Labor And Industry - Digest of Bills

Digest of Bills - 2001

LABOR AND INDUSTRY
S.B. 01-110 Workers' compensation - continuation of the classification appeals board under the sunset law. Extends the automatic termination date of the workers' compensation classification appeals board in the division of insurance in the department of regulatory agencies to July 1, 2010, pursuant to the sunset law.

APPROVED by Governor March 28, 2001
EFFECTIVE March 28, 2001

S.B. 01-233 Department of labor and employment - use of employment support fund - appropriation. Until July 1, 2003, allows the department of labor and employment to use moneys within the employment support fund for labor standards, labor relations, and the Colorado works grievance procedure. Supplements the employment support fund with moneys from the statewide indirect cost allocation agreement with the federal government.

Makes an appropriation by adjusting the state budget enacted during the first regular session of the sixty-third general assembly so as to decrease general fund appropriations by $182,199 and increase cash fund and cash fund exempt appropriations by an equal amount as well as revising several individual line items.

APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2001
EFFECTIVE June 5, 2001

H.B. 01-1039 Temporary help contracting firm. Repeals obsolete provisions related to the review by the federal department of labor of a state law regarding work refusal by temporary employees and notification to the general assembly of any conflict by such law with federal law.

APPROVED by Governor March 11, 2001
EFFECTIVE March 11, 2001

H.B. 01-1043 Unemployment insurance - tax - refund. Repeals the requirement that the division of employment and training in the department of labor and employment deduct from a refund of excess unemployment insurance taxes an amount equal to all benefits that the division has paid to those employees upon whose wages such taxes were based.

APPROVED by Governor March 12, 2001
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2001
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. 01-1116 Workers' compensation - independent medical examination - ripeness. Gives parties to a workers' compensation dispute 30 days after the mailing of an independent medical examination ("IME") report to file a revised final admission of liability or a request for a hearing with regard to the disputed issues included in the IME report.

APPROVED by Governor March 11, 2001
EFFECTIVE March 11, 2001

H.B. 01-1133 Public projects - construction contracts - bid preference - reciprocity. Specifies that the requirement that the residence, registration, unemployment compensation, and other preference conditions applied to a Colorado resident bidder doing business in another state or foreign country be applied to a bidder from that state or country doing business in Colorado for purposes of determining whether a preference shall be allowed in addition to any other criteria for determining that preference.

APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2001
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2001
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. 01-1200 Unemployment insurance - tax - payments. Eliminates the requirement for payment of unemployment insurance tax by an employer when the amount owed in a calendar quarter is less than $5.

APPROVED by Governor March 9, 2001
EFFECTIVE March 9, 2001

H.B. 01-1251 Unemployment compensation - taxes - rate - construction industry. As of January 1, 2002, replaces the standard industrial classification (SIC) code with the North American industry classification system for the purposes of establishing tax rates for new employers in the construction industry.

APPROVED by Governor March 28, 2001
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2001
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. 01-1279 Department of labor and employment - boiler inspection fees. Increases the boiler certificate inspection basic fee limit from $40 to $150 for an internal inspection and $85 for an external inspection. Increases the fee limit for a biennial boiler inspection from $80 to $85. Adds a fee limit of $85 for a triennial boiler inspection. Adds a boiler certificate of operation fee that is limited to $25.

Deletes obsolete provisions.

APPROVED by Governor May 22, 2001
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2001

H.B. 01-1373 Department of labor and employment - division of oil and public safety - creation. Combines the duties of the state inspector of oils with the public safety functions of the division of labor in the department of labor and employment. Creates the division of oil and public safety (division) and the office of the director of the division to carry out both sets of functions. Eliminates the office of state inspector of oils.

Transfers all employees of the state inspector of oils and the state boiler inspector and some employees from the division of labor to the division. Designates the division as a type 2 agency.

APPROVED by Governor June 5, 2001
EFFECTIVE June 5, 2001

H.B. 01-1397 Explosives - identifying codes. Requires the name and place of business of the manufacturer and a date code or code that identifies the origin of manufacture to be stamped or printed on any container or bag holding a high explosive or any blasting agent, detonator, or blasting cap and on each wrapping containing an explosive cartridge that is purchased, sold, stored, or used in this state. Prohibits the removal or alteration of the manufacturer's name or codes on the containers holding high explosives, blasting agents, detonators, or blasting caps or on the explosives' wrappings. Prohibits the use of more than 2 different dates or identifying codes. Prohibits the reuse of any container or wrapping by another person or entity. Requires that the name and place of business of the manufacturer and the date codes or identifying codes be the same on the packing container as on the items within the container.

Excludes consumer fireworks and display fireworks from the provisions of the article.

APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2001
EFFECTIVE August 8, 2001
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. 01-1404 Unemployment tax - tribal exemption. Amends Colorado unemployment tax law to comply with the "Federal Unemployment Tax Act" (FUTA) by treating Indian tribes similarly to state and local governments for unemployment insurance purposes so that:

Services performed in the employ of tribes are generally no longer subject to the federal FUTA tax;
Services performed in the employ of tribes will, with specified exceptions, be covered under state unemployment insurance laws;
Tribes must be offered a reimbursement option (reimbursing the state for unemployment insurance benefit payments) in addition to the option of paying quarterly unemployment insurance taxes as a taxpaying employer;
Extended benefit (EB) payments based on services performed in the employ of tribes and not reimbursed by the federal government will be fully financed by the tribes; and
If an Indian tribe fails to make required payments to the state's unemployment fund, make payments of penalty or interest, or provide a bond or other required security, then the tribe will become liable for the FUTA tax and the state may remove tribal services from coverage until any such failure is corrected.

BECAME LAW June 9, 2001
EFFECTIVE December 21, 2000