The bill adds the definitions 'psychologically traumatic event' and 'serious bodily injury' to the workers' compensation statutes for the purposes of clarifying a worker's right to compensation for any claim of mental impairment.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Committee on Cost-benefit Analysis of Legalized Marijuana in Colorado. The bill creates a statutory right to use medical marijuana for a patient with acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder. The bill creates the same rights, limitations, and criminal defenses and exceptions as the constitutional right to use medical marijuana. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Joint Technology Committee. Current law specifies a process by which any department, institution, or agency of the state, including any institution of higher education, may request permission to expend money differently from the authority granted by an appropriation for a capital construction budget item if the project for which the appropriation was made requires a nonmonetary adjustment for its timely continuation and the nonmonetary adjustment is due to unforseen circumstances arising while the general assembly in not in session. This process includes appropriations for capital construction, controlled maintenance, or capital renewal appropriations. Currently, the process does not include information technology capital projects, as they are no longer included in the definition of capital construction. The bill specifies that a department, institution, or agency of the state, including any institution of higher education, may, under the same circumstances specified for capital construction appropriations, use the process to request permission to expend money differently from the authority granted by the appropriation for an information technology capital project.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Under current law, for a child to be adopted, the child must be present in the state at the time that the petition for adoption is filed. Under the bill, the child need not be present in the state if the child has been under the jurisdiction of a court in Colorado for at least 6 months. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Legislative Oversight Committee Concerning the Treatment of Persons with Mental Illness in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems. The bill directs the division of housing in the department of local affairs to establish a program to provide vouchers and supportive services to persons with a behavioral or mental health disorder who are being released from the department of corrections (DOC), the division of youth corrections in the department of human services (DYC), or jails. The program is funded by an appropriation from the marijuana tax cash fund and from money unspent by the division of criminal justice (CDPS) for community corrections programs in the previous fiscal year.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Committee on Cost-benefit Analysis of Legalized Marijuana in Colorado. The bill directs the department of education (department): By July 1, 2017, to create and maintain a resource bank, to be known as the 'Jack Splitt Memorial Resource Bank' (resource bank), for public schools to use without charge, that consists of materials and curricula pertaining to marijuana use; and Upon request of a public school, to provide technical assistance in designing age-appropriate curricula on marijuana use. The bill authorizes the department to contract for the maintenance of the resource bank and the development of the curricula and directs the department to solicit input from persons within and outside of the marijuana industry. After the resource bank and curricula are available, school districts, charter schools, and boards of cooperative services are encouraged to report to the department the effectiveness of them and recommendations for changes. The bill authorizes resource bank expenses to be paid from the marijuana tax cash fund. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
The bill allows the state licensing authority to authorize single-instance transfers of retail marijuana or retail marijuana products from a retail marijuana licensee to a medical marijuana licensee. If granted, the transfer must be completed within 30 days of the date the transfer was approved. A retail marijuana license that is subject to suspension is not eligible for the transfer and any retail marijuana or retail marijuana product that is subject to an administrative hold is not eligible for transfer. Under current law, the department of revenue determines the average market rate for purposes of excise tax collection on retail marijuana every 6 months. The bill gives the department the authority to calculate the average market rate on a quarterly basis. The average market rate cannot include taxes paid on sales or transfers. The bill requires a separate average market rate for unprocessed marijuana for extraction that is lower than the average market rate for unprocessed marijuana for direct sale. The bill states that the average market rate should be used to calculate the state excise tax on affiliated transactions, and the contract price should be used to calculate the excise tax on unaffiliated transactions. The bill clarifies that the average market rate will be used to calculate the excise tax on all county, municipal, or metropolitan district transactions. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Sunset Process - Senate Health and Human Services Committee. The bill implements the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies, as contained in the department's sunset review of naturopathic doctors, with modifications, as follows: Continues the regulation of naturopathic doctors by the director of the division of professions and occupations for 3 years, until September 1, 2020 ( sections 1 and 2 ); Requires insurance carriers to report to the director any malpractice judgments against or settlements entered into by a naturopathic doctor ( sections 5 and 6 ); Adds naturopathic doctors to the list of persons required to report child abuse or neglect ( section 8 ) and mistreatment of at-risk elders and at-risk adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities ( section 7 ); Clarifies that the naturopathic formulary that lists the medicines naturopathic doctors may use in the practice of naturopathic medicine includes prescription substances and devices authorized under the 'Naturopathic Doctor Act' ( section 3 ); and Corrects the name of the homeopathic pharmacopoeia as it appears in the act ( section 3 ). Additionally, section 4 of the bill specifies that a naturopathic doctor registered under the 'Naturopathic Doctor Act' may use the titles 'registered naturopathic doctor' or 'registered doctor of naturopathy' or the abbreviation 'R.N.D.'.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
The bill requires the division of criminal justice (division) within the department of public safety (department) to report annually to the general assembly certain data relating to substance-affected driving citations that occurred in the previous year. For the purpose of producing the report, the division shall collect certain data from: The state judicial branch; Forensic toxicology laboratories; The department of public health and environment; and The division of probation services. The bill creates a $2 surcharge for persons convicted of substance-affected driving. Money collected as such surcharges must be deposited in the substance-affected driving data-analysis cash fund, which is created in the bill. (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
Joint Technology Committee. The bill adds definitions of 'cybersecurity' and 'data privacy' for the purposes of the joint technology committee (committee). In addition, the bill modifies the definition of 'oversee' for the purposes of the committee to be consistent with other statutory provisions. The bill adds to the powers and duties of the committee the authority to request information and presentations regarding data privacy and cybersecurity within state agencies and the authority to coordinate with the Colorado cybersecurity council created in the department of public safety. In addition, the committee may consider: Whether state agencies are collecting or retaining data that exceeds what is necessary and appropriate for such agencies to perform their functions; Who has access to data, the extent of such access, and appropriate mechanisms to protect sensitive data; and Measures to protect data against unauthorized access, disclosure, use, modification, or destruction. Currently, the committee is required to review and may make recommendations to other legislative committees on any legislative measure that the speaker of the house of representatives or the president of the senate determines to be dealing with information technology. The bill specifies that this requirement includes data privacy and cybersecurity. The bill also specifies that the committee may request to review and make recommendations to other legislative committees on any legislative measure that the committee determines to be dealing with information technology, data privacy, or cybersecurity. Pursuant to current law, the committee will repeal on July 1, 2018. The bill eliminates the repeal of the committee. The bill requires the office of state planning and budgeting to design and prepare, in coordination with the staff of the committee, the forms and instructions to be used in preparation of all budget requests and supplemental budget requests submitted to the committee. The forms and instructions must require that budget requests submitted to the committee include: Information from a request for information or other formal market research regarding the information technology budget request; A defined scope of work and information regarding whether a vendor or consultant assisted in preparing the specifications or statement of work included in the information technology budget request; A range of options for completing the project, including the estimated costs for such options; and Any other available and relevant information obtained from the market research related to the information technology budget request.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
