APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
S.B. 00-21 Colorado bureau of investigation - fugitives. Expands the authority of the Colorado bureau of investigation to include the location and apprehension of fugitives from the law.
APPROVED by Governor April 12, 2000
EFFECTIVE April 12, 2000
S.B. 00-42 Colorado council for persons with disabilities - delayed codification - task force - appropriation. Creates a task force convened by the governor's office to examine the coordination and effectiveness of boards, councils, and commissions serving persons with disabilities and examine issues relating to the permanent creation of the Colorado council for persons with disabilities. Specifies the membership of the task force. Requires the task force to submit a report to the general assembly and the governor on or before January 1, 2001. Repeals the task force on July 1, 2001.
Effective July 1, 2001, creates a 20-member council for persons with disabilities in the office of the governor, the members of which shall be appointed by the governor. States that such council replaces the advisory council for persons with disabilities previously created by executive order. Requires that at least 7 members of the council represent state agencies and that the remainder represent the disabled community.
States that the council shall facilitate coordination among programs serving persons with disabilities, advise policy makers on policy for persons with disabilities, monitor compliance with federal law, and perform referral functions. Allows public members of the council to be reimbursed for expenses.
Imposes a $5 surcharge on the penalty assessment for unauthorized parking in a parking spot reserved for persons with disabilities. Directs that such surcharges be credited to the Colorado council for persons with disabilities fund.
Appropriates $15,000 to the office of the governor for allocation to the Colorado council for persons with disabilities. Adjusts the appropriation in the general appropriation act.
VETOED by Governor May 26, 2000
S.B. 00-44 State treasurer - technical assistance regarding management of government funds - limited liability - reimbursement of travel expenses. Authorizes the state treasurer, upon request, to provide technical assistance to any state or local governmental entity concerning the efficient management of the entity's public funds. Limits the treasurer's liability for any losses related to such technical assistance where the treasurer has performed the treasurer's duties in good faith and in conformity with state law governing the investment of public funds. Authorizes any state or local government receiving technical assistance to reimburse the treasurer for reasonable travel expenses.
APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
S.B. 00-62 Child care - criminal background checks - violent or sexual crimes - dissemination of results - authorized agencies - qualified entities - appropriation. Permits certain qualified entities to contact an authorized agency for the purposes of conducting criminal history records checks on persons responsible for providing child care or child care placement services. Requires the background check to search for convictions of certain crimes, including:
Designates the Colorado bureau of investigation as an authorized agency to conduct the background checks. Directs the executive director of the department of public safety to designate, by rule, those entities that are qualified entities and that may request background checks for child care workers. Designates the department of human services as an authorized agency to conduct the background checks for those entities regulated by the department. Directs the state board of human services to designate, by rule, those entities that are qualified entities and that may request background checks for child care workers.
Appropriates $84,635 ($14,235 from cash funds and $70,400 from cash funds exempt) to the department of public safety, Colorado bureau of investigation, for the implementation of the act.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2000
S.B. 00-71 Tobacco settlement moneys - guidelines for use - program review - Colorado nurse home visitor program - children's basic health plan trust - tobacco-related and tobacco-focused research grant program - tobacco education, prevention, and cessation grant program - read-to-achieve program - Colorado state veterans trust fund - comprehensive primary and preventive care grant program - attorney general duties - appropriation. Guidelines for use of tobacco settlement moneys: Requires specific authorization for any program that receives funding from the moneys received by the state pursuant to the tobacco litigation settlement agreement ("tobacco settlement moneys"). Recognizes local governments as potential recipients of tobacco settlement moneys. Earmarks a majority of the tobacco settlement moneys for public health programs, and specifies other uses for the moneys. On or before January 30, 2006, requires the joint budget committee and the health, environment, welfare, and institutions committees of the senate and the house of representatives jointly to review the use of tobacco settlement moneys. Specifies the issues to be reviewed. Requires the joint committees to make a legislative recommendation concerning the date of the next review, and allows the joint committees to make additional legislative recommendations concerning programs that receive tobacco settlement moneys.
Department oversight: Requires the department of public health and environment to monitor programs that receive appropriations from the tobacco settlement moneys. Requires each program to submit annually information concerning operation of the program. Instructs the department to prepare an annual report compiling the program information, program evaluations performed by the state auditor's office, and recommendations for funding for new and existing programs. Allocates to the department a percentage of the tobacco settlement moneys to offset the costs incurred in overseeing tobacco settlement programs.
State auditor's office: Requires the state auditor's office to perform or contract for the performance of program reviews and evaluations of each program that receives tobacco settlement moneys. Requires the state auditor's office to release an annual report of the programs reviewed. Instructs the state auditor's office to develop a review schedule to ensure that each program is reviewed at least once every 3 years. Allocates to the auditor's office a percentage of the tobacco settlement moneys to offset the costs incurred in overseeing tobacco settlement programs.
Tobacco settlement trust fund: Increases the amount allocated to the tobacco litigation settlement trust fund from 20% to 21% of the amount of tobacco settlement moneys received annually by the state. Requires the state treasurer to contract with a private, professional fund manager for the investment of moneys in the tobacco litigation settlement trust fund. Specifies the types of investments in which moneys in the tobacco litigation settlement trust fund may be invested.
Nurse home visitor program: Creates the nurse home visitor program to provide home health and education services to first-time, low-income mothers, with their consent, during their pregnancies and through their children's second birthdays. Clarifies that a woman may refuse services at any time. Instructs the president of the university of Colorado to identify a health sciences facility that will assist the department of public health and environment in implementing the program. Establishes procedures whereby entities may apply to the state board of health to administer the program in communities throughout the state. Specifies the minimum requirements for applications and program administration. Requires the state board of health to adopt rules to implement the program. Instructs the state board of health, based on recommendations from the health sciences facility, to select the entities that will administer the program and allocate grant moneys to the selected entities. Requires administering entities to submit annual reports on the effectiveness of the program. Requires the health sciences facility to submit to the department an annual report that compiles the reports submitted by the entities, evaluates the implementation of the program, and makes any recommendations for change deemed necessary by the health sciences facility. For fiscal year 2000-01, allocates to the nurse home visitor program 3% of the tobacco settlement moneys received by the state, not to exceed $3 million. For fiscal years 2001-02 through 2007-08, increases the amount allocated by 2% each year, not to exceed $2 million per year. For fiscal year 2008-09, and fiscal years thereafter, allocates to the nurse home visitor program 19% of the tobacco settlement moneys received by the state each year, not to exceed $19 million per year.
Colorado state veterans trust fund: Creates the Colorado state veterans trust fund ("veterans trust fund") to provide moneys for capital improvements or needed amenities for existing or future state veterans nursing homes and costs incurred by state veterans cemeteries and veterans outreach programs administered by the division of veterans affairs ("division"). Directs the general assembly to appropriate to the veterans trust fund one percent of the tobacco settlement moneys received by the state, not to exceed $1 million. Requires all of the funds credited to the veterans trust fund in fiscal year 2000-01 to be retained as principal. For fiscal year 2001-02 and fiscal years thereafter, requires 75% of the amount credited to the veterans trust fund to be retained as principal, and allows the board of veterans affairs to allocate the remaining 25% for specified purposes. Establishes the process for allocation of funds. Requires the board of veterans affairs to prepare an annual report and submit it to the department of public health and environment.
Children's basic health plan: Beginning in fiscal year 2000-01 and for each fiscal year thereafter, requires the general assembly to annually appropriate to the children's basic health plan trust $10 million from the tobacco settlement moneys. Effective January 1, 2001, directs the children's basic health plan policy board to add dental services to the schedule of services provided under the children's basic health plan if the board finds there are an adequate number of dentists willing to provide services and there are sufficient financial resources to fund the services.
Tobacco-and-substance-abuse-related research program: Directs the office of the president at the university of Colorado to establish a research grant program to support research efforts concerning tobacco use, substance abuse, mental health, and associated disease, illness, education, evaluation, cessation, and prevention. Specifies the duties of the office of the president in implementing the program. Instructs the governor to appoint a scientific advisory committee, and specifies the duties of the committee. Authorizes the program director to appoint peer review panels, and specifies the membership for such panels. Identifies the types of research that may be funded. For the first year, requires funding of evaluative research for the collection of baseline demographic data on tobacco use by persons within the state. Specifies the costs for which grantees may be reimbursed. Allows the office of the president to receive a portion of the amount appropriated to the research grant program for administrative costs. Creates the university of Colorado tobacco-and-substance-abuse-related research fund to be administered by the treasurer of the university of Colorado. Allocates annually to the tobacco-and-substance-abuse-related research fund 8% of the amount of tobacco settlement moneys received by the state, up to $8 million per year.
Tobacco education, prevention, and cessation programs: Creates a grant program to be administered by the department of public health and environment for funding of tobacco education, prevention, and cessation programs. Identifies the entities eligible to participate in the program, including local governments, state agencies, schools, school districts, certain higher education institutions, and any private nonprofit or not-for-profit community-based organization. Instructs the state board of health to adopt rules to implement the program, including application procedures, criteria for awarding grants, and reporting requirements for entities that receive grants. Instructs the state board to select those entities that will receive grants. Requires the state board to award at least one-third of the grant moneys to entities that provide tobacco and substance abuse education, prevention, and cessation programs to school-age children. Identifies minimum requirements for grant applications. Sets minimum reporting requirements. Instructs the department to review reports received from entities and make recommendations concerning continued funding. Creates the tobacco program fund. Allocates annually to the tobacco program fund 15% of the amount of tobacco settlement moneys received by the state, up to $15 million each year.
Read-to-achieve grant program: Creates the read-to-achieve grant program in the department of education under which schools may apply for grants to fund intensive reading programs for 2nd and 3rd grade students with low reading skills and students between 3rd and 4th grade with low reading skills. Creates the read-to-achieve board and specifies the membership. Instructs the board to review grant applications and make recommendations to the state board of education for grant awards. Specifies minimum requirements for grant applications and the criteria for awarding grants. Awards grants for up to 3 years that may be renewed unless the school fails to meet specified levels of improvement in students' reading skills. Directs the read-to-achieve board to adopt written guidelines for administration of the program. Creates the read-to-achieve fund. Allocates annually to the read-to-achieve fund 19% of the tobacco settlement moneys received by the state, up to $19 million per year.
Comprehensive primary and preventive care grant program: Establishes the comprehensive primary and preventive care grant program to make grants to entities that provide such care to persons regardless of their ability to pay. Specifies authorized and unauthorized uses of grant moneys. Directs the executive director of the department of health care policy and financing to appoint an advisory council, and specifies membership on the council. Directs the council to review grant applications and make recommendations to the department of health care policy and financing for the awarding of grants. Authorizes the department of health care policy and financing to develop procedures, criteria, and application forms for the grants and an audit procedure to ensure proper use of the grant moneys. Requires the department of health care policy and financing to submit an annual report to the department of public health and environment on the operation and effectiveness of the program. Requires each grant recipient to provide a yearly report to the department of health care policy and financing. Allocates annually to the comprehensive primary and preventive care grant program 6% of the tobacco settlement moneys received by the state, up to $6 million per year.
Enforcement of tobacco settlement agreement: Requires the state attorney general to oversee and enforce compliance with the tobacco settlement agreement. Allows the attorney general to use custodial funds recovered as costs and attorney fees under the tobacco settlement agreement to offset any costs incurred in overseeing and enforcing the tobacco settlement agreement.
Appropriation: For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, makes the following appropriations from the tobacco litigation settlement cash fund:
APPROVED by Governor May 18, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 18, 2000
S.B. 00-73 Federal mandates act - repeal. Repeals the "Federal Mandates Act", which at the present time:
APPROVED by Governor March 9, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
S.B. 00-74 Tobacco litigation defense account - creation - use of moneys - defense of state in tobacco settlement lawsuits. Creates the tobacco settlement defense account as an account within the tobacco litigation settlement cash fund. Authorizes use of the proceeds of the defense account by the department of law, subject to appropriation by the general assembly, to defend the state in lawsuits stemming from the tobacco litigation settlement, including challenges to the settlement or to laws enacted in conjunction with the settlement and claims of entitlement to tobacco litigation settlement moneys.
Includes in the tobacco settlement defense account moneys received by the attorney general and transmitted to the state treasurer before, on, or after May 23, 2000, to compensate the state for its attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses incurred in obtaining the tobacco litigation settlement, including any interest earned upon those moneys after transmission to the state treasurer. Requires the state treasurer to transfer those moneys received by the state to the tobacco settlement defense account. Retains all unexpended and unencumbered moneys in the tobacco settlement defense account at the end of each fiscal year in that account for use in defending the state in tobacco settlement-related lawsuits.
Declares that all moneys received by the state and credited to the tobacco settlement defense account within the tobacco litigation settlement cash fund are in settlement of the tobacco litigation, constitute damage awards, and are not included in state or local government fiscal year spending.
Subjects all tobacco settlement moneys received by the state, not just moneys received to compensate the state for attorney fees, court costs, and expenses, to appropriation by the general assembly if such moneys are noncustodial in nature. Authorizes state agencies to expend the settlement moneys, if considered custodial, upon written notification to the joint budget committee setting forth the purpose for the expenditure.
APPROVED by Governor May 23, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 23, 2000
S.B. 00-75 Moneys received by attorney general - subject to appropriation - exception for custodial moneys. Specifies that noncustodial moneys received by the attorney general on or after July 1, 2000, and paid to the department of the treasury shall be subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly. Requires placement of noncustodial moneys awarded as attorney fees and costs in a separate account and appropriation of the moneys to the department of law for legal services.
Defines "custodial moneys" as moneys from a source other than the state of Colorado that are provided for a particular purpose and for which the state is acting as a custodian or trustee. Requires the attorney general to direct the state treasurer in writing, within 30 days after the moneys are paid to the department of the treasury, to place custodial moneys received by the attorney general in a separate account. Specifies that such written direction shall set forth the basis for determining that the moneys are custodial. Requires a copy of the written direction to be delivered to the joint budget committee. Specifies that custodial moneys are not subject to appropriation but that they must be spent for the purposes for which they have been provided. Directs the department of law to include an accounting of custodial moneys with its annual budget requests.
APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 31, 2000
S.B. 00-77 P.O.S.T. board - certification - reciprocal agreements. Expands the definition of "peace officer, level Ia" to include the peace officers standards and training (P.O.S.T.) board staff director and investigators. Eliminates the ten-year, out-of-service window concerning certification renewal. Permits out-of-state and federal peace officers to participate in the provisional certificate process if they have been certified in another jurisdiction for at least the preceding 3 years and have served in good standing for over one year. Permits the P.O.S.T. board to make rules concerning basic certification criteria. Specifies that reciprocal law enforcement agreements between Colorado counties and municipalities and bordering states' counties and municipalities require any person assigned to law enforcement duty in Colorado to apply to the P.O.S.T. board for recognition.
APPROVED by Governor March 10, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 10, 2000
S.B. 00-84 Lottery - multistate lottery games - use of net proceeds - state public school fund - contingency reserve - appropriation - referred measure. Authorizes, contingent upon voter approval of the referred statutory measure, the Colorado lottery commission to enter into multistate agreements allowing Colorado residents to play multistate lottery games. Requires the Colorado lottery commission to promulgate rules for such multistate lottery games. Authorizes the director of the state lottery division within the department of revenue to administer such multistate lottery games. Allocates the portion of the net proceeds from all lottery games that are transferred to the general fund pursuant to the state constitution to the state public school fund as a contingency reserve exempt from any restriction on spending, revenues, or appropriations. Authorizes the state board of education to order payments using such moneys only for supplemental assistance to school districts for capital expenditures to address immediate safety hazards or health concerns within existing school facilities.
Appropriates $400,000 to the department of revenue for the implementation of the act.
EFFECTIVE upon the Governor's proclamation or thirty days after a canvass of the votes is completed, whichever occurs earlier.
S.B. 00-85 Library grants - appropriation. Establishes a program whereby the state librarian shall make grants to eligible public libraries, academic libraries, and school libraries for the purchase of educational resources. States qualifications and reporting requirements for the grants. Requires that participating school libraries and publicly-supported libraries other than a school library or an academic library providing public access computers:
Gives a school library or public library that complies with the public access computer requirements contained in the act immunity from any criminal or civil liability resulting from access by a minor to obscene or illegal material through the use of a public access computer owned or controlled by the school or public library.
Expands the powers of the state librarian to make reasonable rules and regulations for the administration of the library grants program.
Appropriates $2,000,000 to the state grants to publicly-supported libraries fund and further appropriates $2,000,000 and 0.5 FTE out of the state grants to publicly-supported libraries fund to the department of education for implementation of the act. Requires that no more than 2.5% of the amount appropriated shall be expended for the administrative costs of the state librarian in administering the act. Allows for the appropriation by reducing the appropriation made in the 2000 long bill to the capital construction fund for further appropriation to the department of transportation for highway projects by $2,000,000.
APPROVED by Governor May 26, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 26, 2000
S.B. 00-86 Colorado compensation insurance authority - withdrawal from state risk management system. Withdraws the Colorado compensation insurance authority from the state risk management system. Specifies that, as of July 1, 2000, the department of personnel assumes no responsibility and bears no financial obligation for the defense of, or liability for, any claims or lawsuits asserted against the Colorado compensation insurance authority.
APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2000
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2000
S.B. 00-125 Colorado bureau of investigation - national instant criminal background check system - state point of contact - grounds for denial of firearm transfer - appeal - rule-making - unlawful acts - repeal - appropriation. Authorizes the Colorado bureau of investigation ("bureau") to serve as the state point of contact for implementation of the permanent provisions of the federal Brady law. Requires the bureau to transmit a request for a background check to the national instant criminal background check system ("NICS") and permits the bureau to search other databases.
Directs the bureau to deny a firearm transfer if the transfer would violate federal or state law. Prior to July 1, 2010, requires the bureau to deny a firearm transfer pursuant to 2 additional grounds:
Requires the bureau to reverse a denial based on nondispositional information if the prospective transferee provides to the bureau a letter from the clerk of the court that indicates no dispositional information exists.
Authorizes the bureau to cooperate with other law enforcement agencies to perform or assist in any firearm retrievals or assist in the prosecution of any rescinded transfers. Requires the bureau to receive and process final case disposition data within 72 hours after the final disposition of an adult or juvenile case in order to carry out its duties under this act.
Requires the bureau to provide notice of a transfer denial to the NICS system and to the law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction over the area in which the prospective transferee resides and in which the transferor conducts business. Directs the transferor to provide written information about the appeals process. Requires the prospective transferee to carry the burden of obtaining and providing dispositional information during the appeals process. Directs the bureau to render its decision within 30 days after receiving dispositional information.
Requires the bureau to request an immediate permanent change to any inaccurate records and to provide immediate notification to law enforcement agencies of a reversal of any transfer denial. Requires the bureau to notify the local law enforcement agencies where the prospective transferee resides and the transferor conducts any business if the bureau obtains information that indicates the prospective transferee is the subject of an outstanding warrant.
Requires the executive director of the department of public safety, or his or her designee, to promulgate rules necessary for the bureau to carry out its duties as a state point of contact. Specifies that such rules shall include:
Clarifies that nothing in the act is to be construed to create any cause of action for damages in addition to that which is available under the state governmental immunity act. Clarifies that no action taken by the bureau to implement this act is a violation of the criminal code.
Creates criminal penalties for willfully providing false or fictitious information for the purpose of obtaining a firearm, for knowingly requesting a background check under false pretenses, and for the unauthorized dissemination of criminal history record information. Generally exempts from civil and criminal liability transferors who do not willfully and intentionally violate the act. Exempts from the theft of medical records statute the obtaining of relevant medical records for purposes of the act.
For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1999, appropriates $26,536 and 4.8 FTE to the department of public safety for allocation to the Colorado bureau of investigation for the implementation of this act.
APPROVED by Governor March 7, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 7, 2000
S.B. 00-135 State telecommunications network - availability - public safety communications trust fund - digital trunked radio - appropriation. Specifies additional governmental entities and public safety related nonprofit organizations to which the facilities of the state telecommunications network shall be made available.
Specifies that appropriations for any fiscal year to the public safety communications trust fund shall be from moneys in the capital construction fund and shall be further appropriated to the department of personnel for certain purposes. Makes the appropriation available until the project is completed or for 3 years, whichever occurs first.
Adds specified public safety related nonprofit organizations to those entities that the department of personnel may solicit and accept contributions from for the public safety communications trust fund.
Amends the 1999 long bill to appropriate $14,675,099 from the capital construction fund to the public safety communications trust fund. Appropriates $13,900,000 of the such amount to the department of personnel for the digital trunked radio system, phase 2, and makes a corresponding reduction in the capital construction fund exempt appropriation for such project.
APPROVED by Governor May 23, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 23, 2000
S.B. 00-137 State capitol building advisory committee - membership - expenses - appropriation. Increases the membership of the state capitol building advisory committee from 9 to 12 members. Specifies that at least one of the 3 appointments to the advisory committee by the speaker of the house of representatives and by the president of the senate shall be a legislator from the respective house of the appointing official who has served at least one year in the general assembly. Staggers the terms for the appointed members of the committee. Authorizes the reimbursement of members of the committee for necessary and actual expenses.
Appropriates $6,720 to the legislative department to implement the act. Makes an adjustment in the general appropriation act to implement the act.
APPROVED by Governor May 26, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 26, 2000
S.B. 00-141 State capitol building advisory committee - removal of objects of art or memorials. Authorizes the state capitol building advisory committee to direct the removal of any objects of art or memorials that are placed in the state capitol building or on its surrounding grounds that have not been submitted to the advisory committee as required by law for evaluation and approval pursuant to the criteria and procedure developed by the advisory committee. States that this authority shall not apply to objects of art or memorials placed prior to the formation of the advisory committee.
APPROVED by Governor April 17, 2000
EFFECTIVE April 17, 2000
S.B. 00-158 Colorado veterans' monument - preservation trust fund - created. Creates the Colorado veterans' monument preservation trust fund for the purpose of maintaining, enhancing, and repairing the Colorado veterans' monument and maintaining Lincoln park. Authorizes the department of personnel to accept private donations for the purpose of creating the principal in the trust.
Creates a preservation trust committee that shall have discretion in allocating funds from the trust fund for maintenance and expenditures for the monument and Lincoln park; except that only interest income on the principal may be expended. Specifies that the interest income shall be continuously appropriated to the department of personnel for allocation to the preservation trust committee.
APPROVED May 23, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 23, 2000
S.B. 00-170 Historic Dearfield preservation - department of higher education - appropriation. Makes legislative findings on historic Dearfield, the site of the first African American homesteading settlement in Colorado. Appropriates $250,000 to the department of higher education for allocation to the state historical society and distribution to the black American west museum and heritage center for the purposes of preserving historic Dearfield and establishing historic Dearfield park. Allows for the appropriation by reducing the appropriation made in the 2000 long bill to the capital construction fund for further appropriation to the department of transportation by $250,000.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2000
S.B. 00-187 State treasurer - authority to issue state pension obligation notes - repeal. Removes the state treasurer's authority to issue state pension obligation notes for purposes of paying in one lump sum the total amount necessary to eliminate the state's share of the unfunded liability in certain state-assisted firefighters' and police officers' old hire pension plans.
APPROVED by Governor March 31, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 31, 2000
S.B. 00-191 Interstate compact - adult offender supervision - state council. Authorizes the governor to enter into the interstate compact for adult offender supervision. Establishes an interstate commission on adult offender supervision ("commission") and specifies voting and nonvoting membership and powers and duties of the commission. Requires the establishment of a state council and specifies minimum membership requirements.
Authorizes the commission to adopt rules that are binding on the compacting states and specifies areas of rule that the commission is to consider during its first 12 months. Directs the commission to oversee the interstate movement of offenders among member states and to establish mediation and binding arbitration for disputes among member states. Authorizes the commission to levy an assessment against each member state to pay for the costs of the commission.
Specifies that the compact becomes effective July 1, 2001, or when the 35th state enacts the compact, whichever is later. Establishes procedures for withdrawal, reinstatement, and dissolution of the compact. Authorizes the commission to impose penalties, including monetary penalties, on any member state that defaults in its obligations under the compact. Specifies that lawful actions of the commission are binding on all member states.
Limits the amount of assessments that Colorado shall pay so that the total assessments from all compacting states do not exceed $2.5 million in any one fiscal year.
APPROVED by Governor April 10, 2000
EFFECTIVE April 10, 2000
S.B. 00-193 Department of revenue - organization. Eliminates the division of enforcement and the motor vehicle division within the department of revenue (department). Gives the department all of the powers, functions, and duties previously held and performed by these divisions.
Authorizes the executive director of the department to create groups, in addition to divisions, sections, and units, within the department. Specifies that the executive director may not combine or eliminate statutorily created divisions within the department unless specifically authorized by law to do so.
In any fiscal year in which employees are shifted between divisions, groups, or branches of the department, requires the executive director to prepare a report that demonstrates that the total cash fund, cash fund exempt, and federally funded FTE appropriated to the particular division, group, or branch of the department for that fiscal year has not been exceeded in that fiscal year by the division, group, or branch. Requires submittal of the report with the department's annual budget request to the joint budget committee.
Gives the motor carrier services division in the department certain functions and duties of the ports of entry division.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2000
S.B. 00-194 Department of human services - Colorado commission for the deaf and hard of hearing - creation under sunset law - appointments - duties - appropriation. Declares that a commission for the deaf and hard of hearing would facilitate the provision of general governmental services to the deaf and hard of hearing community while making government more efficient. Creates the Colorado commission for the deaf and hard of hearing (the commission) within the department of human services. Requires the commission to consist of a deaf person, a hard of hearing person, a parent of a person who is deaf or hard of hearing, a professional in the field of deafness, a member of the public, a late deafened person, and an interpreter. Sets the procedures for operation of the commission and appointment of its members.
Requires the commission to:
Creates the Colorado commission for the deaf and hard of hearing cash fund (the fund). Authorizes the commission to approve expenditures from the fund, prepare budgets, and accept and expend gifts, grants, and donations to be deposited in the fund. Transfers $500,000 from the Colorado disabled telephone users fund to the fund. Authorizes annual transfers of $25,000 from the Colorado disabled telephone users fund to the fund.
Creates an automatic termination date for the Colorado commission for the deaf and hard of hearing of July 1, 2010, pursuant to the provisions of the sunset law.
Appropriates $115,527 to the department of human services for allocation to the Colorado commission of the deaf and hard of hearing for the implementation of this act.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2000
S.B. 00-204 Wheat Ridge regional center - authorization for transfer or disposal of campus property - environmental remediation - appropriation. Makes legislative findings and declarations relating to the 1916 right-of-way grant from the state board of land commissioners (board) to the department of human services (department) for the purpose of constructing and operating the Wheat Ridge Regional Center, the status of property adjacent to the right-of-way land that was transferred by the department to the board (transferred land), the past actions of the board and the department relating to the general area of the Wheat Ridge Regional Center campus, and future actions of the board and the department that would serve the best interests of the state.
Authorizes the department to enter into an agreement with the board for the purchase of a portion of the transferred land and the structures thereon known as Kipling Village and Summit Village (Kipling Village parcel). Directs the board to continue its efforts to sell, exchange, lease, or otherwise dispose of the remaining transferred land at the campus (transferred parcel) and to utilize the proceeds to repay the capital construction appropriation to the board for the environmental remediation of vacant structures on the right-of-way land at the campus.
Authorizes the department to enter into an agreement with the board for the purchase of a portion of the right-of-way land and structures thereon known as the Zier and Therapy Pool buildings (Zier and Therapy Pool parcel). Directs the department to give a written release to the board of its rights and interests held in the right-of-way land and improvements (right-of-way parcel) at the campus remaining after the disposition of the Zier and Therapy Pool parcel.
Specifies that the board shall utilize an appropriation of capital construction funds for the environmental remediation of the vacant structures on the right-of-way parcel. Authorizes the board to exchange the right-of-way parcel for land of equal value held in the public buildings trust and to sell the right-of-way parcel. Requires the board to deposit the proceeds from the sale of the right-of-way parcel, as the proceeds become available, into the public buildings trust.
Authorizes the capital development committee to utilize staff or professionals in connection with the review of agreements and reports submitted by the board and the department.
Appropriates $1,685,911 out of moneys in the capital construction fund to the board for the purpose of conducting and completing the environmental remediation of the vacant structures on the right-of-way parcel.
Appropriates $2,235,946 out of moneys in the capital construction fund to the department for the purchase of the Kipling Village parcel and the Zier and Therapy Pool parcel, for the off-site development costs associated with those parcels, for landscaping and fencing at Kipling Village, and for mothballing, landscaping, and fencing Summit Village.
Specifies that the appropriations to the board and the department shall not become available until the capital development committee and the joint budget committee have reviewed and approved the agreements for the purchase of the Kipling Village and the Zier and Therapy Pool parcel. Requires the department and the board to report to the capital development committee on the progress of the environmental remediation and the disposition of lands not less that biannually until the right-of-way parcel has been sold and the proceeds deposited in the public buildings trust.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2000
S.B. 00-209 Public employees' retirement systems - county, municipal, and special district officers and employees - plan funds - trustee investment standards. Modifies the standards for investing funds of the retirement plans that are established and maintained for the officers or employees of counties, municipalities, and special districts by replacing the list of permissible investments that a plan's retirement board, acting as trustee of the plan, may make with plan funds with the standards contained in the "Colorado Uniform Prudent Investor Act".
APPROVED by Governor May 23, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
S.B. 00-211 State employees - performance-based pay - repeal - pay plan established based on a performance evaluation system. Repeals the existing performance-based pay plan for employees in the state personnel system and replaces it with a new plan to be developed by the state personnel director, based on a system of performance evaluation, that provides for:
Requires the department of personnel to prepare a performance plan by September 1, 2000, that:
Directs the department of personnel to submit the plan to the joint budget committee of the general assembly by September 1, 2000. Requires the department to implement and coordinate the plan in accordance with guidelines developed by the department and subject to available appropriations.
APPROVED by Governor May 26, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 26, 2000
S.B. 00-212 Buckley air national guard base "tract 100" - cessation of state jurisdiction. Cedes state jurisdiction over "tract 100" within the Buckley air national guard base to the United States. Specifies that the cessation of jurisdiction shall be under the same terms and conditions as for other property within the base. Retains the state's right to serve process in the tract.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
S.B. 00-219 Colorado office of economic development - consolidation of economic development functions - appropriation. Changes the Colorado office of business development in the governor's office to the Colorado office of economic development (office). Transfers to the office the rights, powers, duties, functions, and obligations vested in the following programs and commissions prior to July 1, 2000:
Transfers the employees, furniture, and records from the motion picture and television advisory commission and the Colorado economic development commission to the office.
Authorizes the office to execute, administer, perform, and enforce the rights, powers, duties, functions, and obligations previously vested in DOLA concerning the joint administration of the Colorado customized training program. Removes DOLA from the joint administration of the Colorado existing industry training program. Deletes obsolete language relating to start-up moneys for the existing industry training program.
Adds the governor to the membership of the Colorado economic development commission and removes the executive director of DOLA from membership of the commission.
Appropriates $5,869,379 and 7.0 FTE to the governor's office for allocation to the office of economic development for the implementation of the act. Makes a corresponding reduction in the appropriation made in the 2000 long bill to DOLA for insurance and compensation, leased space, motion picture and television production program costs, local affairs programs of the economic development commission, and department higher education programs for Colorado first customized job training and existing industry training.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2000
S.B. 00-222 Historic Arkansas river project - real property - authority to transfer. Authorizes and directs the commissioner of agriculture to transfer specified state property in Pueblo county to the city of Pueblo for the use and benefit of the historic Arkansas river project.
APPROVED by Governor May 30, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 30, 2000
H.B. 00-1055 Capital construction fund - annual transfer from the general fund. In addition to the transfer from the general fund to the capital construction fund currently required on July 1, 2002, requires an additional $100,000,000 transfer on such date from the general fund to the capital construction fund. Establishes a $100,000,000 transfer from the general fund to the capital construction fund for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 2003, July 1, 2004, and July 1, 2005.
APPROVED by Governor April 3, 2000
EFFECTIVE April 3, 2000
H.B. 00-1077 Bioterrorism expert emergency epidemic response committee - creation - duties - immunity for actions. Defines "bioterrorism", "emergency epidemic", and "pandemic influenza".
Creates the governor's expert emergency epidemic response committee (the committee) to address emergency needs of the state in case of an epidemic. Requires the committee to supplement the state disaster plan with suggested procedures for handling an emergency epidemic by July 1, 2001. Requires the committee to provide expert advice to the governor for emergency epidemics or threats thereof. Encourages cooperation with the governor's disaster emergency council.
Establishes the membership of the committee. Specifies that the executive director of the department of public health and environment (the department) shall serve as the chair of the committee. Specifies that the executive director of the department of public safety shall serve ex officio and coordinate communications between the committee, the governor's disaster emergency council, and the Colorado emergency planning commission in the event of an emergency epidemic.
Requires the committee's supplement to the state disaster plan to include provisions for the prioritization, allocation, storage, protection, and distribution of antibiotic and antiviral medicines, antidotes, and vaccines for treatment during an emergency epidemic.
Requires the committee to convene upon a call by the governor or upon request by the executive director of the department to consider evidence of an occurrence or imminent threat of an emergency epidemic. Allows the committee to meet as necessary to address issues related to such an occurrence or threat and to advise the governor, who shall act by executive order, to take measures to protect the public health, including, but not limited to:
Limits liability for the members of the committee to willful and wanton misconduct or willful disregard of the public's best interests. Limits the amount of damages awardable to $100,000 for an individual and $300,000 for 3 or more individuals, but only allows $100,000 to be awarded to any one individual as a result of willful and wanton misconduct or willful disregard by a member of the committee. Limits the liability of hospitals, physicians, health insurers or managed health organizations, health care providers, public health workers, or emergency medical service providers who act in good faith to comply completely with rules or executive orders issued in response to an emergency epidemic. Disallows compensation by government entities for personal services rendered in response to an emergency epidemic. Allows for compensation for property taken during an emergency epidemic pursuant to eminent domain laws.
Adds physicians, health care providers, public health workers, and emergency medical service providers to the definition of "civil defense worker" for the purposes of compensation under existing law. Adds illness caused by an emergency epidemic to the existing grounds for compensation of volunteer civil defense workers.
Gives the department explicit authority to investigate, monitor, and control an emergency epidemic.
Requires the state board of health to promulgate rules regarding emergency epidemics.
APPROVED by Governor March 15, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 15, 2000
H.B. 00-1096 State employees - human resource innovation and management processes - grievances. Authorizes state agencies, with the state personnel director or the personnel board, as appropriate, to develop processes for human resource innovation and management. Requires that the processes comply with the Colorado constitution and applicable laws, rules, and procedures relative to state personnel. Obligates the state personnel director or the personnel board, as appropriate, to provide assistance to agencies in implementing and coordinating processes for human resource innovation and management and to ensure compliance with the state constitution and applicable state personnel laws, rules, and procedures.
Requires agencies to obtain input from management and nonmanagement employees in formulating human resource innovation and management processes, and places responsibility for implementing the processes with the head of the agency developing the processes. Requires the head of the agency to submit to the state personnel director or the personnel board, as appropriate, a written statement describing human resource innovation and management processes implemented by the agency commensurate with the implementation of the processes, and to update that statement upon modification or revision of the agency's processes.
Specifies that state agencies and principal departments that develop employee grievance processes must utilize uniform grievance procedures adopted by the state personnel board in developing those processes.
APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1106 Interstate compact - exchange of criminal history records for noncriminal justice purposes. Ratifies the national crime prevention and privacy compact. The compact:
Requires the Colorado bureau of investigation to implement, administer, comply with the terms of, and serve as the state's criminal history record repository for purposes of the national crime prevention and privacy compact. Authorizes the director of the bureau or the designee thereof to serve as the state's compact officer.
APPROVED by Governor March 10, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 10, 2000
H.B. 00-1112 Rule-making - proposed rules impacting small business - requirements for statement of basis and purpose. Requires executive branch agencies to include a statement of issues affecting small businesses in the statements of basis and purpose of proposed rules. Specifies the information that must be included in the statements of basis and purpose, including a list of regulatory requirements that have or may have an economic impact upon small businesses and alternatives considered by the agency to the proposed regulations. Requires the agency, as soon as practicable, to make the statements of basis and purpose accessible electronically on the internet and to include information on how to access the cite in the notice of rulemaking published in the Colorado Register.
VETOED by Governor May 26, 2000
H.B. 00-1154 Authorized uses of funds - security lending agreements. Authorizes a public entity to enter into a securities lending agreement with a qualified provider if the borrower provides adequate collateral to a mutually agreed upon custodian in the form of cash or appropriate securities. Defines "qualified provider" as a state or national bank that meets the following requirements: (1) Is insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation; (2) has a long term debt rating of at least "A"; (3) is financially and operationally stable; (4) has at least one other public fund customer participating in its security lending agreement program; and (5) has had a securities lending agreement in place for at least 3 years. Requires a local government to approve of any securities lending agreements by a written resolution that is duly adopted by a majority vote.
APPROVED by Governor March 17, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1215 State employees - increase in group benefit plans contributions - appropriation. Increases the amount of state contributions for employees enrolled in group benefit plans to the following amounts:
Requires the state personnel director, on December 1, 2001, and December 1 of each year thereafter, to recommend to the joint budget committee adjustments to the state contribution amounts based on changes in the consumer price index for the Denver-Boulder metropolitan statistical area for the preceding calendar year, but prohibits the contribution amount from exceeding the amount recommended by the state personnel director in the annual total compensation survey. Specifies that the increase in the state contribution amounts is to be paid from the savings derived from specified state departments as a result of the reduction in the rate of employer contributions to the public employees' retirement association pursuant to House Bill 00-1458.
Increases the appropriations made in the 2000 long bill by $5,114,683 for implementation of the act and specifies the sources of such increased appropriations.
APPROVED by Governor June 2, 2000
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2000
NOTE: House Bill 00-1458 was signed by the Governor on May 23, 2000.
H.B. 00-1224 Colorado tourism office - creation - board of directors - membership - powers and duties - creation of travel and tourism funds - repeal and transfer of duties of the Colorado tourism board and the Colorado travel and tourism authority. Creates the Colorado tourism office (office) within the office of the governor. Specifies governance of the office by a board of directors and the number of board members, the manner in which members are appointed and serve, the terms of office, and the method for selection of a chairperson. Requires the board to meet quarterly or at the times as determined by the chairperson. States that members serve without compensation.
Specifies the powers and duties of the board of directors. Creates the Colorado travel and tourism promotion fund (promotion fund) and the Colorado travel and tourism additional source fund (additional source fund), and directs the board to administer these funds. Funds the promotion fund from moneys remaining in the existing tourism promotion fund after the dissolution of the Colorado tourism board plus other specified sources of moneys. Annually appropriates moneys in the promotion fund for the promotion of travel and tourism in the state.
Funds the additional source fund from grants, donations, gifts, or other moneys provided to the state for the promotion of travel and tourism in the state and any other moneys made available to the additional source fund or the office. Continuously appropriates moneys in the additional source fund for use in the promotion of travel and tourism in the state.
Requires administrative expenses associated with the office or with the expenditure of moneys from the promotion fund and the additional source fund to be met with existing employees performing travel and tourism functions for the department of local affairs that are to be transferred to the office on or after August 1, 2000, and with the existing staff, office space, and resources of the office of the governor. Permits the expenditure of moneys in the additional source fund for the administrative expenses or the expenditure of moneys from the promotion fund or the additional source fund.
Specifies that the office and expenditures from the promotion fund and the additional source fund shall not be subject to the "Procurement Code". Requires the state auditor to periodically audit the expenditures, contracts, and activities of the office and the board.
Repeals the Colorado tourism board and the Colorado travel and tourism authority, effective August 1, 2000.
Specifies that any appropriation made in the annual general appropriation act for the 2000-01 fiscal year to the tourism promotion fund and to the department of local affairs for Colorado welcome centers, other program costs, and production and distribution of state highway maps, and any corresponding FTE, are to be transferred to the promotion fund and the office.
APPROVED by Governor May 22, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 22, 2000
H.B. 00-1225 Deferred compensation committee - authority to establish defined contribution plan to receive matching employer contributions. Authorizes the state deferred compensation committee to establish a defined contribution plan pursuant to section 401 (a) of the federal internal revenue code to receive matching employer contributions and other contributions authorized by law. Subjects any such plan, to the extent practicable and not prohibited by the internal revenue code, to the provisions governing the existing deferred compensation plan.
APPROVED by Governor April 7, 2000
EFFECTIVE April 7, 2000
H.B. 00-1269 Blind or visually impaired persons - information technology access - nonvisual access standards - procurement by state agencies. Directs the information management commission ("IMC") in the office of innovation and technology to develop for state agencies, on or before February 1, 2001, nonvisual access standards that allow blind or visually impaired individuals to gain access to information. Requires the IMC to approve minimum standards and criteria to be used in approving or rejecting procurements by state agencies for adaptive technologies for use by individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Requires the IMC to consult with state agencies and representatives of blind or visually impaired individuals in developing the nonvisual access standards.
Requires the head of each state agency to establish a written plan and proposed budget requests for implementing the nonvisual access standards for the agency.
States that nothing in the act requires the installation of software or peripheral devices used for nonvisual access when the information technology is being used by individuals who are not blind or visually impaired and that nothing in the act requires the purchase of nonvisual adaptive equipment. Requires state agencies to comply with the act when procuring upgrades or replacements of existing equipment or software.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1280 State employees - Colorado state patrol - prevailing total compensation. Defines "prevailing total compensation", for purposes of determining and maintaining compensation for state troopers employed by the Colorado state patrol, as the amount of salary, benefits, including retirement benefits, and premium pay practices that is at least 99% of the average total compensation provided to the top 3 law enforcement agencies within the state that have both more than 100 commissioned officers and the highest actual average total compensation.
APPROVED by Governor June 2, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1297 Health, environment, welfare, and institutions committees - requirements for certain reports submitted to the general assembly by state agencies. Eliminates the following state agency reports to the general assembly:
Requires state agencies to submit the following reports to the general assembly by November 1 of each year:
APPROVED by Governor April 24, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1321 Investment of public funds - government securities - repurchase agreements - maturity dates. Under existing laws governing the permissible investments of public entities in Colorado, creates an exception to the general prohibition on securities with a maturity date in excess of 5 years for securities subject to certain repurchase agreements.
APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1324 Air quality control - Southern Ute Indian tribe and state of Colorado - intergovernmental agreement on air quality. Ratifies the intergovernmental agreement made and entered into on December 13, 1999, between the Southern Ute Indian tribe and the state of Colorado concerning air quality control on the Southern Ute Indian reservation.
Establishes a single air quality control program applicable to all lands within the exterior boundaries of the Southern Ute Indian reservation. Authorizes the creation of a joint Southern Ute Indian tribe/state of Colorado environmental commission to be created in another bill. Provides that when all conditions and terms of the agreement are fully in effect, the air quality program on the reservation shall be administered by the tribe pursuant to a delegation from the federal environmental protection agency, through the use of the staff of the tribe's environmental programs division, with the participation of the state of Colorado's air pollution control division in the department of public health and environment.
APPROVED by Governor March 15, 2000
EFFECTIVE March 15, 2000
H.B. 00-1337 Executive branch agencies - reports to general assembly - repeal. Eliminates existing requirements for the following periodic reports to the general assembly:
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1395 Personal privacy issues - information technology - task force - interim study - report - appropriation. Creates a 21-member task force, comprising legislators and citizens from a variety of backgrounds, to hold public meetings during the 2000 and 2001 interims and report its findings to the governor and the general assembly by December 1, 2001. Directs the task force to:
Assigns the secretary of state to provide staff support, meeting space, and other assistance to the task force once sufficient contributions are received from public and private sources to defray the secretary of state's expenses in doing so. Appropriates $26,872 from such contributions, once received, for this purpose.
APPROVED by Governor May 23, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 23, 2000
H.B. 00-1418 Communications and information technology committee - duties and responsibilities - annual reports and recommendations - membership - appropriation. Establishes the communications and information technology committee as a joint legislative committee. Specifies that the committee replaces and succeeds to the duties and responsibilities of the joint legislative computer management committee.
Requires the committee to review communication and information resources, communication and information resources technologies, and data processing systems with regard to telecommunications coordination within state government, the general government computer center (GGCC), the division of state archives and public records (Archives), and the central information system board (CIS). Specifies additional areas of committee review of these state agencies including budget processes and agency administration, the acquisition of property and equipment, state strategic plans, and annual reports. Requires committee review of the duties and responsibilities of the governor's office of innovation and technology and the chief technology officer.
Directs committee review of state agency budget requests for communication and information resources, communication and information resources technologies, and data processing systems that have been submitted to and approved by the commission on information management (IMC). Requires the IMC to transmit this information annually to the committee commencing with the 2002-03 fiscal year as the information becomes available.
Requires the committee, commencing November 1, 2001, and on November 1 annually thereafter, to submit a written report on the committee's findings and recommendations to the general assembly and joint budget committee which may include recommended legislation, recommendations concerning appropriations to GGCC, Archives, and CIS, and recommendations concerning state agency budget requests for information technology that have been approved by the IMC.
Specifies the membership of the committee and the number of times the committee must meet annually. Provides for the assistance of legislative council staff in connection with the committee's duties. Reduces the number of legislative members serving on the IMC from 3 members of each house to one member of each house. Adds the secretary of state to the IMC's membership.
Appropriates $51,992 and 1.1 FTE to the legislative department for the implementation of the act. Allows for the appropriation by reducing the appropriation made in the 2000 long bill to the capital construction fund for further appropriation to the department of transportation for highway construction projects by $51,922.
VETOED by Governor May 26, 2000
H.B. 00-1427 Office of smart growth - Colorado heritage communities fund - appropriation. Creates an office of smart growth (office) in the department of local affairs (department) the head of which shall be the director of the office. Specifies the duties and responsibilities of the office and the executive director of the department in connection with the office.
Authorizes the executive director to develop criteria for the designation of Colorado heritage communities and for the awarding by the office of grants to local governments to address critical planning issues and to develop master plans. Authorizes the office to provide specified services to local governments to assist the governments in addressing the impacts of growth. Specifies eligibility and reporting requirements for local governments applying for grants.
Authorizes the department to maintain a list of qualified professionals that are available to assist in resolving land use disputes between local governments. Specifies that the list shall be available to governmental entities and the public through the office.
Creates the Colorado heritage communities fund in the state treasury. Specifies that the source of moneys to be awarded by the office to local governments for Colorado heritage planning grants and grants to develop master plans shall be from the fund.
Appropriates $115,998 and 2.0 FTE to the department and $735,485 to the Colorado heritage communities fund for implementation of the act.
APPROVED by Governor May 24, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1434 Executive agencies - reports to the general assembly - termination. Eliminates the following state agency reports to the general assembly:
Exempts the sunset, sunrise, continuing education reporting requirements from the scheduled repeal requirements of the "Information Coordination Act". Revises the Grand Canyon visibility transport commission reports to be continued until such time as the governor notifies that federal environmental protection agency that the state has adopted the clean air requirements required by federal law.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2000
EFFECTIVE August 2, 2000
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see the note from page vi of this digest.
H.B. 00-1452 Capital construction fund - transfer of moneys from general fund - appropriation. Increases the transfer from the general fund to the capital construction fund for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, by $168,446,293.
Increases the capital construction fund exempt appropriation to the department of public safety for the 2000-01 fiscal year for the data computer initiative and makes a corresponding decrease in the cash funds exempt appropriation for such project.
APPROVED by Governor May 26, 2000
EFFECTIVE May 26, 2000
H.B. 00-1458 State employees - converting sick leave to salary - PERA contributions and benefits - appropriation. Commencing July 1, 2000, and for a specified time period thereafter, allows state classified employees hired before July 1, 1988, to elect to convert all or a portion of their accumulated sick leave in excess of 360 hours into salary. Establishes the rate at which the leave may be converted. Specifies when and the manner in which the election is made and the salary is paid. Caps the amount of additional sick leave that may be accumulated in the future if an employee converts sick leave to salary. Excludes this amount paid as salary from the employee's base salary for salary adjustment purposes and requires the state and the employee to make contributions to the public employees' retirement association (PERA) on that amount. Allows PERA employers other than the state to allow sick leave to be converted to salary with specified restrictions.
Effective January 1, 2001, requires 30% of the amount of any reduction in the employer contribution rates to PERA resulting from the overfunding of the trust funds of PERA to be allocated to the PERA health care trust fund.
Effective July 1, 2000, reduces the contribution rate that is paid to PERA by state, school, and judicial employers by one percent of salary.
Effective January 1, 2001:
Allows PERA members who retire on and after June 1, 2000, to receive service retirement benefits, without the reduction currently required by statute, if their years of age plus years of service credit total 80 years or more and they are at least 55 years of age and have at least 5 years of service credit.
Effective March 1, 2001, makes the annual increase to PERA benefit recipients 3 ½% of the base benefit rather than the lesser of 3 ½% of the rate of inflation and redefines "base benefit" for purposes of the annual increase.
For purposes of implementing the 1% reduction in the contribution rate paid to PERA by state, school, and judicial employers, reduces the appropriations made in the 2000 long bill to the departments of state government by the sum of $4,806,997.
APPROVED by Governor May 23, 2000
PORTIONS EFFECTIVE June 1, 2000, July 2, 2000, January 1, 2001, March 1, 2001
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