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signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 30, 2025

SB 25-031: Single Point of Contact Wireless Services

Under current law, the Colorado broadband office provides technical assistance to grant applicants related to grants to deploy broadband services. The act expands the technical assistance to grant applicants to include assistance related to grants to deploy wireless service. The act requires an emergency alert sent by the state or a county, municipality, or alerting authority to be sent in a predominant minority language if the county has at least 2,000 citizens who are 18 years of age or older and who speak the predominant minority language and speak English less than very well, as defined by the United States bureau of the census American community survey or comparable census data. The state, counties, municipalities, and alerting authorities are encouraged to use available technology to issue emergency alerts in as many languages as possible in the same method as an English alert. Each alerting authority that is required to send emergency alerts in a predominant minority language is encouraged to conduct community outreach to inform people with limited English proficiency of the availability of language interpretation and translation options for emergency alerts. Alerts must comply with the act by July 1, 2027. The act allows the 911 services enterprise to distribute grants to local alerting authorities to implement language and accessibility services for emergency alerts. The act imposes the 911 prepaid wireless charge and 988 surcharge to prepaid wireless telecommunication services. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Topics ✓ TechnologySupports TechnologyExpands technical assistance for broadband/wireless deployment grants, directly advancing internet access infrastructure as a key technology policy.85% confidence
Dylan Roberts (D) Matt Soper (R) Elizabeth Velasco (D) · 6 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 30, 2025

SB 25-178: Colorado K-5 Social & Emotional Health Pilot Program

The act requires the state board of education to adopt rules that consider a number of factors in determining the amount of money each school participating in the K-5 social and emotional health pilot program will receive in order to carry out the pilot program. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Topics ✓ EducationSupports EducationCreates funding mechanism for K-5 social-emotional health pilot program, advancing student well-being in schools.95% confidence
Dafna Michaelson Jenet (D) Lindsay Gilchrist (D) · 25 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 30, 2025

SB 25-270: Enterprise Nursing Facility Provider Fees

The act repeals the existing nursing facility provider fee and intermediate care facility service fee, effective May 1, 2025, and provides that, beginning on May 1, 2025, and for each state fiscal year thereafter, the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise (CHASE) within the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) will charge and collect a new healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee and a new healthcare affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee that function similarly to the repealed fees. The act creates a facility provider fee enterprise support board within CHASE for the purpose of supporting the existing enterprise with the implementation of the healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee and the healthcare affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee. In exchange for payment of the healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee, CHASE will provide certain business services to nursing facility providers to sustain or increase reimbursement rates and make supplemental medicaid payments to nursing facility providers. In exchange for payment of the healthcare affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee, CHASE will provide certain business services to intermediate care facility providers for individuals with intellectual disabilities for the purposes of maintaining the quality and continuity of services provided by intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Because CHASE is an enterprise for purposes of the Taxpayer's Act of Rights, its revenue does not count against the state fiscal year spending limit. The act also makes conforming amendments and, for clarity, renames the existing healthcare affordability and sustainability fee and healthcare affordability and sustainability fund to be the healthcare affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee and the healthcare affordability and sustainability hospital provider fee cash fund. For the 2025-26 state fiscal year, $62,986,221 is appropriated from the healthcare affordability and sustainability nursing facility provider fee cash fund to HCPF and $2,150,281 is appropriated from the healthcare affordability and sustainability intermediate care facility fee cash fund to HCPF. The act also decreases in corresponding amounts appropriations to HCPF from other cash funds and modifies appropriations to HCPF for the 2024-25 state fiscal year. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareReplaces nursing facility fees with CHASE sustainability fees to fund healthcare affordability programs, explicitly advancing healthcare funding goals.90% confidence
Shannon Bird (D) Judy Amabile (D) Jeff Bridges (D) Emily Sirota (D) · 11 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 28, 2025

SB 25-206: 2025-26 Long Appropriations Bill

Provides for the payment of expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state of Colorado, and of its agencies and institutions, for and during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025, except as otherwise noted. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Shannon Bird (D) Jeff Bridges (D) · 41 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 28, 2025

SB 25-221: School District Reporting Additional Mill Levy Revenue

The act requires each school district, beginning in the 2025-26 budget year, and each budget year thereafter, to report the total amount of additional mill levy revenue, stated as a dollar amount, that the school district is authorized to collect and that the school district distributes to the institute charter schools within the geographic boundary of the school district. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Shannon Bird (D) Rick Taggart (R) Barbara Kirkmeyer (R) Jeff Bridges (D) · 5 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 28, 2025

SB 25-223: Mill Levy Equalization & Institute Charter Schools

Beginning with the 2025-26 budget year, and each budget year thereafter, the state charter school institute (institute) shall not distribute a portion of its appropriated mill levy equalization funds to multi-district online schools that are authorized by the institute. Beginning in the 2024-25 budget year, if the institute receives additional mill levy revenue from a school district for an institute charter school within the geographic boundary of the school district, the general assembly shall deduct the additional mill levy revenue from the amount necessary to fully fund mill levy equalization. The act decreases an appropriation from the state education fund to the department of education for use by the institute for mill levy equalization by $1,008,494. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Topics ✗ Budget & TaxesOpposes Budget & TaxesRestricts mill levy equalization fund distribution to multi-district online schools, limiting budget allocation for specific charter schools.95% confidence ✗ EducationOpposes EducationRestricts mill levy funds to multi-district online charter schools, limiting their access to state funding sources per bill's explicit prohibition on fund distribution.95% confidence ✗ TechnologyOpposes TechnologyRestricts funding for online schools (technology-based education) by barring mill levy equalization funds, directly limiting financial support for digital education providers.95% confidence
Shannon Bird (D) Barbara Kirkmeyer (R) Judy Amabile (D) Emily Sirota (D) · 8 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 28, 2025

SB 25-234: Fiscal Year 2024-25 Supplemental Appropriations & Student Financial Aid

The act exempts 2024-25 state fiscal year supplemental appropriations for student financial aid from annual appropriation requirements for student financial assistance. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesExempts student financial aid funding from annual requirements, securing stable budgetary support for essential education programs.95% confidence ✓ EducationSupports EducationExempts supplemental student financial aid funding from annual requirements, ensuring consistent allocation for educational access and higher education support without budgetary hurdles.90% confidence
Rick Taggart (R) Judy Amabile (D) Jeff Bridges (D) Emily Sirota (D) · 2 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 28, 2025

SB 25-230: College Opportunity Fund Program

The act clarifies that the department of higher education may distribute financial assistance from an allocation authorized for student financial assistance programs to undergraduate students who attend participating private institutions of higher education and who participate in the college opportunity fund program. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Topics ✓ EducationSupports EducationClarifies funding distribution for undergraduate students at private institutions via College Opportunity Fund, expanding financial aid access for higher education.95% confidence
Shannon Bird (D) Rick Taggart (R) Barbara Kirkmeyer (R) Jeff Bridges (D) · 2 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 28, 2025

SB 25-269: Transfer to Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act Cash Fund

The act requires the state treasurer to transfer $4 million from the general fund to the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" cash fund on July 1, 2025. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesTransfers $4M from general fund to infrastructure fund, directly funding essential public infrastructure programs through budget reallocation.90% confidence ✓ TransportationSupports TransportationTransfers $4M to Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act cash fund, directly funding transportation infrastructure projects as defined in the topic.95% confidence
Rick Taggart (R) Barbara Kirkmeyer (R) Jeff Bridges (D) Emily Sirota (D) · 3 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 28, 2025

SB 25-242: Division Unemployment Insurance Funding Mechanism

The act updates the funding mechanism for the division of unemployment insurance (division) by changing the name of the "employment and training technology fund" to the "unemployment insurance program support fund" and expanding the use of the fund to include the information technology and administrative costs of the division. Colorado law specifies how the division must disburse money collected from the employer support surcharge. The act modifies the disbursement of this surcharge to: 11% for the employment support fund (decreased from 35%); 54% for the unemployment insurance program support fund (increased from 32%); 20% for the workforce development fund (increased from 14%); and 15% for the benefit recovery fund (decreased from 19%). The act requires all money collected in each fund that is in excess of the maximum balance amounts authorized for the fund to be credited to the unemployment compensation fund. The act ties the adjustments of the fund caps to the change in average weekly earnings instead of to the consumer price index. The act also adjusts the cap for the unemployment insurance program support fund. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Topics ✓ Labor & EmploymentSupports Labor & EmploymentBill updates unemployment insurance funding to cover IT/admin costs, ensuring stable disbursement of employer surcharge for worker benefits.90% confidence
Rick Taggart (R) Judy Amabile (D) Jeff Bridges (D) Emily Sirota (D) · 3 co-sponsors
signed · Colorado · Senate Apr 28, 2025

SB 25-240: Electronic Discovery in Criminal Cases Task Force

The act creates the electronic discovery in criminal cases task force (task force), which consists of 11 task force members. The purpose of the task force is to study the costs and management of electronic discovery in criminal cases. On or before November 1, 2025, the act requires the task force to submit a report to the joint budget committee and the joint technology committee describing the work of the task force, findings and recommendations regarding the issues and topics considered by the task force, and legislative proposals and expected costs. The act repeals the task force, effective January 1, 2027. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Shannon Bird (D) Rick Taggart (R) Barbara Kirkmeyer (R) Jeff Bridges (D) · 6 co-sponsors
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