Bills
2023 Legislative Session
SB23-019
Out-of-state Online Retail Vehicle Purchases
Sens. Kolker & Simpson, Representative Boesenecker
Concerning consumer protection for Coloradans purchasing vehicles from out-of-state online retailers.
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SB23-043
Continue School Access For Emergency Response Grant Program
Sens. Kolker & Van Winkle, Reps. Michaelson Janet & Catlin
Concerning continuation of the school access for emergency response grant program. Additional information on this bill can be found here
SB23-056
Compensatory Direct Distribution To PERA
Senator Kolker, Representative Bird
Concerning a requirement that the state make a direct distribution to the public employees' retirement association in addition to a previous additional direct distribution to fully recompense the association for the cancellation of the July 1, 2020, direct distribution.
Additional information on this bill can be found here​
SB23-070
Mandatory School Resource Officer Training
Senator Kolker
Concerning school resource officer training. Additional information on this bill can be found her
SB23-091
Access To Behavioral Health Services
Sens. Kolker & Gardner
Concerning access to behavioral health services for certain medicaid recipients who experience risk factors that influence health. Additional information on this bill can be found here
SB23-168
Gun Violence Victims' Access to Judicial System
Sens. Jaquez-Lewis & Kolker and Reps. Mabrey & Parenti
The bill repeals limitations on product liability actions against manufacturers of firearms and ammunition when there was a defect in the design or manufacture of a firearm or ammunition.
Read more here.
SB23-174
Access to Certain Behavioral Health Services
Sens. Kolker & Gardner
Requirements to provided certain services to Medicaid recipients under the age of 21. Additional information on this bill can be found here
HB23-1016
Temp Tax Credit For Public Service Retirees
Reps. Bird & Sirota
Concerning the creation of an income tax credit for qualifying retirees of Colorado public pensions.. Additional information on this bill can be found here
HB23-1064
Reps. Yulken & Young
Creates the "Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact," which is designed to make it easier for teachers from member states, especially active military members and eligible military spouses, to receive a teacher's license from other member states. Additional information on this bill can be found here
HB23-1106
Reps. Evans & Bird
Authorizes the board of the fire and police pension association to provide non-compounding cost of living adjustments. Additional information can be found here
HB23-1112
Rep. Bird
Increases the earned income tax credit that a resident individual can claim on their state income tax return from 25% to 38% of the federal credit claimed on the resident individual's federal income tax return. More information here
HB23-1130
Rep. Michaelson Jenet
Prohibits requiring a person to try more than one prescription drug prior to receiving coverage for the drug prescribed by the person's health-care provider. More information here
HB23-1156
Reps. Taggart & Young
Allows counties or municipalities to modernize the Public Airport Authority Act. More information here
HB23-1212
Reps. Hamrick & Lieder
Creates a navigator program to promote apprenticeships to high school students. More information here
HB23-1236
Reps. Young & Amabile
Charges the Behavioral Health Administration with overseeing the behavioral healthcare system in Colorado. More information here
HB23-1277
Reps. Marshall & Taggart
Changes how pass-through entities may elect to pay taxes, specifies how to report and account for adjustments to federal taxable income, and changes the due date for filing a C-corporation income tax return. More information here
2022 Legislative Session
SB22-006
Sales Tax Assistance For Small Businesses
Senators Kolker & Rodriguez, Representatives McLachlan & Snyder
Retailers with total taxable sales in the amount of $100,000 or less, for sales made in 2023, may retain 5.3 percent of the sales tax reported as compensation for the retailer's expenses incurred in collecting and remitting the tax (vendor fee).
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Additional information on this bill can be found here
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SB22-034
Business Filing Address And Name Fraud
Senators Kolker & Priola, Representative Bird
The bill creates a remediation process for a person whose business identity or personal identifying information has been used in the filing of documents with the Secretary of State without authority or for fraudulent activity.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB22-068
Provider Tool To View All-Payer Claims
Senators Rodriguez & Kolker, Representatives Lontine & Woog
The bill requires the All-Payer Claims Database administrator to implement a tool to facilitate the review of certain health claims reimbursement data that are included in the database.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB22-079
Dementia Training Requirements For Direct-Care Staff Of Specified Facilities
Senators Kolker & Ginal, Representative Young
The bill requires the Department of Public Health and Environment, with regard to nursing care facilities and assisted living residences, and the medical services board in the department of Health Care Policy and Financing, with regard to adult day care facilities, to adopt rules requiring these facilities to provide dementia training for staff providing direct-care services to clients and residents of the facilities.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB22-106
Conflict Of Interest In Public Behavioral Health
Senators Kolker & Sonnenberg, Representatives Michaelson Jenet & Rich
This bill requires the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) and the Department of Human Services (DHS) to require managed care entities, administrative service organizations, and managed service organizations that have 25 percent or more ownership by providers of behavioral health services to comply with specified conflict of interest policies to promote transparency and accountability.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB22-124
SALT Parity Act
Senators Kolker & Woodward, Representatives Ortiz & Van Winkle
The bill allows pass-through businesses to elect to retroactively pay their state income tax at the entity level, rather than the individual level, beginning in tax year 2018.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
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SB22-147
Behavioral Health Care Services For Children
Senators Kolker & Sonnenberg, Representatives Young & Pelton
The bill creates in the university of Colorado the Colorado pediatric psychiatry consultation and access program (CoPPCAP). The purpose of CoPPCAP is to support primary care providers in identifying and treating mild to moderate behavioral health conditions in children in primary care practices or school-based health centers.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB22-1001
Reduce Fees For Business Filings
Representatives Cutter & Sullivan, Senators Kolker & Petersen
The bill requires the reduction of new business registrations and annual business renewals fees for small businesses.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB22-1004
Driver License Fee Reduction
Representatives Ortiz & Young, Senators Kolker & Fields
The bill requires the state treasurer to transfer $3,900,000 from the general fund to the licensing services cash fund in order to avoid an increase in the driver license fee.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB22-1017
Increase Alcohol Beverage Excise Tax Exemption
Representatives Bird & Woog, Senators Kolker & Liston
The bill expands the current excise tax exemption for alcohol brought by an individual twenty one years of age or older into the state from another state or a foreign country.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB22-1023
Farm Close-out Exemption Exclude Motor Vehicles
Representative Benavidez, Senator Kolker
The bill excludes sales of vehicles subject to state registration requirements from the farm close-out sale tax exemption.
​A farm close-out sale, which is a farmer's or rancher's sale by auction or private treaty of all tangible personal property used in carrying on the farming or ranching operations, is exempt from the sales and use tax.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB22-1024
Sales & Use Tax Exemption For Public Schools Construction
Representatives Bird, Woog, Duran, Gray, Jodeh, Kipp, McCluskie, Mullica, Van Winkle, Senators Kolker, Hansen, Liston
Under current law, all sales of construction and building materials to contractors and subcontractors for use in the building, erection, alteration, or repair of structures, highways, roads, streets, and other public works are exempt from the sales and use tax levied by the state and certain local governments. Home rule cities continue to levy the tax on sales of construction and building materials within their jurisdiction. The bill extends the exemption to the sales and use tax levied by home rule cities on such materials for use in connection with the building, erection, alteration, or repair of a public school.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
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HB22-1025
Repeal Of Infrequently Used Tax Expenditures
Representative Benavidez, Senator Kolker
The bill eliminates several tax expenditures from the state’s insurance premium tax, income tax, sales and use tax, and liquor excise tax.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB22-1029
Compensatory Direct Distribution To PERA
Representatives Bird & Sandridge, Senators Kolker & Priola
The bill restores a suspended direct distribution payment of $225.0 million to the Public Employees' Retirement Association that was not made on July 1, 2020, due to pandemic-related budget cuts, plus an estimate of missed investment gains that would have accrued over two years.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB22-1109
On-demand Air Carrier Aircraft Sales Tax Exemption
Representatives Woog & Bird, Senators Kolker & Liston
For 7 years beginning on January 1, 2023, the bill creates a sales and use tax exemption for the sale, storage, use, or consumption of an aircraft used or purchased for use in interstate or intrastate commerce by an on-demand air carrier.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB22-1214
Behavioral Health Crisis Response System
Representatives Young & Pelton, Senator Kolker
The bill requires crisis system facilities and programs, including crisis walk-in centers and mobile crisis programs, to meet minimum standards to provide mental health and substance use disorder services. The bill clarifies that crisis system facilities and programs shall provide behavioral health services to individuals of any age experiencing a substance use disorder crisis.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB22-1243
School Security and School Behavioral Health Services Funding
Representatives Exum & Van Winkle, Senator Kolker
The bill creates a cash fund and appropriates money to three programs related to school safety and behavioral mental health.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HJR22-1011
Honoring Gold Star Families
Representatives Bernett & Geitner, Senators Kolker & Lundeen
Resolution to honor the pride and the pain of the parents, partners, children and siblings of our fallen heroes and recognize the families of these proud patriots with an expression of profound gratitude and respect.
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Additional information on this act can be found here.
2021 Legislative Session
HB21-1122
First Responder Interactions Persons With Disabilities
Representatives Froelich & Larson, Senator Kolker
This bill seeks to improve first responder interactions with people with disabilities. To do this, the legislation would create a task force to identify training and curriculum models that are effective in teaching first responders how to better communicate and understand these populations. This task force will then submit a report and generate new curriculum to be used statewide, ensuring the protection of both vulnerable communities and peace officers.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1130
Expand Transition Specialist Program
Representatives Bradfield & Michaelson Jenet, Senators Kolker & Gardner
The bill expands the community transition specialist program (program) by redefining "high-risk individual" to allow more individuals to access program services. The bill also expands facilities that can access program services.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1013
Division of Domestic Stock Insurer
Representatives Snyder & Van Winkle, Senator Kolker
Concerning the division of a domestic stock insurer into multiple resulting domestic stock insurers, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1168
Historically Underutilized Businesses Local Government Procurement
Representatives Bacon & Ricks, Senator Kolker
Concerning historically underutilized businesses in local government procurement.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1193
Consumer Protection Supplemental Restraint Systems
Representative Gray, Senators Kolker & Priola
The bill makes it a deceptive trade practice for a person to knowingly or intentionally manufacture, import, distribute, sell, offer for sale, install, or reinstall a device intended to replace a supplemental restraint system component if the device is:
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A counterfeit supplemental restraint system component;
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A nonfunctional airbag; or
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Any object in lieu of a supplemental restraint system component that was not designed in accordance with federal safety regulations for the make, model, and year of the vehicle in which it is or will be installed.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1198
Health-care Billing Requirements For Indigent Patients
Representative Jodeh, Senators Buckner & Kolker
Concerning health-care billing requirements for indigent patients receiving services not reimbursed through the Colorado indigent care program, and, in connection therewith, establishing procedures before initiating collections proceedings against a patient.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1264
Funds Workforce Development Increase Worker Skills
Representatives Sullivan & Young, Senators Kolker & Hisey
Concerning the allocation of state money for workforce development activities to increase the skills of Colorado workers, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1273
Colorado Department Of Education Report Concerning School Psychologists
Representative Cutter, Senator Kolker
The bill requires the department of education to prepare an annual report on the number of pupils enrolled in public schools in the state, and the total number of licensed school psychologists in the state and employed by a school district, a board of cooperative services, or the state charter school institute who are reported as full-time equivalent employees. The report must state the number of pupils and licensed and employed school psychologists in total for the state and disaggregated by school district, board of cooperative services, and the state charter school institute.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-019
Authorize Notices Of Valuation On Postcard
Representatives Tipper & Rich, Senators Kolker & Simpson
The bill allows assessors to mail abbreviated notices of valuation on a postcard for property tax purposes. The bill specifies the minimum information that must be included on the postcard.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-081
Measures To Prevent The Misuse Of Safe2Tell
Representative Michaelson Jenet, Senator Kolker
The bill allows the attorney general to disclose to law enforcement personnel any materials or information obtained through the implementation or operation of the safe2tell program (program) if the attorney general reasonably deems such disclosure necessary for the prevention of imminent physical harm or serious bodily injury to one or more persons.
The bill permits a court to issue a search warrant court order for production of records upon the request of a law enforcement agency, public safety agency, or district attorney, under seal, for program materials identifying a reporting party if the court, following an in camera review, determines probable cause exists that a reporting party to the program knowingly used the program in the commission of false reporting of an emergency and release of program materials is justified on balance in view of the probable violation and the program purpose of anonymity . The court may lift the sealing only on a motion of a district attorney upon showing of good cause following an in camera review of the information. If changes are filed against a person that rely on the information provided pursuant to the court order, the sealing order automatically expires and the information is subject to discovery obligations.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-092
Sunset Surgical Assistants And Surgical Technologists
Representatives Jodeh & Soper, Senators Kolker & Simpson
Concerning the continuation of the regulation of persons who assist surgeons, and, in connection therewith, implementing the recommendations contained in the 2020 sunset report by the department of regulatory agencies.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-096
Sunset Workers' Compensation Classification Appeals Board
Representative Bird, Senators Kolker & Priola
Concerning the continuation of the workers' compensation classification appeals board, and, in connection therewith, implementing recommendations contained in the 2020 sunset report by the department of regulatory agencies.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-128
Modification To Administration Of The Nursing Home Penalty Cash Fund
Representative Lontine, Senator Kolker
Concerning modifications to the administration of the nursing home penalty cash fund, and, in connection therewith, making and reducing appropriations.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-141
Statewide Internet Portal Authority Competitive Solicitation Method
Representatives Bernett & Baisley, Senators Kolker & Priola
The responsibilities of the statewide internet portal authority (SIPA) include developing the officially recognized statewide internet portal, entering into a contract with a statewide internet portal integrator for the development, support, maintenance, and enhancement of the equipment and systems used for the statewide internet portal, and providing appropriate administration and oversight of the statewide internet portal integrator. Current law specifies that SIPA may not enter into a contract with a statewide portal integrator unless the statewide portal integrator was chosen by the authority pursuant to a request for proposals.
The bill retains the requirement for a competitive solicitation for the contract with the statewide portal integrator, but authorizes competitive solicitation methods other than a request for proposals, including the invitation to negotiate.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-154
988 Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network
Representatives Cutter & Soper, Senators Kolker & Simpson
Concerning the implementation of the 988 national suicide prevention lifeline network in Colorado.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-239
2-1-1 Statewide Human Services Referral System
Representatives Amabile & Van Beber, Senators Kolker & Zenzinger
The bill expands the necessary human referral services authorized by the Colorado 2-1-1 collaborative (collaborative) to include necessary referrals for behavioral health services and other resources in the state for Coloradans, particularly for individuals who are unemployed, regardless of whether they receive benefits.
The bill requires the department of human services' office of behavioral health to contract with the collaborative to hire and train specialized personnel. The bill also requires the office of behavioral health to collaborate with the collaborative to engage in targeted marketing and outreach, and to ensure the marketing and outreach are targeted to traditionally underserved communities, such as immigrant, low-income, and communities of color.
The bill also requires the collaborative to coordinate with the department of labor and employment (department) to target, conduct outreach, and market to individuals who are unemployed, regardless of whether they receive benefits, and may need referrals for behavioral health services and other resources.
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Additional information on this bill can be found here.