Bill Tracker with Votes

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 moves the COVID-19 relief program for minority-owned
businesses from the minority business office to the Colorado office of
economic development and expands the scope of the program to allow
relief payments, grants, loans, and technical assistance and consulting
support to small businesses disproportionately impacted by the

COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, the bill extends the deadlines for allocating and
distributing relief payments under the small business relief program.

The bill extends the time in which debtors experiencing financial
hardship due to the COVID-19 emergency may have extraordinary debt
collection actions suspended. Currently, the law requires a judgment
creditor (creditor) to provide a notice to a judgment debtor (debtor) before
instituting an extraordinary debt collection action, which includes an
action in the nature of a garnishment, attachment, levy, or execution to

collect or enforce a judgment. The debtor may suspend the collection
action by notifying the creditor that the debtor is experiencing financial
hardship due to COVID-19. The obligation to provide notice and the
suspension of the collection action are effective through February 1,
2021. The bill extends the effective period for the notice and the
suspension to June 1, 2021. If a collection action has already been
suspended by the debtor, the creditor is required to notify the debtor that
the suspension is now effective through June 1, 2021.
In addition, under current law, up to $4,000 cumulative in a
depository account or accounts in a debtor's name is exempt from levy
and sale under a writ of attachment or execution through February 1,
2021. The bill extends that date to June 1, 2021.

The bill recreates, with amendments, the Occupational Therapy
Practice Act (Act), which repealed September 1, 2020. Specifically, the
bill:
  • Recreates and extends the Act for 9 years, until 2030;
  • Modifies the legislative declaration and definitions related
to the scope of practice of occupational therapy;
  • Designates occupational therapy consultant, M.O.T.,
M.O.T./L., occupational therapy assistant, O.T.A.,
and C.O.T.A. as protected titles and clarifies that
individuals who legally practice temporarily as
occupational therapists in Colorado may use protected
titles;
  • Reorders and amends certain provisions concerning
examinations and applications for licensure by
occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants;
  • Adds certain prohibited behaviors as grounds for
discipline; and
  • Removes obsolete language.