Current law appropriates $5 million annually from the tobacco tax cash fund to the department of public health and environment (department) for breast and cervical cancer screenings. The bill expands the use of the funds for additional cancer screenings. The bill changes the name of the breast cancer screening fund to the cancer screening fund and authorizes the money in the fund to be used for breast and cervical cancer screenings, colorectal cancer screenings, and screenings for additional screenable cancers. The bill changes the makeup of the existing advisory board from persons interested in health care and the promotion of breast cancer screenings to include persons who are interested in health care and the promotion of services for other screenable cancers. When making recommendations to the executive director of the department concerning cancer screening services, the bill requires the advisory board to allocate, at a minimum, $2.5 million annually for breast and cervical cancer screenings, $1 million annually for colorectal cancer screenings, and, if feasible, money for screenings for additional screenable cancers. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Current law prohibits a county from appropriating county general fund money for roads and bridges and, subject to an exception for disaster emergency response within the county, from transferring county general fund money to the county road and bridge fund. The bill authorizes a county to use county general fund money to fund roads and bridges by eliminating these existing prohibitions. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill exempts a business from a public health agency order or executive order requiring businesses to close if: The products sold or services offered by the business are also available at a business that has not been required by the applicable order to cease or limit operations and the open business is operating at a physical location in the geographical area that is subject to the order; and The business that is required by the applicable order to limit or cease operations complies with any safety precautions that the order requires of businesses that are permitted to continue operations.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Under current law, if an eligible elector is unable to sign a mail ballot issued to the elector, the elector may provide the self-affirmation required to cast the ballot by making a mark on the self-affirmation, with or without assistance, witnessed by another registered elector (witness). The bill requires the envelope used for the ballot's return to show a place for the witness to list the witness's voter identification number, and the witness is required to write the witness's voter identification number on the return envelope. The county clerk is required to verify the witness's signature. A witness must be registered in the same county in which the elector completing the self-affirmation is registered. A returned ballot for which an elector's self-affirmation has been witnessed in a manner that does not satisfy the requirements of the bill will be treated as a provisional ballot.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill creates a civil cause of action for a person who suffers injury or damages as a result of not being able to use a firearm to defend himself, herself, or his or her family as a result of a temporary extreme risk protection order or an ongoing extreme risk protection order. The civil action may be brought against any person who drafted, proposed, promoted, or provided support, financial or otherwise, to pass, implement, or enforce House Bill 19-1177, extreme risk protection orders. A successful plaintiff is entitled to attorney fees and compensatory damages or liquidated damages.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill creates certain rights for foster parents. The rights do not apply to persons against whom criminal charges have been filed for child abuse, an unlawful sexual offense, or any felony. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill creates a pregnancy-based parking placard. The placard is available to a person during the last trimester of the person's pregnancy through the first 2 months after the person gives birth. The placard authorizes the person to park in reserved disability parking spaces. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
At the November 2020 general election, the voters approved proposition 114, which: Approved the reintroduction of gray wolves on designated lands in Colorado west of the continental divide beginning no later than December 31, 2023; and Acknowledged that the general assembly may adopt implementing legislation to facilitate the restoration of gray wolves to Colorado. The bill: Specifies the process that the parks and wildlife commission (commission) must follow in soliciting and considering public input regarding a draft of the gray wolf reintroduction and management plan, including when the commission periodically updates the plan; Requires the commission to submit: To the general assembly the plan and specified recommendations regarding how to finance the reintroduction and management of gray wolves; and A request to the United States fish and wildlife service to conduct an environmental impact analysis pursuant to the federal "National Environmental Policy Act of 1969" before the reintroduction of gray wolves on designated lands that are owned and managed by the United States; and Requires the commission to initiate the process to remove the gray wolf from the state list of endangered or threatened species as soon as any litigation contesting the validity of the federal delisting of gray wolves has been finally resolved.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill establishes immunity from civil liability for entities for any act or omission that results in exposure, loss, damage, injury, or death arising out of COVID-19 if the entity attempts in good faith to comply with applicable public health guidelines. The bill is repealed 2 years after the date the governor terminates the state of disaster emergency declared on March 11, 2020. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Section 1 of the bill defines a "protected series" as an arrangement, configuration, or other structure established by an entity formed outside of Colorado (a "foreign entity") as to which, under the organic statutes of the foreign entity: The assets of or associated with the protected series are not subject to claims against, or liabilities of, the foreign entity or any other protected series of the foreign entity; and The assets of or associated with the foreign entity or any other protected series of the foreign entity are not subject to claims against, or liabilities of, the protected series. Section 2 authorizes a foreign entity that has established a protected series (a "foreign series entity") that is doing or proposing to do business in this state to file with the secretary of state a statement of foreign entity authority that states the name and principal place of business of the protected series. Section 3 specifies the effect of filing the statement of foreign entity authority with regard to the foreign series entity's and protected series' rights and liabilities.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill creates the water resources financing enterprise (enterprise). The board of the enterprise (board) consists of the board of directors of the Colorado water resources and power development authority and the board members of the Colorado water conservation board. The enterprise will provide financing to "water providers", defined to include drinking water suppliers, wastewater treatment suppliers, and raw water suppliers. Raw water suppliers are limited to those that provide raw water for treatment and use as drinking water. Customers of a drinking water supplier will pay a fee to the supplier, who will transmit it to the enterprise to be used for the financing. The fee for each individual metered connection in a drinking water supplier's public water system is 25 cents per 1,000 gallons of drinking water delivered per month in excess of the first 4,000 gallons of drinking water delivered in that month to the individual metered connection. The board may adjust the fee based on inflation and equity concerns for large nonresidential customers and customers who pay tiered rates that start higher than 4,000 gallons per month. The enterprise can provide financing for grants, loans, and in-kind technical assistance in arranging third-party financing. In determining whether to provide financing, the board shall consider the following factors: A water provider's ability to pay, including whether the water provider has sought or received other financial assistance; Whether a water provider has been found to be noncompliant with requirements, or is subject to increased requirements, related to the provision of raw water, drinking water, or wastewater treatment; Whether the proposed use of financing relates to a project identified in and in furtherance of the state water plan; and The geographic location and demographic characteristics of the water provider and its customers. The enterprise shall provide, and a water provider may use, the financing only: In connection with the provision of raw water, drinking water, or wastewater treatment; and For feasibility studies, consulting, planning, permitting, and construction of infrastructure and water conservation projects and related recreational, hydroelectric, and flood control facilities, including necessary enlargement and rehabilitation of facilities but excluding maintenance and operation of facilities.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill requires a person who owns, leases, leases to, or operates a movie theater open to the public in Colorado to provide, on or before January 1, 2022, and ongoing thereafter, open captioning at all indoor and outdoor movie showings of each movie that is produced and offered with open movie captioning, including trailers. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
