State Legislation

This ordinance would prohibit city officials and law enforcement from removing shelters or tents from public areas 48 hours prior to the outdoor temperature being predicted to be 32 degrees or below. It would also extend operating hours for public and private facilities operating under contract with the City, to provide temporary shelter for those exposed to weather conditions when the temperature is predicted to be 32 degrees or below.

The legislation continues the rural jump-start zone grant program, which is currently set to terminate on July 1, 2024. The program is a collaborative effort to incentivize new businesses to start in or move to rural, economically distressed counties in Colorado, referred to as Rural Jump-Start zones, and hire new employees. 

This bill allows an individual with a criminal conviction if the offense is a violent felony or a misdemeanor to petition a regulator to determine whether their criminal conviction should preclude them from becoming qualified to be registered, certified, or licensed for a state-regulated occupation. If an offense is not violent, but would otherwise disqualify a person from registering, retaining a certification, or license, the bill would disallow the regulator from considering the person’s criminal conviction for the offense after a 3-year period has passed.

The bill requires a health-care insurance carrier to include a primary care provider as a participating provider in all networks, including narrow networks and all tiers of tiered networks, of the carrier's health benefit plan if they meet certain criteria.

This bill makes requirements around wage claims brought by individuals working in the construction industry. The bill aims to protect against wage theft in the construction industry, expanding general contractor accountability for wage claims involving contractors and making general contractors responsible for their subcontractors’ payments to laborers.

This bill aims to eliminate a judicially created requirement that limited the application of the Colorado Consumer Protection Act. In the 1998 Hall v. Walter ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court held that an injured individual or business must prove that an unfair, unconscionable or deceptive act or practice “significantly impacts the public.”

This bill would allow for overdose prevention centers, or safe injection sites. An overdose prevention center is defined as a facility designed to provide a space for individuals to use controlled substances in a monitored setting with supervision, access to equipment and counselors, as well as referrals to substance use disorder treatment. The bill specifies that a municipality may authorize the operation of an overdose prevention center within the municipality’s boundaries.

This bill would impose new requirements on railroads operating within Colorado. The new requirements include limiting the length of the train to 8,500 feet, requiring wayside detector systems (systems that monitor passing trains for defects), and prohibiting obstruction of a public crossway for longer than 10 minutes. The bill also would implement new reporting and investigation requirements for union members in which the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) would be at liberty to impose fines for the violation of these new safety requirements – the PUC would also develop the guidelines for determining and imposing the fines. This bill would also create a new front range passenger district maintenance and safety fund financed by the fines collected by the PUC to allocate money for projects to improve the safety of a passenger rail system.

The bill modifies tax filing thresholds for any sales and use taxes collected by jurisdictions that do not use the state sales and use tax simplification system (SUTS). It also requires that all home rule jurisdictions use the SUTS system beginning July 1, 2025.

This bill changes reporting and transparency tax laws, requiring local taxing jurisdictions to report and publish information on local lodging tax and permit related sales or use tax information.

This bill prohibits the use of an algorithmic device by a landlord to determine the amount of rent to charge a residential tenant, establishing that the use of such a device is an unfair or deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act." This does not include a product or calculation that has been designed internally and used exclusively by a landlord or their affiliates.

The bill concerns the consideration of a statewide universal health-care payment system for Colorado that directly compensates providers, requiring the Colorado School of Public Health to submit a report detailing its findings to the General Assembly by Oct. 1, 2025. The bill also creates the statewide health-care analysis advisory task force consisting of 21 members for the purpose of advising the Colorado School of Public Health in conducting an analysis of draft model legislation concerning the statewide universal health-care payment system.

The bill requires the division of insurance to conduct a study of construction liability insurance for construction professionals in Colorado. The study must include 1) All insurers offering construction liability policies in Colorado 2) an analysis of the rates charged for liability insurance in Colorado, 3) the factors used to set the insurance rates, 4) a cost comparison of insurance rates in other states, 5) policy coverage terms, and 6) common limitations/exclusions from coverage. The bill also requires that the seller of the property must provide the purchaser and the county with information regarding the insurance coverage for the property.

This is a bipartisan bill that makes changes to Colorado’s occupational portability program concerning the spouses and dependents of military members to allow them to either more easily obtain or keep their credentialing. Changes include: (1) streamlining a spouse or dependent’s transfer of occupations licensure or credentials in Colorado if they are in good standing in another state, (2) allowing applicants to be credentialed if the applicant committed an act that would have disallowed them from licensure in Colorado, but the applicant remains in good standing in their current state, (3) allowing military spouses and dependent to obtain a six-year credential while in Colorado, (4) waiving application and renewal fees for credentials, and (5) expanding eligibility for the program to spouses and dependents of Armed Forces Reserve, Ready Reserve, and National Guard members in Colorado.

This bill requires attorney fees to be awarded to the prevailing defendant in an action concerning judicial review of a local land use decision, except for when an action is brought by the land use applicant before the government entity. 

This bill expands the right-to-repair statues to digital electronic equipment and adds exemptions for various types of digital electronic equipment (such as motor vehicles, medical devices, and certain construction and energy-related equipment). In this context, right-to-repair means the original equipment manufacturer is required upon request to provide parts, tools, documentation and other resources to independent repair providers to facilitate repair.

A bipartisan bill that makes any tax exempted business listed as a 501C a place of public accommodation subject to the provisions of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act. The bill amends the definition of a place of public accommodation to include non-profits, though a place that is used for religious purposes (church, synagogue, mosque, etc.) remains exempt. A person may be fined $10,000 for violating the act.

This is a bi-partisan bill that introduces a new, refundable income tax credit for qualified costs incurred in the conversion of a commercial structure to a residential structure. All applications and review will go through the Governor’s office of economic development. The office of economic development cannot reserve a tax credit in excess of $3 million for any one project and cannot reserve more than $5 million of tax credits in any one calendar year.

This is a bipartisan bill that amends the Colorado Privacy Act to include certain protections for an individual’s biometric data. The controller (business that collects the data) must adopt a policy that 1) establishes a retention schedule, 2) includes a protocol for responding to a breach of security and 3) includes guidelines that require permanent destruction of the biometric identifier. In addition, the controller must 1) obtain disclosure and consent forms to collect biometric data 2) allow consumer access and update biometric information, and 3) restrict an employer’s permissible reasons for collecting employee biometric information.

This is a bipartisan bill that creates new policy and procedures concerning record sealing and expungement. The bill allows the defendant in a mistaken identity case to petition for an expungement order if the arresting agency does not file a petition themselves. The defendant is not subject to any fees or costs associated with expunging the record. The bill also clarifies procedures for automatic sealing of a defendant’s record and a hearing related to sealing matters to be conducted remotely. In addition, the bill lowers waiting periods for sealing municipal records and creates record sealing procedures for conviction records when a statutory change legalizes previously prohibited conduct.

The bill adds measures to encourage healthier social media use by youth. This includes requiring the department of education to expand local student wellness programs to address the impacts of problematic technology use and create and maintain a resource bank of evidence-based, research-based, and promising program materials and curricula pertaining to the mental health impacts of social media use by children and teens. The bill also would require social media platforms to display a pop-up warning to users under the age of 18 when they have spent one-hour on the platform and/or is on the platform from the hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

The bill prohibits a person from advertising a price for a product, good or service that does not include all mandatory or nondiscretionary fees or charges. A violation of this prohibition is a deceptive trade practice enforceable by the attorney general or a district attorney.

This is a bipartisan bill that aims to increase the number of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in Colorado through new requirements, grant programs and limiting permitting restrictions. The bill requires jurisdictions to allow, subject to an administrative approval process, one ADU to a single unit detached dwelling. The bill also prohibits qualifying jurisdictions from enacting or enforcing certain local laws that would restrict the construction or conversion of an accessory dwelling unit.

The bill creates the employee ownership office, which was originally created administratively by the governor in 2020, as a statutory entity within the Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT). The bill also creates an income tax credit for specified costs incurred by new employee-owned businesses, to be administered by the employee ownership office.

A bipartisan bill that creates the economic development organization (EDO) action grant program within the Colorado office of economic development to provide $2 million worth of grants funding to Colorado-based economic development organizations to support and increase their capacity to implement community-specific economic development programming.

The bill imposes a set of duties on the Denver airport authority for accessibility-related functions at Denver international airport. The bill would authorize the Division of Aeronautics to issue fines for noncompliance of the duties and functions to any entity in violation. For a first offense, the entity has 30-days to remedy the noncompliance. If not remedied within 30-days, the fines increase. In addition, the bill includes a private right of action, enabling an individual alleging damages resulting from a violation by an entity to bring a civil suit and seek a court order requiring compliance and any other remedy the court determines necessary.

This bill creates two property rights with the goal of increasing the stock of affordable housing: a right of first refusal and a right of first offer. The bill requires the seller of multifamily rental properties that are considered existing affordable housing to give notice to the local government at least two years before the first expiration of an existing affordability restriction on the property and again when the seller takes certain actions as a precursor to selling the property. A local government also has the right of first offer to all other multifamily rental properties that are 20 years or older and have not more than 100 units and not less than five units in urban counties and three units in rural and rural resort counties.

The bill would expand the Construction Defect Actions Reform Act and the Colorado Consumer Protection Act. This includes removing the limitations on the legal rights or remedies that can be brought by the plaintiff, requiring prejudgment interest be awarded at a rate of 6% to the date of sale and 8% thereafter, and increasing the statute of limitations in which a claimant can bring a lawsuit from six years to 10 years.

This is a bipartisan bill that creates three new four-year programs to be implemented by the division of housing in the department of local affairs to support and incentivize childcare facility development. The programs include the childcare facility development toolkit, technical assistance program, and the childcare facility development planning grant program. Each of these programs are created to incentivize and support local governments in identifying and making regulatory updates or improvements to community planning, development, building, zoning and other regulatory processes to support the development of childcare facilities.

The bill would add requirements for projects that receive federal money for broadband deployment. The bill would require that these projects cannot give less than 25% weight to fair labor practices by establishing evaluation metrics for applicants.

The bill prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to attend meetings, listen to speech or view communications concerning religious or political matters. The bill creates a private right of action of employees seeking lost wages, front pay, compensation, costs and attorney's fees should their employer violate this policy. Certain employer communications are exempt from the prohibition, including communications required by law or that are necessary for an employee to perform the employee's job duties. Lastly, each employer is required to post a notice of the employee rights outlined in the bill at the employer's workplace.

A bipartisan bill that requires local governments to notify affected utility companies of road improvement projects and establishes the process by which local governments and utility companies may enter into agreements concerning the relocation of utility facilities. The bill requires local governments and utility companies to coordinate on road improvement projects necessitating the alteration of utility lines. The utility must pay for the costs associated with an unreasonable delay.

A bill that provides community revitalization incentives for the support of creative industries by extending the community grant revitalization program and creating an income tax credit for expenses related to completing infrastructure that supports creative industries and creative industry workers.

The bill seeks to prohibit a county or municipality from enforcing minimum parking requirements for property that is within a metropolitan planning organization. The prohibition does not apply to lowering the protections provided for persons with disabilities; preventing a county or municipality from enacting or enforcing a maximum parking requirement; or preventing a county or municipality from enacting or enforcing a minimum parking requirement for bicycles.

A bill that seeks to increase the affordability of housing in transit-oriented communities (TOCs). This includes providing definitions for TOCs and counties required to adhere to the new requirements to meet housing opportunity goals. A housing opportunity goal is a zoning capacity goal based on an average zoned housing density and the number of transit-related areas within a transit-oriented community. The bill requires a transit-oriented community to meet its housing opportunity goal by ensuring that enough areas in the transit-oriented community qualify as transit centers. The bill creates the transit-oriented communities infrastructure fund grant program to assist local governments in upgrading infrastructure within transit centers and neighborhood centers. In addition, a transit-oriented community is required to demonstrate that it has met its housing opportunity goal by submitting a housing opportunity goal report to the department of local affairs.

The bill creates a pilot program for an income tax credit for owners of qualified housing developments focused on rental housing for middle-income individuals and families. Middle-income individuals and families are defined as having an annual-household income between 80% and 120% of the median income of households the same size within their region. Rural resort counties would be defined as having an annual income of 80% and 140% of the area median income. The amount is credited and determined by the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA) and the aggregate amount of credits allocated in a year cannot exceed $10 million. The bill also requires CHFA to annually report on the middle-income tax credit pilot program to the general assembly and to make the report publicly available.

A bipartisan bill that grants the attorney general rule-making authority over restrictive employment agreements. Current law allows an employer to recover the expense of educating and training a worker where the training is distinct from normal, on-the-job training. The bill regulates the recoverable expense as other consumer debt and student debt.

A bipartisan bill that creates two tax incentives to support the development of the quantum technology ecosystem in the state. In order to qualify for either tax credit, the Colorado-based entity must receive a multi-million-dollar federal grant from the Economic Development Administration for the regional technology and innovation program or a comparable federal grant program. Tax credits include 1) Tax credit for investments in fixed capital assets to create a shared quantum facility and the 2) Quantum business loan loss reserve tax credit. Both create a 100% refundable income tax credit. The office and the administrator are required to annually report to the general assembly regarding the facility credit and the loan loss credit and may, after soliciting advice from the Department of Revenue and Quantum Industry participants, create and modify policies and procedures as necessary to implement the facility credit or the loan loss credit, as applicable.

A bill that modifies the process to obtain permits that impact air quality. This includes clarifying that a request for general permit registration does not constitute having a valid construction permit. In addition, the bill requires that the division of administration in the department of public health and environment or the air quality control commission can only grant permits for certain proposed sources in a nonattainment area that meet certain requirements. Requirements include: 1) the proposed source will not contribute to an exceedance of any applicable national ambient air quality standard, 2) The owner or operator of the proposed source achieves emissions reductions of each air pollutant, and 3) The proposed source is not in a disproportionately impacted community.

A bill that creates an Environmental Task Force Office of Environmental Justice within the Department of Public Health and Environment. The bill enables local governments to request the office to impose limits on operational emissions within their jurisdiction, requires the office to develop two environmental equity and cumulative impact analyses for specific geographic locations within Colorado and impose new regulations and requirements on petroleum.

A bill that increases the membership of the Air Quality Control Commission from nine to 11 members, requiring one member to represent a disproportionately impacted community and a climate scientist. Under current law, the commission is required to adopt rules regulating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the industrial and manufacturing sector, the bill would require the commission to adopt a new slate of specific rules concerning GHG emissions and compliance. This includes 1) prohibit GHG emissions from increasing with a cap at 97 million metric tons between 2025 and 2030, 2) prohibit sectors from complying with GHG emissions compliance through payment of fines, 3) establish source specific GHG reduction requirements specific to disproportionately impacted communities.

The bill creates two separate state income tax incentives to encourage enrollment in higher education. The first incentive is available to a graduate of any Colorado institution of higher education with a credential required or supported by certain jobs identified by the 2023 Colorado talent pipeline report, defined by the bill as "top jobs." The second incentive is available to an eligible transfer student attending a four-year Colorado institution of higher education, in the amount of $50 per credit hour transferred from either a two-year Colorado institution of higher education or earned while under certain enrollment status in high school.

A bill that prohibits the sale and distribution of certain HVAC systems manufactured after Jan. 1, 2027, and sets up a process that allows individuals to make anonymous reports of violation of technical standards. The bill imposes new penalties for violation, including a warning letter to the alleged violator and in the case of a third subsequent violation, the attorney general may bring a civil action and seek up to $2,000. The bill also would require the Colorado Energy Office to conduct a study comparing the cost difference between an HVAC system that meets the technical standards and the HVAC system that does not. In addition, the bill creates a $5,000 refundable state income tax credit per installation of an eligible heat pump available for home builders or HVAC contractors. Lastly, the bill requires recipients of state financial assistance for new building construction projects that include energy-consuming products covered by the Energy Star program to use covered energy-consuming products certified by the Energy Star program.

A bill that seeks to make changes to the existing pipeline safety rules, requiring the Public Utilities Commission to increase mapping requirements for all pipelines within its jurisdiction, decommission sections of pipeline that have not been used for two or more years, and develop a website for pipeline safety data in Colorado. The bill also makes significant changes to the penalties for violating pipeline safety law, increasing the penalties from $200,000 to $500,000, allowing the Commission to increase penalties based on certain metrics and factors, and beginning in 2026, the Commission would be required to adjust the penalty for inflation every two years.

The bill adds established payments to loan-out companies as a qualified local expenditure for the purpose of qualifying for the film incentive income tax credit, removes a condition that the credit is available only in years that the amount of state revenues are in excess of the limitation of state fiscal year spending by at least $50 million, and extends the deadline from Feb. 4, 2025, to July 1, 2028, for a tax credit effectiveness study to be submitted to the Finance Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Part of the Governor’s workforce package, the bipartisan bill authorizes the Department of Education to commission a financial study analyzing the costs to provide students the opportunity to obtain college credits, industry credentials, and work-based learning experiences. The bill also requires the Office of Information Technology to build the Colorado statewide longitudinal data system to establish a data system to support effective state investments, inform policy research, and assist Colorado citizens in making choices related to their education and training pathways. Lastly, the bill requires the office to submit an annual report summarizing the education and workforce outcomes using the data system.

A bipartisan bill that is part of the Governor’s workforce package, the bill focuses on several regional development talent initiatives. The bill creates the regional talent summit grant programs and an income tax credit for facility improvement and equipment acquisition costs associated with training programs designed to alleviate workforce shortages.

The bill would implement new requirements for local government to include climate action elements in their master plans, and would require state agencies to prioritize awarding grants that satisfy a list of criteria described in the bill. A climate action element must include climate-related goals, plans, or strategies and a description of any money from the federal, state, or a local government that a local government has received for the implementation of any of the plans or goals described in the climate action element. In addition, the bill requires the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to coordinate with metropolitan planning organizations to establish criteria that define and identify growth corridors. The bill also makes changes to the statewide transportation plan, including: 1) an examination of the impact of transportation decisions on land use patterns, 2) the identifying highway segments to promote the development of dense, walkable, and mixed-use neighborhoods in transit-oriented centers, and 3) an emphasis on integrating planning efforts within CDOT to support multimodal transportation, neighborhood centers, and transit-oriented centers.

A bill that would repeal the severance tax exemption for oil and gas wells known as stripper wells, which produce on average less than 15 barrels of oil per day or 90,000 cubic feet or less per day of gas. Stripper wells are currently exempt from the state severance tax and this bill would repeal the stripper well severance tax exemption beginning in 2025.

The bill would require the Colorado Energy Office to solicit interest from local governments that are served by a dual-fuel utility in becoming a gas planning priority community. Once a local government expresses their interest, this would formally indicate their interest in working with the utility to mutually explore opportunities for neighborhood-scale alternatives projects. This project targets either decommissioning a portion of the gas distribution system or avoiding expanding the gas distribution system. The bill requires the utility to work with an approved community to identify neighborhood-scale alternatives projects in each community and then follow up with reporting on the implementation of any approved neighborhood-scale alternatives projects. The commission must allow the utility to recover costs incurred from the implementation of a neighborhood-scale alternatives project.

A bipartisan bill that eliminates the liquor-licensed drugstore license, specifies requirements for a retailer to display beer and wine in a single location, and prohibits beer and wine retailers from selling alcoholic beverages greater than 14%. In addition, the bill removes the cap on the amount of alcoholic beverages a retailer can purchase from retail liquor stores. Lastly, the bill outlines new constraints for the delivery of alcohol including, 1) prohibiting beer and wine retailers from delivering alcohol beverages to another person licensed to sell alcohol beverages and 2) removes the prohibition on a retail liquor store delivering alcohol beverages to another retail liquor store.

The bill mandates the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission to establish rules by May 31, 2025, for a state dredge and fill discharge authorization program, overseen by the Department of Public Health and Environment. These rules must focus on minimizing and compensating for the impacts of dredge and fill activities, aligning with federal Clean Water Act guidelines. The Division of Administration within the department will administer authorizations for activities involving dredged or fill material discharge into state waters. It will issue individual and general authorizations, with specific conditions to mitigate adverse effects. Compensatory mitigation is required for impacts exceeding specified thresholds. Until the rules are enacted, the division will enforce existing Clean Water Policy 17 and may issue temporary authorizations under certain conditions, with a maximum duration of two years. Certain activities are exempt from authorization, and the definition of "state waters" includes wetlands. Additionally, the bill extends requirements for informing relevant state bodies and submitting mitigation proposals to applicants seeking permits or authorizations for water diversion, delivery, or storage facilities requiring approval from the United States.

The bill expands the affordable housing tax credit by increasing the credit amounts that the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority may allocate to qualified taxpayers. The bill also accelerates the credit by requiring that a qualified taxpayer claim 70% of the total amount of the credit awarded by the Authority in the first year of the credit period and claim 6% of the total amount of the credit awarded by the Authority in each of the second through sixth years of the credit period.

The bill refers a ballot issue to the voters at the November 2024 statewide election to allow the state to keep and spend all revenue from the existing tax on the net proceeds of licensed sports betting (sports betting tax), including revenue in excess of the $29 million fiscal year estimate included in the 2019 ballot question as follows: All revenue from the sports betting tax up to $29 million annually, together with all revenue derived by the Division of Gaming in the Department of Revenue, will continue to be used to pay for the regulation of sports betting, to offset losses to other wagering revenue recipients, and to support responsible gaming, with any remaining money being transferred to the Water Plan Implementation Cash Fund; and all sports betting tax revenue over $29 million annually will be transferred to the Water Plan Implementation Cash Fund for water conservation and protection projects. If the majority of electors voting at the November 2024 statewide election vote against allowing the state to keep and spend all sports betting tax revenue as outlined above, then any tax revenue collected in excess of $29 million annually will be refunded to the licensed sports betting operations that paid the sports betting tax according to a reasonable method to be determined by the department of revenue.

The bill creates a refundable state income tax credit that an employer may claim if the employer employs an apprentice for at least six months during an income tax year and either has a registered apprenticeship program or is an employer-partner of a registered apprenticeship program. The tax credit offers up to $6,300 for 6 months of employment plus up to $1,050 for each consecutive additional month of employment, for a maximum of up to $12,600 per apprentice per income tax year.

The introduced bill makes modifications of the Regional Transportation District, including modifications to increase transit ridership and to promote district transparency and accountability. Other modifications include regional fixed guideway mass transit systems, changes to the current board, creating a transitional board from Jan. 1, 2025, through Jan. 31, 2026; the creation of a new board; district elections and procedures; additional modifications to the statutes governing the board; the creation of a 10-year strategic plan. This bill also requires the district to make its annual budget and other specified budget information available to the public on its website in a format that is easy to access, understand, and navigate. It will repeal the requirement that a person pay rent at fair market value for use of a transfer facility. It will require the department to establish a mass transit bus driver training program; establish the coordination between transit providers and metropolitan planning organizations to propose and implement fixed-route transit service plans; and it authorizes the department to use the money that was designated for the development of the Burnham Yard rail property and instead use it for site preparation, site enhancements, planning, and facilitating a track alignment that preserves buildable land while promoting transit and rail capacity and increasing safety in connection with the development of the Burnham Yard rail property.

The bill imposes a set of duties on each large hub airport in Colorado, which, as defined by federal law, only includes Denver International Airport, for accessibility-related functions. The airport shall monitor the completion and ongoing upkeep of compliance with the duties and functions according to the timelines established in the bill. An individual alleging damages resulting from a violation of the duties required by an airport may bring a civil suit against the airport and may seek a court order requiring compliance and any other remedy available under law.

Proposed in coordination with Colorado Counties Inc., this is a bi-partisan bill that grants local governments the authority to address community needs by establishing an incentive program to offer property tax credits or rebates to improve an area of specific local concern.

The bill allows local governments, specifically a board of county commissioners, to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the retail sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine products, including prohibiting the sale of any or all flavored cigarettes, flavored tobacco products, or flavored nicotine products.

This is a bipartisan bill from Senate leadership that adds several amendments to the Colorado Privacy Act to add enhanced protections when a minor's data is processed and there is a heightened risk of harm to the minor. This bill would apply to any Colorado business that controls consumer personal data (controller). A controller that offers an online service, product, or feature to a consumer that the controller either knows or willfully disregards is a minor is required to: 1) use reasonable care to avoid heightened risk of harm to minors, (2) conduct and review data protection assessment and maintain documentation regarding the assessment for a specific period, (3) unless the minor parent or legal guardian has consented, the controller is prohibited from processing a minor’s personal data for targeted advertising, selling personal data, or profiling the minor’s personal data, (4) controller is also prohibited from using a system design feature to prolong a minor’s use of the product or, 5) collecting a minor’s geolocation.

The bill creates the Colorado workforce demonstration grants pilot program in the office of economic development to provide grants to eligible workforce training providers in order to facilitate workforce training for eligible participants.

The bill establishes the Black Coloradan racial equity commission in the legislative department to conduct a study to determine, and make recommendations related to, any historical and ongoing effects of slavery and subsequent systemic racism on Black Coloradans that may be attributed to Colorado state practices, systems, and policies, and to identify measures that are consistent with the constitution to address those effects. The study includes historical research conducted by the state historical society, commonly known as History Colorado, and an economic analysis. At the conclusion of this study, the commission shall submit a report to the General Assembly and the governor about the study and make the report available on a publicly accessible webpage of the General Assembly's website. The report must include a description of the study's goals, the results of the historical research and economic analysis, and the commission's recommendations. After the commission submits the report, the commission shall work with any parties necessary to implement the recommendations in the report.

This bill would require the judicial department to collect, compile, and publish aggregate residential eviction data for all forcible entry and detainer action by county.

This bill adds new transparency requirements and deactivation procedures for transportation network companies (TNCs). The bill requires a TNC operating in the state to provide disclosures to the TNC's drivers regarding payments that a consumer makes to the TNC and the amount that the TNC then pays to a driver. The TNC must also develop a driver deactivation policy, describing the TNC’s procedures for deactivating a driver from the TNC’s digital platform and disclose that policy to its drivers. On a semiannual basis, the TNC would be required to disclose the division of labor standards and statistics to the department of labor and employment information regarding transportation tasks completed and deactivation of drivers. Violation of the bill would lead to fines imposed by the division of labor standards.

A bill that adds limitations to the use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAs). Current law prohibits the sale or distribution of class B firefighting foam that contains PFAS chemicals. This bill repeals an exemption, prohibiting the use of PFAs for gasoline distribution facilities, refineries, and chemical plants as well as certain outdoor apparel or installing artificial turf that contains intentionally added PFAS. The bill also adds several new goods to the existing product phase-out timeline which prohibits the distribution of products in certain categories on and after certain dates. These products include certain cleaning products, cookware, dental floss, menstruation products, ski wax and textiles that contain PFAS.

This is a bi-partisan bill that would allow data center operators to claim sales and use tax rebates in return for constructing data centers. Data center businesses or operators could claim a rebate for construction materials or data center equipment that is specifically for the construction or operation of the data center.

This bill requires a cost-effective analysis to be made ahead of proposing new energy efficiency standards on or after Jan. 1, 2026. The analysis would use the existing energy efficiency standards and requirements as a baseline comparison and assess whether the proposed economic benefits of the proposed energy efficiency standards would exceed the economic costs of those standards.

This bill introduces new measures to address ozone levels in areas that do not meet federal ozone national ambient air quality standards. This includes a voucher program for owners of high-emitter vehicles that have unsuccessfully attempted to have the vehicle repaired to cure the noncompliance, a garden rebate program to increase the use of small electric motors used for outdoor power equipment, as well as expand the existing clean fleet enterprise programs to include light duty trucks, authorize a grant program to acquire clean vehicles and require a prioritization of grants to local governments. Lastly, the bill also requires the division of administration in the department of public health and environment to regularly perform photochemical modeling studies and data analysis designed to determine ambient air ozone levels and the effectiveness of policies for lowering ambient air ozone levels.

This bill looks to make changes to certain aspects of the Construction Defect Action Reform Act. The proposed bill introduces a right to remedy option, in which condo owners and the contractors involved in the construction defects claim work bring in a neutral third party to resolve the matter by either doing remedial work or hiring another construction professional to perform the work before it is taken to court. In order to bring a claim, two-thirds of the actual owners of condominium units must provide their written consent. Under the act, claimants can only seek damages for 1) actual damage to real or personal property, 2) actual loss of the use of real or personal property, 3) bodily injury or wrongful death, and 4) a risk of bodily injury or death, thread to the life, health, or safety of the occupants.

A bill that adds disclaimers and administrative processes to the Construction Defect Action Reform Act (CDARA). This includes items such as stating that a construction professional is not vicariously liable for the acts or omissions of a licensed design professional for any construction defects and adding a list of requirements in order to obtain the majority approval of the unit owners before initiating a construction defect action.

The bill establishes the Stream and Wetlands Protection Commission within the Department of Natural Resources and mandates it to develop and manage a dredge-and-fill permit program for regulating the discharge of dredged or fill material into specified state waters. The program aims to ensure protections for state waters in alignment with federal Clean Water Act standards as of May 24, 2023. Additionally, a Stream and Wetlands Protection Division is created within the department to oversee the permit program's administration and enforcement. Until specific rules are implemented, the bill temporarily restricts the Department of Public Health and Environment's Water Quality Control Division from taking enforcement actions against activities involving the discharge of dredged or fill material into state waters, provided such activities maintain consistent protection of state waters akin to compliance with federal law before May 25, 2023. Penalties are established for violations of permits, rules, or enforcement orders under the program, with fines of up to $10,000 per day per violation. Furthermore, the bill directs a transfer of $600,000 from the Severance Tax Operational Fund to the Capital Construction Fund on July 1, 2024, to facilitate the bill's implementation.

This bipartisan bill concerns raising the limits on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions. Existing law limits the amount recoverable for noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions to $300,000. Starting Jan. 1, 2025, the bill incrementally increases the noneconomic damages limitation to $500,000 over five years.

The introduced bill prohibits a person from operating or expanding certain units that combust municipal solid waste and specifies exemptions to the prohibition. The bill also clarifies that combustion and combustion units do not meet certain standards established by state law or rules and changes current law to provide that synthetic gas produced by the pyrolysis of waste materials is not an eligible energy resource for the purpose of certain state-level renewable energy standards. Lastly, the bill also changes current law to specify that methane derived from the pyrolysis of municipal solid waste is not recovered methane that is a clean heat resource for clean heat plans.

The bill creates the "Colorado College Preparation and Enrichment Program" in the Department of Higher Education, to be administered by the office of educational equity. The program's purpose is to create partnerships between local education providers (K-12 schools) and institutions of higher education (IHE). The program's goals are to increase the number of students who graduate from high school, matriculate to an IHE, and ultimately graduate from an IHE.

The bill would prohibit issuing new oil and gas permits after January 2030 and would add certain conditions to any permit that is issued after July 2024 to end certain operations of the well before December 2032. In addition to this, if the energy and carbon management commission determines the operations of a certain oil & gas well are adversely impacting the environment, the commission can issue an order requiring the responsible party to mitigate their impact. Noncompliance will result in the commission suing the impacting party.

A bill that includes a multitude of new emission standards and requirements for diesel-fueled automobiles as well as facilities or buildings that generate air pollutants within the eight-hour ozone Denver/Front Range nonattainment area. The bill also redefines ozone season as the period between May 1 and Sept. 30. Beginning in 2025, oil and gas activity must pause during the ozone season within the nonattainment area. Moving forward, oil and gas operators must prepare several new reports including an inventory report that includes the emissions of certain air pollutants from their operations and a report estimating emissions of nitrogen oxides from the oil and gas operations in the nonattainment area. This report will be used to develop a nitrogen oxide emissions budget to set certain emission level maximums. Lastly, the bill also requires the department of transportation to establish vehicle miles traveled reduction targets for the nonattainment area and to develop policies and programs to assist metropolitan planning organizations to help meet targets.

A bill that increases the enforcement of violations that impact the environment. This includes establishing definitions for a “repeat violator,” a person that, in a three-year period, has committed five or more violations of certain air quality laws and a “high priority repeat violator,” which is defined as a repeat violator that, in a three-year period, has committed five or more exceedances of the allowable emissions of an air pollutant in a permit. The bill increases the penalties the division of administration in the department of public health and environment must issue for repeat violations from a warning letter or advisory to an order of compliance. The order must assess civil penalties and/or must require a high priority repeat violator to submit a root cause analysis for their violation. In addition, the division of administration may assess civil penalties for air quality violations without going through the district courts. The bill increases the civil penalty minimums for violations by repeat violators under state air quality laws, with specific increases for violations in a disproportionally impacted community. The bill also allows a person to file a civil action against an alleged violator of air quality laws. Current law provides that a person that violates a local government's air quality regulations is subject to a maximum civil penalty of $300. The proposal raises the maximum civil penalty to the amount provided by state air quality laws and requires a defendant to award the prevailing plaintiff any cost of litigation.

The bill requires the executive director of the Department of Local Affairs to develop reasonable methodologies for conducting statewide, regional, and local housing needs assessments and reasonable guidance for a local government to identify areas at elevated risk of displacement. The bill also requires the director to conduct and publish several different types of housing reports including a statewide housing needs assessment, a report identifying current housing stock and estimating statewide needs, and several directories detailing different components of housing and land use strategies. In addition, the bill requires a local government with a population of 1,000 people or more to make an annual housing action plan, which is an advisory document that demonstrates a local government’s commitment to address housing needs, guiding legislative action. Lastly, the bill also sets up a $15 million dollar grant program to provide technical assistance to aid local governments in establishing regional entities, creating local and regional housing needs assessments, making the housing action plan, enacting laws and policies that encourage the development of housing that mitigate displacement, and creating strategic growth in master plans.

The bill creates the Colorado alcohol impact and recovery enterprise and board in the department of revenue to 1) collect a fee from manufacturers and wholesalers that distribute alcohol within Colorado; and 2) use the fee for alcohol and related substance use disorder prevention and recovery services/programs throughout the state. The bill would exempt small manufacturers and wholesale distributors of alcohol based on production and distribution level. The bill also requires the state auditor to conduct an audit of the enterprise in the 2030-31 state fiscal year and every fourth fiscal year going forward.

A bill that seeks to build and fund multimodal surface transportation infrastructure projects, including rail projects. This includes imposing a “congestion impact” fee in maximum amounts of $3 per day on short-term rental vehicles or $2 per day on electric or hybrid electric vehicles. As a part of this effort, the bill specifies that the Regional Transportation District (RTD) extend construction and operations of its northwest rail fixed guideway corridor to include an extension of the corridor to Fort Collins as the first phase of front range passenger rail service. The bill would require the transportation enterprise to develop a new multimodal strategic capital plan that aligns with the 10-year transportation plan of the Colorado department of transportation (CDOT) and statewide greenhouse gas pollution reduction goals as well as assess and leverage federal money made available to the state on an ongoing basis.

A bill that introduces new protections for unleased mineral interest owners in the pooling of mineral interests by the Colorado energy and carbon management commission. Currently, when two or more separately owned tracts are within an oil and gas drilling unit, current law allows the Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission to enter a pooling order, pooling the mineral interests of those tracts, for the development and operation of the oil and gas drilling unit. This bill introduces new administrative requirements in the application, execution, or protest of a pooling order.

The bill adds a provision to the procurement code that authorizes an applicable procurement official to select the most appropriate source selection method for a state procurement, even if a different source selection method is specified in statute. The new provision specifies that the procurement official has the discretion, if that official determines that the source selection method specified in statute is not the most appropriate source selection method for the procurement, to determine and use a different source selection method in the best interest of the state, given time requirements, financial considerations, and market conditions.

As introduced, the bill requires a developer of a high-risk artificial intelligence system to use reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination in the high-risk system. The developer of a general-purpose artificial intelligence model is required to create, maintain, and make available specified documentation for deployers who intend to integrate the general-purpose model into the deployer’s AI systems. Certain disclosures and information include: 1) enabling the deployers to understand the capabilities and limitations of the general purpose model; 2) disclosing the technical requirements for the general purpose model to be integrated into the deployers' artificial intelligence systems; 3) Disclosing the design specifications of, and training processes for, the general purpose model, including the training methodologies and techniques for the general purpose model; 4) Disclosing the key design choices for the general purpose model, including the rationale and assumptions made; 5) Disclosing what the general purpose model is designed to optimize for and the relevance of the different parameters, as applicable; and 6) providing a description of the data that was used for purposes of training, testing, and validation, as applicable. In addition, the bill requires the developer of an AI system that generates or manipulates synthetic digital content to ensure that 1) the outputs of the artificial intelligence system are marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as synthetic digital content and 2) are disclosed to a consumer that the synthetic digital content has been artificially generated or manipulated. The Attorney General and district attorneys have exclusive authority to enforce this bill – and violation of the proposed legislation will be considered an unfair or deceptive trade practice. The bill includes a right to cure before bringing an enforcement action for the first year.