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| HB16-1020 | No Drones Near Airports Or Jails | ROSENTHAL / COOKE | A person commits introducing contraband in the first degree if he or she knowingly and unlawfully operates any unmanned aircraft system (UAS) within 5 miles of a detention facility with the intent to introduce or attempt to introduce a dangerous instrument, alcohol or an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or marijuana or marijuana concentrate into the detention facility. A person shall not operate a UAS: * Within 5 miles of an airport unless the person is authorized by the airport's air traffic control tower; * In a manner that interferes with the operation of manned aircraft; * More than 400 feet above the earth's surface; * In a manner that is prohibited by any federal law or rule; * In violation of any temporary flight restriction (TFR) or notice to airmen (NOTAM) issued by the federal aviation administration (FAA); or * In the airspace directly above any detention facility. A person who violates any of these prohibitions commits a class 1 misdemeanor. These prohibitions do not apply to the operation of a public UAS operated in compliance with any current and enforceable authorization granted by the FAA. | 1/26/2017 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1036 | History And Culture In Civil Government | SALAZAR / ULIBARRI | The bill mandates funding instruction in public schools of history and civil government of the United States and Colorado, including but not limited to the history, culture, and contributions of the American Indians, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Current law requires school districts to convene community forums to discuss the content standards in history and civil government at least once every 10 years. The bill requires the forums to be held at least every 2 years. The history, culture, and civil government in education commission is established to make recommendations to the state board of education when the state board performs the scheduled review of education standards in 2018 so those standards and programs accurately reflect the history, culture, and civil government of the United States and Colorado, including the contributions and influence of American Indians, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. | 5/5/2017 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1048 | Expand Business Enterprise Program | PRIMAVERA / LUNDBERG | Interim Committee to Study Vocational Rehabilitative Services for the Blind. The business enterprise program administered by the department of labor and employment as of July 1, 2016, provides training, assistance, and priority to persons who are blind and who wish to operate vending facilities on state property. Under the current program, state property includes any building, land, or other real property owned, leased, or occupied by a department or agency of the state except property owned, leased, or occupied by a higher education institution or the board of commissioners of the Colorado state fair authority. The bill removes the exception for property owned, leased, or occupied by higher education institutions or the state fair authority, thereby granting priority to persons who are blind and are licensed vendors to operate vending facilities on higher education and state fair authority properties. Additionally, the bill expands the program to allow persons who are blind and determined qualified to operate other types of businesses on state property. The bill also changes the criteria for determining when a vending facility or other business cannot be operated by a blind vendor to more closely follow the standard under federal law. The bill contains a clause specifying that additional appropriations are not necessary to implement the bill. | 5/4/2017 Governor Signed
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| HB16-1074 | Ltd Gaming Revenue For Online Supplemental Ed | DORE / HILL | After paying for administrative expenses, half of the money in the limited gaming fund is constitutionally allocated and the other half is required to be transferred to the general fund or any other cash fund designated by the general assembly. Of the latter half, the general assembly has designated transfers to the Colorado travel and tourism promotion fund, the advanced industries acceleration cash fund, the local government limited gaming impact fund, the innovative higher education research fund, the creative industries cash fund, and the Colorado office of film, television, and media operational account cash fund, with the remainder transferred to the general fund. The bill reduces all of the transfers of limited gaming revenue to these cash funds by 10%, which totals $3,010,000, and requires the state treasurer to transfer an equal amount of the revenue to the state public school fund to be used to reduce the cost to school districts, charter schools, and boards of cooperative services of purchasing supplemental online education courses. | 1/27/2017 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1100 | Define Tuition Status Unaccompanied Homeless Youth | PETTERSEN | The bill amends statutory provisions relating to the persons qualified to determine domicile for purposes of establishing in-state tuition at state institutions of higher education. The bill adds unaccompanied homeless youth to the list of persons who are qualified to determine their own domicile. An "unaccompanied homeless youth" is defined in the bill, consistent with the federal definition, as an individual who has not attained 22 years of age and who is either an unaccompanied youth who is a homeless child or youth or who has been verified as unaccompanied, at risk of homelessness, and self-supporting by one of four verifiers listed in the bill. The bill amends the definition of "qualified person" in the statutory provisions relating to tuition status to include unaccompanied homeless youth. | 5/17/2017 Governor Signed
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| HB16-1101 | Medical Decisions For Unrepresented Patients | YOUNG | An attending physician or his or her designee (physician) may make health care treatment decisions as a patient's proxy decision-maker if: * After making reasonable efforts, the physician cannot locate any interested persons, or none of the interested persons are willing and able to serve as proxy decision-maker; * The attending physician has obtained an independent assessment of decisional capacity by another health care provider; and * The physician has consulted with and obtained an agreement with the medical ethics committee of the health care facility where the patient is receiving care. If the health care facility does not have a medical ethics committee, the facility shall refer the physician to a party that can provide consultation and recommendations. The authority of the physician to act as proxy decision-maker terminates in the event an interested person is willing to serve as proxy decision-maker or a guardian is appointed. When acting in good faith as the proxy decision-maker, an attending physician or his or her designee is not subject to civil or criminal liability or regulatory sanction. | 5/18/2017 Governor Signed
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| HB16-1114 | Repeal Duplicate Reporting Requirements | DELGROSSO / ULIBARRI | The bill eliminates current employment verification standards that: * Require each employer in Colorado to attest that the employer has verified the legal work status of each employee, has not altered or falsified the employee's identification documents, and has not knowingly hired an unauthorized alien; * Require each employer in Colorado to submit documentation to the director of the division of labor (director) within the department of labor and employment that demonstrates that the employer is in compliance with federal employment verification requirements; * Authorize the director to conduct random audits of employers to ensure compliance with the federal laws; * Require the director to request documentation if the director receives a valid complaint that an employer is not in compliance with federal law; and * Fine an employer for failing to provide documentation or for the provision of fraudulent documentation. | 6/8/2017 Governor Signed
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| HB16-1142 | Rural & Frontier Health Care Preceptor Tax Credit | BUCK / CROWDER | For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2017, but prior to January 1, 2020, the bill offers an income tax credit in the amount of $1,000 to a health care professional who provides a preceptorship during the applicable income tax year. A preceptorship is defined as a mentoring experience in which a preceptor provides a program of personalized instruction, training, and supervision for a total of not less than 4 weeks per calendar year that is offered to an eligible graduate student to enable the student to obtain an eligible professional degree. The credit is available to a taxpayer who: * Is licensed to practice one of a number of primary health care fields of medicine; and * Practiced his or her primary health care field of medicine in a rural or frontier area during the portion of the income tax year for which the preceptor is claiming the tax credit. The bill caps the number of preceptors that may claim the tax credit for any one income tax year at 300. The bill specifies the manner in which the taxpayer is required to apply for the credit and procedures to be followed if a preceptor fails to satisfy the requirements of the bill for a particular tax year. If the amount of the credit allowed exceeds the amount of the income tax otherwise due, the bill allows the balance to be carried forward and applied against the income tax due in each of the 5 succeeding income tax years. | 6/6/2017 Governor Signed
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| HB16-1178 | In-state Tuition American Indian Tribes Ties To CO | SALAZAR / ULIBARRI | The bill requires a state-supported institution of higher education to classify as an in-state student for tuition purposes a student who is a member of a federally recognized American Indian tribe with historical ties to Colorado, as designated by the Colorado commission of Indian affairs in consultation with history Colorado. A student classified as an in-state student pursuant to this tuition classification may be counted as a resident for any purpose pursuant to title 23, C.R.S., and is eligible for state financial aid and the college opportunity fund stipend. The bill exempts Fort Lewis college from its provisions. | 5/4/2017 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1191 | Bill Of Rights For Persons Who Are Homeless | SALAZAR | The bill creates the "Colorado Right to Rest Act", which establishes basic rights for persons experiencing homelessness, including, but not limited to, the right to use and move freely in public spaces without discrimination, to rest in public spaces without discrimination, to eat or accept food in any public space where food is not prohibited, to occupy a legally parked vehicle, and to have a reasonable expectation of privacy of one's property. The bill does not create an obligation for a provider of services for persons experiencing homelessness to provide shelter or services when none are available. | 2/24/2017 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1208 | Create Data Privacy Subcommittee | CARVER / LUNDBERG | The bill creates within the joint technology committee a subcommittee on data privacy and cyber-security (subcommittee) to consider: * Whether state governmental agencies are collecting or retaining data that exceed what is necessary and appropriate for such agencies to perform their functions; * Who has access to such data, the extent of such access, and appropriate measures to protect sensitive data; and * Measures to protect such data against unauthorized access, disclosure, use, modification, or destruction. The subcommittee shall submit its findings to the joint technology committee and to the general assembly, by January 1, 2018. The subcommittee is repealed, effective July 1, 2018. | 3/21/2017 House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1307 | Threats To Persons At Postsecondary Institutions | MELTON / COOKE | Under current law, it is a class 1 misdemeanor for a person to knowingly make a threat of death or bodily injury to a person at an educational institution. The bill makes it a class 6 felony if the threat involves death or serious bodily injury and the person is at a postsecondary educational institution. | 4/7/2016 04/07/2016 House Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1374 | Required Notice & Disclosures Freestanding ERs | MCCANN / KEFALAS | The bill requires a freestanding emergency room that provides emergency services in a facility, charges a facility fee, and is not attached to a hospital to post notices throughout the facility indicating that the facility is an emergency room that provides emergency services to treat emergency medical conditions. Additionally, a freestanding emergency room, after performing an initial medical examination, must inform a patient who is determined not to have an emergency medical condition of, and provide to the patient a written statement containing, the following information: * That the freestanding emergency room charges rates comparable to those charged by a hospital emergency room, including a facility fee of a specified amount; * That the freestanding emergency room or a physician providing medical care at the center may not be a participating provider under the patient's health benefit plan; * That the physician providing medical care at the freestanding emergency room may bill the patient separately from the center; and * That for nonemergency medical conditions, the patient may wish to confer with his or her primary care physician or other primary care provider. The freestanding emergency room must explain the contents of the written statement to the patient, obtain the patient's signature on the document, provide the patient with a copy of the signed document, and maintain the signed document in the patient's medical record. | 5/5/2016 05/05/2016 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1405 | 2016-17 Long Appropriation Bill | HAMNER / LAMBERT | Provides for the payment of expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state of Colorado, and of its agencies and institutions, for and during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, except as otherwise noted. | 5/3/2016 05/03/2016 Governor Signed
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| HB16-1408 | Cash Fund Allocations For Health-related Programs | RANKIN / STEADMAN | Joint Budget Committee. The bill modifies the allocation of cash fund revenues to various health-related programs as follows: * The allocation of revenues annually received by the state pursuant to the tobacco litigation settlement (settlement moneys) is modified and streamlined by replacing the current 2-tier allocation system that includes both percentage-based and fixed amount allocations of settlement moneys with a single set of exclusively percentage-based allocations and replacing settlement moneys funding for specified programs with marijuana tax cash fund funding; * An additional allocation of settlement moneys is made to the university of Colorado health sciences center for the sole purpose of funding cancer research; and * On July 1, 2016, $20 million is transferred from the children's basic health plan trust to a newly created accountable care collaborative fund on July 1, 2016, for the purpose of funding department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) rate incentives for primary care medical providers, other than providers who are reimbursed on a cost-basis, in the accountable care collaborative established by HCPF. The bill also makes and reduces various appropriations in order to accomplish its purposes and repeals various obsolete statutory provisions relating to the past allocation of settlement moneys and past transfers to and from cash funds. | 5/4/2016 05/04/2016 Governor Signed
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| HB16-1420 | CO Healthcare Affordability & Sustainability Enter | HULLINGHORST / CROWDER | The bill creates the Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability enterprise (enterprise) as a type 2 agency and government-owned business within the department of health care policy and financing (HCPF) for the purpose of participating in the implementation and administration of a state Colorado healthcare affordability and sustainability program (program) on and after July 1, 2016, and creates a board consisting of 13 members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate to govern the enterprise. The business purpose of the enterprise is, in exchange for the payment of a new healthcare affordability and sustainability fee (fee) by hospitals to the enterprise, to administer the program and thereby support hospitals that provide uncompensated medical services to uninsured patients and participate in publicly funded health insurance programs by: * Participating in a federal program that provides additional matching money to states; * Using fee revenue, which must be credited to a newly created healthcare affordability and sustainability fee fund and used solely for purposes of the program, and federal matching money to: * Reduce the amount of uncompensated care that hospitals provide by increasing the number of individuals covered by publicly funded health insurance; and * Increase publicly funded insurance reimbursement rates to hospitals; and * Providing or contracting for or arranging advisory and consulting services to hospitals and coordinating services to hospitals to help them more effectively and efficiently participate in publicly funded insurance programs. The bill does not take effect if the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services determine that it does not comply with federal law. The enterprise is designated as an enterprise for purposes of the taxpayer's bill of rights (TABOR) so long as it meets TABOR requirements. The primary powers and duties of the enterprise are to: * Charge and collect the fee from hospitals; * Leverage fee revenue collected to obtain federal matching money; * Utilize and deploy both fee revenue and federal matching money in furtherance of the business purpose of the enterprise; * Issue revenue bonds payable from its revenues; * Enter into agreements with HCPF as necessary to collect and expend fee revenue; * Engage the services of private persons or entities serving as contractors, consultants, and legal counsel for professional and technical assistance and advice and to supply other services related to the conduct of the affairs of the enterprise, including the provision of additional business services to hospitals; and * Adopt and amend or repeal policies for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business. The existing hospital provider fee program is repealed and the existing hospital provider fee oversight and advisory board is abolished, effective July 1, 2016. The bill specifies that so long as the enterprise qualifies as a TABOR-exempt enterprise, fee revenue does not count against either the TABOR state fiscal year spending limit or the referendum C cap, the higher statutory state fiscal year spending limit established after the voters of the state approved referendum C in 2005. The bill clarifies that the creation of the new enterprise to charge and collect the fee is the creation of a new government-owned business that provides business services to hospitals as an enterprise for purposes of TABOR and related statutes and does not constitute the qualification of an existing government-owned business as a new enterprise that would require or authorize downward adjustment of the TABOR state fiscal year spending limit or the referendum C cap. In order to compensate for a proposed reduction in the amount of the fiscal year 2016-17 long bill appropriation of revenue from fees collected by HCPF from hospitals and federal matching money, the bill appropriates $146,693,573 in healthcare affordability and sustainability fees and federal funds to the enterprise for fiscal year 2016-17. | 5/10/2016 05/10/2016 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1421 | Allocate Additional FY 2016-17 Gen Fund Revenues | HULLINGHORST | Contingent upon the passage of legislation (the CHASE Act) that eliminates the hospital provider fee at the end of fiscal year 2015-16, the bill: * Requires legislative council staff, as part of its 2016 economic and revenue forecast, to estimate the total amount of general fund revenues that the state would have been required to make unavailable for expenditure in fiscal year 2016-17 and refund in fiscal year 2017-18 but for the enactment of the CHASE Act; and * Requires the amount estimated by legislative council staff to be allocated as follows: * On September 30, 2016, the state treasurer must transfer the lesser of the full amount or $50 million to the highway users tax fund (HUTF); * On September 30, 2016, the state treasurer must transfer the lesser of the full amount remaining after the HUTF transfer has been made or a total amount of $16.2 million in equal parts to the state severance tax trust fund and the local government severance tax fund as repayment of money diverted from those funds to the general fund in fiscal year 2014-15; * The lesser of the full amount remaining after the HUTF and severance tax fund transfers have been made or a total amount of $40 million must be used to reduce the 2016-17 public school finance negative factor; and * The lesser of the full amount remaining after the HUTF and severance tax fund transfers and the negative factor allocation have been made or $49.5 million is allocated to governing boards of state-supported institutions of higher education to reduce fiscal year 2017-18 tuition increases and provide additional student financial assistance. | 5/11/2016 05/11/2016 House Second Reading Laid Over to 05/12/2016 - No Amendments
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| HB16-1423 | Student Data Collection Use Security | LUNDEEN / HILL | The bill adds to the existing laws pertaining to student data security by adopting additional duties that the state board of education (state board), department of education (department), and school districts, boards of cooperative services, and charter schools (LEPs) must comply with to increase the transparency and security of the student personally identifiable information (student PII) that the department and the LEPs collect and maintain. The bill imposes duties on the commercial entities that provide school services by formal contract with the department or an LEP (contract providers) and the commercial entities that an LEP or employees of an LEP choose to use without entering in a formal, negotiated contract (on-demand providers). Applicability of bill. For provider contracts and research agreements that the department enters into or renews on or after the effective date of the bill, the department must ensure that the contract or agreement includes the restrictions and requirements pertaining to student PII and must terminate the contract or agreement if the contract provider or researcher commits a material breach of the contract involving the misuse or unauthorized release of student PII. For provider contracts that an LEP enters into or renews on or after the effective date of the bill, the LEP must ensure that the contract includes the restrictions and requirements pertaining to student PII and, if the contract provider commits a material breach of the contract involving the misuse or unauthorized release of student PII, must either terminate the contract or hold a public meeting to discuss the nature of the material breach and decide whether to terminate the contract. State board duties. Under existing law, the state board has several duties with regard to the student PII that the department collects from LEPs. These duties include explaining the types of student PII the department collects and creating policies to protect the collected student PII. The bill does not substantively change the duties of the state board, except to require the state board to ensure that an organization that conducts research for the department is subject to the same requirements and restrictions imposed on contract providers. Department duties. Under existing law, the department has several duties with regard to the student PII that the department collects from LEPs. The bill adds to these duties by requiring the department, before it releases student PII to a person or entity that is conducting research, to enter into an agreement with the researcher that includes the same requirements and restrictions that are included in a contract with a contract provider. The department also must maintain on its website a detailed list of the vendors, researchers, researcher organizations, and government agencies with which it has agreements for the release of student PII. The bill requires the department to create a sample student information privacy and protection policy and sample school service provider contract language that LEPs may choose to use. The department must make training materials and, upon request, training services, available to LEPs for training employees with regard to student information security and privacy. LEP duties. The bill requires each LEP to post on its website a list of the student PII that the LEP collects and maintains in addition to the student PII that the LEP submits to the department. Each local education provider must post on its website a list, to the extent practicable, of the on-demand providers that the LEP or an employee of the LEP uses. The LEP must update the list twice each school year. If the LEP has evidence demonstrating that an on-demand provider does not comply with its own privacy policy or does not meet the requirements and restrictions imposed on contract providers, the LEP is encouraged to stop using the on-demand provider. The LEP must notify the on-demand provider, and the on-demand provider may submit a written statement. The LEP must publish on its website a list of the on-demand providers that it stops using, with any written statements it receives, and notify the department when it stops using an on-demand provider for privacy reasons. The department must post on its website a list of the on-demand providers that LEPs stop using for privacy reasons and any written statements from on-demand providers. Each LEP must adopt a student information privacy and protection policy, make copies available to parents upon request, and post the policy on its website. Contract provider duties. Each contract provider must provide clear information concerning the student PII it collects and how it uses and shares the student PII. The contract provider must provide the information to the department and each LEP (public education entity) with which it contracts and post the information on its website. Each contract provider must help an LEP access and correct any factually inaccurate student PII that the contract provider holds. A contract provider may collect and use student PII only for the purposes authorized by the contract and must obtain parental consent to use a student's data in a manner that is inconsistent with the contract. A contract provider cannot sell student PII; use or share student PII for use in targeted advertising; or use student PII to create a profile, except for purposes authorized by the contracting public education entity or with parental consent. A contract provider may use student PII for specified purposes. A contract provider may share student PII with a subcontractor, and a subcontractor may share with a subsequent subcontractor, only if the subcontractor or subsequent subcontractor is, by contract, subject to the restrictions and limitations imposed on the contract provider. If a subcontractor commits a material breach that involves the misuse or unauthorized release of student PII, the public education entity must terminate the contract with the contract provider unless the contract provider terminates the contract with the subcontractor. Each contract provider must maintain a comprehensive information security program and must destroy student PII at the request of a contracting public education entity, unless the student's parent consents to retaining the student PII or the student has transferred to another public education entity that requests retention of the student PII. Each contract provider must destroy all student PII in accordance with the terms of the contract. The bill describes some ways in which a contract provider may use student PII that are exceptions to the restrictions in the bill. Parents' rights. The bill recognizes a parent's right to inspect and review his or her child's student PII; to request a paper or electronic copy of his or her child's student PII; and to request corrections to factually inaccurate student PII that an LEP maintains. The governing board of each LEP must adopt a policy for hearing complaints from parents concerning the LEP's compliance with the bill. | 6/10/2016 06/10/2016 Governor Signed
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| HB16-1450 | Allocate Additional Available State Revenues | HULLINGHORST | Contingent upon the passage of legislation (the CHASE Act) that eliminates the hospital provider fee at the end of fiscal year 2015-16, the bill: * Requires annual estimation for each of the fiscal years 2016-17 through 2020-21 of the total amount of general fund revenues that the state would have been required to make unavailable for expenditure in the fiscal year and refund in the next fiscal year but for the enactment of the CHASE Act; * Requires the amount that is estimated for each fiscal year and relied upon by the general assembly in developing and enacting the state budget for the next fiscal year to be allocated in specified amounts and percentages to: * Repayment of the state severance tax trust fund and the local government severance tax fund for money diverted from those funds since July 1, 2006; * The state education fund; * The college opportunity fund program and institutions of higher education to offset student tuition costs, improve student services and academic quality, address controlled maintenance needs, and provide additional need-based student financial assistance; * The general fund; * The capital construction fund; * The highway users tax fund for allocation to the state highway fund for expenditure by the department of transportation (CDOT) for specified transportation projects. | 5/10/2016 05/10/2016 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely
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| HB16-1453 | Colorado Cybersecurity Initiative | HAMNER / LAMBERT | Joint Budget Committee. The Colorado cybersecurity council (council) is created in the department of public safety to operate as a steering group to develop cybersecurity policy guidance for the governor, develop comprehensive goals, requirements, initiatives, and milestones, and to coordinate with the general assembly and the judicial branch regarding cybersecurity. The council is comprised of specified officers from the governor's office, executive branch agencies, military organizations, institutions of higher education, the attorney general's office, and the state auditor's office. The department of public safety may coordinate with specified entities to define the operational requirements for in-state and interstate operational and training networks. The coordinating entities may: * Consider establishing memoranda of understanding or interstate compacts with entities that encourage the interstate sharing of information for cybersecurity; * Support the requirements for the fusion of cyber defense, cyber surveillance, and international and domestic intelligence and law enforcement operations; * Consider network infrastructures for interstate cyber training and operations; * Support secure Colorado requirements to identify threats and vulnerabilities, defend state cyber infrastructures, and investigate and enforce cyber-related crimes; and * Conduct training, inspections, and operational exercises. The university of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), in partnership with a nonprofit organization that supports national, state, and regional cybersecurity initiatives (nonprofit organization), may establish and expand cyber higher education programs and establish needed cyber education and training laboratories in specified subject areas. UCCS and the nonprofit organization may: * Coordinate with the United States department of homeland security and the national security agency to certify cyber courses and curricula; * Coordinate planning for cyber education with appropriate institutions of higher education; * Identify appropriate curricula for community college and technical certification programs and for elementary and secondary education feeder programs; * Establish a public policy think tank as an academic research center of excellence for government, academic, and industrial communications, conferences, research, and publications; and * Establish education, training, and academic symposia for government leaders at all levels. UCCS and the nonprofit organization also may establish a secure environment for research and development, initial operational testing and evaluation, and expedited contracting for production for industrial cyber products and techniques and may consider: * Creating a business plan to develop a secure facility on the property of UCCS to allow physical, electronic, proprietary, and administrative security; * Exploring secure facility development and use at other Colorado universities and facilities; * Establishing relationships with appropriate federally funded research and development corporations under the sponsorship of the United States department of defense and the United States department of homeland security; * Consider establishing relationships with certain existing federally funded research and development corporations, or consider creating a new organization to focus on defense and homeland security requirements; * Establishing cooperative relationships with Colorado cyber companies and other businesses, local governments, and other Colorado institutions with requirements for cybersecurity participation; * Establishing cooperative relations with civilian industrial producers; and * Linking to local and national military, homeland security, and intelligence community activities to support research and development, rapid test and evaluation, contracting, and production requirements. The cybersecurity cash fund (fund) is created in the state treasury. The fund consists of any money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund. Subject to annual appropriation, the regents of the university of Colorado may expend money from the fund for the purposes of the bill. The cybersecurity gifts, grants, and donations account (account) is created in the fund. The regents of the university of Colorado may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, or donations from private or public sources for the purposes of the bill and are required to credit any such gifts, grants, or donations to the account. The moneys in the account are continuously appropriated to the department of higher education for use by the regents of the university of Colorado for the purposes of the bill. | 5/20/2016 05/20/2016 Governor Signed
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| HB16-1459 | Submission Threshold For Higher Ed Cash Projects | BECKER K. / SONNENBERG | Capital Development Committee. The bill: * Increases the dollar threshold for when the Colorado commission on higher education (CCHE) is allowed to except projects that are not for new construction from the requirements for program and physical planning; * Increases the dollar threshold for when CCHE has a duty to request from the governing board of each state institution of higher education a 2-year projection of projects that are not for new acquisitions of real property or new construction to be undertaken; * Increases the dollar threshold for the submission to the capital development committee of a 2-year report for capital construction or capital renewal projects that are not for new acquisitions of real property or new construction for auxiliary and academic facilities to be funded solely from cash funds held by an institution of higher education; and * Makes conforming amendments and clarifies the reporting requirements. | 6/10/2016 06/10/2016 Governor Signed
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| SB16-037 | Public Access Digitally Stored Data Under CORA | KEFALAS / PABON | The bill makes the following modifications to existing legal requirements under the "Colorado Open Records Act" (CORA) pertaining to the inspection of public records: * Updates outmoded statutory language used to describe public records kept in miniaturized, electronic, or digital form as a foundation for inspection requirements in connection with such records; * Deletes existing language requiring the official custodian to take such measures as are necessary to assist the public in locating the specific records sought and to ensure public access to the public records without unreasonable delay or cost. In place of such language, the bill substitutes provisions requiring the official custodian to provide records, or any portion of such records, in any nonproprietary file format and storage medium specified by a records requestor including digital copies of any computer files on any digital storage medium in common usage at the time of the request, via electronic mail, records uploaded to an online storage location shared with the requestor, access through viewing stations for public records kept on microfiche, or, in the discretion of the official custodian, direct electronic access. If requested, the official custodian must provide the records, or any portion of such records, in the same database or other file format in which the records are maintained by the official custodian unless, in the sole discretion of the official custodian, providing the records or any portion of such records, in the same database or other file format in which the records are maintained by the official custodian will result in the public disclosure of confidential or proprietary information of third parties or specialized details of security arrangements or investigations. In such cases, the official custodian is required to export the data into an alternative machine-readable digital format in common usage at the time of the request. * Requires the official custodian to manipulate electronically or digitally stored data in order to delete any confidential data in response to a records request. Removal of confidential information or data does not trigger certain requirements specified in CORA for the payment of fees for the generation or copy of a public record. However, the official custodian may charge the requestor for the actual cost of the digital storage medium used, if any, and a research and retrieval fee for the time spent removing such information. | 2/24/2017 Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely
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| SB16-062 | Veterinary Pharmaceuticals | MARBLE / BECKER J. | Section 1 of the bill requires the governor to appoint at least 2 members to the state board of pharmacy (board) who are engaged in the practice of, or otherwise professionally interested in, veterinary medicine or animal agriculture. Section 2 removes the sale of veterinary devices from the board's regulatory purview. Section 3 reduces the civil penalty a person faces for unlawfully distributing a veterinary drug to a civil penalty of $50 to $500 for a single violation and a maximum of $5,000 for multiple violations. | 6/10/2017 Governor Signed
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| SB16-071 | Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act 2015 | TODD / THURLOW | Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws. The bill enacts the "Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act (2015)" as drafted by the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws. The "Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act (2015)" replaces the "Uniform Athlete Agents Act" drafted by the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws. New provisions for registration and renewal of registration for athlete agents are established. | 2/22/2017 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Postpone Indefinitely
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| SB16-076 | Repeal Employment Verification Standards | ULIBARRI / DELGROSSO | The bill eliminates current employment verification standards that: * Require each employer in Colorado to attest that the employer has verified the legal work status of each employee, has not altered or falsified the employee's identification documents, and has not knowingly hired an unauthorized alien; * Require each employer in Colorado to submit documentation to the director of the division of labor (director) within the department of labor and employment that demonstrates that the employer is in compliance with federal employment verification requirements; * Authorize the director to conduct random audits of employers to ensure compliance with the federal laws; * Require the director to request documentation if the director receives a valid complaint that an employer is not in compliance with federal law; and * Fine an employer for failing to provide documentation or for the provision of fraudulent documentation. | 2/16/2017 Senate Committee on Business, Labor, & Technology Postpone Indefinitely
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| SB16-121 | Higher Education Tuition Pledged for Bonding | TATE / GARNETT | Under current law, a state institution of higher education or group of institutions may pledge up to 10% of tuition revenues of the institution for purposes of entering into contracts for the advancement of money. The bill allows an institution or group of institutions to pledge up to 100% of tuition revenue if the contract for the advancement of money for which it is pledging tuition is not subject to the higher education revenue bond intercept program and the institution is not a party to any existing contracts for the advancement of money that are subject to the higher education revenue bond intercept program. | 3/31/2017 Governor Signed
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| SB16-135 | Collaborative Pharmacy Practice Agreements | AGUILAR / GINAL | The bill allows a health benefit plan to provide coverage for health care services provided by a pharmacist if the pharmacist meets specified requirements. The bill also allows a pharmacist to enter into a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement with one or more physicians if: * The pharmacist holds a current license to practice in Colorado; * The pharmacist is engaged in the practice of pharmacy; * The pharmacist has earned a doctorate of pharmacy degree or completed at least 5 years of experience as a licensed pharmacist; * The pharmacist carries adequate malpractice insurance; * The pharmacist agrees to devote a portion of his or her practice to collaborative pharmacy practice; and * There is a mechanism in place to document changes to medical records. The bill prohibits the employment of a physician or advanced practice nurse for collaborative practice agreements if the physician or advanced practice nurse does not have a separate medical practice. The bill grants rule-making authority to the state board of pharmacy, the Colorado medical board, and the state board of nursing. | 6/6/2017 Governor Signed
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| SB16-161 | Regulate Athletic Trainers | CROWDER / PRIMAVERA | Prior to July 1, 2015, athletic trainers practicing in Colorado were regulated by the director of the division of professions and occupations (director) in the department of regulatory agencies. In the 2015 legislative session, the general assembly did not enact legislation to continue the director's authority to regulate athletic trainers, resulting in the repeal of the director's authority on July 1, 2015. The bill reinstates the director's authority to regulate athletic trainers, requiring athletic trainers to obtain a registration from the director in order to practice athletic training in Colorado. The bill restores the "Athletic Trainer Practice Act", as it existed on June 30, 2015, with the following substantive changes: * Deletes from the definition of what constitutes the practice of athletic training and moves to a provision specifying the requirements for engaging in the practice of athletic training in this state a requirement that an athletic trainer practice under the direction of a physician, dentist, or other licensed health care professional; * Adds title protection for the abbreviation "A.T.C.", limiting its use to registered athletic trainers; * Requires an applicant for an athletic trainer registration to provide evidence of current certification by the national certifying agency; * Requires a registrant applying to renew his or her registration to submit, if requested by the director, evidence of current certification by the national certifying agency; * With regard to exceptions to the requirements of the practice act, changes the term "student athletic trainer" to "athletic training student"; and * Adds as grounds for discipline the failure of an athletic trainer to practice pursuant to the direction of a Colorado-licensed or otherwise lawfully practicing physician, dentist, or health care professional and the failure to practice in a manner that meets generally accepted standards of athletic training practice. The bill repeals the regulation of athletic trainers on September 1, 2026, and requires the department of regulatory agencies, prior to the repeal, to conduct a sunset review of the regulation of athletic trainers. | 6/8/2017 Governor Signed
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| SB16-196 | Inclusive Higher Education Pilot Program | COOKE / LANDGRAF | The bill creates the pilot program for inclusive higher education for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (pilot program) and identifies pilot sites at institutions of higher education in the state (institutions), including 2 4-year institutions and one community college. The bill requires the department of higher education (department), the institutions participating in the pilot program, JFK Partners, defined in the bill as a program of the university of Colorado medical school, and IN!, defined in the bill as a stakeholder group supporting inclusive higher education, to work together to develop pilot programs at the pilot sites. The bill specifies the minimum requirements for each inclusive higher education pilot program, including, among other requirements, the development of programming for students that allows a student to take two on-campus undergraduate courses each semester in the student's chosen area of interest and a course specific to inclusive higher education, and to earn a certificate from the institution at the completion of the program. In addition, the inclusive higher education pilot programs shall integrate students socially and academically to the greatest extent possible, and shall be outcome-focused in preparing the student for gainful employment in the community. The bill requires JFK Partners to complete an annual formative evaluation of each pilot program and the department to report to the general assembly annually concerning the implementation of inclusive higher education, as well as the results of the JFK Partners evaluation. The bill requires the department to enter into fee-for-service contracts with the governing boards of the institutions, and recognizes that fee-for-service contracts for inclusive higher education programs are not included in certain defined terms for purposes of calculating total appropriations in the college opportunity fund program or determining appropriations for student financial assistance. The pilot program is repealed July 1, 2021. The bill includes transfers of money from the intellectual and developmental disabilities services cash fund in 2016 and 2017 and an appropriation clause. | 6/6/2017 Governor Signed
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| SB16-209 | Authorize Sch Dist Prop Lease To Higher Ed Inst | TODD / BUCKNER | The bill authorizes a school district board of education to lease school district property to a state institution of higher education and to accept in-kind services from the institution as all or part of the lease payments. The bill clarifies that a school district may issue bonds to construct a building for lease to a state institution of higher education. | 6/6/2017 Governor Signed
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