Legislative Watch Council 2009
May 20,
2009
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Bills for Action 2009 |
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Bill |
Sponsor |
Summary |
Focus Groups |
Chamber Position |
Status |
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HB09-1001 |
RICE--HEATH |
Establishes the |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Support |
05/04/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1010 |
MASSEY & ...--GIBBS & |
Creates the |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Support |
05/05/2009 Senate Third |
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HB09-1012 |
RICE & ...--MITCHELL & |
Authorizes carriers providing
individual and group health coverage plans in this state to offer incentives
for covered persons and groups to participate in wellness and prevention
programs (programs). Permits those incentives to include premium discounts or
rebates; modifications to copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amounts; or a
combination of those incentives. Allows carriers to determine the types of
programs and incentives to offer as long as: ! Participation in the programs is
voluntary and is not a condition of coverage; ! Nonparticipation cannot be
penalized; and ! The participant is not required
to achieve a certain outcome in order to receive the incentive. Allows the board of directors of
the CoverColorado program or carriers providing
health benefit plans to CoverColorado participants
to also offer the incentives. |
Health Care |
Support |
04/25/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1034 |
LISTON--GIBBS |
Subject to voter approval as
required by section 20 of article X of the state constitution (TABOR),
authorizes a regional transportation authority (authority) to impose a
uniform mill levy of up to a specified number of mills on all taxable
property within its territory. Specifies that this authorization does not affect
the existing power of an authority to establish local improvement districts
and impose special assessments. Repeals the authorization as of a specified
date. |
Transportation Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Support |
04/16/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1042 |
MERRIFIELD--GIBBS |
Prohibits a person driving a motor
vehicle from impeding the flow of more than 5 motor vehicles following
immediately behind. Requires an impeder to drive in the right-hand lane or
pull off the road and let the others pass where pulling off is safe and
lawful. |
Transportation Mandates |
Oppose |
04/14/2009 Senate Second |
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HB09-1054 |
LOOPER--MORSE |
Allows the surviving spouse of a
member of the ! Relocates to a new place of
residence after the death of his or her active duty military spouse; ! Is unable to commute to his or
her current employment from the new place of residence; and ! Is available for suitable work
upon arrival at the new place of residence. Specifies that the benefits are to
be charged to the unemployment compensation fund rather than the
employer. Requires the division of
employment and training in the department of labor and employment to track
the number of claims made and the amounts awarded to surviving spouses and to
submit an annual report to the business affairs and labor committee of the
house of representatives and the business, labor, and technology committee of
the senate, or their successor committees, detailing the number of claimants
and amounts awarded. Repeals the eligibility for
benefits, effective July 1, 2019. |
All |
Support |
03/25/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1055 |
GREEN--(NONE) |
Requires electric and natural gas
utilities to disclose to each of their customers, in each bill, the amount of
carbon dioxide emitted during the previous billing cycle that is attributable
to the customer. |
Mandates |
OPPOSE |
02/03/2009 House Committee on
Transportation & Energy Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB09-1057 |
KERR A.--BACON |
Allows
an employee of an employer who employs at least 10 employees in this state to
take unpaid leave for the purpose of attending parent-teacher conferences or
other academic activities related to the educational advancement of the
employee's child. Limits the unpaid leave to 6 hours per month and 40 hours in any academic year.
Permits the employer to require the employee to take leave in no greater than
3-hour increments and to provide written verification from the school or school
district of the academic activity necessitating the leave. Requires the
employee to provide the employer with at least 3 days' notice of the leave
except in emergency situations where the employee is not aware of the need
for leave 3 days in advance. Directs employees to make reasonable attempts to
schedule conferences or other activities outside of regular work hours.
Allows an employee to elect to substitute accrued paid vacation leave,
personal leave, or other types of paid leave for unpaid leave. Specifies that
an employer that provides comparable leave to its employees is in compliance
with the act and is not required to provide its employees any additional
leave. |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Oppose |
05/04/2009 House Consideration of
First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass. |
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HB09-1061 |
MCGIHON / TOCHTROP |
Requires health insurance carriers
to disclose to the division of insurance (division) business relationships
with intermediary entities that set standards of care and practice
guidelines, select participating in-network providers, negotiate or set
reimbursement rates, obtain insurance contracts for health care providers,
and issue credentials to providers. Requires health insurance carriers to
disclose to the division standards of care and practice guidelines determined
by the entity, the basis or criteria for placing limits on patient visits,
the determination for deductibles and copayments, and payments made to the
intermediary entity. |
Health Care |
Oppose |
04/30/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1068 |
LAMBERT--SCHEFFEL |
Requires the general assembly to
appropriate from the general fund to the newly created business personal
property tax reimbursement fund (fund) an amount of moneys for each year
after a specified date that there are peak general fund appropriations.
Exempts a percentage of all business personal property tax based on the
percentage of a taxpayer |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Support |
01/28/2009 House Committee on
Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB09-1108 |
KERR A.--BOYD |
Subjects an employer to a $50 per
day penalty if, 2 or more times within any 24-month period, the employer
causes an employee in the department of labor and
employment with enforcement of the act. Requires the director to give an
affected employee a letter stating that the employee is not liable for having
insufficient funds because of the employer |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Oppose |
04/22/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1114 |
VAAD--(NONE) |
Requires the department of
transportation, using existing or easily obtainable data, to determine which
state highways and portions of state highways located within metropolitan
planning areas are commuter highways and to report what it has determined to
the transportation commission by a specified date. Requires the commission to
adopt a resolution that removes all of the highways and portions of highways
that the department has determined to be commuter highways from the state
highway system as of a specified date.
Defines a "commuter highway" as a highway or a portion of a
highway that: ! Is part of the state highway
system; ! Is located within the territory
of a metropolitan planning organization; and ! Is determined by the traffic
study conducted by the department of
transportation to be used at least a specified percentage of the time,
measured as a percentage of total trips on the highway or portion of a
highway, for travel within the territory of the metropolitan planning
organization. Specifies that the removal of a
highway or a portion of a highway from the state highway system shall not be
deemed to require the department to cease working on or funding an
uncompleted highway project. |
Transportation |
Oppose |
02/03/2009 House Committee on
Transportation & Energy Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB09-1130 |
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Authorizes
any county, upon written notification from its governing body to the
executive director of the department of revenue (executive director), to
collect, administer, and enforce its own sales tax adopted in accordance with
the municipal sales tax laws. Requires any county that collects its own sales
tax to also collect state and other local sales taxes imposed within the
county. Requires the department of revenue to enter into an intergovernmental
agreement with the county to facilitate the collection of sales taxes within
the county. Specifies provisions to be included in the agreement. Authorizes
the board of county commissioners to seek judicial relief if the executive
director fails to enter into an agreement or violates the Firefighter &
Law Enf Collective Bargainterms
of an agreement. Allows
a retailer with a physical place of business in two or more counties in the
state to collect and remit state sales taxes directly to the state rather
than to a county that has elected to collect state sales taxes. |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
LWC – R Support |
05/04/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1170 |
CASSO--TOCHTROP |
Allows an employee who is subject
to a lockout initiated by an employer to receive unemployment insurance
benefits |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Oppose |
05/05/2009 House Considered Senate
Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass |
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HB09-1192 |
MCFADYEN / VEIGA |
Eliminates the limitation on the
percentage of alcohol contained in fermented malt beverages, thereby allowing
fermented malt beverage licensees to manufacture, sell at wholesale or
retail, or distribute full beer. Requires employees who are 18 to 20 years of
age to either comply with the server and seller training program requirements
established by the director of the liquor enforcement division in the
department of revenue or be supervised by a person on the licensed premises
who is at least 21 years of age in order to: |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Support |
03/11/2009 House Committee on
Business Affairs and Labor Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB09-1208 |
SOPER |
Requires a
contractor awarded a contract for a public works by a state agency in excess
of a specified amount, and each subcontractor who works thereon, to pay
workers prevailing wages and fringe benefits. Requires workers to be paid at
least once a week. Requires a contract for a public works to which a state
agency is a party to have certain terms related to the payment of prevailing
wages and fringe benefits. Establishes that the prevailing wages and fringe
benefits shall be the same as the applicable wages and fringe benefits set
forth in the prevailing wage determinations made by the |
Mandates |
Oppose |
02/18/2009 House Committee on
Business Affairs and Labor Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB09-1210 |
MCGIHON /
CARROLL M. |
Creates
the "Healthy Families and Workplaces Act" (act), which requires all
private employers in Colorado to provide paid sick leave to their employees,
accrued at the following rates: |
Mandates |
Oppose |
03/03/2009 House Committee on
Business Affairs and Labor Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB09-1224 |
SCHAFER S.--CARROLL M. |
Prohibits health insurance carriers
from varying the rates of individual health insurance policies based on the
gender of the individual insured. |
Health Care |
Oppose |
05/05/2009 Sent to the Governor |
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HB09-1256 |
ACREE--(NONE) |
Authorizes the commissioner of
insurance (commissioner), on behalf of the state, to enter into multistate
agreements with other states for the purpose of allowing a health coverage
issuer (issuer) doing business in another state to offer, sell, or issue in
Colorado an individual health coverage plan (plan) that is regulated by
another state. Requires the commissioner, in making the determination to
enter into a multistate agreement, to consider whether consumers in |
Health Care |
Support |
04/03/2009 House Committee on
Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB09-1273 |
KEFALAS--FOSTER |
Creates the |
Health Care |
Oppose |
04/14/2009 House Third |
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HB09-1293 |
RIESBERG & ...--KELLER |
Authorizes the department of health
care policy and financing (department) to charge and collect from licensed or
certified hospitals a hospital provider fee (fee). Authorizes the medical
services board to establish the amount of the fee that shall not exceed the
federal limit and to promulgate rules governing the administration and
collection of the fee. Specifies that the fee shall: ! Supplement and not supplant
existing general fund appropriations to hospital providers unless payments to
other medicaid providers are reduced; ! Be used for increasing
reimbursements to hospitals under medicaid and the
Colorado indigent care program, expanding eligibility for medicaid
and the children's basic health plan (CHP+), and paying the costs of the
department in administering the fee; ! Be returned if the federal
government does not approve the fee; and ! Cease if the federal government
no longer provides matching federal funds for the fee. Establishes the hospital provider
fee oversight and advisory board (board) to make recommendations to the
department concerning the amount of the fee, procedures for collecting the
fee, and changes to the eligibility requirements for assistance if moneys
from the fee are insufficient to pay for all of the proposed eligibility
expansions. Specifies membership of the board. Directs the board to report
annually to specified committees of the general assembly, the governor, and
the medical services board. Establishes an additional hospital
reimbursement based upon a hospital's performance in providing improved
health outcomes for recipients. Subject to sufficient moneys being
received from the fee and the matching federal funds: ! Expands eligibility for medicaid to: ! Parents of children eligible for
medical assistance or CHP+ to up to 100% of the federal poverty level; ! Disabled individuals
participating in a Medicaid buy-in program to up to 400% of the federal poverty
level; and ! Childless adults or adults
without a dependent child in the home to up to 100% of the federal poverty
level subject to federal authorization. ! Provides for continuous
eligibility in medicaid for children for 12 months. ! Expands eligibility for children
and pregnant women under CHP+ to up to 250% of the federal poverty level.
Directs that if moneys are insufficient to fully fund the proposed
eligibility expansions, the state board, subject to the approval of the joint
budget committee, by rule may reduce the medical benefits offered or reduce
the eligibility levels, but the state board may not reduce the eligibility
levels below the current levels. Provides that any rule reducing medical benefits or eligibility
expires on the following May 15 unless the general assembly acts by bill to
extend the rule |
Health Care |
LWC – R Support |
04/21/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1298 |
MCFADYEN & ...--MITCHELL |
Allows a taxpayer to claim a refund
of a percentage of all state sales and use taxes paid on the sale, storage,
or use of a motor vehicle, truck, truck tractor, trailer, or semitrailer
designated as class A personal property. Specifies that the amount of the
refund will be calculated by the division of motor vehicles, and establishes
the method for calculating the refund. For specified income tax years, for
purposes of the enterprise zone income tax credit for investments in certain
property, establishes that a commercial truck, truck tractor, tractor, or
semitrailer with a vehicle weight rating of 16,000 pounds or greater that is
model year 2008 or newer, and any parts associated with the vehicle at the
time of purchase, shall be deemed to be used solely and exclusively in an
enterprise zone and therefore considered qualified property for purposes of
the income tax credit if: ! The vehicle is licensed and
registered within the state; and ! The vehicle is predominantly
housed and based at the taxpayer's business trucking facility within an
enterprise zone for the 12-month period following its purchase. Specifies that a taxpayer may claim
an income tax credit in an amount equal to specified percentages of the total
qualified investment in a truck, truck tractor, tractor, or semitrailer.
Specifies that the credit shall be phased in over 3 years. Creates the green
truck grant program to be administered by the governor's energy office to
provide: ! Reimbursements of a specified
percentage, not to exceed a specified amount, of the overall cost incurred by
a qualified recipient in purchasing or installing specific fuel-efficient
technologies and emission-control devices to reduce fuel consumption and
emissions of greenhouse gases and other harmful air pollutants from trucks.
Specifies a maximum amount of reimbursements to be granted in a fiscal year. ! Grants up to a specified amount
per qualified recipient for the retirement and scrapping of older model year
trucks that meet certain requirements. Specifies a maximum amount of grants
to be awarded in a fiscal year. Creates the green truck grant
program fund. |
Transportation Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
LWC – R Oppose |
05/05/2009 House Considered Senate
Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass |
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HB09-1310 |
LEVY--HEATH |
Creates the office of employee
misclassification (office) in the division of employment and training
(division) in the department of labor and employment (department) for the
purpose of investigating complaints of employers misclassifying employees as
independent contractors, thereby avoiding the payment of employment taxes for
such employees. Authorizes the director of the division to investigate
complaints and issue orders upon a finding that an employer has misclassified
employees. Authorizes the director to collect back taxes and interest from an
employer who misclassified employees and to impose additional fines and
penalties when the director finds that the employer, with reckless disregard,
misclassified employees. Requires the executive director of the department to
conduct a statewide study to determine the
scope of the problem of employee misclassification, including whether the
problem is widespread, whether particular industries are more inclined to
engage in the practice, estimates of state revenues lost or not collected due
to employee misclassifications, and whether a uniform definition of
"employment relationship" is needed. Requires the executive
director to submit a report to specified committees of the general assembly
regarding the statewide study and the operations of the office in
investigating complaints. |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Oppose |
03/25/2009
House Committee on Business Affairs and Labor Refer Amended to Appropriations |
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HB09-1317 |
PACE & ...--KESTER |
Prohibits the state board of land
commissioners from selling or leasing lands to the |
LWC |
Oppose |
04/29/2009 Senate Third |
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HB09-1326 |
CARROLL T. & ...--SHAFFER B |
With respect to the form of a
ballot question submitted to a vote of the people, requires a ballot issue
changing the state constitution to be referred to as an "amendment"
and a ballot issue changing the Colorado Revised Statutes to be referred to
as a "proposition". Requires notice of such terminology to be
printed on the official ballot. Requires a ballot petition, including any
signature addendums, to be filed with the secretary of state 3 weeks earlier.
Makes the deadline for the last title board meeting prior to an election one
month earlier. Permits a registered elector who signs a petition to withdraw
his or her signature by filing a written request with the secretary of state
on or before the date the petition is filed with the secretary. Adds a notice
to the top of each page of an initiative petition that a signature indicates
support for the placement of the measure on the ballot as a change to either
the state constitution or the Colorado Revised Statutes, as applicable, and
that, if a sufficient number of registered electors sign the petition, the
measure will appear on the ballot. With respect to circulators, notaries
public, and the notarized affidavit that is attached to a petition: ! Requires the circulator to affirm
that he or she understands the consequences for violating petition laws and
for failing to be available in person or by deposition at a protest. ! Prohibits a notary public from
notarizing an affidavit unless the circulator is in the physical presence of
the notary public, the circulator has dated the affidavit and fully completed
all the personal information on the affidavit, and the circulator has presented an
acceptable form of identification. ! Requires the notary public to
specify the form of identification that the circulator presented on a blank
line included on the affidavit form. ! Requires the date signed by a
circulator and the notary public to be the same. ! Establishes that the date signed
by a notary public will not cure a circulator's failure to sign the
affidavit. ! Prohibits the secretary of state
from accepting any petition section that does not have a valid notarized
affidavit that complies with all of the statutory requirements related
thereto. ! Requires a circulator to appear
at any petition protest in person, by telephone, or by any other means
permitted under the ! Requires the proponents of a
petition or an issue committee acting on behalf of the proponents to maintain
a list of the names and addresses of all their circulators and notaries
public and the petition section numbers that each circulated or notarized and
to file such list with the secretary of state along with the petition, at which time
the list shall be a public record. ! Requires the secretary of state
to prepare the list if one is not received from the proponents and to charge
the proponents a fee for such preparation. ! Requires a circulator who
collects more than 100 signatures for any petition to receive training
related to potential fraudulent activities in petition circulation. ! Invalidates all petition sections
circulated in whole or in part by anyone other than the circulator who signs
the affidavit attached to the petition sections. ! Permits a circulator who is not
present in the state to testify by telephone or any other means permitted
under the ! Requires the proponents of a
petition or an issue committee acting on behalf of the proponents to file the
dates of circulation of all paid circulators, the total hours that each
circulator was paid, and the gross amount of wages for such work. After a statement of sufficiency,
requires the secretary of state to make a petition available to the public
for copying upon request. Establishes that a district court shall have
jurisdiction to consider a protest challenging the secretary of state's
statement of a petition's sufficiency without further agency action.
Clarifies that the grounds for challenging individual signatures or petition
sections shall include fraud or violations of the laws relating to petitions
committed by any person involved in the petition circulation process, the use
of a petition form that does not comply with the provisions of the act, and
any improprieties related to the statutorily prescribed duties by a
circulator or notary public. Permits a district court to consider all
signatures in a random sample if a protest is limited to an allegation that
there were defects in the secretary of state's statement of sufficiency based
on a random sample. Permits attorney fees and costs to be sought if the
district court determines that there are invalid signatures or petition
sections as a result of fraud. Requires attorney fees and costs to be awarded
if a protest or defense is determined to be substantially frivolous,
substantially groundless, or substantially vexatious. Creates new criminal
violations for unlawful acts related to initiative petitions. Establishes
that the deadline for a designated representative of the proponents of an
initiative petition to withdraw the petition from consideration as a ballot
issue is 27 days earlier than under current law. Requires a petition entity
to be licensed by the secretary of state. Prohibits the secretary of state
from issuing a license to a petition entity unless: ! The secretary of state finds that
the petition entity's record of petition circulation is consistent with the
prevention of fraud in the state's petition circulation process; ! The petition entity agrees that
all circulators shall not be paid on a per signature or petition section basis;
and ! A current representative of the
petition entity has completed training requirements related to potential
fraudulent activities in petition circulation. Requires a petition entity to
register with the secretary of state by providing the secretary of state the:
! Ballot title of any proposed
measure for which a petition will be circulated by circulators coordinated or
paid by the petition entity; ! Current name, address, telephone
number, and electronic mail address of the petition entity; and ! Name and signature of the
designated agent of the petition entity for the proposed measure. At the request of the secretary of
state, requires the petition entity to provide documentation demonstrating
that it is not paying circulators on a per signature or petition section
basis. Requires the secretary of state to revoke a license if the petition
entity authorized or knowingly permitted certain activities related to ballot
petitions. Requires the petition entity to pay a license fee in an amount
determined by the secretary of state. |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Support |
05/05/2009 House Considered Senate
Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass |
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HB09-1358 |
RICE--(NONE) |
Creates the of the authority, which is to
create a health care system (system) in Requires the authority to design a
system to recommend to the general assembly that provides comprehensive
medical benefits to all Coloradans. Requires the appointment of a board of
directors (board) to create and develop the system. In creating and
developing the system, requires the board to consider specific requirements and
analyses. Requires the executive director of the board to seek all necessary
waivers, exemptions, and agreements from the federal government to ensure
consistent levels of funding if the system is implemented by bill of the
general assembly. Prohibits the implementation of the creation and
development of the system if the board does not raise sufficient gifts,
grants, and donations by July 1, 2011, to fund its activities. Prohibits the implementation of the system until
all necessary waivers, exemptions, and agreements are in place and the general
assembly acts by bill to implement the system |
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LWC – R Oppose |
04/24/2009
House Committee on Business Affairs and Labor Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB09-023 |
SCHULTHEIS--LAMBERT |
Repeals the current requirements
imposed on employers to examine, and retain records of examining, the legal
work status of new employees and instead creates the "Fair and Legal
Employment for Coloradans Act" (act), which requires all nongovernmental
employers in the state to participate in the federal electronic verification
program (e-verify program) for purposes of verifying the work eligibility
status of all new employees hired by an employer. Establishes deadlines by
which employers must start participating in the e-verify program, based on the
number of employees of the employer, and requires the attorney general to
impose fines on an employer for failure to participate in the e-verify
program or to provide documentary proof of participation. Prohibits an
employer from intentionally or knowingly employing an unauthorized alien, and requires
an employer to immediately terminate an employee for whom the employer
receives a final notice of nonconfirmation of work
eligibility through the e-verify program. Requires the attorney general or
the county or city attorney, as appropriate, to investigate complaints of
employer noncompliance. Requires the appropriate county or city attorney to
bring a court action against the employer when an investigation shows a
complaint has merit. Upon finding a violation, requires the court to order
the employer to: ! Terminate the employment of all
unauthorized aliens; ! Be subject to probation, during
which the employer must submit quarterly reports of all newly hired employees
to the county or city attorney; and ! Submit a sworn affidavit
attesting that the employer has terminated the employment of all unauthorized
aliens. For knowing violations, allows the court to order the suspension of
the employer's business licenses. For intentional violations, requires the court
to order the suspension of all business licenses for a minimum period. For a
second violation, requires the revocation of all business licenses. Requires
the attorney general to maintain copies of, and provide access to, all court
orders issued against employers and to maintain a database of employers with
a first violation. Requires the department of revenue, in cooperation with
the department of labor and employment, to provide a notice of the
requirements of the act to employers obligated by law to withhold taxes for
employees. Creates the e-verify program cash fund, to consist of moneys
collected as fines imposed on employers for failing to participate in the
e-verify program. Authorizes the moneys in the fund to be used to cover the
reasonable costs incurred by the attorney general, county attorneys, and city
attorneys in administering and enforcing the requirements of the act. Defines
as a discriminatory or unfair employment practice the refusal to hire or
termination from employment of a |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Support |
02/09/2009 Senate Committee on
State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB09-037 |
KOPP--MCNULTY |
Eliminates
the funding paid by employers insuring employers against liability for
personal injury or death to their employees that is credited to the
subsequent injury fund and the major medical insurance fund. |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Support |
04/28/2009 Senate Considered House
Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass |
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SB09-054 |
SCHEFFEL--KERR A. |
Eliminates the maximum civil
penalty that may be imposed for violations of the "Colorado Consumer
Protection Act". Increases the maximum civil penalty that may be imposed
for violations of the "Colorado Antitrust Act of 1992" from
$100,000 to $250,000. |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Continued Review |
04/20/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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SB09-061 |
CARROLL M.--PRIMAVERA |
For purposes of workers'
compensation, property and casualty, and health insurance, requires any
internal review of claims, independent medical examination, or utilization
review to be conducted by a Colorado-licensed health care professional who is
in good standing and has appropriate expertise in the same or similar
specialties as would typically manage the case being reviewed. Requires
written denials of benefits to identify the health care professional on whose
opinion the denial is based. |
Health Care |
Oppose |
04/21/2009 House Third |
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SB09-067 |
HEATH--MAROSTICA & ... |
Authorizes
the |
Regulation/Tax/Fee Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Support |
04/27/2009 Senate Considered House
Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass |
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SB09-085 |
SCHEFFEL--LAMBERT & ... |
Exempts a percentage of business
personal property, excluding state-assessed property, from property taxation.
Increases the amount of the exemption every 2 years until all business
personal property is exempt. |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Support |
05/05/2009 House Third |
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SB09-095 |
TAPIA--RIESBERG |
Enacts the "Construction
Prompt Payment Reform Act of 2009". Authorizes a contractor or
subcontractor to request a written statement of a property owner's ability to
fulfill contract obligations, and requires the owner to provide the
statement. Prohibits the contractor and subcontractor from disclosing the
statement. Exempts public entities from this requirement. Requires, with some
exceptions, construction agreements that require more than one month to
complete to provide for progress payments every 30 days upon submission of an
invoice. Sets standards and timelines for refusing to pay an invoice and for
curing problems. Clarifies that failure to disapprove a progress payment
invoice is not a waiver of claims. Requires the owner to pay invoices within
25 days if subcontractors are used or 30 days if subcontractors are not used.
Requires the contractor to forward progress payments to the subcontractor
within 5 days or the end of the 30-day billing cycle. Requires a
subcontractor to submit a list of suppliers of goods and services to the
contractor with the invoice. Requires the owner, contractor, or subcontractor
to pay at least 12% on unpaid invoices. Clarifies that an owner, contractor,
or subcontractor may take offsets for specified appropriate failures of the
person submitting the invoice. Sets procedures and timelines for such requirements.
Authorizes the owner to contract for progress payments of greater than 25
days, not to exceed 75 days. Sets procedures for notifying contractors and
subcontractors of the extension. Authorizes retaining a portion of the
payment to ensure that the work is properly completed, but limits retaining
greater than 10% on the first half of the contract if progress is
satisfactory. Authorizes the subcontractor to request release of the retained
fees and requires release within 90 days. Sets standards and timelines for
the required release. Requires monthly payment of actual costs on a change
directive. Sets standards for calculating actual costs. Authorizes, if an
agreement is not reached within 2 months, either actual
costs plus 10% overhead and 5% profit or the suspension of work on change
directives. Sets standards for suspension of performance under a change
directive. Authorizes a contractor or subcontractor to suspend performance
under a construction agreement. Requires a contractor or subcontractor to
resume work if the owner pays the amounts due plus the cost of the
suspension. Sets standards and timelines for suspension and resumption of
performance. Sets standards for providing notice under the act. Declares
agreements in violation of the act void. Prohibits contractual provisions
that apply the law of any jurisdiction other than |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
LWC – R Oppose |
03/20/2009 Senate Second ~ |
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SB09-108 |
GIBBS--RICE |
On and after a specified date,
imposes a road safety surcharge, a daily vehicle rental fee, a supplemental
oversize, overweight, and longer vehicle combination
surcharge, and a supplemental unregistered vehicle fine, and increases the
amount of the fee for late motor vehicle registration. Requires the revenues
generated by the new or increased surcharges, fees, and fines to be credited
to the highway users tax fund and allocated to the
department of transportation (CDOT), counties, and municipalities in accordance
with an existing distribution formula. Requires CDOT, counties, and
municipalities to expend their allocated revenues for road safety projects,
and specifically requires CDOT to spend a specified portion of its allocated
revenues for transit-related projects that enhance the safety of state
highways for transit users. Increases the amount of the fine for late
registration of motor vehicles by new residents of the state. Creates the
statewide bridge enterprise (bridge enterprise) as a government-owned
business within CDOT with the business purpose of completing designated
bridge projects that involve the financing, repair, reconstruction, and
replacement of bridges designated as structurally deficient, functionally
obsolete, or rated as poor by CDOT. Specifies the governance of and general
powers and duties of the bridge enterprise. On and after a specified date,
authorizes the bridge enterprise to fund the completion of designated bridge
projects by imposing a bridge safety surcharge and using revenues generated
by the surcharge to directly pay for the projects or to repay revenue bonds
it issues or loans from the state it contracts for to finance the projects.
Authorizes the state, subject to specified approval requirements, to loan
moneys to the bridge enterprise, to finance any loan made by entering into
lease-purchase agreements involving state buildings or other state capital
facilities, and to have any loan repaid by the bridge enterprise from bridge
safety surcharge revenues. Creates the high-performance transportation
enterprise (transportation enterprise) as a government-owned business within
CDOT with the business purpose of pursuing public-private partnerships and
other innovative and efficient means of completing surface transportation
infrastructure projects other than designated bridge projects. Abolishes the
statewide tolling enterprise, specifies that the transportation enterprise is
the legal successor to the powers, duties, and functions of the tolling
enterprise, and further specifies the general powers and duties of the
transportation enterprise. Specifically authorizes the
transportation enterprise to enter into public-private partnerships and,
subject to specified limitations, to impose user fees, directly or through a
partner, for the privilege of using any surface transportation infrastructure
that the transportation enterprise or its partner constructs or operates.
Authorizes the transportation enterprise to issue revenue bonds to finance
surface transportation infrastructure projects. Subject to specified
requirements regarding both collaboration with affected local governments,
transportation planning entities, and transportation services providers and federal and
affected local government approval, authorizes the transportation enterprise
to impose user fees on highways or highway lanes that have previously served
vehicular traffic on a user-fee free basis. Specifies that both the
transportation enterprise and the bridge enterprise are exempt from specified
state procurement laws but are subject to open records and open meetings laws
and any labor standards that apply to CDOT. Creates a temporary mileage-based
revenue commission (MBR commission), and specifies the governance and general
powers and duties of the commission. Requires the MBR commission to design,
develop, and implement pilot programs to evaluate alternative mileage-based
revenue systems, taking into consideration, at a minimum, technical, legal,
financial, environmental, and social policy issues. Requires CDOT to provide
financial and staff Support to the MBR commission. Requires affected local
government consent for implementation of any pilot program and prohibits the
MBR commission from forcing any individual to participate in a pilot program.
Specifies reporting requirements and pilot program implementation timelines
for the MBR commission. Requires the transportation commission to create a
standing efficiency and accountability committee, and requires the committee
to seek ways to maximize the efficiency of CDOT to allow increased investment
in the transportation system over the short, medium, and long term. Specifies
the membership of the committee and reporting requirements related to its
activities and the implementation of its recommendations. Requires specified information
regarding specified policy goals to be included in any regional
transportation plan. |
Transportation |
*Request Amendments |
03/02/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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SB09-110 |
MORSE /
LEVY |
Sunset
Process - Senate Judiciary Committee. Implements the recommendations of the
department of regulatory agencies in its sunset review of the Colorado civil
rights division (division), the Colorado civil rights commission
(commission), and the subpoena powers of the director of the division
(director) as follows: |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Oppose |
05/05/2009 House Third |
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SB09-121 |
WHITE / MAY |
Eliminates the requirement that
meals provided at no charge or at a reduced charge to employees of a business
at which prepared food or drink is regularly sold shall be considered as part
of the employee's salary, wages, or income to qualify for a
sales and use tax exemption. |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Support |
04/29/2009 House Third |
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SB09-156 |
VEIGA / MIKLOSI |
Creates the "Plastic Bag
Reduction Act" (act), which prohibits a store that meets the following
criteria from providing plastic bags to customers on and after July 1, 2012: |
Mandates |
Oppose |
02/24/2009 Senate Second |
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SB09-159 |
SANDOVAL--MCGIHON
& ... |
Changes
the age of an individual for which a carrier is required to offer dependent
coverage for an additional premium from 25 to 30. |
Health Care |
LWC – R Oppose |
03/18/2009 House Committee on
Business Affairs and Labor Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB09-166 |
CARROLL M. / PACE |
Creates the "Prescription Drug
Ethics Act". Prohibits a manufacturer or wholesale drug, biological
product, or medical or surgical device distributor who participates in a
state health program from offering a gift, fee, payment, subsidy, or other
economic benefit to a health care practitioner. Creates exemptions. Requires
each manufacturer or distributor to disclose to the state board of pharmacy
(board) the value of any benefit provided to any health care practitioner,
hospital, nursing home, pharmacist, health benefit plan administrator, or any
other person authorized to prescribe, dispense, or purchase at wholesale
prescription drugs, biological products, or medical or surgical devices.
Requires the board to make the reported information available on its web
site. Requires each manufacturer or distributor that participates in a state
health program to submit a report containing advertising and marketing
expenditures to the board. Requires the board to make an annual report to the
general assembly. Requires a health care practitioner, health plan, hospital,
or other institution that receives any type of funding or payment from the
state to exclude any person with a financial interest in a manufacturer from
participating in decisions that influence the wholesale purchasing of
prescription drugs. Allows the attorney general to bring action and impose a
penalty. Grants rule-making authority to the board. Prohibits a person from
knowingly disclosing or using records that include prescription information
containing individual identifying information in order to market a prescribed
product. Creates a penalty for disclosing an individual's prescription
information containing individual identifying information. Creates the
prescription drug ethics cash fund to consist of fees and gifts, grants, and
donations collected by the board for the purposes of the "Prescription
Drug Ethics Act". |
Health Care Regulation/Tax/Fee Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
OPPOSE |
02/18/2009 Senate Committee on
Business, Labor and Technology Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB09-170 |
ROMER--MIKLOSI |
Requires that a person, regardless
of immigration status, who attends a Colorado high school for
at least 3 years and enrolls in a Colorado institute of higher education
within 5 years after either graduating from a Colorado high school or earning
a general education diploma in Colorado shall be charged the same tuition
rate and shall be eligible for tuition assistance under the same criteria as
a person who establishes domicile in Colorado. |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Oppose |
04/06/2009 Senate Second |
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SB09-180 |
TOCHTROP--CASSO |
Grants firefighters and law
enforcement officers the right to: ! Organize, form, join, or assist
an employee organization or to refrain from doing so; ! Negotiate collectively or express
a grievance through representatives of their choice; ! Engage in other lawful concerted
activity for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or
protection; and ! Be represented by their exclusive
representative without discrimination. States that an employee
organization recognized or elected for collective bargaining shall be the
exclusive representative (exclusive representative) of all the firefighters
or law enforcement officers in an agency (bargaining unit) for collective
bargaining. Prohibits a fire department, police department, or sheriff's
department (public employer) from bargaining on matters covered by the act
with any other employee or group. Grants the exclusive representative the
right to be present and express its views at the adjustment of a complaint
made by a member of the bargaining unit without the intervention of the
exclusive representative. Allows an exclusive representative to have dues and
other moneys deducted from the pay of firefighters or law enforcement
officers who authorize the deduction. Authorizes and obligates a public
employer and an exclusive representative to bargain collectively in good
faith. States that any agreements negotiated between an exclusive
representative and a public employer (the parties), along with any terms
approved by the voters of the political subdivision of the public employer, shall constitute the collective bargaining agreement
between the parties. Requires a collective bargaining agreement to be for a
term of one to 3 years. Allows a party to request collective bargaining by
sending notice to the other party by a specified date. Requires the parties
to begin collective bargaining within a specified time after the notice.
Deems an impasse to exist if the parties fail to reach a collective
bargaining agreement within a specified time after the beginning of
collective bargaining. States that a collective bargaining agreement may
require all members of the bargaining unit, as a condition of employment, to
pay the exclusive representative's fees and expenses in negotiating and
enforcing the agreement. If an impasse exists, requires the parties to allow
an arbitration organization to appoint an advisory fact-finder
to hold a hearing on the unresolved issues and make recommendations on which
party's final offer on each issue should be accepted. Specifies the factors
that the advisory fact-finder shall consider. Gives the parties a specified
time to consider the advisory fact-finder's recommendations and conduct
further negotiations. If either party rejects the recommendations, states
that the final offers of the parties on the unresolved issues shall be
submitted to the voters of the political subdivision of the public employer
at a special election. Prohibits firefighters, law
enforcement officers, and employee organizations from striking. States that
existing bargaining units, exclusive representatives, and bargaining
relationships as of the effective date of the act shall remain unless modified by agreement or election
in accordance with the act. Allows firefighters, law enforcement
officers, and employee organizations to petition the division of labor in the
department of labor and employment to conduct secret-ballot elections to
certify or decertify an employee organization as the exclusive representative
of a bargaining unit. Grants a firefighter, law enforcement officer, or
employee organization standing to sue to enforce the provisions of the act. |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
LWC – R Oppose |
05/01/2009 Senate Considered House
Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass |
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SB09-223 |
BOYD--KERR A. & ... |
Ensures the uniform statewide
administration of food safety in |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Support |
04/30/2009 House Third |
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SB09-228 |
MORSE--MAROSTICA & ... |
Eliminates the limit on the growth
of total general fund appropriations (appropriations limit). If the
appropriations limit was used as a trigger for some other event, establishes
a new trigger that is based on the amount actually appropriated from the
general fund, or in the case of certain tax credits, that
is 6% over the general fund appropriations from the prior year. Eliminates
references to provisions that state that appropriations are made in
accordance with or as exceptions to the appropriations limit. Eliminates
obsolete provisions related to the appropriations limit, and makes other
conforming amendments related to the elimination of the appropriations limit. Eliminates the automatic transfer
to the controlled maintenance trust fund that is a percentage of excess
general fund revenue. Eliminates the automatic transfer of general fund
surplus to the highway users tax fund (HUTF) and the capital construction
fund. Permits the general assembly to transfer moneys to such funds, which
amount transferred to the HUTF shall be used in the same manner as the moneys
that are automatically transferred thereto under current law. Eliminates the
automatic diversion of sales and use tax revenue to the sales and use tax
holding fund. Permits the general assembly to transfer moneys to the fund,
which shall be used in the same manner as the moneys that are automatically
diverted thereto under current law. Eliminates the limit on the amount that
the general assembly may appropriate from the HUTF for specified state
agencies. |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Oppose |
04/30/2009 Senate Considered House
Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass |
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SB09-247 |
TOCHTROP--PACE |
Expands the availability of
unemployment benefits to certain unemployed individuals as follows: ! Creates an alternative base
period for an unemployed individual who has not earned sufficient wages for
insured work during the existing base period to qualify for unemployment
insurance benefits. ! Modifies the eligibility criteria
for unemployment benefits when a worker separates from a job due to domestic
violence to allow benefits when the worker reasonably believes that continued
employment jeopardizes his or her safety or that of the worker's spouse,
parents, or minor children. ! Allows unemployment benefits to
an individual who quits a job to relocate to a new place of residence with
his or her spouse whose employment location has changed, if the individual
cannot practically commute to his or her current job and the individual, upon
arrival to the new residence, is available for suitable work. ! Allows unemployment benefits to
an individual who quits work to care for an ill or disabled immediate family
member who requires care of a duration longer than allowed the individual
under his or her employer's medical leave of absence policy or the federal
"Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993". ! Authorizes enhanced unemployment
insurance compensation benefits to eligible unemployment insurance claimants
who are enrolled and making satisfactory progress in an approved training
program that will train them for a high-demand occupation, a more stable,
long-term occupation, or an occupation in the renewable energy industry.
Repeals the availability of the enhanced unemployment insurance compensation
benefits on July 1, 2012. |
Mandates |
LWC – R Oppose |
05/05/2009 House Third |
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SB09-253 |
VEIGA--CASSO |
In the law requiring the payment of
relocation costs for persons displaced from property as a result of public
projects using federal financial assistance, requires the displacing agency
to use best efforts to provide a relocation payment to the owner of a utility
facility in an amount not to exceed the amount resulting from application of
a specified formula to determine the extraordinary cost of relocating the
facility. In the law authorizing local exchange providers of
telecommunications services to request that the public utilities commission
(commission) permit such providers to recover the actual costs incurred in
relocating infrastructure or facilities upon request by the state or a local
political subdivision, specifies what may be
included in determining actual costs. Specifies that such actual costs shall
be recovered using a uniform surcharge assessed on all of the provider's
retail access lines, with the period of recovery not to exceed one year.
Prohibits construing this law to grant the commission authority over
interstate, unregulated, or deregulated telecommunications services. |
Mandates Regulation/Tax/Fee |
LWC – R Support |
05/04/2009 House Committee on
Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB09-281 |
SHAFFER B.--WEISSMANN |
Clarifies the operation of Pinnacol
Assurance as a political subdivision of the state by amending and repealing
certain statutes granting Pinnacol Assurance the authority to engage in
activities as if it were a private insurance carrier. Requires Pinnacol
Assurance to pay a dividend to small businesses equal to 5% of Pinnacol
Assurance's surplus funds no later than September 1, 2009. Requires the state
auditor to undertake an annual audit of Pinnacol Assurance and to transmit
such audit together with any comments and recommendations to the governor,
the general assembly, the executive director of the department of labor and
employment, and the commissioner of insurance. Establishes a legislative
interim committee to meet during the 2009 interim to study the laws governing worker safety and
work-related injury compensation, including the operation of Pinnacol
Assurance and to make recommendations on any policy changes with respect to
these matters. |
Mandates |
LWC – R Oppose |
05/04/2009 Senate Consideration of
First Conference Committee Report result was to Adopt Committee Report - Repass |
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Bills to Monitor 2009 |
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Bill |
Sponsor |
Summary |
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Chamber Position |
Status |
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HB09-1094 |
LEVY--BACON |
Prohibits
operators of a motor vehicle who are under 18 years of age, operators of a
school bus, and motor vehicle carriers regulated by the public utilities
commission from using a wireless telephone while a motor vehicle they are
operating is in motion. Otherwise, permits operators of a motor vehicle who
are 18 years of age or older to use a wireless telephone equipped with a
hands-free accessory. Deems the use of a wireless telephone by an operator as
a class A traffic infraction. |
Mandates Transportation |
Monitor |
04/28/2009 Senate Committee on
Appropriations Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole ~ Friday, May 1 2009 |
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HB09-1094 |
LEVY--BACON |
Prohibits
operators of a motor vehicle who are under 18 years of age, operators of a
school bus, and motor vehicle carriers regulated by the public utilities
commission from using a wireless telephone while a motor vehicle they are
operating is in motion. Otherwise, permits operators of a motor vehicle who
are 18 years of age or older to use a wireless telephone equipped with a
hands-free accessory. Deems the use of a wireless telephone by an operator as
a class A traffic infraction. |
Mandates Transportation |
Monitor |
04/20/2009 Senate Committee on
State, Veterans & Military Affairs Refer Amended to Finance ~ Thursday, April 23 2009 |
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HB09-1127 |
MIKLOSI--(NONE) |
Creates a credit to be applied
against state income tax liability for a qualified investment that creates
jobs in a small business. Requires an investment to be at least a specified
amount and to be preceded by investments in each of the prior 2 years before
it can be considered a qualified investment. Specifies that the tax credit
may be: ! Refunded to a taxpayer; ! Carried forward, if a portion of
it is unused; and ! Transferred to another taxpayer
if certain requirements are met. Requires the |
Jobs/Economy/Higher Ed |
Monitor |
02/04/2009 House Committee on
Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB09-1135 |
JUDD--WHITE |
Increases the amount of specified
fees collected by county treasurers, clerk and recorders, and sheriffs.
Requires the executive director of the department of local affairs to adjust
the amount of the fees every other year to reflect changes in the consumer price
index. Requires the executive director to maintain a public schedule of the
fees and make it available to the public on the department's web site.
Indexes certain fees of a sheriff based on mileage traveled to the internal
revenue service mileage reimbursement rate. |
Mandates |
Monitor |
02/03/2009 House Second ~ Friday, February 13 2009 |
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HB09-1135 |
JUDD--WHITE |
Increases the amount of specified
fees collected by county treasurers, clerk and recorders, and sheriffs.
Requires the executive director of the department of local affairs to adjust
the amount of the fees every other year to reflect changes in the consumer
price index. Requires the executive director to maintain a public schedule of
the fees and make it available to the public on the department's web site.
Indexes certain fees of a sheriff based on mileage traveled to the internal
revenue service mileage reimbursement rate. |
Mandates |
Monitor |
02/24/2009 House Third |
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CURRY /
SCHWARTZ |
Clarifies
that, under the statute addressing the control of rents (rent control
statute) by counties and municipalities (local governments), local
governments are prohibited from enacting any ordinance or resolution that
would control rent on a private residential housing unit. Clarifies that
nothing in the statute is intended or shall be construed to prohibit or
restrict the right of any property owner and any state agency, county,
municipality, or housing authority to enter into and enforce a contract that
controls rent on a private residential housing unit, whether the contract is
entered into before, on, or after a specified date. For purposes of the rent
control statute, specifies that a covenant, deed restriction, or similar
instrument constitutes an interest in property where the covenant, deed
restriction, or similar instrument: |
Mandates Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Monitor |
02/05/2009 House Committee on Local
Government Postpone Indefinitely |
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HB09-1327 |
HULLINGHORST--TOCHTROP |
In connection with the approval of
an urban renewal plan or a modification to such plan: ! Exempts a city and county from
existing statutory requirements to provide an urban renewal impact report
(report). ! Expands the entities to which an
urban renewal plan or modification must be submitted to include the governing
body of certain public bodies that impose ad valorem property taxes on any
portion of the real property constituting an urban renewal area (taxing
entities) and, in specified circumstances, additionally requires the taxing
entities to be provided a copy of the report. ! Makes the deadline earlier for
submitting the plan or modification prior to an initial hearing. Adds to existing statutory
requirements concerning the findings that must be made before the governing
body of the municipality may approve an urban renewal plan: ! Whether the urban renewal
authority (authority) or the municipality will adequately finance any
additional taxing entity infrastructure as well as services required to serve
development within the urban renewal area; and ! Any significant shortfalls in the
projected revenues of the taxing entities for the period during which all or
any portion of property taxes are paid into a special fund (fund) in
connection with tax increment financing. Exempts a city and county from the
requirement to make these additional findings. In connection with the excess
of any payment of property taxes paid into the fund in connection
with tax increment financing: ! In the absence of an
intergovernmental agreement (agreement), requires that a specified percentage
of the property taxes allocated to the fund be distributed to the fund and a
specified percentage be allocated to all of the taxing entities in the urban
renewal area on a pro rata basis as specified in the act. ! In the alternative to the
provisions of the act specifying a particular allocation of the property tax,
authorizes the authority and any taxing entity located within the urban
renewal area to enter into an agreement. Specifies that, under such
agreement, the parties may provide, as they deem appropriate, for the
allocation of the property taxes between the authority and any one or more
taxing entities and the year in which any such allocation would commence or
end. Applies the provisions of the act specifying a particular allocation of
the property tax to any taxing entity that does not elect to enter into an
agreement with the authority. Repeals existing statutory provisions
creating an arbitration process for the purpose of adjudicating objections by
a county to an urban renewal plan with county impacts. |
Mandates Regulation/Tax/Fee |
LWC - R Monitor |
04/30/2009 Senate Committee on
Local Government and Energy Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB09-008 |
HARVEY-- |
Extends the right to use deadly
physical force against an intruder under certain conditions to include
owners, managers, and employees of places of business. |
All |
Monitor |
01/28/2009 Senate Committee on
State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB09-031 |
HEATH--RIESBERG |
Creates the clean technology
discovery evaluation grant program (program) in the |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Monitor |
04/22/2009 Sent to the Governor |
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SB09-081 |
SHAFFER B.--RICE |
Creates a phased-in exemption from
the sales and use tax for purchases in excess of a specified amount of
machinery and machine tools to be used in the state directly and
predominantly for providing telephone and telegraph services for sale or
profit. Requires the division of property taxation in the department of local
affairs to submit a specified number of annual reports to specified
legislative committees describing the new investments made by
telecommunications companies in the rural areas of the state. |
Mandates |
Monitor |
03/06/2009 Senate Committee on
Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely |
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SB09-244 |
SHAFFER B.--PRIMAVERA |
Directs that all individual and
group sickness and accident insurance policies, health service or indemnity
contracts, and managed care plans providing coverage in Colorado (policy or
policies) that are issued or renewed on or after July 1, 2010, shall provide
coverage for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of autism spectrum
disorders (ASD). Defines what type of coverage is
required for the treatment of ASD, including applied behavior analysis.
States that nothing in the statute shall be construed to require or permit a
carrier to reduce benefits provided for ASD if a policy already provides
coverage that exceeds the requirements of the statute and that nothing shall
be construed to prevent an insurance carrier from increasing benefits
provided for ASD. States that nothing in the statute shall be construed to
limit coverage for physical or mental health benefits covered under a policy.
States that coverage for ASD is subject to the same copayment, deductible,
and coinsurance provisions that are applicable under the policy for other
medical services for physical injury or sickness covered by the policy.
Directs that benefits provided by an insurance carrier for care or treatment of
a health condition not diagnosed as ASD are not to be applied toward any ASD
maximum benefit amount established under the policy. Prohibits a carrier from
denying or refusing to provide otherwise covered services, refusing to renew
or reissue, or otherwise restricting
or terminating coverage under a policy to an individual because the
individual or his or her dependent is diagnosed with ASD or due to
utilization of services for which coverage is mandated. Requires prescribed treatment to be continued during a
treatment review or appeal of a decision regarding treatment. Specifies that
services for the treatment of ASD are the primary services for a child who is
also eligible for early intervention services, and that early intervention
services supplement, but do not replace, services provided under the required
coverage for ASD. Makes issuance or renewal of a
policy that excludes coverage for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of
ASD by an insurance carrier that is subject to the mandated
coverage requirement for the treatment for ASD an unfair method of competition
and unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance. Repeals
the statute that provides that treatment for autism was not mandated and, if
covered by a policy, was not to be treated as a mental illness. |
Health Care Regulation/Tax/Fee |
LWC – R Monitor |
04/30/2009 House Second ~ Friday, May 1 2009 |
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HB09-1217 |
MURRAY /
SCHEFFEL |
Allows for
the creation of a local improvement district for the purpose of providing
public utilities improvements, including but not limited to gas, electric,
geothermal, phone, cable, and internet utilities improvements within the
district. Exempts the utility improvements from compliance with certain
provisions governing the acquisition of other improvements to be made in
local improvement districts. |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
Monitor |
04/27/2009 Sent to the Governor |
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SB09-250 |
TOCHTROP--PRIMAVERA |
Requires a health benefit plan that
covers cancer chemotherapy treatment to provide coverage for prescribed,
orally administered anticancer medication. |
Health Care |
Monitor |
05/04/2009 House Committee on
Health and Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
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No Position/Not Chamber Issue |
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Bill |
Sponsor |
Short Title |
Focus Groups |
Chamber Position |
Status |
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SB09-137 |
RENFROE |
Property Lien Waiver Debt Third Party . |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
No Position |
04/20/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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SB09-139 |
SHAFFER B. |
Uniform Principal And Income Act
Amends |
Regulation/Tax/Fee |
No Position |
04/16/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1024 |
MCNULTY--TOCHTROP |
Local
Gov Audit Law Mod |
Mandates |
No Position |
03/18/2009 Governor Action - Signed |
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HB09-1064 |
KEFALAS |
Econ
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Mandates |
No Position |
04/22/2009 Senate Second |
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