S.B. 02-113 Anti-terrorism cooperation. Requires the commission on higher education, in consultation with the governing boards, to adopt guidelines and polices for providing lawful information requested by the FBI, CIA, INS, the office of homeland security, or any other federal agency in connection with an anti-terrorism investigation. Compels the guidelines and policies to include a process for each institution of higher education to report the status of all foreign students as required by the INS or any other federal agency. Requires the administrators of institutions of higher education to provide lawful information requested by the FBI, CIA, INS, the office of homeland security, or any other federal agency in connection with an anti-terrorism investigation in an immediate manner.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2002
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2002
S.B. 02-152 Principal preparation programs - state board of education - performance-based standards - commission on higher education - program requirements. Requires the Colorado commission on higher education ("CCHE"), on or before July 1, 2003, to adopt a plan for establishing the program requirements for principal preparation programs offered by public institutions of higher education. Directs CCHE to collaborate with the state board of education ("state board") and the institutions of higher education to ensure that the performance-based standards for licensure become the base for principal preparation programs. Clarifies that CCHE has the final determination regarding the contents of the standards and their implementation. Directs CCHE to ensure that demonstrated competency in the licensure standards guides the development of the programs. Requires the program requirements to be designed on a performance-based model and specifies the required elements. Repeals the provision, effective July 1, 2005.
Requires the state board, on or before January 1, 2003, to adopt by rule performance-based principal licensure standards. Directs the state board to develop the standards in collaboration with public institutions of higher education that offer principal preparation programs, superintendents and local school boards, and CCHE. Requires the state board to ensure the standards are consistent with national standards for principal preparation. Specifies the required elements of the standards.
Directs the state board and the department, along with CCHE, to submit a report, on or before January 1, 2004, to the general assembly regarding principal preparation programs. Specifies the contents of the report.
APPROVED by Governor June 7, 2002
EFFECTIVE June 7, 2002
H.B. 02-1010 Commission on higher education - expansion of nursing programs - creation of fund. Declares that in order to meet the increased demand for quality care among seniors, government-sponsored programs must focus their resources with greater efficiency and effectiveness. Recognizes the need to provide a quality trained work force to deliver quality care to seniors and others, and that limiting the number of nursing students frustrates such need.
Directs the commission on higher education to develop admission policies to expand nursing programs at state-supported institutions of higher education and to admit more students to such programs subject to the availability of private funds.
Creates the more nurses for Colorado fund, consisting of gifts, grants, and donations from private entities. Requires moneys in the fund to be used to expand existing nursing programs. Continuously appropriates moneys from the fund and prohibits appropriation of general fund moneys, for implementation of this act.
APPROVED by Governor May 31, 2002
EFFECTIVE May 31, 2002
H.B. 02-1165 Metropolitan state college of Denver - independent institution - board of trustees - creation - regional education providers - state colleges - financing - cost study - minimum level of funding. Effective July 1, 2002, makes Metropolitan state college of Denver ("Metro") an independent state institution of higher education under the governance of the board of trustees for Metropolitan state college of Denver ("Metro trustees"). Creates the Metro trustees and specifies membership and appointment. Transfers the powers and duties of the trustees for the state colleges in Colorado ("state college trustees") pertaining to Metro to the Metro trustees. Effective July 1, 2002, creates the Metropolitan state college of Denver fund and the Metropolitan state college of Denver undergraduate enrichment fund ("funds") to receive moneys for Metro and transfers moneys into those funds. Authorizes the Metro trustees to use moneys in the funds for specified purposes.
Declares that the state college trustees should provide oversight for the provision of regional education at Adams state college, Mesa state college, and Western state college of Colorado. Permits a regional education provider, in order to meet its regional needs, to extend existing programs, create new undergraduate programs, develop partnerships with 2-year institutions, and facilitate the delivery of graduate education through existing graduate institutions.
Specifies the allocation of funding between Metro and the institutions governed by the state college trustees for the 2002-03 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years. Requires the state college trustees, on or before July 1, 2002, to conduct a cost study that analyzes the cost of operating a small, four-year college in Alamosa, Grand Junction, and Gunnison. Directs the Colorado commission on higher education to use the cost study to establish a minimum level of funding for Adams state college, Mesa state college, and Western state college of Colorado. Requires the general assembly, for the 2003-04 fiscal year, to appropriate to those 3 state colleges an amount adequate to fund that minimum level of funding. Specifies that the minimum level of funding is to serve as the base for future funding of those 3 state colleges; except that the minimum level of funding does not apply any year in which there is an overall reduction in appropriations for higher education institutions.
Once all qualified Colorado applicants have been accepted, suspends the statutory minimum requirements for admission of in-state students for Adams state college, Mesa state college, and Western state college of Colorado.
APPROVED by Governor June 7, 2002
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2002
H.B. 02-1173 Riots - student participation - enrollment prohibited. Specifies that a person who is convicted of a riot offense shall not be enrolled in a state-supported institution of higher education ("institution") for a period of 12 months following the date of conviction. Specifies that a student who is enrolled in an institution and convicted of a riot offense shall be immediately suspended from the institution upon the institution's notification of such conviction for a period of 12 months. Clarifies that the 12-month period runs from the start of any suspension already imposed by the institution. Clarifies that an institution is not prohibited from implementing its own policies and procedures or disciplinary actions, in addition to the suspension required by the act, regarding students involved in riots.
Requires the court of each judicial district to report specified riot-related convictions to the Colorado commission on higher education ("CCHE"). Requires the CCHE to make the conviction reports available to all institutions. Requires each institution to notify its students and prospective students of the requirements of the act in a manner prescribed by the institution's governing board.
APPROVED by Governor June 3, 2002
EFFECTIVE June 3, 2002
H.B. 02-1260 State board of agriculture - name change. Changes the name of the state board of agriculture to the board of governors of the Colorado state university system.
APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2002
EFFECTIVE August 7, 2002
NOTE: This act was passed without a safety clause. For further explanation concerning the effective date, see page vi
of this digest.
H.B. 02-1300 Teacher in residence programs - on-site evaluations - emergency authorizations - limited renewals. Allows a person to be employed as a resident teacher for 3 years for the purpose of receiving a special education teaching endorsement.
Beginning with the 2003-04 school year, bars the renewal of an emergency authorization for educators for their second and subsequent years of employment. Provides for an exception of a one-time one-year renewal because an extreme hardship prevents the applicant from entering a teacher in residence program or an alternative teacher program.
Beginning with the 2003-04 school year, requires any holder of an emergency authorization for educators entering his or her second or subsequent year of employment to:
Clarifies that each teacher in residence program is subject to an on-site evaluation and approval by the state board of education at least once every 5 years.
Requires the state board of education, whenever practicable, to schedule on-site evaluations of teacher in residence programs offered in collaboration with institutions of higher education to coincide with the review of teacher preparation programs by the commission on higher education.
Permits a school district to hire a resident teacher for any portion of the 2-year program if the person completes all remaining requirements for an approved preparation program within those 2 years.
APPROVED by Governor June 7, 2002
EFFECTIVE June 7, 2002
H.B. 02-1324 University of Southern Colorado - name change. Effective July 1, 2003, changes the name of the university of southern Colorado to Colorado state university - Pueblo ("CSU - Pueblo"). Specifies that CSU - Pueblo shall be a regional, comprehensive university, with moderately selective admissions standards. Requires CSU - Pueblo to offer a broad array of baccalaureate programs with a strong professional focus and a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences and selected masters-level graduate programs.
APPROVED by Governor May 29, 2002
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2003
H.B. 02-1419 Fort Lewis college - governance - role and mission. Beginning July 1, 2002, changes the role and mission of Fort Lewis college ("college") from a general baccalaureate institution to a public liberal arts college with moderately selective admission standards, with a historic and continuing commitment to Native American education. Allows the college to offer professional programs and a limited number of graduate programs to serve regional needs. Specifies that the college shall be a regional education provider, which criteria for such designation shall be established by the Colorado commission on higher education.
Establishes a 9-member board of trustees for Fort Lewis college ("board") as the governing authority for the college. Specifies the appointment of the board members and the duties and obligations of the board. Specifies that members appointed to the board shall have the authority to act on behalf of the board prior to obtaining confirmation by the senate. Specifies that of the 7 board members appointed by the governor, no more than or less than 2 shall reside in Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, or San Juan county. Transfers all powers, duties, and functions formerly performed by the state board of agriculture ("SBA") with respect to the college to the board. Specifies that all policies, resolutions, procedures, and agreements previously approved by the SBA and applicable to the college shall remain in force and effect unless and until changed by the board. Requires the board initially appointed to take all necessary action to implement the transfers contemplated and assume all liability and obligations no later than September 1, 2002.
Requires the SBA and the board to enter into an inter-governmental agreement to address issues such as the existing lease of the Hesperus property and the transfer of all bonded and municipal lease debt related to the college. Specifies that the SBA shall have the right to use the real property on the college's main campus upon which the Colorado state forest service district office is located for a minimum of 25 years.
Creates the board of trustees for Fort Lewis college fund ("fund"). Requires the moneys in the fund to be used to pay for salaries and operating expenses of the board and of Fort Lewis college or to be invested pursuant to law. Addresses the budget transfer from the SBA to the board for fiscal year 2002-03 and the budget allocations for fiscal years beginning on and after July 1, 2003, as well as other funding issues for the college. Specifies that the auxiliary facilities of the college designated as enterprises, which were part of the Colorado state university system, shall be designated as enterprises of the board.
APPROVED by Governor June 4, 2002
EFFECTIVE July 1, 2002
H.B. 02-1452 Student loan division - personnel exempt from the state personnel system - contract powers and duties of division - expansion of definition of auxiliary facilities. Specifies that, on and after July 1, 2002, the director of the student loan division in the department of higher education ("division") shall employ and determine the compensation for such personnel as deemed necessary to carry out the duties and functions of the division. Specifies that any personnel hired on and after July 1, 2002, shall be declared to hold educational offices and to be exempt from the state personnel system. Specifies that any personnel hired prior to July 1, 2002, shall retain all rights related to state personnel system benefits and retirement benefits until termination of employment; except that, if such personnel accept a promotion, voluntary demotion, or a transfer, such personnel shall become exempt from the state personnel system. Clarifies that nothing shall prohibit personnel hired prior to July 1, 2002, from continuing membership in the public employees' retirement association.
Authorizes the division to enter into contracts with corporations to provide services without regard to the provisions of the "Procurement Code", without regard to the provisions of the state purchasing requirements, and without regard to the provisions of the statewide travel management program.
Authorizes the division to make and enter into contracts and all other instruments necessary or convenient for the exercise of the division's powers and functions pursuant to the student loan program without regard to the provisions of the "Procurement Code", without regard to the provisions of the state purchasing requirements, and without regard to certain requirements of the department of personnel.
Expands the definition of "auxiliary facility" to include any activity undertaken by the governing board of any state-supported institution of higher education as an eligible lender.
APPROVED by Governor June 1, 2002
EFFECTIVE June 1, 2002
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