Sen. Kerry Donovan

Under current law, public funds cannot be used to pay for an abortion, except in cases of life endangerment and in cases of rape or incest for medicaid-eligible women. If every reasonable effort is made to preserve the life of the pregnant woman and unborn child, then public funds may be used for medically necessary services. The medically necessary services must be performed only in a licensed health care facility and only by a licensed physician. The act removes these requirements and allows medically necessary services to be performed by a provider who is licensed by the state and acting within the scope of the provider's license and in accordance with applicable federal regulations.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Current law allows qualified peace officers to stop a conveyance, including a boat trailer and a boat, and inspect the conveyance for the presence of aquatic nuisance species before the boat is launched onto waters of the state and before departing from the waters of the state or a vessel staging area, and to impound and quarantine a conveyance that is contaminated until it is decontaminated. Authorized agents can detain and inspect conveyances but cannot impound or quarantine conveyances.Section 1 of the act directs the division of parks and wildlife in the department of natural resources to investigate the methods that other states are using with respect to the location and operation of check stations and report regarding its investigation and the operation of check stations pursuant to the act to the general assembly's committees with jurisdiction over wildlife.Section 2 authorizes a qualified peace officer to stop and inspect for the presence of aquatic nuisance species a conveyance that has encountered an aquatic nuisance species check station.Section 3 prohibits a person who encounters a check station from knowingly or willfully failing or refusing to stop at the check station while transporting a conveyance during the check station's hours of operation without presenting the conveyance for inspection and specifies that doing so is a civil infraction with a $100 fine.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The bill creates the digital communications division (division) and the digital communications commission (commission) within the department of regulatory agencies. On an annual basis and for a reasonable fee determined by the commission, the division shall register directs the joint technology committee to study whether and how the general assembly could address, through legislation, consumer protection concerns related to certain digital communications platforms, which are certain communications-oriented online businesses, such as social media platforms or media-sharing platforms. that conduct business in Colorado or own or operate services that are offered to Colorado residents. A digital communications platform that fails to register with the division commits a class 2 misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 for each day that the violation continues. The division shall investigate and the commission may hold hearings on claims filed with the division alleging that a digital communications platform has allowed a person to engage in one or more unfair or discriminatory digital communications practices on the platform, which practices: committee is authorized to consult with and seek presentations from various experts including an expert in constitutional first amendment law and the media. The committee may study a digital communications platform's existing policies and practices regarding if and how the digital communications platform's policies and practices Include practices that promote hate speech violence ; undermine election integrity; disseminate intentional disinformation; conspiracy theories, or fake news; or authorize, encourage, or carry out violations of users' privacy; and directly attack protected groups, or chill free speech. May include business, political, or social practices that are conducted in a manner that a person aggrieved by the practices can demonstrate are unfair or discriminatory to the aggrieved person. Such practices, if done in an unfair or discriminatory manner, might include: Practices that target users for purposes of collecting and disseminating users' personal data, including users' sensitive data;Profiling users based on their personal data collected;Selling or authorizing others to use users' personal data to provide location-based advertising or targeted advertising; orUsing facial recognition software and other tracking technology. If a person who files a complaint with the division exhausts all administrative remedies and proceedings, the person may file a civil action in district court alleging an unfair or discriminatory digital communications practice.The committee may also study platforms' use of facial recognition software and other tracking technology, personal data, and design practices that increase data collection without users' consent. The committee may consider whether and how the state could address consumer complaints about a digital communications platform's policies and practices.The committee is required to submit a report to the general assembly on its findings and recommendations on or before the 2022 legislative session commences. If the committee's report includes recommendations of legislation, the introduction of any such legislation during the 2022 legislative session does not count against the 5-bill limit. (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.)

The act broadens the state's priorities and focus on suicide and suicide attempts and the after-effects of those actions on attempt survivors, family, friends, health-care providers, first and last responders, educators, and students in schools where a suicide or suicide attempt has occurred.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

The act requires the owner or operator of a carpooling service internet application (internet application) to register annually with the department of transportation. Owners or operators are also required to disclose to users of the internet application that carpooling service companies are not regulated by the state; that the state does not conduct medical examinations, vehicle inspections, or insurance verification in relation to the provision of carpooling service; and that background checks on drivers might not be conducted. The act also requires that the amount that can be charged to a user through the internet application be reasonably calculated to cover the direct and indirect costs of providing carpooling service and limits the number of passengers that a driver providing carpooling service through the internet application may transport at any one time.The act also limits each driver providing carpooling service to one trip per day and defines "carpooling service" as a trip that is at least 23 miles between pick-up and drop-off points or a trip to or from a ski area, regardless of distance.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

In general, current law provides that a felony conviction or other offense involving moral turpitude does not, in and of itself, prevent a person from applying for or obtaining public employment. The bill extends this to persons applying to positions within the wildland fire management section in the department of public safety. The bill requires the division of fire prevention and control (division) to develop materials to increase awareness of wildland fire career opportunities for persons who acquired experience in wildland fire services through the inmate disaster relief program (program). The bill states that the division is encouraged to hire persons who acquired experience in the program for positions performing wildland fire services. The bill requires the division to develop and implement a peer mentor program for persons hired who acquired experience in wildland fire services through the program so those persons may develop and sustain professional skills. The bill requires the wildfire matters review committee to review and permits the committee to propose legislation or other policy changes relating to maximizing the utilization of wildland fire services through the inmate disaster relief program and creating wildland fire career opportunities for persons who acquire experience in wildland fire services through the inmate disaster relief program. (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.)

With regard to event ticket sales and resales, the bill repeals provisions prohibiting certain restrictions on ticket resales and instead limits a reseller from advertising, offering for sale, or contracting to resell tickets or accepting payment for a resale ticket unless the reseller has possession of the ticket or has a written contract to obtain the ticket from the person who possesses it and the ticket matches the advertised description of the ticket. The bill also specifies that terms or conditions on the original sale of a ticket, including limits on transferability, are permissible. With regard to online ticket sales, the bill adds the following as deceptive trade practices: Using or causing to be used a website to display a trademarked or copyrighted URL, title, image, or other symbol without written consent; or Using or causing to be used a website to display text, images, web designs, or internet addresses, which website is substantially similar to another website, without written consent.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)