| HB12-1052 | Health Care Work Force Data Collection |
| Comment: | Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Health Care Work Force Data Collection |
| Sponsors: | SUMMERS / BOYD |
| Summary: | This bill requires the director of the Division of Registrations in the Department of Regulatory Agencies to implement a system to collect health care workforce data from health care professionals when receiving their initial or renewal licenses. Additionally, a voluntary advisory group is created to recommend the type of information to be collected concerning each health care professional and his or her practice. |
| Status: | 05/29/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| HB12-1061 | The Skills For Jobs Act |
| Comment: | Gateways 6 – Access to Education and Training for Adults
Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | The Skills For Jobs Act |
| Sponsors: | KAGAN |
| Summary: | This bill requires the Department of Higher Education to work with the Department of Labor and the Department of Regulatory Agencies to produce an annual report projecting the workforce needs of the state as well as the estimated production of degrees and certificates over the next three years. The report will highlight workforce needs that state degree and certificate production are not meeting as well as highlight institutions that could address those needs through new or expanded programming. |
| Status: | 04/02/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| HB12-1072 | Higher Ed Prior Learning Assessments |
| Comment: | Gateway 6 – Access to Education and Training for Adults
Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Higher Ed Prior Learning Assessments |
| Sponsors: | MASSEY / BACON |
| Summary: | This bill requires the Commission on Higher Education to work with public institutions of higher education to develop a process and criteria for assessing and awarding credit for the college-level prior learning a student has gained through work experience, military service, community involvement or independent study. Awarding credit for prior learning would recognize the knowledge and skills that adult students bring with them when entering college, and would permit those students to save time and money in completing a certificate or degree program. |
| Status: | 03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| HB12-1075 | Six Percent General Fund Appropriations Limit |
| Comment: | TABOR and Fiscal Issues |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Six Percent General Fund Appropriations Limit |
| Sponsors: | BEEZLEY / BROPHY |
| Summary: | This bill would establish a new limit for total state General Fund appropriations that is equal to 6 percent over the total General Fund appropriations for the previous fiscal year. The bill establishes state funds, including a newly created State Reserve Fund, which shall receive a percentage of any end-year surplus in the General Fund. Additionally, the bill states that the General Assembly may appropriate or transfer moneys from the State Reserve Fund by the enactment of a two-thirds majority of each house. |
| Status: | 04/30/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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| HB12-1111 | Photo Identification For Voting |
| Comment: | Health of Democracy |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Photo Identification For Voting |
| Sponsors: | SZABO |
| Summary: | This bill narrows the list of forms of identification that can be used for election-related purposes, such that a photo ID is required to vote. The following types of documentation are removed from the list of acceptable documentation: 1) A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or other government document that shows the name and address of the elector; 2) A certified copy of a birth certificate for the elector issued in the United States; and 3) Certified documentation of naturalization. |
| Status: | 04/04/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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| HB12-1138 | Poverty Impact Statements For Bills |
| Comment: | Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Poverty Impact Statements For Bills |
| Sponsors: | KEFALAS / HUDAK |
| Summary: | This bill allows legislators to request up to six poverty-impact statements on legislation from the Legislative Council Staff per session to accompany a bill’s fiscal note if the bill has a potential impact on poverty. Potential impacts could be in relation to asset development and/or access to human services, including health care, education and housing. The statement is intended to be a brief narrative with a qualitative or quantitative analysis of how the legislation would impact poverty. |
| Status: | 02/15/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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| HB12-1139 | Pretrial Detention Of Children Tried As Adults |
| Comment: | Gateway 4 – Establishing a Healthy Lifestyle in Childhood and Adolescence |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Pretrial Detention Of Children Tried As Adults |
| Sponsors: | LEVY / GUZMAN |
| Summary: | This bill makes a juvenile detention facility the default pretrial placement for a juvenile who is to be tried as an adult. It prohibits a juvenile from being placed in an adult jail or pretrial facility without a hearing in the district court finding that such a facility is more appropriate for the juvenile’s detention. The court must consider the age and maturity of the juvenile, whether the juvenile would be in solitary confinement for much of the day in the adult facility, and whether the adult facility could meet the juvenile’s mental health and educational needs. |
| Status: | 03/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| HB12-1155 | Improvements In College Completion |
| Comment: | Gateway 6 – Access to Education and Training for Adults Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Actively Monitor |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Improvements In College Completion |
| Sponsors: | MASSEY / BACON |
| Summary: | This bill contains several provisions that are intended to increase the liklihood that students will complete their post-secondary education requirements and earn degrees. |
| Status: | 06/04/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| HB12-1156 | Public Trustee Foreclosure Document Requirements |
| Comment: | Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Public Trustee Foreclosure Document Requirements |
| Sponsors: | MCCANN / JOHNSTON |
| Summary: | This bill tightens the rules governing documentation that the holder of a debt must file with a public trustee before a foreclosure is authorized. In all cases the holder of the debt is required to prove that it has a valid basis for its assertion that it is entitled to foreclose on the property. Additionally, the bill suspends any eviction proceedings if the Rule 120 order has been challenged, until the challenge is resolved. |
| Status: | 03/13/2012 House Committee on Economic and Business Development Postpone Indefinitely |
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| HB12-1238 | Ensuring K-3 Literacy Education |
| Comment: | Gateway 3 – Building a Solid Base for Literacy |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
| News: | New literacy law, campaign |
| Short Title: | Ensuring K-3 Literacy Education |
| Sponsors: | MASSEY / JOHNSTON |
| Summary: | This bill establishes policies and rules designed to ensure that, by the time a student completes third grade, the student’s reading skills are high enough to enable the student to master the standards and expectations for fourth grade and beyond. |
| Status: | 05/17/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| HB12-1241 | Review Enterprise Zone Designations |
| Comment: | TABOR and Fiscal Issues |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
| News: | Task force named to reshape Colorado enterprise zones |
| Short Title: | Review Enterprise Zone Designations |
| Sponsors: | FERRANDINO |
| Summary: | This bill requires any new enterprise zone designation to meet at least two of the criteria listed in statute, rather than at least one. It also requires the Director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and the Colorado Economic Development Commission to review the enterprise zone designations at least once every five years to ensure that the existing zone designations continue to meet those criteria. |
| Status: | 06/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| HB12-1251 | Reforms To Urban & Rural Enterprise Zone Act |
| Comment: | Tabor and Fiscal Issues |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Reforms To Urban & Rural Enterprise Zone Act |
| Sponsors: | HULLINGHORST / HEATH |
| Summary: | This bill makes the following changes to the Enterprise Zone Act: 1) For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2014, limits the amount of an income tax credit that may be claimed for qualified investments in an enterprise zone to $5,000, plus 50% of any portion of the tax liability for the income tax year that exceeds $5,000, up to a maximum of $50,000; 2) Permits a taxpayer to appeal to the Colorado Economic Development Commission for permission to claim a credit in excess of the limit specified in the bill; 3) requires the commission to annually post online information concerning claimed investment tax credits; and 4) requires the commission to provide the department of revenue with information related to taxpayers receiving credits related to enterprise zones. |
| Status: | 02/29/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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| HB12-1260 | Limit Enterprise Zone Investment Income Tax Credit |
| Comment: | TABOR and Fiscal Issues |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Limit Enterprise Zone Investment Income Tax Credit |
| Sponsors: | LABUDA |
| Summary: | For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2013, the bill limits the amount of an income tax credit that can be claimed for qualified investments in an enterprise zone. The limit is the lesser of: 1) The taxpayer’s tax liability for that income tax year to the extent that such liability does not exceed $5,000, plus 50% of any portion of the tax liability for the income tax year that exceeds $5,000, or 2) $250,000. |
| Status: | 02/29/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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| HB12-1271 | Juvenile Direct File Limitations |
| Comment: | Gateway 6 – Access to Education and Training for Adults Gateway Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Juvenile Direct File Limitations |
| Sponsors: | NIKKEL / GIRON |
| Summary: | H.B. 12-1271 Juvenile direct file - eligible juveniles and charges - reverse transfer hearing - juvenile sentencing options. Under current law, a juvenile charged with a specific serious crime can be prosecuted in district court under the district attorney's authority to direct file certain juveniles. This act amends the direct file statute to limit the offenses for which a juvenile may be subject to direct file to class 1 felonies, class 2 felonies, crime of violence felonies or sex offenses if the juvenile has a previous felony adjudication, violent sex offenses, and instances in which the juvenile was subject to certain previous district court proceedings. The act limits direct file to juveniles age 16 or 17. After a juvenile is charged in district court, the juvenile may petition the adult court for a reverse-transfer hearing to transfer the case to juvenile court. The juvenile must make the request at or before the time to request a preliminary hearing, and the court shall set the reverse-transfer hearing at the same time as the preliminary hearing. If, after a reverse-transfer hearing, the court finds that the juvenile and community would be better served by juvenile proceedings, the court shall order the case to juvenile court. If, after a preliminary hearing, the district court does not find probable cause for a direct-file-eligible offense, the court shall remand the case to the juvenile court. Under the act, a juvenile's non-felony conviction must be remanded to juvenile court and, when a juvenile sentence is selected, the conviction converts to a juvenile adjudication. A juvenile sentenced under a direct file shall be treated as a juvenile adjudication. APPROVED by Governor April 20, 2012 EFFECTIVE April 20, 2012 |
| Status: | 04/20/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| HB12-1272 | Enhanced Benefits Unemployed Workers In Training |
| Comment: | Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
| News: | Release: Ramirez’s bill aiding those seeking employment will go into effect this weekend |
| Short Title: | Enhanced Benefits Unemployed Workers In Training |
| Sponsors: | DURAN |
| Summary: | Extends and expands training available for unemployed workers and provides enhanced unemployment insurance benefits while they are participating in the training. |
| Status: | 06/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| SB12-001 | Contracting Preferences For Employing Coloradans |
| Comment: | TABOR and Fiscal Issues
Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Neutral |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Contracting Preferences For Employing Coloradans |
| Sponsors: | HUDAK / DURAN |
| Summary: | This bill would provide a preference for bidders on state contracts if at least 90 percent of the workers on the contract are residents of Colorado. |
| Status: | 04/25/2012 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
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| SB12-003 | Permissible Use Of Credit Information By Employers |
| Comment: | Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Permissible Use Of Credit Information By Employers |
| Sponsors: | CARROLL / FISCHER |
| Summary: | This bill prohibits an employer from using an applicant's or current employee’s consumer credit information for employment purposes unless the position the applicant seeks is one with access to money or asset-management decisions. If an employer relies on consumer credit information to take adverse action regarding an employee or applicant for employment, the employer must disclose that information to the affected individual. The Department of Labor and Employment is tasked with enforcing the law, and those who are adversely affected by a violation of the law can sue for injunctive relief and/or damages. |
| Status: | 03/19/2012 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely |
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| SB12-015 | Creating Optional Category Of Higher Ed Tuition |
| Comment: | Gateway 5 – Leaving High School with a Diploma and the Skills to Succeed
Gateway 6 – Access to Education and Training for Adults |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
| News: | GOP Lawmakers Challenge Hickenlooper On Subsidized Tuition For Illegal Alien Students Metro State College of Denver OKs tuition cut for illegal immigrants |
| Short Title: | Creating Optional Category Of Higher Ed Tuition |
| Sponsors: | GIRON |
| Summary: | This bill would require an institution of higher education to classify a student as a standard-rate student for tuition purposes if the student earned a GED in Colorado or completed at least the last three years of high school in Colorado. The student can pay the standard rate if admitted to an institution in Colorado within 12 months of completing a GED or high school and, if undocumented, the student signs an affidavit to the institution attesting to the submission of an application for lawful status. Standard-rate students will not be eligible for state-funded, need-based financial aid or a stipend from the College Opportunity Fund. Institutions of higher education may opt-out of offering this tuition category. |
| Status: | 04/25/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
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| SB12-022 | Maintain Child Care Assistance Working Families |
| Comment: | Gateway 2 – A Safe and Stimulating Childhood
Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
| News: | |
| Short Title: | Maintain Child Care Assistance Working Families |
| Sponsors: | WILLIAMS S. / MASSEY |
| Summary: | This bill creates a pilot program under which counties can provide child-care assistance for up to a two-year period when a person’s income increases above the county’s income eligibility level for child-care assistance. Counties shall require parents receiving this extended child-care assistance to pay a series of incremental increases to cover the costs of child care based on a formula established by the county. The executive director of the Department of Human Services is may select up to ten counties to participate in the pilot program. |
| Status: | 04/13/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| SB12-023 | Improve Eligible Persons Access To PACE Program |
| Comment: | Gateway 9 – A Financially Secure and Healthy Retirement |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Improve Eligible Persons Access To PACE Program |
| Sponsors: | BOYD |
| Summary: | This bill requires that those who are eligible be informed of the benefits of and their eligibility to enroll in PACE, a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly. |
| Status: | 04/12/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| SB12-032 | Medicaid Reform Seek Federal Waiver |
| Comment: | Gateway 1 – A Healthy Birth
Gateway 4 – Establishing a Healthy Lifestyle in Childhood and Adolescence Gateway 7 – A Healthy Adult Life |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Medicaid Reform Seek Federal Waiver |
| Sponsors: | BROPHY |
| Summary: | This bill requires the state’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to seek a federal waiver to adjust state eligibility levels for Medicaid and the Children’s Basic Health Plan. The waiver would authorize the state to change eligibility levels, increase cost-sharing and premiums that consumers are paying and negotiate a cap on federal reimbursements to the state. |
| Status: | 02/01/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
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| SB12-045 | Higher Ed Associate Degree Transfer Students |
| Comment: | Gateway 6 – Access to Education and Training for Adults
Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Higher Ed Associate Degree Transfer Students |
| Sponsors: | HUDAK / MASSEY |
| Summary: | This bill allows two-year state institutions of higher education to award associate degrees to former students who transferred to four-year state institutions and subsequently accumulated the 60 credits required to earn such a degree. The four-year state institutions of higher education are required to notify two-year institutions once their former students have accumulated 60 credits, and both institutions must inform students of this arrangement. This bill seeks to remove barriers to degree completion by assisting those students who might transfer to four-year institutions and accumulate enough credits to earn an associate degree, but who ultimately do not complete a baccalaureate degree. |
| Status: | 04/18/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
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| SB12-053 | Colorado Health Benefit Exchange Repeal |
| Comment: | Gateway 1 – A Healthy Birth
Gateway 4 – Establishing a Healthy Lifestyle in Childhood and Adolescence Gateway 7 – A Healthy Adult Life |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
| News: | |
| Short Title: | Colorado Health Benefit Exchange Repeal |
| Sponsors: | NEVILLE / LOOPER |
| Summary: | This bill repeals the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange Act if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed or if the U.S. Supreme Court rules that all or any part of the federal act is unconstitutional |
| Status: | 02/02/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
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| SB12-071 | Foreclosure Require Loan Modification Efforts |
| Comment: | Gateway 8 – Earning a Decent Living and Building Wealth |
| Position: | Support |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
| News: | |
| Short Title: | Foreclosure Require Loan Modification Efforts |
| Sponsors: | GIRON / DURAN |
| Summary: | This bill establishes a set of obligations that the holder of a debt must fulfill before foreclosing on a residential property. The goal of these requirements is to make sure that all possible alternatives to default have been explored before a lender forecloses on a property. |
| Status: | 05/09/2012 Senate Committee on Appropriations Postpone Indefinitely |
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| SB12-085 | Reducing General Fund Expenditures |
| Comment: | Gateway 1 – A Healthy Birth
Gateway 4 – Establishing a Healthy Lifestyle in Childhood and Adolescence Gateway 7 – A Healthy Adult Life |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Calendar Notification: | NOT ON CALENDAR |
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| Short Title: | Reducing General Fund Expenditures |
| Sponsors: | MITCHELL |
| Summary: | This bill would return eligibility levels and services in Medicaid and the Children’s Basic Health Plan to 2006 levels by lowering the income level for parents of children eligible for Medicaid as well as the income level for eligibility under the Children’s Basic Health Plan. In addition to narrowing the eligibility criteria, this bill would also narrow the optional services that are eligible for reimbursement under Medicaid, replace the advanced-practice nurses services and eliminate presumptive eligibility for children and certain persons eligible for long-term care. |
| Status: | 02/09/2012 Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Postpone Indefinitely |
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