House Bill 1002
Priority of TABOR Refund Methods. Sponsored by Senator Sandoval and Representative Kefalas.
HB 1002 increases the the threshold necessary to trigger a temporary income tax rate reduction as a method to provide a constitutionally required refund of excess state revenues so that the rate reduction does not occur unless there is also an earned income tax credit refund. State fiscal impact: None. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1009 Pinnacol Assurance Board of Directors. Sponsored by Senator Hodge and Representative Miklosi.
HB 1009 requires 2 employee members of the board of directors of Pinnacol Assurance board to be nonmanagement employees. It adds 2 additional members to the board: injured worker and executive director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. HB 1009 increases per diem for board members from $140 to $250. It requires the board to post date, time, and location of board meetings on Pinnacol Assurance web site at least 7 calendar days prior to meeting. It also requires the board to allow reasonable time for public comment at meetings. State fiscal impact: Although no state fiscal impact is anticipated, HB10-1009 is expected to increase expenditures for Pinnacol Assurance. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1013 Modification to School Finance Sponsored by Senator Romer and Representative Middleton.
HB 1013 requires school districts to provide funding for capital construction to each qualified charter school in the district by making a monthy payment to the qualifed charter school after the school district has received the monthly payment fom CDE. HB 1013 eliminates a local board of education's authority to negotiate business incentive agreements with a tax payer who establishes a new business facility in the school district. HB 1013 requires a district to notify the state board of education when it plans to seek voter approval to retain and spend additional property tax revenues and to submit a proposal of what the district will do with the additional revenue. HB 1013 eliminates the requirement that CDE reduce a school district's state share of total program funding by an amount equal to the payment that the district receives as impact assistance in lieu of taxes from the divison of wildlife. HB 1013 requires the General Assembly to make an annual appropration for matching funds pursuant to the "National School Lunch Act". In 2008 the general assembly increased the charter school capital construction appropriation and required that a specific amount of the increase be distributed to a charter school for the deaf and blind for the 2008-09 budget year only. HB 1013 eliminates language that was necessary in connection with the distribution of these moneys. State fiscal impact: State General Fund Expenditures FY10-11 $98,767. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1028 Universal Application for Early Childhood Programs. Representative Benefield and Senator Hodge.
HB 1028 establishes an early childhood universal application subcommittee to the government data advisory board created in the office of information technology. The subcommittee will report to the CIO and the advisory board. It stipulates that the CIO will prepare a report on a universal application to be used by all state agencies, school districts, and federally funded early childhood programs and will combine the report into the annual report the CIO submits to the general assembly. The subcommittee is repealed July 1, 2013. State fiscal impact: none; within existing state appropriations. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1030 Creation of the Early Childhood Educator Development Program. Sponsored by Senator Steadman and Representative Peniston.
Subject to the receipt of sufficient federal moneys or gifts, grants, or donations HB 1030 creates the early childhood educator development scholarship program in CDE. The program will provide scholarships to persons who are employed in early childhood development who are pursuing an associate of arts degree in early childhood education. State fiscal impact: TBD. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1034 Credentialing of School Speech Language Pathology Assistants. Sponsored by Senator K. King and Representative Massey.
HB 1034 allows CDE to issue an emergency authorization to a school speech-language pathology assistant who has not yet met the statutory requirements for a school SLP assistant authorization. State fiscal impact: TBD. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1036 Online Public Access to Public School Financial Information. Sponsored by Senator Romer and Representative Scanlon and Massey.
HB 1036 enacts the "Public School Financial Transparency Act", which requires school districts, district charter schools, boards of cooperative education, the state charter school institute, and institute charter schools to post financial information on-line, in a downloadable format, for free public access. July 1, 2010, adopted budgets, annual audited financial statemenst, at least quarterly financials, and salary schedules or policies are required to be posted. July 1, 2011, check registers, credit/debit/purchase card statements are required to be posted. July 1, 2012, investment performance reports or statements must be posted. The FPP committee is charged with developing templates for voluntary use by entities subject to this requirement. State fiscal impact: none; local district expenses coming from existing resources. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1037 Continuation of Funding for Supplemental On-line Education Services. Sponsored by Senator Spence and Representative Massey.
HB 1037 continues the supplemental on-line education grant program and the funding of a contract for the provision of supplemental on-line education services. State fiscal impact: None. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1064 Ineligible Student Arbitration Appeal. Sponsored by Senator Spence and Representative S. Schafer.
HB 1064 requires a student who is found by a school, school district, or any organization or association to be ineligible to participate in an extracurricular or interscholastic activity or who is otherwise sanctioned to complete an appeal process before filing a petition or complaint with a group of sitting or retired judges or other group of neutral arbitrators. State fiscal impact: None. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1108 Independent Contracting Nonprofit Youth Sports Coach. Sponsored by Senator Johnston and Representative McCann.
HB 1008 establishes a written contract between a coach and nonprofit youth sports organization, declaring that the coach is an independent contractor and not an employee of the organization, is conclusive evidence of the independent contractor relationship between the coach and the organization. State fiscal impact: None. Signed the Governor.
House Bill 1131 Colorado Kids Outdoors Grant Program. Sponsored by Senator Gibbs and Representative Scanlan.
HB 1131 creates the Colorado kids outdoors grant program in the department of natural resources to provide grants for programs that allow Colorado youth to participate in outdoor activities in the state. The executive director of the department of natural resources will adopt rules to implement the grant program, including criteria for selecting grant recipients. An advisory council will assist the executive director. Directs CDE, in consultation with the department of natural resources, to create and the state board of education to adopt a state plan for environmental education. State fiscal impact: Contingent on support from public or private gifts, grants, and donations. State Revenue and Expenditures: Colorado Kids Outdoors Grant Program Fund FY10-11 $101,725, State Environmental Education Fund FY10-11 $11,777. 0.1FTE. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1147 Safer Streets for Non-Motorized Transport. Sponsored by Representative Kefalas and Senator Bacon.
HB 1147 requires CDOT and the departments of education and public safety to collaborate with local governments, school districts, and appropriate organizations to develop and make available to schools a comprehensive educational curriculum regarding the safe use of public streets and premises open to the public by users of non-motorized wheeled transportation. It requires an individual, with exemptions, 2 years of age or older but under 18 years of age to wear a helmet whenever the individual uses non-motorized wheeled transportation on a public street or premises. It also defines "nonmotorized wheeled transportation". State fiscal impact: State Highway Fund Revenue: FY10-11 $41,700 / State Highway Fund Expenditure: FY10-11 $111,645 ($41,700 of this amount relates to producing safety information cards and is contingent upon receiving gifts, grants, or donations). Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1171 Education Related Data Reporting Requirements. Representative Benefield and Senator Steadman.
HB 1171 repeals the requirement that a districts have to report students who obtain a high school diploma after reaching 21 and the specific definition of dropout for those students. It repeals some of the reporting requirements under CBLA for school districts. It also repeals the requirement for districts to submit their annual budgets to CDE. It clarifies whether EDAC can declare a data reporting request as mandatory, required to receive a benefit, or voluntary. HB 1171 directs EDAC to review the processes and timing for collecting student demographic data and recommend efficient updates to the state board. It repeals reporting on physically, morally and mentally defective students, data from in-home or in-school suspenstion grant program, and data from the pilot schools for expelled students. HB 1171 requires higher education institutions to report individual student remediation to school districts data as soon as the institutions begin using the unique student identifier. State fiscal impact: None. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1183 Pilot for Alternative School Finance Funding Models. Sponsored by Representative Middleton.
HB 1183 creates a pilot program to test other methods of funding by collecting data demonstrating the difference for school districts as if they had been funded under a different model while still receiving existing funding. Districts applying for participation must demonstrate what the model is based upon, incentives or outcomes of applying the model, how the effects of the model will be measured, benefits/obstacles to implementing the model statewide, and any waivers that would be necessary. It creates an 9-member advisory council to review applications and select participants. State fiscal impact: None. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1232 School Bus Vehicle Definitions. Sponsored by Representative Baumgardner.
HB 1232 defines the term "school vehicle"; amends the definition of "school bus"; and amends certain statutory provisions that refer to "school vehicle" and "school bus" to clarify when each term applies. State fiscal impact: State Revenue: Fines Collection Cash Fund <$ 5,000 annually. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1273 Arts Education for Workforce Development. Sponsored by Representative Merrifield and Senators Spence and Steadman.
HB 1273 requires each public school in Colorado to provide visual arts and performing arts education. Demonstration of proficiency regarding the visual arts and performing arts standards will be a condition of high school graduation from public schools beginning with the ninth-grade class of 2010-11. It requires the State Board of Education to adopt rules for each individual and career academic plan to include the student's progress in visual arts and performing arts classes. State fiscal impact: for some schools additional FTE and art education resources will be required. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1274 Out-of-Home Juvenile Transition to Public Schools. Sponsored by Representative Schafer and Senator Johnston.
HB 1274 requires the department of human services (DHS) to provide written notification to a school district, charter school, or institute charter school 10 days prior to enrollment of a student who has been placed in out-of-home placement and is identified as potentially presenting a risk to himself or herself or the community. In a case where the student requires an emergency placement, the bill requires the department to provide written notification to the school 5 days prior to the student's enrollment. DHS and CDE are required to enter into a memorandum of understanding that includes a consistent method to share key information about such students and work collaboratively to create transition plans for such students, a plan for using existing state and federal data and existing information sharing activities, an appeals process if there is a disagreement between a school district, charter school, or institute charter school and the county department of social services regarding the enrollment of a student; and a plan for determining accountability concerning the use of the notification periods and the number of emergency placements that occur. State fiscal impact: This bill may create additional state expenditures for juveniles in the child welfare system who need to be placed in a school district in less than 10 or 5 days. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1318Minimum State Aid to Schools. Sponsored by Representative Pommer and Senator Tapis.
HB 1318 suspends the minimum state aid requirement for the 2010-11 through 2014-15 budget years. To off-set the direct and indirect administrative costs incurred by the department in implementing the provisions of the act to be taken off the top of school finance. State fiscal impact: State Expenditures: General Fund FY09-10 $0, FY10-11 ($212,996), FY11-12 ($124,907). Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1335 BOCES School Food Program. Sponsored by Representative Massey.
HB 1335 authorizes each board of cooperative services (BOCES) to maintain, equip, and operate a food-service facility as a school food authority. It creates the BOCES healthy food grant program in CDE to: (1) make grants available to BOCES that maintain, equip, and operate food-service facilities as school food authorities; and (2) require each BOCES that receives a grant from the program to procure and distribute to schools of its constituent school districts only food and beverages that satisfy certain nutritional standards. It also sets forth an application process for the program and permissible uses of grant moneys. State fiscal impact: State Revenue: BOCES Healthy Foods Grant Program FY10-11 $250,000, FY11-12 $250,000 / State Expenditures: BOCES Healthy Foods Grant Program FY10-11 $246,430, FY11-12 $246,430 / 1.3 FTE annually. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1345 Emergency Powers During Emergency Situations at Charter Schools. Sponsored by Representative T. Carroll.
HB 1345 grants a school district board of education or the CSI the ability to request from the Commissioner of Education the power for an external entity to have control over a charter school that is considered to be in an emergency situation. Authority may include a temporary order, preliminary order, an order of reorganization, or an order authorizing a petition for bankruptcy. Emergency situation is defined as a threat to health or safety, threat to property rights, substantial diversion of moneys including excessive benefits. It grants civil immunity to any fiduciary and the commissioner if acting in good faith. State fiscal impact TBD. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1369 The Financing of Public Schools (School Finance Act). Sponsored by Representative Scanlon and Senator Bacon.
HB 1369 increases the statewide base from $5,507.68 + $22.03 (0.4% increase) = $5,529.71. Reduces the overall total program amount through the use of a negative factor, titled the state budget stabilization factor, to an amount is not less than $5,438,295,823, which is $260,000,000 less than the initial statewide total program funding for FY 2009-10. Amended to allow the factor to apply to FY 11-12 also. Amended to allow districts funded primarily with property taxes to retain all local property tax revenue. Requires the same percentage reduction in funding to come from online and ASCENT funding also. Changes how the interest earned on the investment of the moneys in the public school fund is directed, with the first $11 million required to be credited to the state public school fund for distribution as provided by law. Any interest earnings beyond the $11 million shall remain in the fund and become part of the principal of the fund. Amended to require each school district to provide a report to CDE examining the financial benefits of consolidiating the central administrative functions of multiple school districts in each county. CDE Summary. State Fiscal Impact:
$5,438,295,823 ($260,00,000 less than the original appropriation for FY 2009-10). Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1376 
Long Bill. Sponsored by Representative Pommer and Senator Keller
HB 1376 is the Colorado State Budget for Fiscal Year 2010-2011. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1412 Charter School and Authorizer Sandards. Sponsored by Representative T. Carroll.
HB 1412 creates a 13-member committee to make recommendations on charter school standards and charter authorizer standards to the State Board of Education and the House and Senate Education Committees. (Bill is meant to replace HB 1343 and 1344.) Areas of concentration include agency capacity, approval process, performance contracting and school opening, on-going oversight and evaluation, renewal decision making, ethical issues such as nepotism, excessive benefits, and conflicts of interest. The State Board is required to promulgate rules. Signed by the Governor.
House Bill 1383 Higher Education Funding CollegeInvest. Sponsored by Representative Pommer and Senator White
HB 1383 transfers $29.8 million from the Trust Fund to the General Fund. Refinances $15.4 million General Fund for need-based financial aid with an appropriation from the Trust Fund to the Department of Higher Education. Provides a one-year exemption in FY 2010-11 from a statutory MOE requirement for financial aid programs. Amended to require the General Assembly to utilize 1.5% of the statutory reserve before utilizing CollegeInvest funds. State Fiscal Impact: $46M. Signed by the Governor.