2021 Legislative Session
HB21-1103
Media Literacy Implementation
Representatives Cutter & Valdez
Senator Gonzales & Garcia
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The act requires the department of education to create and maintain an online resource bank of materials and resources pertaining to media literacy. The act requires the department to provide technical assistance to a school district.
More information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1162
Management of Plastic Products
Representatives Cutter & A.Valdez
Senators Gonzales & Garcia
The act prohibits stores and retail food establishments, on and after January 1, 2024, from providing single-use plastic carryout bags to customers. The prohibition does not apply to inventory purchased before January 1, 2024, and used on or before June 1, 2024, which may be supplied to a customer at the point of sale for a 10-cent or greater fee. The act also authorizes a local government to enforce against a violation of the act and expressly authorizes a county to impose a civil penalty against a store or retail food establishment of up to $500 for a second violation or up to $1,000 for a third or subsequent violation.
More information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1208
Natural Disaster Mitigation Enterprise
Representatives Cutter & Gray
Senator Priola & Winter
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The act creates the natural disaster mitigation enterprise governed by a board of directors, imposes a fee on insurance companies that offer certain insurance policies or contracts. The enterprise awards natural disaster mitigation grants to assist in the implementation of resilience and natural disaster mitigation measures.
HB21-1221
Bullying Prevention and Education in Schools
Representatives Cutter & Young
Senator Coram
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The act requires the department of education to utilize a stakeholder process when updating the model bullying prevention and education policy, which process must include the parents of students who have been bullied. The model policy must clearly differentiate between a conflict and bullying. Also, it must clarify the role of cyberbullying during online instruction, which may occur on or off school property.
HB21-1272
Supporting the Child Protection Ombudsman
Representatives Cutter & Bradfield
Senator Danielson
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This act exempts an employee or person acting on behalf of the office of the child protection ombudsman from testifying in a civil or criminal proceeding in which the ombudsman(an official appointed to investigate individuals' complaints against maladministration) is not a legal party. The act authorizes the ombudsman to receive information, records, or documents related to an incident of egregious abuse or neglect, near fatality, or fatality of a child during the course of an investigation of a complaint
More information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1273
Colorado Department of Education Report Concerning School Psychologists
Representative Cutter
Senator Kolker
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This act requires the department of education to prepare an annual report on the number of pupils enrolled in public schools in the state and the total number of licensed school psychologists in the state employed. The department must make the report publicly available on its website no later than 30 days after its completion.
HB21-1261
Extend Beetle Kill Wood Products Sales Tax Exemption
Representatives Cutter & Catlin
Senators Corum & Ginal
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The sale of wood and wood products from trees killed by pine and spruce beetles in the state was exempt from sales and use tax from 2008 through June 2020. The act extends the exemption from July 1, 2021, through June 2026.
More information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1310
Homeowners Association Regulation of Flags and Signs
Representative Cutter
Senator Rodriguez
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This bill creates an act that simplifies and broadens these protections, requiring an HOA to permit the display of any noncommercial flag or sign at any time, subject only to reasonable, content-neutral limitations such as the number, size, or placement of the flags or signs.
More information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1281
Community Behavioral Health Disaster Program
Representatives Cutter & Will
Senator Pettersen
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This bill works to create an act requires the department of public health and environment to implement the community behavioral health disaster preparedness and response program. The program is intended to enhance, support, and formalize behavioral health disaster preparedness and response activities conducted by community behavioral health organizations.
More information on this bill can be found here.
HB21-1323
Special Olympics License Plate
Representatives Cutter & Amabile
Senators Fenberg & Rankin
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This bill creates an act that creates the Special Olympics Colorado license plate for motor vehicles. A person qualifies for issuance of the plate if the person makes a donation to a designated nonprofit organization that qualifies the following:
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Be headquartered in Colorado;
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Have existed for at least 40 years;
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Provide year-round sports training and athletic competitions for children and adults with intellectual disabilities;
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Collaborate with schools throughout Colorado to bring students together through shared activities that include sports, leadership opportunities, and health education and fitness; and
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Ensure that the donation is spent in Colorado to support athletes with intellectual disabilities.
More information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-108
Public Utilities Commission Gas Utility Safety Inspection Authority
Representatives Cutter & Bernett
Senator Story
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The act declares that, due to recent dramatic increases in both the extraction and transportation of natural gas and the construction of new homes and businesses in close proximity to these activities, as well as the environmental risks posed by methane leakage, it is appropriate to strengthen and streamline Colorado's laws governing gas pipeline safety.
More information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-136
Sunset Forest Health Advisory Council
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Representatives Cutter & Carver
Senators Corum & Ginal
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The act continues the forest health advisory council for 5 years, until 2026.
More information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-154
988 Suicide Prevention Lifeline Network
Representatives Cutter & Soper
Senators Kolker & Simpson
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The act creates the agriculture and drought resiliency fund. The Department of Agriculture will use the fund to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate, adapt to, or respond to any event, trend, or climatological disturbance related to drought or climate. The department will distribute $15,000 from the fund to each conservation district by July 1, 2021. The fund is repealed, effective September 1, 2022.
More information on this bill can be found here.
SB21-234
General Fund Transfer Agriculture & Drought Resiliency
Representatives Cutter & Holtorf
Senators Sonnenberg & Jaquez Lewis
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The act creates the agriculture and drought resiliency fund. The Department of Agriculture will use the fund to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate, adapt to, or respond to any event, trend, or climatological disturbance related to drought or climate. The department will distribute $15,000 from the fund to each conservation district by July 1, 2021. The fund is repealed, effective September 1, 2022.
More information on this bill can be found here.
