Under current law, as a supplement to the state accountability system in the department of education, a local accountability system may be established by a local education provider to measure the performance of public schools and school districts in achieving student success and system effectiveness. The act repeals the local accountability system law, which includes the local accountability system grant program. The act reduces the members of the accountability, accreditation, student performance, and resource inequity task force from 26 to 25 by removing the task force member who is a superintendent who represents a rural school district that participates in the repealed local accountability system grant program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
On July 1, 2027, the act repeals the decarbonization tax credits administration cash fund, which is subject to annual appropriation to the department of revenue and the Colorado energy office to pay for the direct and indirect costs associated with the implementation and administration of various decarbonization tax credits.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
For the purpose of calculating inflation based on the consumer price index for the 2025 calendar year, the act requires the index to be determined by averaging the 2 semiannual reports produced by the United States bureau of labor statistics for the 2025 calendar year.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act provides that the motorcycle operator safety training fund is no longer immediately and continuously available for use by the office of the chief of the state patrol in the department of public safety (office), and instead is available to be expended by the office subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly. $1,110,000 is appropriated from the motorcycle operator safety training fund to the department of public safety for use by the Colorado state patrol for the motorcycle operator safety training program.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act eliminates the requirement for the department of education (department) to administer a state assessment in social studies to elementary school students and specifies that the department is only required to administer a state assessment in social studies to students enrolled in seventh grade in a public school. The act also eliminates the requirement that the department administer a state assessment in social studies in a representative sample of public schools each year. The act reduces by the appropriation made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2026-27 state fiscal year to the department of education from the state education fund for the statewide assessment program by $302,835.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act repeals the requirement for the general assembly to appropriate money in the 2026-27 state fiscal year for the out-of-school time program grant program (grant program). The act reduces the appropriation for the 2026-27 state fiscal year to the department of education for use by the grant program by $1,750,000.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act directs the state treasurer to transfer $130 million from the state affordable housing fund (fund) to the general fund on June 30, 2026, and makes 3 corresponding adjustments to the affordable housing financing fund (financing fund). First, the act reduces the July 1, 2026, transfer from the fund to the financing fund by the amount of the June 30, 2026, transfer from the state affordable housing fund. Second, for the 2026-27 state fiscal year only, the act adjusts the prioritization of programs funded by the financing fund so that the programs are funded in the following order: The concessionary debt program, the affordable housing equity program, and the land banking program. Third, the act ensures that this transfer does not reduce the amount that may be spent on administrative expenses to implement programs funded by the financing fund in the 2026-27 state fiscal year and pools the costs of administering these programs between the administrator and the office of economic development for state fiscal years beginning with the 2026-27 state fiscal year. Under current law, if legislative council staff's March economic and revenue forecast projects that state revenue will not exceed the state fiscal year spending limit, the general assembly may reduce the funding allocated to the financing fund. The act allows for the general assembly to so reduce the funding allocated to the financing fund for the 2025-26 state fiscal year as a result of revenue forecasts projecting that state revenue will not exceed the state fiscal year spending limit.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
In 2022, the general assembly enacted, and the governor subsequently signed into law, House Bill 22-1358 ('Concerning measures to eliminate the presence of lead in the drinking water of certain facilities where children are present, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation'), which required child care centers, family child care homes, and each public school that serves any of grades preschool through eighth grade to:Test its drinking water sources by having a state-certified laboratory measure the lead content of water drawn from each drinking water source; andSatisfy other requirements concerning the provision of safe drinking water. House Bill 22-1358 also created the school and child care clean drinking water fund (fund) to help schools, child care centers, and family child care homes comply with House Bill 22-1358. House Bill 22-1358 included a repeal date of June 30, 2026, for its provisions. The act extends the provisions, with amendments, until June 30, 2029. The act also adds high schools (i.e., schools that serve grades 9 to 12) to the scope of House Bill 22-1358, which means that high schools may receive grants from the fund and must satisfy certain requirements on or before dates specified in the act. The act requires the department to adopt rules establishing how a child care center shall demonstrate compliance with the requirements concerning the testing for the presence of lead in drinking water.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Under current law, 28.9% of the revenue the state collects from the retail delivery fee is credited to the multimodal transportation and mitigation options fund (fund). Of the money from the retail delivery fee that is credited to the fund, currently 85% is allocated to the commission for local multimodal projects and 15% is allocated to the commission for state multimodal projects. Beginning on July 1, 2026, the act changes how the fund allocates and expends retail delivery fee revenue between state and local multimodal projects so that 70% of the fund is allocated to the commission for local multimodal projects and 30% of the fund is allocated to the commission for state multimodal projects.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires each covered social media platform (covered platform) to impose a fee on each add-on transaction that occurs on the covered platform. The act creates the youth mental health services access enterprise in the behavioral health administration (BHA) to use the fee revenue to operate and fund programs that provide youth mental health services. The youth mental health services access enterprise constitutes an enterprise for purposes of section 20 of article X of the state constitution. The act defines a 'covered platform' as a sole proprietorship, a partnership, a limited liability company, a corporation, an association, or another legal entity, or an affiliate thereof, that:Conducts business in this state;Generates revenue directly from add-on transactions conducted in an online gaming service, product, or feature;Generates a majority of its annual revenue from online gaming services, products, or features;Publishes one or more online gaming services, products, or features that are reasonably likely to be accessed by a youth;Collects users' personal data or has users' personal data collected on its behalf; andDetermines the purposes and means of the processing of users' personal data. The act defines an 'add-on transaction' as a transaction through which a player or participant in a video game accessed via an online gaming service, product, or feature acquires:An item or ability that provides the player or participant an advantage over other players or participants of the video game; orA feature that alters or enhances the video game as accessed by the online gaming service, product, or feature. The act creates the youth mental health services access enterprise fund, consisting of money credited to the fund as fee revenue, any money received from the issuance of revenue bonds, and any other money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the youth mental health services access enterprise fund. Money in the youth mental health services access enterprise fund is continuously appropriated to the youth mental health services access enterprise. After deducting its administrative expenses, the youth mental health services access enterprise is required to allocate the remaining fee revenue credited to the fund as follows:40% to operate and fund the youth mental health peer navigator grant program, which program is created in the act;35% to operate and fund the crisis resolution team program, which program is created in the act; and25%, beginning January 1, 2028, to operate the existing youth mental health services program. The initial amount of the fee is 5% of the amount of the add-on transaction. On and after October 1, 2027, the youth mental health services access enterprise may adjust the amount of the fee. The act creates the youth mental health peer navigator grant program to award grants to entities that recruit and train young adults to provide prevention services, peer support, and system navigation to youth in schools or community-based settings. The act creates the crisis resolution team program to provide community-based de-escalation and stabilization services to youth who are experiencing high-acuity behavioral health crises and to their caregivers. Under current law, the BHA operates the youth mental health services program to facilitate access to mental health services, including substance use disorder services, for youth in response to mental health needs identified in an initial mental health screening through the program's web-based portal. The youth mental health services program reimburses providers for up to 3 mental health sessions with a youth. The act directs the youth mental health services access enterprise, rather than the BHA, to operate and fund the youth mental health services program beginning January 1, 2028. The act also allows the youth mental health services access enterprise to reimburse a provider for up to 6 mental health sessions with a youth. The act creates the youth programming and protections enterprise to:Award grants through the existing out-of-school time program grant program; andSupport the department of education's enforcement of educational rights on behalf of children. The youth programming and protections enterprise constitutes an enterprise for purposes of section 20 of article X of the state constitution. The act creates the youth programming and protections enterprise fund. In each state fiscal year, after the state treasurer has credited $8 million to the youth mental health services access enterprise fund, the state treasurer must credit any other money received as fees to the youth programming and protections enterprise fund. Under current law, the department of education administers the out-of-school time program grant program and the state board of education awards grants from the program, subject to available appropriations. The act directs the department of education to consult with the youth programming and protections enterprise in administering the out-of-school time program grant program, and the act directs the youth programming and protections enterprise to award grants from the program in consultation with the state board of education. The act also requires the out-of-school time program grant program to provide programming and services that support the mental health and well-being of children and youth. The act requires a covered platform to ensure that the purchase price for an online gaming service, product, or feature that is reasonably likely to be accessed by a minor to be listed in United States dollars at the point of sale. For the 2026-27 state fiscal year, the act appropriates:$294,984 to the department of revenue from the general fund;$26,500 to the department of law from reappropriated funds;$145,750 to the department of law from the youth mental services access enterprise fund created in the act; and$79,500 to the department of law from the youth programming and protections enterprise fund created in the act.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act creates a process for an owner of a single-family residence to petition a district court for limited access to an adjoining property to complete repairs or maintenance to the single-family residence if the owner of the adjoining property has denied such access. The owner of a single-family residence is encouraged to engage the adjoining property owner in alternative dispute resolution, such as mediation, prior to petitioning the court. In petitioning the court, the owner of a single-family residence must demonstrate that they have made reasonable efforts to obtain permission from the adjoining property owner to access the adjoining property. A petitioner must also specify the nature of the repairs or maintenance they seek to complete and describe why they cannot complete the repairs or maintenance without access to the adjoining property. If the court determines that access to the adjoining property is necessary to repair or maintain the petitioner's property and will not negatively affect an easement on the adjoining property, the court shall grant access to the adjoining property as necessary to allow completion of the repair or maintenance and shall prescribe the conditions and duration of the petitioner's access. The act does not apply to an adjoining property that is owned or controlled by the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act exempts pilates and barre teacher training courses, programs, and schools from regulation under the 'Private Occupational Education Act of 1981'.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
