes available to a deployer or other developer and how the developer manages any known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination that may arise from the development or intentional and substantial modification of each of these high-risk systems; and Disclosing to the attorney general and known deployers or other developers of the high-risk system any known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination, within 90 days after the discovery or receipt of a credible report from the deployer, that the high-risk system has caused or is reasonably likely to have caused. The act also, on and after February 1, 2026, requires a deployer of a high-risk system to use reasonable care to protect consumers from any known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination in the high-risk system. There is a rebuttable presumption that a deployer used reasonable care if the deployer complied with specified provisions in the act, including: Implementing a risk management policy and program for the high-risk system; Completing an impact assessment of the high-risk system; Annually reviewing the deployment of each high-risk system deployed by the deployer to ensure that the high-risk system is not causing algorithmic discrimination; Notifying a consumer of specified items if the high-risk system makes, or will be a substantial factor in making, a consequential decision concerning the consumer; Providing a consumer with an opportunity to correct any incorrect personal data that a high-risk system processed in making a consequential decision; Providing a consumer with an opportunity to appeal, via human review if technically feasible, an adverse consequential decision concerning the consumer arising from the deployment of a high-risk system; Making a publicly available statement summarizing the types of high-risk systems that the deployer currently deploys, how the deployer manages any known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination that may arise from deployment of each of these high-risk systems, and the nature, source, and extent of the information collected and used by the deployer; and Disclosing to the attorney general the discovery of algorithmic discrimination, within 90 days after the discovery, that the high-risk system has caused. A person doing business in this state, including a deployer or other developer, that deploys or makes available an artificial intelligence system that is intended to interact with consumers must ensure disclosure to each consumer who interacts with the artificial intelligence system that the consumer is interacting with an artificial intelligence system. The act does not restrict a developer's, deployer's, or other person's ability to engage in specified activities, including: Complying with federal, state, or municipal laws, ordinances, or regulations; Cooperating with and conducting specified investigations; Taking immediate steps to protect an interest that is essential for the life or physical safety of a consumer; Conducting and engaging in specified research activities; and Effectuating a product recall or repairing technical errors that impair product functionality. The act provides an affirmative defense for a developer, deployer, or other person if: The developer, deployer, or other person involved in a potential violation is in compliance with a nationally or internationally recognized risk management framework for artificial intelligence systems that the act or the attorney general designates; and The developer, deployer, or other person takes specified measures to discover and correct violations of the act. An insurer, a fraternal benefit society, or a developer of an artificial intelligence system used by an insurer is in full compliance with the act if the entity is subject to specified laws governing insurers' use of external consumer data and information sources, algorithms, and predictive models and rules adopted by the commissioner of insurance. A bank, out-of-state bank, credit union chartered by the state of Colorado, federal credit union, out-of-state credit union, or any affiliate or subsidiary thereof, is in full compliance with the act if the entity is subject to examination by a state or federal prudential regulator under any published guidance or regulations that apply to the use of high-risk systems and the guidance or regulations meet criteria specified in the act. The act grants the attorney general rule-making authority to implement, and exclusive authority to enforce, the requirements of the act. A person who violates the act engages in a deceptive trade practice pursuant to the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act". APPROVED by Governor May 17, 2024 EFFECTIVE May 17, 2024(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Sections 1 and 2 of the bill create a high-emitter vehicle program for owners of motor vehicles that are not in compliance with emission standards and that have been issued a certification of emissions waiver (qualified vehicle). If the owner of a qualified vehicle resides in a nonattainment area for ozone and has unsuccessfully attempted to have the motor vehicle repaired to cure the noncompliance, the owner is eligible for a voucher of $850. The vouchers may be redeemed at qualified repair facilities that will bring the vehicle into compliance. The high-emitter vehicle program is funded by using up to 20% of the money in the AIR account in the highway users tax fund. The high-emitter vehicle program is administered by the nonattainment area air pollution mitigation enterprise, in coordination with the department of revenue, contractors that provide inspection services, and the clean screen authority. The high-emitter vehicle program repeals when Colorado meets federal ozone national ambient air quality standards (attainment). Section 3 requires the air quality control commission (commission) to create, in coordination with the lead agency for air quality planing for the Denver metropolitan area, a garden rebate program to increase the use of small electric motors used for outdoor power equipment. The program must: Provide a point-of-purchase rebate of the lesser of $150 or one-third of the price for each piece of outdoor power equipment purchased by the end user in a nonattainment area for ozone; Establish a registration system for qualified retailers; and Require the division to publicize the garden rebate program. The division of administration in the department of public health and environment (division) administers the garden rebate program, and the commission sets standards for qualified retailers to register for the program. If the garden rebate program exceeds its appropriation, the division may pause the program. The garden rebate program repeals January 1, 2030. Section 4 repeals the current tax credit for buying lawn and garden equipment with an electric motor. In current law, the clean fleet enterprise (enterprise) incentivizes and supports the use of electric motor vehicles for certain fleet uses, including transportation network companies. Sections 5 and 6 : Expand the program to include light-duty trucks; Authorize the clean fleet enterprise to provide grants of up to 80% of a local government's cost of acquiring motor vehicles that emit low levels of nitrogen oxides for the local government to use in its motor vehicle fleet; and Require the enterprise to prioritize making grants to local governments. The grant program authorization and prioritization repeal December 31, 2029. Section 7 requires the division to regularly perform, in the nonattainment area for ozone, photochemical modeling studies and data analysis designed to determine ambient air ozone levels and the effectiveness of policies for lowering ambient air ozone levels. The division is required to publish the results to the division's website and report the results to the commission and at its "SMART Act" hearing. Section 7 is repealed when Colorado achieves attainment.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)