CML Bill List
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Annexation - SB 20-147 - County Impacts From Municipal Annexation
February 3, 2020SB 147 re-imagines the municipal annexation statute with no consultation from CML or its member municipalities. -
Courts - HB 20-1287 - Colorado Rights Act
February 7, 2020HB 20-1287 allows plaintiffs to sue for any type of alleged violation of the Colorado Constitution. -
Criminal Justice - HB 20-1017 - Substance Abuse Disorder Treatment in the Criminal Justice System
January 2, 2020This legislation deals with substance abuse in the criminal justice system.
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Economic Development - HB 20-1003 - Rural Jump Start Reauthorization
January 17, 2020The Rural Jump-Start Zone program created in 2015 is a tax relief program for new businesses and new hires who locate into certain designated economically distressed areas called Jump-Start zones. -
Economic Development - HB 20-1223 - Rural Arts Grant Program
February 9, 2020HB 20-1223 creates the rural arts grant program in the creative industries division within the office of economic development, to provide grants to artists to enhance rural prosperity through the arts and creative sector. -
Elections - HB 20-1156 - Colorado Municipal Election Code Administrative Modifications
December 16, 2019CML-initiated legislation which cleans up conflicting or outdated language in Title 31 as it relates to municipal mail-in ballot procedures, and procedures for Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) ballots. -
Employment - HB 20-1089 - Employee Protection Lawful Off-Duty Activities
January 20, 2020Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee for lawful off-duty activity. -
Fire and Police Pensions - HB 20-1044 - Defined Benefit and Death & Disability Plans Funding
January 2, 2020Legislation from the Pension Reform Commission with elements critical to municipal interests. -
HB 20-1279: Transportation - Drunk Driving Enforcement Funding
February 17, 2020HB 20-1279 requires the general assembly to annually appropriate $2 million to the department for allocation to local government programs that implement high-visibility drunk driving enforcement.
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Housing - HB 20-1035 - Programs to Develop Housing Support Services
January 20, 2020Establishes additional supportive housing programs. -
Housing - HB 20-1233 - Basic Life Functions in Public Spaces
February 7, 2020HB 20-1233 is the latest version of the Right to Rest Act.
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Housing - Inclusionary Zoning to Include Rental Housing Development
January 2, 2020This legislation clarifies that inlcusionary zoning policies on rental housing development is not rent control.
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Housing - SB 20-018 - Outreach to Homeless to Prevent Wildfire
January 20, 2020Creates the Wildfire Risk Reduction Through Homeless Outreach Grant Program in the Department of Local Affairs.
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Housing - SB 20-093 - Dispute Resolution Fairness
January 20, 2020Enacts the Consumer and Employee Dispute Resolution Fairness Act
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Housing- HB 20-1196- Mobile Home Park Act Updates
February 17, 2020HB 20-1196 updates Colorado’s existing Mobile Home Park Act.
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Housing- HB 20-1201- Opportunity to Purchase
February 17, 2020HB 20-1201 sets up mechanisms to provide manufactured home residents the opportunity to purchase a mobile home park that is for sale.
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Immigration - HB 20-1088 - U Visa Certification Requirements
January 20, 2020Changes timelines and requirements for law enforcement and other local officials that certify U Visas. -
Immigration - HB 20-1188 - Liability for Local Governments
February 7, 2020HB 20-1188 makes several exceptions to the prohibition on law enforcement to arrest and creates additional liability for local governments.
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Immigration - SB 20-083 - Prohibit Courthouse Civil Arrest
January 20, 2020Prohibits the civil immigration arrest of someone when they are in a courthouse or its environs.
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Land Use - HB 20-1129 - Battery Charged Electric Fences
January 17, 2020HB 1129 limits the manner in which a local government may regulate electric fences by defining in statute both “battery-charged fence” and alarm systems.
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Local Government - HB 20-1010 - Colorado Accurate Residence For Redistricting
January 17, 2020Under current federal law, the US Census counts US residents where they are physically located. For purposes of redistricting, HB 20-1010 reassigns the place of location for Colorado prison inmates to their last known address prior to being incarcerated. -
Municipal Courts - HB 20-1123 - Grace Period for FTA Warrants
January 31, 2020Mandates that a court must wait 72 hours to issue a bench warrant when and individual fails to appear in court.
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Natural Resources - HB20-1265 - Increased Protections from Emissions of Air Toxic Emissions
February 6, 2020Would direct the Air Quality Control Commission to promulgate rules more stringent than federal standards. -
Natural Resources and Environment - Repeal of Local Preemption on Pesticides
December 16, 2019A bill to allow local governments to adopt ordinances related to the use and application of pesticides. -
Oil and Gas - HB 20-1126 - Local Approval of Oil and Gas Applications
January 17, 2020Repeals the authority of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) to approve oil and gas permit applications if already approved by a local government.
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Public Health - HB 20-100 - Age Restriction on Vaping
December 16, 2019This legislation will change the minimum age restriction to purchase nicotine products and create a statewide licensing system. -
Public Safety - HB 20-1004 - Wildfire Mitigation
January 14, 2020Providing grant funding to local governments and other non-profit agences for landowner wildfire mitigation.
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Public Safety - HB 20-1057 - Wildfire Mitigation Grant Program
January 14, 2020Modifying the Wildfire Mitigation Grant Program
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Public Safety - HB 20-1142 - Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
February 6, 2020Creates a hazard mitigation enterprise to administer a grant program.
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Public Safety - HB 20-1282 - Radio Communication Policies of Governmental Entities
February 6, 2020Requires a governmental entity to allow access to unencrypted radios to the media and develop an encryption policy.
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Public Safety - HB 20-1293-Emergency Telephone Service Charge
December 16, 2019House Bill 20-1293 creates a new, statewide 911 surcharge, which will serve as a pass-through to local 911 governing bodies.
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Public Safety - SB 20-130 - Backcountry Search and Rescue in Colorado
February 6, 2020Conduct a study and develop recommendations on how to address challenges associated with backcountry search and rescue.
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Records - HB 20-1138 - Public Real Property Index
January 19, 2020This bill requires all state agencies, state institution of higher education and political subdivisions of the state to report annually a list of all usable real property owned by or under their control. -
Sustainability - HB 20-1059 - Valuation of Energy Storage Equipment
December 16, 2019Legislation was approved at the Energy Review Committee in November that would require energy storage equipment owned and operated by utilities to be assessed for property tax valuation similar to renewable energy facility properties.
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Sustainability - HB 20-1162 - Prohibition of Food Establishment Use of Polystyrene
January 31, 2020HB 20-1162 would impose a statewide ban on food grade polystyrene products by 2022.
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Sustainability - HB 20-1163 - Management of Single-use Plastic Products
January 31, 2020
HB 20-1163 would impose a statewide ban on single-use plastic shopping bags, plastic stirrers, plastic straws and food-grade polystyrene products by 2021. The bill would also impose a .10 cent fee on paper shopping bags.
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Telecommunications - HB 20- 1137 - Definition of Unserved
December 16, 2019This legislation will allow the Broadband Deployment Board more flexibility in considering a local government's certification that an area is unreserved by broadband.
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Transportation - HB 20-1151 - Regional Transportation Authorities
January 31, 2020Current law allows municipalities and counties to join together to create regional transportation authorities (RTAs) to finance, construct, operate or maintain a regional transportation system. This bill allows transportation planning organizations to act as RTAs by adopting a resolution. -
Transportation - HB 20-1227 - Network-level Distracted Driving Technology
February 9, 2020HB 20-1227 requires telecommunications providers in Colorado to make network-level distraction control technology available to customers.
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Transportation - SB 20-056 - Surplus Military Vehicles Highway Use for Firefighting
December 16, 2019This legislation exempts surplus military vehicles used by local governments and fire protection districts for fire protection purposes from the definition of an “off-highway vehicle” so that they can be used on state highways.
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Transportation - SB 20-061 - Yield to Bicycles in Bicycle Lanes
February 9, 2020SB 20-061 creates a new traffic offense for failing to yield to vehicles traveling in a bicycle lane.
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Transportation - SB 20-065 - Limit Mobile Electronic Devices While Driving
January 17, 2020This bill limits the use of a mobile electronic device while driving to adult drivers who use the mobile electronic device through a hands-free accessory.
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Transportation - SB 20-070 - Traffic Offense Classification and Penalties
January 17, 2020The bill increases the presumptive ranges of fines for traffic offenses and increases specified fines and surcharges for certain traffic offenses. All of the new revenue will go to the counties. The bill also downgrades driving without a license or without insurance from a misdemeanor traffic offense to a class A traffic offense. -
Transportation - SB 20-092 - Robotic Delivery Devices
February 9, 2020SB 20-092 creates a regulatory framework for future deployment of robotic delivery devices in Colorado.
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Utilities - HB 20-1064 - PUC Study of Community Choice Energy
January 17, 2020HB 20-1064 requires a feasibility study on the concepts of “community choice energy” (CCE) under which a community may choose to purchase electricity at wholesale through a supplier other than the local investor-owned electric utility. -
Water - HB 20-1095 - Local Governments Water Elements In Master Plans
December 16, 2019Concerning the authority of a local government's master plan to include policies to implement state water plan goals as a condition of development approvals. -
Water - HB 20-1119 - State Government Regulation Of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
December 16, 2019A bill to grant CDPHE authority to promulgate rules and regulations around perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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Water - SB20-153 - Water Resource Financing Enterprise
February 3, 2020A bill to create the water resources financing enterprise to provide financing to water providers by charging customers of water suppliers 25 cents per thousand gallons of water used.