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Through the end of 2021, the bill allows members of a party
central committee or vacancy committee to participate in a committee
meeting remotely, including by casting the member's vote by e-mail, mail,
telephone, or through an internet-based application if allowed by the
party's rules.
The bill permits a state party central committee or state party

executive committee to adopt party rules or bylaws to implement the bill's
remote participation provisions. The bill also permits a member of the
state party central committee or state party executive committee
considering such rules or bylaws to participate remotely in a meeting in
which the rules or bylaws are being considered.

Sections 1 and 3 of the bill restore, over time, certain business
deductions to federal taxable income that were disallowed in Colorado by
operation of a department of revenue rule and by House Bill 20-1420.
The specific deductions are related to net operating losses, the application
of the federal excess business loss rules, interest expenses, and qualified

improvement property.
The earned income tax credit is equal to a percentage of the federal
earned income tax credit. Section 2 allows taxpayers filing with an
individual taxpayer identification number to claim the earned income tax
credit for income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2020.

The bill authorizes the executive committee of the legislative
council (executive committee) to allow electronic participation in
legislative proceedings during a declared disaster emergency caused by
a public health emergency infecting or exposing a great number of people
to disease, agents, toxins, or other such threats, and, if it is allowed, to
establish policies governing such electronic participation.

A member participating electronically is entitled to receive a per
diem on the same basis as a member participating in person. If a member
cannot participate electronically from the member's home due to a
technological limitation, the member may receive reimbursement for
travel expenses to an alternate location to allow the member to participate
electronically. The amount of the reimbursement cannot exceed the
amount the member would customarily receive for travel expenses to
Denver to participate in person. A member is not entitled to
reimbursement for any other expenses incurred in connection with
electronic participation.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the first regular session of the
seventy-third general assembly, the bill allows joint committees of
reference that are required to hold hearings commonly referred to as
SMART Act hearings to conduct the hearings at any time after the
general assembly convenes, including while the general assembly is
temporarily adjourned. Legislators, departments, and the public may
participate remotely in accordance with policies established by the
executive committee or the joint rules of the senate and house of
representatives.

Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws. The bill enacts
the Colorado Uniform Electronic Wills Act. The bill declares that an
electronic will is a will for all purposes of Colorado law. The bill
specifies the requirements for:
  • Executing and revoking an electronic will;
  • Simultaneously executing, attesting, and making an
electronic will; and
  • Certifying a paper copy of an electronic will.

The bill creates the health care services reserve corps task force
(task force) in the department of public health and environment. The
purpose of the task force is to evaluate and make recommendations on the
creation of a health care services reserve corps program (program), in
which medical professionals could cross-train to be able to serve the state
in an emergency or disaster and receive student loan relief for their

service.
The task force is required to consider and make findings and
recommendations on issues including:
  • The types of medical professionals who could participate
in a health care services reserve corps program, including
how to ensure an appropriate cross section of providers;
  • The types of emergencies and disasters for which the
program could prepare and provide assistance, and whether
the program could be deployed out of state;
  • Any legal or regulatory obstacles to creating such a
program;
  • Liability protections for professionals and facilities
participating in the program;
  • Whether the program could be streamlined or integrated
with existing programs or procedures;
  • The types and hours of training that would be required;
  • How to ensure the program and cross-training are
accessible to rural medical professionals;
  • The costs associated with the program;
  • Issues related to insurance coverage and reimbursement;
  • How the health care services reserve corps would be
deployed; and
  • The amount, terms of, and funding for the student loan
relief that participants would receive.
The task force is required to consult with medical and nursing
schools in making recommendations related to the cross-training elements
of the program. The task force is authorized to consult with additional
stakeholders with expertise in identifying the physical and mental health
needs of Coloradans or in coordinating emergency response at the local,
state, or federal level to identify additional questions for future
consideration by the program.
The task force is required to submit a report with its findings and
recommendations to the house public health care and human services
committee and the senate health and human services committee by
December 1, 2023. The task force is required to meet at least once every
2 months. Task force members serve without compensation and are not
eligible for reimbursement for expenses.

The bill creates the fifth-day academic enrichment and support
grant program (program) to award grants on a 3-year cycle to one or more
eligible community-based nonprofit organizations (organizations) to
provide supplemental educational programs to full-day kindergarten
through high school-aged children on the fifth day of the week for
children in schools that have a 4-day school week.

To be eligible for a grant, organizations must, in part, have
experience providing before- and after-school programs, serve a majority
of children from low-income families, and have a relationship or
partnership with a local school district that serves children in the program.
The state board of education (state board) awards program grants
in a 3-year grant cycle, with an initial grant and automatic renewal of the
grant for 2 years as set forth in the bill. The amount of the initial and
renewal grants is determined by the state board based on the number of
children served in the program and other criteria specified in the bill.
Grants must be used for one or more of the purposes specified in
the bill, including to provide supplemental educational programming to
support students' academic development on the fifth day of a 4-day school
week, to provide meals for students attending the program, and to acquire
educational materials and necessary technology to provide supplemental
educational programming.
The state board shall promulgate rules to establish the program,
including the application process and deadlines.
Grantees are required to report annually to the department of
education (department) on the use of the grant money, with the
department reporting to certain committees of the general assembly.
The bill creates a fund from which to pay program grants,
consisting of money appropriated or transferred to the fund by the general
assembly.

The bill creates the state apprenticeship agency (SAA) in the
department of labor and employment (department) as a type 1 agency.
The executive director of the department is required to appoint a director
of the SAA (director). The purpose of the SAA is to:
  • Serve as the primary point of contact with the United States
department of labor's office of apprenticeship concerning

apprentices and registered apprenticeship programs; and
  • Oversee apprenticeship programs, including registration,
required standards for registration, quality assurance, the
promotion of apprenticeships, and the provision of
technical assistance.
The director shall establish the state apprenticeship council (SAC)
and an interagency advisory committee on apprenticeship (IAC). The
governor and the director appoint the members of the SAC and the IAC.
The SAC is charged with overseeing registered apprenticeship programs
for the building and construction trades in this state and ensuring
compliance with state and federal laws and standards. The IAC is charged
with the same responsibilities for all other apprenticeships not in the
building and construction trades.
The bill requires the SAA to accept applications for registration of
apprenticeship programs beginning July 1, 2023. The SAA may deregister
an apprenticeship program for noncompliance with the requirements in
the bill. The SAA shall conduct a hearing upon request of the SAC or the
IAC regarding issues of noncompliance and deregistration.
The director of the SAA is authorized to promulgate rules to
implement the state apprenticeship registration program.

The bill provides additional options for financing forest health
projects by authorizing:
  • A separate legal entity created by a combination of local
governments as authorized by current law to establish
special improvement districts within the boundaries of the

combination and levy special assessments on property
specially benefited by improvements, functions, services or
facilities, including forest health projects, that the separate
legal entity is authorized to provide;
  • Counties, municipalities, special districts, water
conservancy districts, the Colorado river water
conservation district, and the southwestern water
conservation district to conduct or participate in and
finance forest health projects; and
  • Authorizing a forest improvement district to use its sales
tax revenue for forest health projects.
The bill also postpones the scheduled repeal of the statute that
authorizes the Colorado water resources power and development
authority to issue bonds to fund watershed protection projects and forest
health projects from July 1, 2023, to July 1, 2033.

The current statutory functions of the division of housing
(division) within the department of local affairs include conducting
research into new approaches to housing throughout the state. The bill
expands the list of research subjects to include:
  • Transit-oriented development that includes increased
housing density near employment, education, and town
centers; and
  • Advanced energy performance standards that minimize the
total building operational costs during the affordability
period.
The bill also eliminates certain statutory functions of the division
that are now outdated.
The bill expands the list of existing functions of the division to
include collaborating with other state agencies to develop incentives that
support:
  • Local development near transit corridors;
  • Increased housing density development within
employment, education, and town centers; and
  • Energy performance standards that minimize total building
operational costs during the affordability period.
The bill also requires the division to collaborate with other state
agencies in connection with the disposition of state-owned assets to be
used for low- and moderate-income housing.
The bill requires the division to maintain the confidentiality of all
names, addresses, and personal identifying information of applicants,
recipients, and former recipients of housing assistance. The division is
permitted to publish or provide aggregate or de-identified data concerning
applicants, recipients, and former recipients of housing assistance to third
parties and other governmental entities, and to enter into data-sharing
agreements authorizing the transfer of such information subject to
restrictions specified in the bill.

The bill directs the department of higher education and the
department of education to convene a workgroup on diversity in the
educator workforce (workgroup).
The department of higher education and the department of
education shall select the members of the workgroup, which must include
those agencies, persons, and organizations specified in the bill. The

departments may seek recommendations or nominations from interested
stakeholders.
The workgroup shall investigate barriers to the preparation,
retention, and recruitment of a diverse educator workforce and shall
consider strategies to increase diversity in the educator workforce. The
bill includes specific issues for the workgroup to consider.
The workgroup shall submit a written report of its findings and
recommendations to the education committees of the general assembly no
later than September 30, 2022. The workgroup may submit interim
findings and recommendations during the 2022 legislative session.
Under current law, the department of higher education reports
annually concerning educator preparation programs, including
enrollment, graduation rates, outcomes of graduates, and performance on
assessments administered for licensure. The bill requires the department
of higher education to include the required information disaggregated by
the candidates' or graduates' gender, race, and ethnicity. Further, the
information contained in the annual report must be posted on the
department of higher education's and the department of education's
websites.

The bill requires the secretary of state (secretary) and county clerk
and recorders (county clerk) of certain counties to provide multilingual
ballot access.
The secretary is required to establish a multilingual ballot hotline
(hotline) to provide access to qualified translators or interpreters in each
of the languages in which the most recent decennial census was offered

to assist electors in translating ballot language. The secretary is required
to establish the hotline for use during the general election held in
November 2022, and for every general election and statewide odd-year
election thereafter. The secretary is also required to:
  • Provide notice of the hotline to electors through election
day;
  • Ensure that the translators who provide translations for the
multilingual hotline are qualified translators or interpreters;
and
  • Promulgate rules as may be necessary to create and
administer the hotline.
The county clerk of any county that satisfies specified criteria is
required to create, in coordination with the secretary, a minority language
sample ballot (sample ballot) in any minority language spoken in the
county that satisfies the following:
  • The minority language is spoken by at least 2,000 citizens
in the county age 18 years or older, who speak English less
than very well, and who speak the minority language at
home; or
  • The minority language is spoken by at least 2.5% of
citizens in the county age 18 years or older, who speak
English less than very well, and who speak the minority
language at home.
The bill specifies that the sample ballot must include all of the
same content that is on the English language ballot and also specifies the
format of the sample ballot. In addition, the bill requires that the sample
ballots be available for the general election held in November 2022, and
for each general election and statewide odd-year election thereafter.
The county clerk of any county that satisfies specified criteria is
required to provide, upon the request of an elector, an in-person minority
language ballot (in-person ballot) in any minority language spoken in the
county that satisfies the same criteria specified for sample ballots. An
in-person ballot can be a ballot on demand, a ballot from a printed stock
of ballots, or a ballot via an electronic voting device.
The bill specifies that the in-person ballot must include all of the
same content that is on the English language ballot and specifies that
in-person ballots are required to be available for the general election held
in November 2022, and for each general election and statewide odd-year
election thereafter.
The secretary is required to determine, pursuant to specified
criteria, which counties in the state are required to provide multilingual
ballot access by creating a sample ballot and providing an in-person
ballot, and to notify the county clerk of any county that is required to
provide such multilingual ballot access.
The secretary is required to provide each county clerk that is
required to provide multilingual ballot access with a translation in the
applicable minority language or languages of all content that is certified
to the county clerks by the secretary of state for use by the county clerk
in creating the multilingual ballot access.

Current law requires the prescription drug monitoring program
(program) to track all controlled substances prescribed in Colorado. The
bill expands the program, effective February 1, 2023, to track all
prescription drugs prescribed in this state. The bill extends the repeal of
the program until September 1, 2028.

The bill states that a domestic stock insurer (dividing insurer) may
divide into 2 or more resulting insurers pursuant to a plan of division. A
plan of division must include:
  • The name of the dividing insurer;
  • The name of each resulting insurer created by the proposed
division and, for each resulting insurer, a copy of proposed

articles of incorporation and proposed bylaws;
  • The manner of allocating assets and liabilities, including
policy liabilities, between or among all resulting insurers;
  • The manner of distributing shares in the resulting insurers
to the dividing insurer or the dividing insurer's
shareholders;
  • A reasonable description of all liabilities and all assets that
the dividing insurer proposes to allocate to each resulting
insurer, including the manner by which the dividing insurer
proposes to allocate all reinsurance contracts;
  • All terms and conditions required by the laws of this state
and the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the dividing
insurer; and
  • All other terms and conditions required by the division.
A plan of division must include additional provisions, the nature
of which depends on whether the dividing insurer will survive the
division.
A dividing insurer shall file a plan of division with the
commissioner of insurance (commissioner) only after the plan of division
has been approved in accordance with all provisions of the dividing
insurer's articles of incorporation and bylaws. The commissioner shall
approve the plan of division if, after considering certain criteria, the
commissioner finds that certain requirements are met. If the
commissioner approves a plan of division, an officer or duly authorized
representative of the dividing insurer shall sign a certificate of division
that sets forth certain information concerning the division.
The bill establishes procedures for amending and abandoning plans
of division.
The bill provides for the protection of confidential information,
documents, and materials that are submitted to, obtained by, or disclosed
to the commissioner in connection with a plan of division or in
contemplation of a plan of division.

The bill adds an option for a person with a disability to request that
the department of revenue place a discreet disability identifier symbol on
the person's driver's license or identification card. The symbol must
represent all types of disabilities, such as cognitive, neurological, or
physical disabilities.
The bill also requires the department to collect information that the

owner of a vehicle voluntarily discloses about the disability of a person
who is either authorized to drive, or a regular passenger of, the registered
vehicle. The department shall make this information immediately
available to a peace officer who queries information about the registered
vehicle.
The department is required to notify peace officers about the
creation of the disability identifier symbol and the availability of
information regarding the disability of a driver or passenger of a motor
vehicle.

Under current law, it is unlawful for a person to make available on
the internet the personal information of a law enforcement official, as
defined in statute, or a human services worker, as defined in statute, if the
dissemination of the personal information poses an imminent and serious
threat to the official's or the worker's safety or to the safety of the
official's or the worker's immediate family. The bill extends the crime to

include certain employees and contractors of the department of
corrections who have contact with persons in the custody of the
department of corrections.
In addition, under current law, human services workers who meet
certain requirements specified in statute may submit a written request to
a state or local government official to remove personal information from
public records that are available on the internet. The bill extends the same
protection to law enforcement officials and to certain employees and
contractors of the department of corrections.

Under current law, a court must inquire at the defendant's first
appearance whether the defendant is a veteran. If the jurisdiction does not
have a veteran's speciality court, the bill requires the court to inform a
veteran defendant of the possibility of petitioning to transfer the case to
a jurisdiction with a veteran's speciality court.

The bill allows a veteran defendant to petition to transfer the case
to a jurisdiction with a veteran's speciality court if the jurisdiction does
not have a veteran's speciality court. The petition must include the
jurisdiction that the defendant is seeking to have the case transferred to
and a description of the services or supports the defendant is seeking to
access from the veteran's speciality court in that jurisdiction. After
receiving a petition, the court must consult with the chief judge of the
jurisdiction with the veteran's speciality court and administrator of that
court, if any. The court shall grant the petition to transfer the case if the
veteran's speciality court in that jurisdiction has the capacity to provide
services and supports to the defendant.

The bill prohibits terminating the life of an unborn child and
makes a violation a class 1 felony. The following are exceptions to the
prohibition:
  • A licensed physician performs a medical procedure
designed or intended to prevent the death of a pregnant
mother, if the physician makes reasonable medical efforts

under the circumstances to preserve both the life of the
mother and the life of her unborn child in a manner
consistent with conventional medical practice; and
  • A licensed physician provides medical treatment, including
chemotherapy or removal of an ectopic pregnancy, to the
mother that results in the accidental or unintentional injury
to or death of the unborn child.
The pregnant mother upon whom termination of the life of an
unborn child is performed or attempted is not subject to a criminal
penalty. The sale and use of contraception is not prohibited by the bill. A
conviction related to the prohibition of the termination of the life of an
unborn child constitutes unprofessional conduct for purposes of physician
licensing.
The bill states that any act, law, treaty, order, or regulation of the
United States government that denies or prohibits protection of a human
person's inalienable right to life is null, void, and unenforceable in this
state and that the courts of the United States have no jurisdiction to
interfere with Colorado's interest in protecting human life at conception
when human life begins.

The bill permits adoptive parents who are parties to an adoption
assistance agreement (agreement) to pay for services or items from a
provider that is not enrolled in the medical assistance program. These

services or items would otherwise be reimbursable under the medical
assistance program pursuant to the terms of the agreement. The adoptive
parents must determine if the special needs of the child or youth require
items or services from the provider and must enter into a documented
agreement with the provider in which the adoptive parents agree to bear
the cost of the items or services.

The bill makes the following modifications to the regulations of
factory-built structures, manufactured housing, and installers and sellers
of manufactured housing:
  • Clarifies that a local government may enforce local rules
governing the installation of factory-built housing that are
approved by the division of housing (division);

  • Clarifies that authority granted to the division is over work
related to factory-built structures that is completed offsite
or completed onsite with components shipped with the
factory-built structure;
  • Clarifies that a local government's authority is over work
completed onsite and is not over work performed offsite or
work that is completed onsite using components shipped
with the factory-built structure;
  • Allows the division to authorize a local government to
inspect and charge fees related to work that is completed
onsite using components shipped with a factory-built
structure;
  • Clarifies that a factory-built structure bearing an insignia of
approval issued by the division complies with applicable
state codes and local government installation requirements
approved by the division;
  • Clarifies that an insignia of approval affixed to the
factory-built structure does not expire unless the design and
construction of the factory-built structure has been
modified by approved plans;
  • Allows the division to set the minimum amount of a surety
bond filed by a registered installer of a manufactured home
by rule-making;
  • Requires an insurer or financial institution to pay the
division or owner of a manufactured home the amount of
a claim against the letter of credit, certificate of deposit, or
surety bond filed with the division by a registered installer
if there has been a final judgment against the registered
installer;
  • Clarifies that a local government's authority over
installations of manufactured homes to rules related to
weight restrictions for snow roof loads or wind shear
factors cannot be applied to conflict with the standards set
by the United States department of housing and urban
development;
  • Allows a local government to require onsite mitigation
addressing public safety requirements applicable to
manufactured homes that comply with the federal
manufactured home construction and safety standard;
  • Removes the requirement that a seller of a manufactured
home escrow all down payments paid by a purchaser in a
separate fiduciary account;
  • Allows the division to set the minimum amount of a surety
bond filed by a registered seller of a manufactured home
through rule-making;
  • Removes the requirement that the division send the
attorney general a monthly list of all persons registered and
bonded with the division;
  • Removes the restriction that any letter of credit, certificate
of deposit, or surety bond filed with the division is only
revocable upon the written consent of the attorney general;
  • Allows the division to execute a surety bond filed by a
registered seller on behalf of the purchaser of a
manufactured home;
  • Removes the requirement that a seller of a manufactured
home disclose in a sales contract language pertaining to
escrow requirements that are eliminated by the bill;
  • Clarifies the types of homes that may not be excluded by
counties; and
  • Clarifies that a county must comply with the state
requirements for local installation standards when enacting
building code provisions for a manufactured home.

The bill prohibits a health benefit plan that provides coverage for
cancer treatment from applying a higher standard of clinical evidence for
coverage of proton beam therapy than the health benefit plan applies for
other radiation therapy treatment.

The bill requires the department of human services (state
department) to establish procedures to approve recovery support services
organizations for reimbursement of peer support professional services.
The bill also gives the executive director of the state department
rule-making authority to establish other criteria and standards as
necessary.

The bill permits a recovery support services organization to charge
and submit for reimbursement from the medical assistance program
certain eligible peer support services provided by peer support
professionals.
The bill authorizes the department of health care policy and
financing to reimburse recovery support services organizations for
permissible claims for peer support services submitted under the medical
services program.
The bill requires contracts entered into between the state
department's office of behavioral health and designated managed service
organizations to include terms and conditions related to the support of
peer-run recovery support services organizations.

The bill creates the Colorado Surrogacy Agreement Act (act) in
article 4.5 of title 19, Colorado Revised Statutes. The act:
  • Establishes eligibility requirements for entering into
surrogacy agreements (agreements) and required elements
of agreements;
  • Contains provisions governing the termination of

agreements and the effect of a death or a change in marital
status of any of the parties to such agreements;
  • Authorizes court orders recognizing and enforcing
agreements;
  • Specifies the duties of persons under agreements;
  • Authorizes court orders determining parentage; and
  • Creates new definitions for agreements.

Currently, the location of a small or low impact hydroelectric
energy facility, a geothermal energy facility, a biomass energy facility, a
wind energy facility, or a solar energy facility on real property does not
affect the classification of that real property for purposes of determining
the actual value of that real property. As a result, a county assessor cannot
use the location of the facility as a basis for reclassifying the real

property. The bill creates an exception to this requirement for real
property that, immediately prior to the location of the facility, was
classified as agricultural. Therefore, an assessor will be able to consider
the location of the facility when determining whether the real property
should be reclassified.

Current law requires an off-highway vehicle to have a certificate
of title in order to be transferred unless:
  • The off-highway vehicle was first transferred before July
1, 2014, and not subsequently transferred to an off-highway
vehicle dealer; or
  • The off-highway vehicle was used exclusively for

agricultural purposes on private land.
Section 2 of the bill requires all off-highway vehicle transfers on
or after July 1, 2022, to have a certificate of title, but the agricultural
exemption is not changed.
Section 1 exempts private transfers of off-highway vehicles from
sales tax if the transfer occurred on or after July 1, 2014, and before July
1, 2022.
Current law authorizes motor vehicle dealers, salvage pools, and
insurers to electronically access the department of revenue's ownership
and lienholder records to verify motor vehicle ownership and lienholding
information to prevent fraud. Section 3 authorizes off-highway vehicle
dealers to access this system to verify the same information on
off-highway vehicles for the same reasons.
Notwithstanding the requirement that an off-highway vehicle have
a title to be purchased by a dealer, current law authorizes a dealer to
purchase an off-highway vehicle that was initially sold before July 1,
2014, and was never titled. The dealer must obtain an affidavit from the
owner and then use the affidavit to obtain a title. Section 4 extends this
authorization and procedure to off-highway vehicles:
  • Privately transferred on or after July 1, 2014, and before
July 1, 2022; or
  • Used exclusively for agricultural purposes on private land.

Under current provisions of the Open Meetings Law (OML), if
elected officials use electronic mail to discuss pending legislation or other
public business among themselves, the electronic mail constitutes a

meeting that is subject to the OML's requirements. The bill substitutes the
word exchange for the word use in describing the type of electronic
mail communication that triggers the application of the OML.
The bill also clarifies existing statutory provisions to specify that
electronic mail communication between elected officials that does not
relate to the merits or substance of pending legislation or other public
business is not a meeting for OML purposes. Under the bill, the type of
electronic communication that also does not constitute a meeting for
OML purposes includes electronic communication regarding scheduling
and availability as well as electronic communication that is sent by an
elected official for the purpose of forwarding information, responding to
an inquiry from an individual who is not a member of the state or local
public body, or posing a question for later discussion by the public body.

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.

Colorado law authorizes certain license holders, who normally
offer alcohol beverages for consumption on the licensed premises, to
offer takeout and delivery of alcohol beverages. This authorization
repeals on July 1, 2021. The bill removes the repeal to continue the
authorization indefinitely.

Not later than October 1, 2021, and not later than October 1 of
each year thereafter, the bill requires the division of housing (division) in

the department of local affairs to prepare a public report that specifies the
total amount of money that:
  • The division or the state housing board (board) received
from any federal, state, other public, or any private source
during the prior fiscal year; and
  • The division or the board expended from state funding
during the prior fiscal year to make an award in the form of
a grant or loan to promote the provision of affordable
housing.
The bill identifies various items the report must address. The
report shall be posted on the division's website and shared with the board
and the general assembly.

Under current law, a school district, charter school, or board of
cooperative services (local education provider) may use per-pupil
intervention money received pursuant to the Colorado READ Act to

purchase core reading instructional programs (programs) that are on an
advisory list of programs created by the department of education
(department).
The bill authorizes a local education provider to use per-pupil
intervention money to purchase programs that are not on the advisory list
but that the local education provider determines meet the criteria for
placement on the list. After the local education provider has used the
programs for 2 school years, the department must review the programs
and the results achieved and determine whether the programs are effective
in improving students' reading competency.
If the programs are effective, the department must place the
programs on the advisory list. If the programs are not effective, a local
education provider may not subsequently use per-pupil intervention
money to purchase the programs.

The bill expands the peace officers mental health support grant
program to include funding for on-scene response services to enhance law
enforcement's handling of calls for services related to persons with mental
health disorders and social service needs, including calls that do not
require the presence of a peace officer.

The bill declares the intention of the general assembly to reverse
the holding and decision in the Colorado supreme court's (court) January
13, 2020, opinion in In re: The Parental Responsibilities Concerning
W.C.
The bill gives the court continuing jurisdiction during the
pendency of an appeal:

  • Under article 10 of title 14, to modify a decree respecting
child support or maintenance; to make or modify an order
granting or denying parenting time rights; and to modify an
order allocating decision-making responsibilities;
  • Under the Uniform Child-custody Jurisdiction and
Enforcement Act, to exercise temporary emergency
jurisdiction;
  • Under the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act, to
modify an order concerning the allocation of parental rights
and responsibilities; and
  • Under the Uniform Parentage Act, to modify an order for
child support or for allocation of parental rights and
responsibilities.

The bill permits the majority of the governing body of any county
or municipality by adoption of a resolution, ordinance, law, or rule to
abrogate all or any portion of a disaster emergency order applying to the

county or municipality that has been issued by the governor under the
governor's emergency management powers when the disaster emergency
lasts longer than 30 days. Upon the enactment by the governing body of
such a resolution, ordinance, law, or rule the order, or any portion of the
order, has no legal force and effect within, as applicable, the municipality
or within the unincorporated portions of the county where the resolution,
ordinance, law, or rule has been approved by the governing body of a
county.
The bill prohibits the state and any state department, institution, or
agency from taking any action against a county or municipality, including
without limitation any action resulting in denial of a monetary payment
or the provision of any other form of financial assistance in retaliation for
action by the governing body of the county or municipality to abrogate the
governor's order.
The bill requires the governing body of the county or municipality
to notify the governor and any affected state departments, institutions, or
agencies of the adoption of such resolution, ordinance, law, or rule.

The bill amends the Life and Health Insurance Protection
Association Act as follows:
  • Adds health maintenance organizations (HMOs) as
members of the association and subjects HMOs to
assessments from the association; and
  • Allocates responsibility for long-term care insurance

assessments between health insurance and life insurance
association members.

The bill invalidates any statute, rule, or local ordinance or
resolution that limits or prohibits, except as required for safety purposes,
the installation in a new or existing home or business any system or
appliance that uses natural gas or propane for cooking, hot water, space
heating, or electrical generation.

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.

The bill specifies that a health order issued by a county, district, or
municipal public health agency, public health director, or board of health
takes effect within the territory of a county, city and county, or
municipality, unless the governing body of the county, city and county,
or municipality rejects the order by a majority vote.

The bill also allows the governing body of a county, city and
county, or municipality to modify a health order issued by a county,
district, or municipal public health agency, public health director, or
board of health.

During the 2020 general election, the voters approved Proposition
114, which authorized the reintroduction of gray wolves on designated
lands in Colorado west of the continental divide beginning no later than
December 31, 2023. The bill excludes from the definition of designated
lands the following:
  • Lands within a county in which the majority of the votes

cast in the 2020 general election did not approve
Proposition 114 unless, prior to a proposed reintroduction
of gray wolves in that county, an election is held in the
county and a majority of the votes cast from that county in
the election approve of the reintroduction of the gray wolf
in designated lands in the county; and
  • Lands within a county in which is located prey of the gray
wolf that, as determined by the parks and wildlife
commission, either:
  • Is a candidate for listing or has been placed in the
threatened or endangered species list pursuant to the
federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 or is
listed as endangered or threatened pursuant to state
law; or
  • The state has spent money to reintroduce or restore.

With certain exceptions, current law prohibits a concealed carry
permit holder from carrying a concealed handgun on public elementary,
middle, junior high, or high school grounds. The bill removes this
limitation.

Current law makes it a class 1 traffic misdemeanor when careless
driving of a motor vehicle causes serious bodily injury to a vulnerable
road user. The bill changes serious bodily injury to a vulnerable road user
to serious bodily injury to anyone.

At the 2020 general election, the voters approved proposition 114,
which requires the reintroduction and management of gray wolves. The
bill requires all costs for this program to be paid exclusively from the
general fund, and this includes any losses of livestock caused by gray
wolves.

The bill prohibits state government from passing or implementing
any law or rule restricting the natural rights of a private sector enterprise
or its customers to use and exercise their free will and free choice to
conduct business, exchange goods and services, and take risks in any
manner, time, or condition that is acceptable by the private sector

enterprise, its customers, and any private sector individuals.
The bill authorizes a private sector enterprise to assert a violation
as a claim against state government in any judicial or administrative
proceeding or as a defense in any judicial or administrative proceeding
without regard to whether the proceeding is brought by or in the name of
state government, any private sector enterprise, private person, or any
other party.

The bill establishes the water storage tank wildfire mitigation grant
program (grant program) within the forest service. Grant recipients may
use grant money to purchase water storage tanks for wildfire firefighting
efforts. The grant program only awards grants to entities that are an
agency of local government, a county, a municipality, a special district,
a tribal agency or program, or a nonprofit or not-for-profit organization

that is registered and in good standing with the secretary of state's office.
In awarding grants, the forest service considers the potential impact of
additional water storage tanks in the applicant's jurisdiction or area.
Grant recipients are required to report to the forest service, and the
forest service is required to annually report on the grant program to the
wildfire matters review committee.
The bill also creates the water storage tank wildfire mitigation cash
fund. Money in the fund is used to implement the grant program. The
general assembly is required to transfer $5 million into the fund beginning
September 1, 2021, through and including the 2024-25 fiscal year.

The bill directs the Colorado water conservation board (board), in
consultation with the state engineer, to contract with a Colorado
institution of higher education (institution) to conduct a study to:
  • Evaluate ways to maximize the beneficial use of water
within Colorado and implement the storage
recommendations of the Colorado water plan by storing

water underground when water is available;
  • Evaluate ways to minimize the amount of water that flows
out of Colorado to downstream states, without risking
noncompliance with applicable interstate compacts, United
States supreme court rulings, other federal law, decreed
absolute and conditional water rights, the prior
appropriation system, and Colorado's anti-speculation
doctrine;
  • Identify:
  • Specific aquifers that are hydrologically and legally
available to be used for underground storage and
subsequent beneficial use;
  • Sources of revenue that could be used to pay for the
underground storage projects; and
  • Planned potential or existing underground storage
projects that would meet the objectives identified in
the study;
  • Examine the role that various water entities might play in
financing and implementing underground storage projects;
and
  • Recommend legislative changes needed to implement
managed underground storage projects in the identified
aquifers.
The bill directs the board or the institution to submit a report
summarizing the results of the study to the water resources review
committee by August 1, 2022, which shall either have legislation drafted
to implement the study's recommendations or submit the study along with
its own recommendations to the committees of the general assembly with
jurisdiction over water resources by January 1, 2023.

The bill allows a winery that holds a manufacturer's or limited
winery license to maintain licensed premises comprising up to 5
noncontiguous locations within a 10-mile radius. The department of
revenue must approve an application for the use of a proposed
noncontiguous location if the alcohol and tobacco tax and trade bureau of

the United States department of the treasury has approved the description
and diagram of the premises at that location, subject to proof of
compliance with local codes and zoning requirements.
Any additional noncontiguous locations that fall outside the
approved boundaries of an entertainment district or a common
consumption area are excluded from that district or area, and any
noncontiguous location that is to be used as a sales room is subject to
individual approval for use as a sales room. Only one sales room may be
located at a noncontiguous location.