Colorado Bills

HB09-1002.pdf

State Lottery Operations

Makes clarifying amendments to statutory provisions related to the duties and powers of the Colorado lottery commission (commission) and the state lottery division (division) related to the commission and division being designated as type 2 agencies under the state administrative procedure act.

HB09-1003.pdf

Authorized Carrier Veh Sales Tax Exempt

For a specified period, exempts from state sales and use tax the sales, leases, storage, and uses of authorized carrier vehicles.

HB09-1004.pdf

PACE Organizations Employ Physicians

Allows an organization providing a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE organization), as authorized under the “Colorado Medical Assistance Act”, to employ a physician as long as the PACE organization:

HB09-1005.pdf

Spec Improvement Dist In Special Dist

With specified requirements, grants a special district the authority to establish special improvement districts within the boundaries of the special district and levy special assessments on property specially benefited by such improvements.

HB09-1006.pdf

Sewer System Rate Users Outside Boundary

Requires cities or towns setting sewerage system rates for owners of property outside the boundaries of the city or town, if the owners comprise more than 50% of owners of property receiving the sewerage system service, to base the rates on the actual cost of providing the service. Prohibits cities or towns from imposing arbitrarily higher sewerage system rates on owners of property located outside of the city or town or from discriminating against such owners solely on the basis of the location of their properties. Requires a city or town to conduct a public hearing prior to fixing, changing, revising, or imposing a revised sewerage system rate on owners of property located outside the boundaries of the city or town. Allows certain persons affected by
sewerage system rates to challenge the rates in court.

HB09-1007.pdf

Domestic Violence Collaborative Mgmt

Requires a representative from the field of domestic violence to be a part of a local interagency oversight group in a collaborative
management program of multi-agency services provided to children and families, if such a person is available.

HB09-1008.pdf

State Employee Annual Leave Transfers

Expands the ability of employees in the state personnel system to transfer annual leave. Specifies that a recipient of an annual leave
transfer shall have exhausted all applicable paid leave, including any compensatory time.

HB09-1009.pdf

Require Public School Emergency Drills

Requires public elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools to conduct certain emergency safety drills beginning in the 2010-11 academic year.

HB09-1010.pdf

Expand Film Production In Colorado

Creates the Colorado office of film, television, and media (office) within the Colorado office of economic development. Specifies that the
office shall have a director and a staff to fulfill the mission of the office. Establishes the duties of the office. Creates the Colorado office of film, television, and media operational account cash fund, and specifies the purpose of the fund.
For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2009, but prior to January 1, 2014, establishes the Colorado film production tax
credit. Specifies that the office will allocate the credits by issuing credit certificates to production companies that produce films in Colorado. Specifies the maximum value of the credit. Limits the aggregate sum of credits allocated on an annual basis to a specified amount. Allows the credit to be carried forward to other income tax years for a maximum of
3 years. Establishes the transferability of the credit. Grants the department of revenue rule-making authority.

HB09-1011.pdf

DOC Headquarters Lease-purchase

Authorizes the state to enter into one or more lease-purchase agreements for development and construction of a building for offices for
the department of corrections.

HB09-1012.pdf

Incentives Wellness & Prevention Prog

Authorizes carriers providing individual and group health coverage plans in this state to offer incentives for covered persons and groups to participate in wellness and prevention programs (programs). Permits
those incentives to include premium discounts or rebates; modifications
to copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amounts; or a combination of those incentives.

HB09-1013.pdf

TIF Exception Emergency Services

Provides that, if the first property tax year in which the excess of any payment of property taxes is allocated and paid into a special fund in connection with tax increment financing by an urban renewal authority commences on or after a specified date, no portion of any revenues from such excess that are allocated to any special district providing emergency
services, including ambulance districts, fire protection districts, and certain metropolitan districts, shall be collected and paid into the special fund. In such cases, specifies that all revenues collected from the excess of any payment of property taxes shall be distributed to the special districts providing emergency services as if there were no requirement to
pay the excess into a special fund.

HB09-1014.pdf

Conservation Easement Oversight

Eliminates the cap on the amount of the fee paid to the division of real estate (division) by:
! An appraiser in connection with submitting an appraisal for review; and An entity that holds a conservation easement in connection with an application to be certified. Requires conservation easement holders to pay an annual fee to cover the costs of the division in reviewing appraisals of conservation easements and certifying entities that hold conservation easements. Authorizes the division to also accept and expend gifts, grants, and donations to cover such costs. Repeals the provision specifying that the certification of a conservation easement holder is effective for a 3-year
period.

HB09-1015.pdf

Conduct Of Primary Elections

Requires a designated election official, if there is not more than one candidate of a major political party who has been nominated for a
particular office on the primary election ballot, to cancel the primary election for that nomination and declare the candidate the party nominee
for that office at the general election.

HB09-1016.pdf

Driver’s License Temporary Presence

Authorizes a person who is domiciled in another state but is employed in Colorado to drive in Colorado on the person’s existing license. Authorizes a person who is lawfully present and employed in Colorado for no more than 180 days under a work visa or similar document to drive in Colorado on the person’s existing license.

HB09-1017.pdf

CWCB Water Efficiency Grant Fund

Gives the Colorado water conservation board (CWCB) the authority to spend moneys transferred from the operational account of the severance tax trust fund to the water efficiency grant program cash fund, which were encumbered in a prior fiscal year, and to allow such moneys to be carried forward into future fiscal years. Allows such moneys to be charged against the appropriation from the year in which the funds were originally encumbered. Gives the CWCB the authority to expend unspent moneys from the prior fiscal year that revert to the water efficiency grant program cash fund.

HB09-1018.pdf

SCORE System & HAVA Compliance

Removes obsolete language in statutory provisions implementing the statewide voter registration and election system for purposes of
compliance with the federal “Help America Vote Act” as follows:

HB09-1019.pdf

Cat Identification Law For Cities

Requires the owner of a cat that is 4 months or older to ensure that the cat has a form of identification on or in its body. Establishes forms of acceptable identification. Prohibits unauthorized persons from removing a cat’s identification. Permits a city to enforce the identification provisions. Requires revenue from fines related to violations of the identification provisions to be used by a city for animal-related purposes.

HB09-1020.pdf

Expedite Medical Program Reenrollment

Directs the department of health care policy and financing to establish a process for reenrollment in Medicaid and the children’s basic health plan both over the telephone and through the internet.

HB09-1021.pdf

Reauthorize Mentally Ill Offenders Study

Legislative Oversight Committee for the Continuing Examination of the Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness who are Involved in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Systems. Extends to 2015 the legislative oversight committee and task force for the continuing examination of the treatment of persons with mental illness who are involved in the criminal and juvenile justice systems.

HB09-1022.pdf

Recidivism Reduction Grant Program

HB09-1023.pdf

Blood Donations By Minors

Authorizes a minor who has attained at least 16 years of age to donate blood with the consent of the minor’s parents.

HB09-1024.pdf

Local Gov Audit Law Mod

Requires certain entities that are not otherwise subject to certain provisions of the Colorado local government audit law (audit law) to comply with certain additional reporting requirements specified in the audit law

HB09-1025.pdf

Report Hospital Infection Rates Criteria

Exempts ambulatory surgical centers and certified dialysis treatment centers from the requirement that an individual who collects data on hospital-acquired infection rates take a
test for the appropriate national certification for infection control and become certified within 6 months after the individual becomes eligible to
take the certification test.

HB09-1026.pdf

Low-power Self-propelled Vehicles

Replaces the current categories of self-propelled vehicles of “motor-driven cycle”,
“motorscooter”, and “motorized bicycle” with “motorcycle” and “low-power scooter”. Applies substantially similar requirements to such vehicles. Defines “low-power scooter” as a vehicle with less than 4 wheels, no manual clutch, and a power capacity not exceeding either 50cc or 4,476 watts. Conforms the definitions of “motorcycle” and “toy vehicle” to categorize the vehicles.

HB09-1027.pdf

Yield To Transit Bus Entering Traffic

Requires drivers of vehicles behind a transit bus to yield the right-of-way to the bus if:
The driver of the transit bus, after stopping to allow passengers to board or exit, is signaling an intention to enter a traffic lane; and
A yield sign on the back of the transit bus is illuminated when the driver of the bus is attempting to enter a traffic lane.

HB09-1028.pdf

CO Indigent Care Accountability Board

Creates an accountability board (board)
in the department of health care policy and financing (state department) to review grievances concerning the administration of the Colorado indigent care program (program) and the medical services provided under
the program.

HB09-1029.pdf

Mobile Machinery Vehicle Registration

Designates every item of mobile machinery and self-propelled construction equipment operated in interstate commerce as Class A personal property for purposes of imposing graduated annual specific ownership tax.

HB09-1030.pdf

FPPA Pension Plan IRS Qualification

Requires old hire pension plans to meet the qualification requirements that apply to governmental plans established by the internal revenue code.

HB09-1031.pdf

State Match For Emergency Fire Fund

For the 2009-10 fiscal year and for each succeeding fiscal year, requires the state to make an appropriation from the general fund to the Colorado state forest service in an amount equal to the total amount of voluntary contributions made during the prior fiscal year to the emergency fire fund (fund), which is funded by voluntary contributions.

HB09-1032.pdf

Photo ID For Controlled Prescriptions

Directs a pharmacist to require a photo identification from a person seeking to fill a prescription for a schedule II through IV controlled substance.

HB09-1033.pdf

Regulation Of Flight Schools

Exempts flight schools that are approved and regulated by the federal aviation administration from statutory provisions concerning private occupational schools.

HB09-1034.pdf

Allow Regl Transp Auth Property Taxes

Subject to voter approval as required by section 20 of article X of the state constitution (TABOR), authorizes a regional transportation authority (authority) to impose a uniform mill levy of up to a specified number of mills on all taxable property within its territory. Specifies that this authorization does not affect the existing power of an authority to establish local improvement districts and impose special assessments. Repeals the authorization as of a specified date.

HB09-1035.pdf

Clean Tech Med Device Tax Refund

Allows clean technology companies and medical device companies that are headquartered in Colorado and that employ 50 or fewer employees (clean technology and medical device companies) to receive refunds of state sales and use taxes paid on the sale, storage, use, or consumption of tangible personal property used in Colorado directly and
predominately in research and development of clean technology or medical devices during a calendar year (tax refunds).

HB09-1036.pdf

Registration Fee For POST Bd Cash Fund

Raises the registration fee that owners pay for every Class A, B, or C personal property item in order to increase the amount of money deposited to the peace officers standards and training board cash fund.

HB09-1037.pdf

Montrose County Reclassification

Reclassifies Montrose county from a Class C county to a Class B county for organizational and administrative purposes concerning county
courts.

HB09-1038.pdf

Oil Shale Severance Tax Exemption

Prior to January 1, 2021, exempts a portion of the production from a primary commercial oil shale facility, which is defined in law, from the
severance tax.

HB09-1039.pdf

In-state Tuition Military Veterans

Grants honorably discharged members of the armed forces, and their dependents, in-state tuition status.

HB09-1040.pdf

Unfunded Mandates On Local Governments

Directs the state auditor to submit an annual report to the local government committees of the house of representatives and the senate on
any legislation enacted in that year that imposes unfunded mandates on local governments. Specifies the contents of the report.

HB09-1041.pdf

Fire Protection District Board Authority

Allows the board of any fire protection district to fix and from time to time increase or decrease fees for extrication, rescue, or safety services
provided in furtherance of ambulance or emergency medical services. Specifies what is included in extrication, rescue, or safety services.

HB09-1042.pdf

Slow Motor Vehicle Impeding Traffic

Prohibits a person driving a motor vehicle from impeding the flow of more than 5 motor vehicles following immediately behind. Requires an impeder to drive in the right-hand lane or pull off the road and let the others pass where pulling off is safe and lawful.

HB09-1043.pdf

Make-A-Wish Foundation Of CO Checkoff

Creates the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado fund (fund) in the state treasury. For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2009, but before January 1, 2012, requires a voluntary contribution designation line for the fund to appear on state individual income tax.

HB09-1044.pdf

Sealing Of Direct File Records

Allows a juvenile who is charged as an adult by the direct filing of charges in district court, but sentenced as a juvenile, to be eligible to petition the court for the expungement of his or her record.

HB09-1045.pdf

September 11th Optional State Holiday

Recognizes the eleventh day in September (September 11) as an optional state holiday. Permits a state agency to allow an employee to
substitute September 11 for another legal holiday, but requires the state agency to remain open on September 11. Specifies that the total number of holidays in a state fiscal year is not changed by the act.

HB09-1046.pdf

Dept Of Ed Assessments Pilot Program

Clarifies that a vendor that participates in the postsecondary and workforce readiness assessments pilot program (pilot program) shall
provide to the department of education (department) information concerning administration of the vendor’s assessments in Colorado. Removes the restriction that a local education provider participating in the pilot program (participating LEP) will assess students only in spring semesters.

HB09-1047.pdf

Alternative Therapies For Medicaid

Establishes a pilot program to provide chiropractic care, massage therapy, and acupuncture to an eligible person with a spinal cord injury (pilot program). Specifies criteria for identifying eligible persons. Directs the medical services board to adopt rules to administer the pilot program, including defining complementary and alternative therapies.

HB09-1048.pdf

Boards Affecting Persons With Disability

Requires a board or commission in state government that has as its primary purpose the creation, implementation, or modification of a
program that impacts persons with disabilities to include in its voting membership a person with a disability, a family member of a person with a disability, a member of an advocacy group for persons with disabilities, or any combination thereof.

HB09-1049.pdf

No Plea Bargain Illegal Alien

Prohibits a trial judge from accepting a plea of guilty from a defendant who is illegally present in the country if the result of the plea would be to permit the defendant to avoid removal from this country.

HB09-1050.pdf

CO Easter Seals Fund Checkoff

Changes the name of the Colorado Easter Seals fund to the Easter Seals Colorado disability fund.