Sen. Ray Scott

The act permits an organization recognized and authorized by the United States veterans administration and the national personnel records center to determine whether any unclaimed cremated remains are of United States military veterans or qualified family members who are eligible for interment in a national cemetery or state veterans' cemetery. If such unclaimed cremated remains are identified, the facility in possession of the remains is required to transfer the remains to a national cemetery or state veterans' cemetery. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Currently, "United States Mountain Standard Time" (MST) is the standard time within Colorado, except during the period of daylight saving time (i.e., the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November) when time is advanced one hour. The bill makes daylight saving time the year-round standard time within the state, but takes effect only if federal law is amended to allow states to remain on daylight saving time year round.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

Peer-to-peer car sharing - insurance - equipment - notifications. The act regulates peer-to-peer car sharing programs as follows: Requires the shared car to be covered by insurance from the driver or from the program, but if the program provides the insurance, the required coverage is 3 times the normal required coverage; If the required insurance is provided by the driver, the program must carry insurance to cover a lapse or lack of coverage, and this insurance may be purchased from a surplus lines insurer; Makes the insurance that satisfies the required coverage the primary insurance; Requires the program to notify the car owner that sharing the car may violate any lien on the car; The program must assume liability up to the required coverages, except liability caused by the shared car owner's material misstatement of fact or the shared car owner's actions in concert with a shared car driver who fails to return the shared car; Authorizes the shared car owner's insurer to exclude coverage when the car is being used in a program, and gives the insurer a right of contribution for any claims made as a result of the car sharing; Prohibits an insurer from refusing to insure a shared car outside the sharing solely because the car covered under the policy has been made available for car sharing; Sets record-keeping requirements; Clarifies that the program and a shared car owner are covered by the exemption set forth in federal law exempting rental companies from vicarious liability based on ownership of the car; Authorizes a program to be the named insured for a shared car; Requires the program to make certain disclosures and provide an emergency telephone number; Requires the program to verify that the driver is licensed to drive and keep records of this verification; Makes the program responsible for any equipment installed on the car for sharing purposes; Requires the program and the car owner, when there is a safety recall on the car, to remove the car from the program until the car is repaired; and Requires a program to enter into concession agreements with local airports to collect the airport fees on car sharing at an airport.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

County - county treasurer to serve as public trustee. Public trustees for Class 2 counties (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, Mesa, Pueblo, and Weld) are currently appointed by the governor. Commencing July 1, 2020, the act specifies that the county treasurer for each Class 2 county will serve as the public trustee for the county. The county treasurer is required to create a transition plan for assuming the new duties of the public trustee. The county treasurer is authorized to consider incorporating staff of the appointed trustee's office, including the prior public trustee, into the treasurer's office.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Automotive sales - business disposal license - grounds for discipline - right of action for loss - appropriation. The act creates a business disposal license for a business to sell its used vehicles if the vehicle sales do not exceed 20% of the business's gross revenue. The vehicles must not be passenger vehicles. The act also authorizes the motor vehicle dealer board to deny, suspend, or revoke a business disposal license for the following: A material misstatement in an application; Violating several classes of laws dealing with motor vehicle sales and commerce; Having been convicted of certain crimes; Engaging in various types of fraudulent activities; Failing to perform a written agreement; Failing to make the required disclosures; Misleading or inaccurate advertising; Representing or selling as new a used motor vehicle; Selling a defective vehicle unless sold as a tow-away and not to be driven or selling, acquiring, or disposing of a stolen vehicle; Failing to notify a prospective buyer of the acceptance or rejection of a motor vehicle purchase order agreement within a reasonable period when on a finance sale or a consignment sale; Failing to maintain a place of business with a fixed address and full-time employees; and Failing to post a bond. A person has a right of action against a business disposer and the surety upon a disposer's bond if the disposer commits a fraudulent act or violates the laws governing motor vehicle dealers. To implement the act, $14,000 is appropriated from the auto dealers license fund to the department of revenue for use by the motor vehicle dealer licensing board. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Current law allows heat, light, gas, water, power, and telephone utilities to establish a graduated scale of charges known as tiered rates. The bill directs the legislative investor-owned utility review interim study committee to study the effects of tiered electric rates and allows the committee to hold 4 meetings during the 2019 interim. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.) Read More

Current law, enacted in Senate Bill 18-001, requires the state treasurer to transfer, on July 1, 2019, a total amount of $150 million from the general fund to fund transportation needs as follows: $105 million (70%) to the state highway fund; $22.5 million (15%) to the highway users tax fund for allocation in equal shares to counties and municipalities; and $22.5 million (15%) to the multimodal transportation options fund. The bill increases the total amount of the July 1, 2019, transfer to $340 million so that the amount of the individual transfer to the multimodal transportation options fund is unchanged and the individual transfers to the state highway fund and the highway users tax fund are increased to the following amounts: $266.5 million (78.38%) to the state highway fund; $51 million (15%) to the highway users tax fund for allocation in equal shares to counties and municipalities; and $22.5 million (6.62%) to the multimodal transportation options fund.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More

Consulting engineer contracts for transportation projects - study by efficiency and accountability committee - report. The act requires the efficiency and accountability committee of the department of transportation (CDOT) to study and report to the executive director of CDOT and the transportation commission its findings and any recommendations regarding the following issues relating to consulting engineer contracts for CDOT projects: Implementation of fixed bid procurement in lieu of bids based on hourly charges; The quality assurance process; The revolving door of retired CDOT employees going to work for consultants; Incentives for closing out project contracts, early project completion, and timely problem resolution; and Project staffing and implementation of a work plan for consistent CDOT and consultant construction project administration. CDOT must annually report to its legislative oversight committees, as part of its annual "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act" hearing, regarding the findings and any recommendations reported by the efficiency and accountability committee and the position of CDOT with respect to the findings and any recommendations. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Hazardous materials - routing for transport. The act authorizes a public highway authority or a governmental partner in a public-private partnership to apply to the Colorado state patrol (CSP) for a new or modified hazardous materials route designation for a road or highway that it directly or indirectly maintains. The act also requires the department of transportation (CDOT) to conduct a study to assess the feasibility of allowing the transportation of hazardous materials through the Eisenhower-Edwin C. Johnson Memorial Tunnel and prepare a study report no later than December 1, 2020, that includes findings and recommendations as to whether and under what conditions the transportation of hazardous materials through the tunnel should be allowed. CDOT must solicit input from representatives of specified counties, towns, communities, ski resorts, industries, organizations, and emergency services providers and from the department of public safety, including representatives of the division of fire prevention and control and the CSP, regarding the scope of the study and must consider specified information and criteria and conduct specified types of analysis when conducting the study.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More

Grand Junction regional center campus - department of human services - authority to either list all or a portion of the campus for sale or transfer. Current law requires the department of human services to list the Grand Junction regional center campus for sale. The act gives the department of human services other options by authorizing the department to either list all or a portion of the Grand Junction regional center campus for sale or to enter into a contract to transfer all or a portion of the campus to a state institution of higher education, to a local government, or to a state agency interested in its acquisition. Such transfer would, according to current statute, be required to be reviewed by the capital development committee.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More