Sen. Mark Baisley

Victim notification - eliminate opt-in. With certain exceptions, the act eliminates requirements that victims must opt in to effect their rights in criminal proceedings involving their alleged offender or offender. This act appropriates $784,542 to the department for implementation of the act. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Legislative services - director of research of the legislative council - state tax system working group - report - appropriation. The director of research of the legislative council, in coordination with the other nonpartisan legislative staff agencies, the department of revenue, the department of personnel, and the governor's office of information technology, is required to convene a state tax system working group (working group) to meet during the interim following the first regular session of the seventy-second general assembly and to conduct an analysis of the state tax system used by the department of revenue. The working group is authorized to solicit input from any additional interested parties, as deemed necessary and appropriate by the working group. The working group is required to provide a progress report regarding its work to the joint technology committee and the joint budget committee and to submit a report of its findings and recommendations in connection with the state tax system to the joint technology committee, the joint budget committee, and the finance committees of the house of representatives and the senate. For the 2019-20 state fiscal year, $44,552 is appropriated from the general fund to the legislative department and $30,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of revenue for the purposes of the working group. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

The bill requires the attorney general, or his or her designee, to organize and provide a training of at least one hour, which all Colorado civil rights commission members are required to attend, regarding the state's obligation of religious neutrality and consistency when considering claims that involve freedom of speech or free exercise of religion under the first amendment of the United States constitution. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More