The act allows a board of county commissioners (board) to adopt a local resolution or ordinance to establish business licensure requirements to regulate massage facilities for the sole purpose of deterring illicit massage businesses and preventing human trafficking. If a board adopts a resolution or ordinance to establish business licensure requirements, the board may only include the business licensure requirements outlined in the act. The act allows the board to charge an administrative licensure fee for a massage facility. The act allows a board to adopt a resolution or ordinance to regulate and prohibit activities to prevent the operation of illicit massage businesses that engage in human trafficking-related offenses. If a municipality adopts a resolution or ordinance to license a massage facility or prohibit activities to prevent the operation of illicit massage businesses that engage in human trafficking-related offenses, the act requires municipal police departments to conduct background checks on the applicant's or licensee's criminal history and provide the municipality information to determine whether the applicant or licensee is approved or denied for a license based on the criminal history record information. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Sponsored bills
The act authorizes the use of an emergency stationary engine if: The emergency stationary engine is providing electric power to or mechanical work for military facilities or facilities under the control of the United States department of defense; The emergency stationary engine is in compliance with federal regulations governing emergency stationary engines; The emergency stationary engine's air pollution control and monitoring equipment is installed, operated, and maintained in compliance with the manufacturer's standards; and The emergency stationary engine is undergoing routine maintenance or testing or providing primary electrical power or mechanical work during an emergency situation under federal regulations. A person that operates an emergency stationary engine as authorized by the act is required to: Minimize the use of emergency stationary engines as much as practicable, consistent with the health, safety, and welfare of the people of Colorado; Report each emergency event that causes the engine to be operated within the later of 48 hours after or noon on the business day following the emergency event; Record information about each emergency event; and Submit compliance reports detailing the operation of the engine, the reason for the operation, deviations, and corrective actions. The governor will submit the act for inclusion in Colorado's state implementation plan. The act will take effect only if the act's inclusion in the state implementation plan is approved by the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
A commission on judicial discipline (commission) is established in current law pursuant to section 23 (3) of article VI of the state constitution. The act implements the commission by: Specifying the duties of the commission; Establishing and specifying the duties of an office of judicial discipline (office) as an independent office within the judicial department; Authorizing the commission to appoint an executive director of the office and specifying the duties of the executive director; Authorizing the commission to appoint and determine the duties of special counsel, which may include representing the people in formal proceedings; Establishing immunity for commissioners; Requiring the attorney general to provide legal services to the commission and office; Specifying when information should be shared among offices within the judicial department responsible for reviewing actions of current and potential judges and justices; Specifying duties of personnel within the judicial department when they become aware of potential issues of judicial discipline; and Establishing a special cash fund and specifying sources of money for the fund and uses of the money in the fund. For rules, guidelines, and procedures relating to judicial discipline adopted by the supreme court, the act requires the supreme court to: Provide the commission with notice and an opportunity to object and, if the commission objects, to engage with the commission in good-faith efforts to resolve differences; and Post notice of each rule, guideline, or procedure and allow for public comment, including an opportunity for the public to address the supreme court. The act creates the legislative interim committee on judicial discipline to study Colorado's system of judicial discipline and make recommendations for necessary changes to that system. The act appropriates: $1,143,438 from the general fund to the commission to implement the act; $88,713 to the department of law from reappropriated funds from the commission; and $53,463 from the general fund to the legislative department for expenses of the interim committee.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act updates the "Victim Rights Act" (act). The purpose of the act is to ensure all victims of crimes are protected by law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and judges. The act updates include: Allowing a victim or the victim's designees to appear in court proceedings in person, by phone, or virtually by audio or video, or similar technology; Establishing for victims the right to receive a free copy of the initial incident report from the investigating law enforcement agency that includes, at a minimum, the victim's name, the offender's name, the date of the crime, the charges, and a summary of the incident. The investigating law enforcement agency is required to notify the district attorney of the information the victim received in the incident report and when it was provided to the victim. The district attorney is required to provide this information to any defendant involved in the case through the discovery process. Requiring defendants to attend sentencing hearings in person, by phone, or virtually by audio or video, or similar technology, to hear the victim's impact statement, unless the court excludes the defendant; Clarifying that the prosecutor shall explain the defendant's sentencing terms to the victim; Requiring the court to provide the victim or the victim's designee with translation or interpretation services as needed during all critical stages of the hearing; Requiring a court to order a bond hearing in any case that falls under the act; Clarifying that a designee or designees may represent the interests of a victim who is deceased or incapacitated; Clarifying that a party issuing a subpoena pursuant to Rule 17 of the Colorado rules of criminal procedure for the production of a victim's privileged records or a subpoena requesting a victim's compensation records shall file specific information with the court and serve that information to any opposing party; and Clarifying that the court shall quash any subpoena and not receive any records protected by privilege, unless the court finds, based on evidence, that the victim expressly or impliedly waived the statutory privilege. The act outlines when the court shall determine whether to receive and release any records relating to the victim.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act creates the Feeding Colorado fund (fund) in the state treasury. A voluntary contribution designation line for the fund will appear on the state individual income tax return form (form) for the 5 income tax years following the year that the executive director of the department of revenue (department) certifies to the revisor of statutes that there is space available on the form and that the fund is next in the queue. Once the fund is placed on the form, the department is directed to determine annually the total amount contributed to the fund and report that amount to the state treasurer and the general assembly. The state treasurer is required to credit that amount to the fund, and the general assembly appropriates from the fund to the department the costs of administering money designated for the fund. After that amount is deducted, the money remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year is transferred to Feeding Colorado. Following the statutory 2-year grace period for new tax check-offs, the fund is required to achieve the minimum contribution amount of $50,000 per year to remain on the form. The fund is repealed on the sixth income tax year following the year in which the director files the certification, unless it is continued by the general assembly before then. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act implements the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies' (department) sunset review and report on the licensing of massage therapists by: Continuing the licensing requirements for 9 years, until September 1, 2031; Granting sole discretion to the director of the division of professions and occupations to approve the licensure examination for massage therapists by repealing the reference to national licensure examinations as an option for massage therapist applicants to take in lieu of another examination approved by the director; and Adding, as grounds for disciplining a massage therapist, engaging in fraud, misrepresentation, deception, or cheating in taking or furnishing the results of a required examination or having the person's score on the examination invalidated by the testing provider because the person was determined to have cheated or engaged in fraud, misrepresentation, or deception in taking the examination.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
The act requires an online marketplace (marketplace) to require each high-volume third-party seller (seller) selling through its marketplace to disclose to the marketplace, and the marketplace to verify: The seller's bank account number; The seller's contact information; and The seller's business tax identification number or individual taxpayer identification number. A marketplace must suspend any future sales activity of a seller that does not provide the information. The marketplace also must require a seller with an aggregate total of $20,000 or more in annual gross revenues on the marketplace to disclose to the consumer the identity of the seller, including: The full name of the seller; The physical address of the seller; Whether the high-volume third-party seller used a different seller to supply the consumer product to the consumer upon purchase; and If requested by the purchaser, information relating to any seller that supplied the consumer product to the purchaser when the seller is different than the high-volume third-party seller listed on the product listing prior to purchase. The marketplace must disclose to consumers a reporting mechanism for consumers to report suspicious marketplace activity. A violation of the disclosure requirements is a deceptive trade practice. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
For property tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2022, the bill: Increases the maximum amount of actual value of the owner-occupied residence of a qualifying senior or veteran with a disability that is exempt from property taxation from $200,000 to $400,000; and Specifies that a senior is deemed to be a 10-year owner-occupier of a primary residence that the senior has owned and occupied for less than 10 years and therefore qualifies for the senior property tax exemption for the residence if: The senior would have qualified for the senior property tax exemption for the senior's former primary residence but for the fact that medical necessity required the senior to stop occupying the former primary residence; The senior has not previously received the exemption for a former primary residence on the basis of medical necessity; and The senior has not owned and occupied another primary residence since the senior first stopped occupying his or her former primary residence due to medical necessity. "Medical necessity" is defined as a medical condition of a senior that a physician licensed to practice medicine in Colorado has certified, on a form developed by the state property tax administrator, as having required the senior to stop occupying the senior's prior primary residence. When applying for an exemption on the basis of medical necessity, a senior must provide the form establishing proof of medical necessity. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)