State Legislation

This bill has three sections. Section 1 of the bill changes the date on which Energy Outreach Colorado disburses to the Department of Human Services a portion of the energy assistance system benefit charges that investor-owned electric and gas utilities collect from Jan. 1, 2022, to March 1, 2023. Section 2 requires the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to adopt rules prohibiting electric and gas utilities from disconnecting a customer's service and alters requirements on requests for reconnection of service. Section 3 establishes three income standards for determining a household’s eligibility for federal utility assistance and clarifies that the PUC may approve a year-round utility preference or advantage given to income-eligible customers.

This bill would offer employers an income tax credit when they provide alternative transportation options for their employees. The refundable tax credit would replace an existing income tax deduction and cover 50% of an employers’ expenses for providing alternative transportation options. It would be available for the tax years covering Jan. 1, 2023, to Dec. 31, 2033.

Currently, the small retailer exception to the sales tax destination sourcing rules will be repealed Feb. 1, 2022. This bill extends the repeal and allows small retailers with less than $100,000 in retail sales to source their sales to the business’ location regardless of where the purchaser receives the product until Oct. 1, 2022. 

This bill requires the Department of Revenue to examine the forms required to qualify for the sales and use tax exemption. They must also simplify the forms when possible, as well as the requirements related to their use.

This bill extends the affordable housing tax credit for another 10 years after it’s set to expire in 2024, and it increases the allocation from $10 million annually to $15 million annually from 2023 to 2034.

This bill makes changes to the Accelerating Students Through Concurrent Enrollment Program (ASCENT), including removing the limit on the number of participants in the program, reducing the number of postsecondary credits a student must have completed to be eligible to participate in ASCENT, and removing the requirements that a student repay a provider if they fail to complete or fail a course. Lastly, it directs the Colorado Department of Education to distribute an additional 3% of the per-pupil extended high school funding amount to providers to help pay for non-tuition expenses.

The workforce diploma pilot program was established in 2019 and is scheduled to repeal on July 1. This program provides financial incentives for eligible providers who support adults in obtaining a high school diploma and other credentials. This is a three-year pilot, and in its second year of the pilot program (2020-2021), the legislature appropriated $200,000 for reimbursement payments to qualified providers. The bill continues the pilot program indefinitely as the workforce diploma program. The bill requires the Department of Education to annually adjust the amounts paid to qualified providers in accordance with the corresponding percentage change in the consumer price index.

This bill creates the Microgrids for Community Resilience Grant Program, allowing cooperative electric associations or municipally owned utilities in eligible rural communities to apply for funds to finance the purchase of microgrid resources. Communities within the utility's service territory are eligible if they have significant risk of severe weather or natural disasters, and if they contain one or more community anchor institutions, such as a school, library or hospital.

This bill permits class action lawsuits under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.

This bill requires an investigation into what barriers exist for licensing, certification and registration of individuals with a criminal history, and it limits the ability for a regulator to deny a certification due to someone’s criminal history. It also provides more protections to people with criminal histories when applying for a license, certification, permit or registration, and requires guidelines for state and local agencies should they deny any of these certifications for reasons of criminal history.

This bill would require that online marketplaces collect, verify and disclose information about third-party sellers using their platform. Consumers would have access to information such as the full name, physical address and supplier information of the third-party seller. This bill would also require online marketplaces to create a reporting mechanism for consumers to report suspicious marketplace activity.

This bill prohibits an employer from taking adverse action against an employee or an applicant based on the employee’s or applicant’s COVID-19 immunization status. It allows an aggrieved employee or applicant to file a civil action lawsuit if the employer acted with malice or has repeatedly violated the law. The bill also specifies that the state cannot require any individual to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine, and a person cannot be discriminated against for their vaccination status.

This bill extends the current law requiring injured employees to notify their employer within four days after occurrence to 14 days and repeals the current tolling and compensation reduction provisions. The bill amends the notice of requiring an employer to post in the workplace to requiring the notice to state the name and contact information of the insurer.

This bill establishes penalties, procedures and limitations regarding any individual who defrauds the state, a county or a municipality. Any such individual is subject to a civil penalty as established by the federal False Claims Act and is liable for additional damages to the defrauded entity and other attorney fees or costs.

Senate Bill 20-205 (Sick Leave For Employees) included an exception for employers with fewer than 16 employees, but the exception expired on Jan. 1. This bill recreates this exception to apply in perpetuity.

This bill creates an income tax credit for employers that develop clean commuting plans. It requires the executive director of the Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Colorado Energy Office and metropolitan planning organizations, to create an annual commuter survey for employers to determine how their employees commute to and from work. The bill also creates certain clean commute-related mandates for companies with 100 or more employees.

This bill requires an employer or a state agency that imposes a COVID-19 vaccine or testing requirement to allow a person subject to the requirement to instead provide documentation demonstrating that the person has naturally acquired immunity to the disease.

This bill encourages investments in the Colorado advanced industry sector by extending an existing state income tax credit for an additional five years, increasing the annual maximum amount of tax credit from $750,000 to $4 million and broadening the tax credit from 30% to 35% of a qualified investment in rural or economically distressed areas.

This bill prohibits an employer from taking adverse action against an employee who uses retail or medical marijuana off the premises during nonworking hours or medical marijuana on the premises during working hours. Employers are permitted restrictions in the case of bona fide occupational requirements or to avoid a conflict of interest with employee responsibilities.

This bill requires that health care facilities such as hospitals, nursing care facilities and assisted living residences permit patients and residents in the facility to receive visitors to the fullest extent permitted under applicable state laws or local ordinances. If circumstances require the complete closure of a facility to visitors, the facility is required to use its best efforts to develop alternate visitation protocols that would allow visitation to the greatest extent and as safely as possible.

This bill requires an employer that imposes a COVID-19 vaccine requirement to allow employee exemption if the employee submits a written request stating that compliance with the vaccine requirement would endanger the employee’s or their household member’s health and well-being, or it would violate the employee’s sincerely held religious beliefs. If an employee is terminated for failing to comply with the COVID-19 requirement, they are not disqualified from eligibility for unemployment benefits.

This bill allows individuals who are required to receive an immunization to claim an exemption from the requirement if the immunization has not been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has only received emergency use authorization, the manufacturer is not liable for injury or death caused by the immunization, or pivotal clinical trial the FDA relied on for approval did not evaluate the immunization’s safety for at least one year after it was first administered. The bill also requires the Department of Public Health and Environment to post on its website the criteria for immunization exemption and any diseases, risks or injuries caused by the immunization.

This bill adopts the model from the Uniform Law Commission regarding nondisclosure agreements, noncompete employment clauses and other employment restrictions. While Colorado already has some of the strictest laws on this topic, this bill would broadly make such agreements very difficult to impose or enforce.

This bill places electric vehicle standards on commercial buildings and multifamily residences by requiring electric vehicle charging stations for at least 10% of their parking spaces if the building is 25,000 square feet or more. It also requires contractors to provide electric efficiency options when constructing certain buildings.

This bill expands the definition of “service provider” in the Employment Support and Job Retention Program to include faith-based organizations, neighborhood organizations, food banks and other organizations that provide employment to members of the community. The bill allocates $500,000 annually to the Employee Support and Job Retention Program, removes the requirement that it be appropriated annually and extends the program indefinitely.

The bill creates a new program to regulate a subset of air pollutants, referred to as "toxic air contaminants", which are defined as hazardous air pollutants, covered air toxics and all other air pollutants that the air quality control commission designates by rule as a toxic air contaminant based on its adverse health effects. In implementing the program, the commission has the authority to adopt rules that are more stringent than the corresponding requirements of the federal "Clean Air Act". The bill also sets specified new deadlines and requirements that relate to new reporting and rules around toxic air contaminants.

This bill eliminates the provision under current law that a defendant be awarded attorney fees in tort actions if the court grants the defendant’s motion to dismiss prior to trial.

This bill allows money to be deposited or invested with credit unions insured by the National Credit Union Association and not just those insured by the Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation. It authorizes credit unions to make loans to public entities, and it permits the state financial services commissioner to assess each credit union for the cost of monitoring compliance. It also allows public entities to use federally insured credit unions to deposit money.

This bill creates the innovative housing incentive program and enables businesses that manufacture housing stock to apply. The program awards grants based on certain criteria, such as affordability, location within the state and energy efficiency. Funds may also be awarded for building manufacturing facilities. The bill appropriates $40 million to the fund to encourage housing manufacturers to develop affordable housing stock.

This bill prohibits hospitals from collecting debts accrued by patients during periods when the hospital was not in compliance with federal hospital price transparency laws. The bill does not prevent hospitals from billing a patient or health insurer for services rendered or requires hospitals to refund payments to patients. Any hospital that pursues debt collection against a patient is subject to be penalized up to the amount of the debt plus attorney fees and costs. The bill also makes debt collection against patients during times of non-compliance an unfair practice under the Colorado Fair Debt Collections Act and allows the department of public health and environment to consider this during license renewal.

This bill amends the Mobile Home Park Act and the Mobile Home Park Act Dispute Resolution and Enforcement Program. This bill prohibits a landlord from increasing rent greater the rate of inflation or 3% over any 12-month period for mobile homes. It also requires landlords to repair a mobile home that incurs damage as a result of the landlord’s failure to maintain the premises, clarifies the disclosure responsibilities of a landlord with intent to sell a park, and mandates that public entities representing mobile homeowners have a right of first refusal to purchase a park.

This bill makes daylight savings time the year-round standard time in Colorado, but only if federal law is passed allowing states to adopt daylight savings time year-round.

This bill creates two grant programs: the local investments in transformational affordable housing grant program and the infrastructure and strong communities grant program. The affordable housing grant program provides grants to nonprofits for investment in affordable housing in their communities. The strong communities grant program provides local governments money to complete infill infrastructure projects to encourage affordable housing development.

This bill reduces the amount employers pay into the state paid family and medical leave program. Starting Jan. 1, 2023 through June 30, 2023, employers would pay eighty-one hundredths of 1% of wages per employee instead of nine-tenths of 1% currently. The bill also transfers $57.5 million from the general fund into the family and medical leave insurance fund.

The federal Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 established qualified distributions from a qualified state tuition program to include expenses for apprentices in apprenticeship programs. This bill clarifies what is a qualified distribution from a 529 account regarding state income tax to include expenses for fees, books, supplies and equipment.

The bill requires the Division of Insurance in the Department of Regulatory Agencies to create, implement, and evaluate standards around the use of valued-based payments in the health insurance system.

This bill changes criminal penalties for fentanyl possession and possession with intent to distribute; requires that, for certain offenses, the court order placement in a residential addiction treatment facility; expands the list of eligible entities that can receive Narcan & fentanyl testing strips to include libraries, colleges, community centers and more; charges the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to develop and implement a statewide fentanyl prevention and education campaign; and expands the list of entities eligible for harm reduction grants.

This bill allows the department of regulatory agencies to employ licensed or unlicensed workers with substantial work experience in the electrical, plumbing, or construction industry to conduct compliance checks to ensure compliance with licensing and supervisor-to-apprentice ratios relating to electricians and to provide other compliance checks as seen necessary.

This bill regulates the disclosure of certain chemical information that is used in downhole oil and gas operations in conjunction with a chemical disclosure website that is required by the oil and gas conservation commission to report chemical information to the public. This bill also requires manufacturers that sell and distribute any chemical products with the purpose of underground oil and gas operations within the state of Colorado to report the chemical information to the commission. Any perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl chemicals intentionally added to the chemical product must be reported to the commission by the operator. Prior to any downhole operations, the operator is required to report the chemical disclosure list to the communities near the operation, local public water administrators, and the division of parks and wildlife.

This bill creates the regional talent development initiative grant program in the Office of Economic Development. This grant program funds talent development initiatives statewide to meet regional labor market and workforce development needs, including recovery needs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. This bill establishes a steering committee to support the administration of the program.

This bill requires the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to select a third-party nonprofit to implement and manage a recycling program that services covered entities in the state. The third-party nonprofit’s services would be paid for through dues collected from producers of products that use covered materials. The use of covered materials, such as packaging materials and paper products, would be prohibited effective July 1, 2025 for producers not participating in the program.

This bill would reclassify motor vehicle insurance and homeowner's insurance to type I insurance, thereby changing the regulatory structure and authorizing the commissioner of insurance to approve or deny requests for rate increases.

This bill requires the Colorado energy office to adopt three sets of model code language: model electric and solar ready code; model low energy and carbon code; and model green code language. Municipalities, counties, the Office of the State Architect and the Division of Fire Prevention and Control must adopt and enforce an energy code that will achieve equivalent or better energy performance than the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code. This bill further creates two primary grants for public buildings to adopt high efficiency electric heating and neighborhoods to adopt electric heating appliances. The bill also transfers $25 million from the general fund to energy, clean air and clean heating.

This bill modifies statues around special district governance to increase taxpayer oversight. Modifications include new required financial filings for special districts to the Department of Local Affairs, reporting requirements to public websites for service plans, specifications for information included in financial planning documents, and clarifications around the powers of the board of directors for any metropolitan district. This bill also limits the contracts a metropolitan district can enter relating to covenant enforcement and design services.

This bill establishes a number of new programs for students, such as a grant program in the department of education for local education providers to improve administrative training and to support students and families in developing career and education plans after high school; creates workforce coordinators in the department of education to train educators concerning financial aspects of postsecondary options; updates the financial literacy resource bank; and creates stipends for teachers who successfully complete financial aid training.

This bill modifies employment discrimination laws by expanding the definition of “employee” to include those working in domestic service, extending the time limit to file discrimination charges from six months to 300 days, and changes age discrimination cases so that claims in all employment discrimination cases are consistent.

This bill requires each health insurance carrier that offers an individual or small group plan to offer at least 25% of its plan on the health benefit exchange. It also prohibits the modification of the prescription drug formulary during the current formulary plan. The bill repeals and reenacts step therapy requirements. It requires each insurer to demonstrate to the division of insurance that 100% of rebates received are used to lower costs for the employer or individual purchasing the plan and reduce out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs.

The bill connects Coloradans experiencing homelessness with services, treatment and the housing support grant program, administered by the Division of Housing in the Department of Local Affairs. The grant program provides grants to local governments and nonprofit organizations to enable those entities to make investments and improvements in their communities or regions of the state to address and respond to the needs of people experiencing homelessness.

This bill requires every hospital to establish a nurse staffing committee by September 1, 2022. The committee is required to implement a nurse staffing plan and to track feedback and complaints from nurses and other staff. The bill requires hospitals to submit their plan to the department of public health and environment yearly, post the plan on their website and evaluate the plan quarterly. The bill prevents hospitals from staffing a unit unless the providers are properly trained in that assignment. Each hospital must report the baseline number of beds able to be staffed and its current bed capacity. If the staffed-bed capacity falls below 80%, the hospital is required to notify CDPHE and submit a plan to meet the requirement. The bill levies fines on hospitals who do not fulfill the requirements of staff-bed capacity, have a lack of vaccine availability onsite, and fail to include necessary testing capabilities at their sites.

This bill incentivizes a film production task force to study how performance-based film production in Colorado can become more effective. This bill would require any findings to be submitted to the Business Affairs and Labor committee and the Business, Labor, and Technology committee by January 1, 2023. Lastly, this bill would make a $2 million transfer from the general fund to the Colorado office of film, television, and media operational account cash fund.

This bill allows retailers who make $100,000 or less in taxable sales to retain 5.3% of their reported sales tax in 2023, an increase from the 4% currently allowed by law.

The bill creates a complaint process for an individual who claims that their business identity or personal identifying information was used fraudulently or without authority in online filing documents for the creation, organization and operations of the entity. The complaint will be submitted to the Secretary of State who may forward the complaint to the Attorney General for further investigation. Additionally, fraudulent filings will be considered unfair or deceptive trade practices under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act and are subject to enforcement by the Attorney General's Office.

This bill requires the Colorado Division of Insurance to retain a contractor on or before Nov. 1, to perform actuarial reviews of proposed legislation that may impose a new health benefit mandate on health benefit plans. Fiscal notes for any legislative proposal that may impose a mandate shall note premium impact information that is produced by the contractor during their review or indicate that no information was produced.

This bill clarifies the opportunities available to people imprisoned by the Department of Corrections and emphasizes that the rehabilitation and work opportunities available to offenders are to promote the person's successful rehabilitation, reentry and reintegration into the community.

This bill requires hospitals and nursing care facilities to allow patients receiving inpatient care to have at least one visitor of the patient’s choosing. It also restricts health care facilities from creating policies or procedures that prohibit visitors for the sole reason of reducing the risk of pandemic disease transmission, but facilities can impose specified restrictions and limitations for visitors to reduce the risk of transmission. Health care facilities must provide written policies and procedures that list and give reasons for restrictions and limitations.

The bill adds the Office of Saving People Money on Health Care, created within the Governor's Office by executive order, to the list of departments that are required to comply with the requirements of the State Measurement For Accountable, Responsive and Transparent (SMART) Government Act.

The bill entitles a first-party claimant in a property and casualty insurance claim to reimbursement for the reasonable costs incurred to substantiate the claim if the claim was denied, in whole or in part, by the insurer. The first-party claimant then obtains a payment for a claim that was wholly denied or a payment in excess of any initial payment for a claim that was partially denied.

This bill protects whistleblowers who raise a reasonable concern related to public health and safety, expanding existing whistleblower protections outside of declared public health emergencies. This extends temporary whistleblower protections related to public health and safety granted during a declared public health emergency to all times, regardless of whether an emergency is declared. 

This bill extends an existing provision of law regarding automatic sealing for certain drug offenses to other offenses, including civil infractions, that allow the defendant to petition the court for sealing criminal justice records that are not subject to the victims' rights act. The bill also streamlines the automatic record sealing process and makes it an unfair employment practice to discharge or refuse to promote a person based solely on the contents of a sealed criminal record and makes it an unfair housing practice to refuse to show, sell, transfer, rent or lease housing based on the contents of a sealed criminal record.

This bill clarifies the scope and meaning of landowner liability and explains that the decision established in Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, Inc. V. Wagner (Wagner) was improperly decided regarding landowner liability and the Colorado Premises Liability Act (CPLA). It advises courts that, when faced with similar facts in the context of a CPLA claim, they should set aside the Wagner analysis and apply the law as previously interpreted.

This bill makes the State and Local Tax (SALT) Parity Act that passed via HB21-1327 and enacted in 2021 retroactive to January 1, 2018.

The bill requires the Regional Air Quality Control Commission to include in a notice of proposed rule-making a description of who the proposed rule will affect, including businesses. If the proposal is an alternative proposal, as the commission defines by rule, the proposal must include an initial economic impact analysis of the proposed rule.

This bill implements protective measures for both pollinators and individuals by restricting the use of pesticides on school grounds, childcare facilities and children’s camps. If pesticides are being used at any of these locations, a notice must be sent to individuals in these locations. This bill also requires the executive director of natural resources to conduct a study to best address the pollinator decline and increase pollinator health in Colorado while also creating a pilot program under the Department of Agriculture to fund research and production of noncoated insecticide on crops.

This bill exempts the state of Colorado from observing daylight savings time and adopts the use of United States Mountain Standard Time (MST) year-round.

This bill extends the powers of citizens’ initiatives and referendums down to the electors of special districts. It also creates new disclosure requirements for special district board meetings and requires boards to terminate developer-affiliated positions should a resident submit a self-nomination form.

This bill contains multiple provisions related to greenhouse gas emissions. The bill requires insurance companies to assemble an annual report that includes a climate risk assessment for the company’s investment portfolio; requires the board of trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement Association to prepare a similar annual report; updates the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals to add a 40% reduction goal for 2028 and a 75% reduction goal for 2040 compared to 2005 GHG pollution levels; phases out the use of small off-road engines; gives the oil and gas conservation commission authority over class VI injection wells used for sequestration of GHG, including through the issuance and enforcement of permits; requires the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner’s designee, in consultation with the Colorado Energy Office and the Regional Air Quality Control Commission, to conduct a study examining carbon reduction and sequestration opportunities in the agricultural sector in the state, including the potential development of certified carbon offset programs or credit instruments; and authorizes the Colorado agriculture value-added development board to provide financing, including grants or loans, for agricultural research on the use of “agrivoltaics,” along with other provisions related to the colocation of solar energy generation facilities on a parcel of land with agricultural activities.

This bill requires multiple state agencies to support work-based experiential learning opportunities through programs that partner with businesses and colleges in Colorado. All the programs created by the bill have specific data collection requirements for reporting beginning in 2023 to the Department of Labor and Employment’s (CDLE) SMART Act hearings.

This bill establishes three new law enforcement grant programs within the Division of Criminal Justice in the Department of Public Safety to be used for crime prevention, law enforcement recruitment and law enforcement training.

This bill transfers $25 million to expand the middle-income access program through the department of local affairs. It is administered by the Colorado housing and finance authority.

This bill creates the transformational affordable housing revolving loan fund program, which provides flexible, low-interest, below-market rate loans to eligible recipients to encourage affordable housing development.

This bill changes the penalty for failure to provide requested information to the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics (DLSS) in the Department of Labor and Employment to $50 per day instead of a misdemeanor, requires employers to provide a former employee with notice within ten days before deducting any property the employee failed to return from their pay and pay the employee the withheld amount within 14 days after the property is returned, and pay two times the amount of the deduction if the employer does not provide required notice. The bill also repeals the requirement that an employee must dismiss charges against an employer if the employer pays the claim in full, and eliminates the authority of the court to award up to $7,500 in attorney fees to the employer, increases the threshold for wage claims from $7,500 to less than $15,000, allows the DLSS to notify other employees that the employer may be engaging in wage theft, and allows the authority to place a lien against a business’s property for unpaid wages.

The bill establishes the Procurement Equity Program within the Department of Administration and Personnel to begin implementing the findings of the state procurement disparity study. The bill directs DPA to engage in procurement bidding assistance for historically underutilized businesses. It also establishes a stakeholder process to review the findings of the disparity study and make recommendations to the legislature on addressing procurement equity.

This bill creates the industrial and manufacturing operations clean air grant program, which creates a fund of grant money to be awarded to private entities, local governments, and public-private partnerships for voluntary projects to reduce pollution from manufacturing and industrial plants. It also creates grant programs for local governments advancing the adoption of electric bicycles, for public and private entities decommissioning diesel trucks, and for school districts electrifying school buses.

The bill transfers $198.5 million from the General Fund to the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) Payment Cash Fund for Fiscal Year 2022-23 only.

The bill creates the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Cash Fund to be used by state and local governments for non-federal matching funds required to receive federal infrastructure funds under the Infrastructure Investment Jobs Act (IIJA).

This bill makes several appropriations from the economic recovery and relief cash fund to bolster the healthcare workforce, including: $2 million to establish the health-care resilience and retention program; $20 million to establish the practice-based health education grant program, which would increase training opportunities for health profession students; $26 million to assist community colleges and occupational boards to administer credentialling programs for rapidly expanding the short-term supply of in-demand professionals; $3 million to expand of the school nurse grant program; and $10 million to recruit and re-engage health care professionals with current or expired licenses. It also directs the Primary Care Office and the Governor’s Office of Information Technology to establish a data-sharing agreement to analyze the need and allocation of state-administered or state-financed workforce initiatives in healthcare, removes a limitation on payment for volunteer nurses, and requires the nurse-physician advisory task force to make a series of workforce recommendations.

This bill grants public employees of a county to organize, form, join and/or assist to engage in collective bargaining and communicate with other county employees and employee organization representatives to discuss and receive literature regarding employee organization issues. This bill requires counties to honor county employee authorizations for payroll deductions, sets forth the process of determining an appropriate bargaining unit, and requires the county and the exclusive representative to collectively bargain in good faith.

This bill creates the Colorado workforce housing trust authority and gives this body the ability to acquire, construct, rehabilitate, own, operate, and finance affordable rental workforce housing. This authority is governed by a board of directors and the board will solicit project proposals by October 1, 2022, for units that provide workforce housing.

This bill requires the State Treasurer to transfer $600 million from federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) dollars into a newly created fund that must be used to repay Colorado’s outstanding federal debt owed. This bill also makes changes to the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund such as codifying increases in partial unemployment benefits, repealing the minimum wait time for eligibility, requiring that one or more third-party administrators provide recovery benefits to eligible individuals, extending the hold on the employer’s solvency surcharge through 2023, and qualifying that those who are overpaid unemployment compensation benefits do not have to repay the division if the repayment would be inequitable.

This joint resolution asks state regulatory agencies such as the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to issue permits to increase Colorado oil and gas production for use at home and abroad.