Colorado. General Assembly. Legislative Council
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) authorizes $1.2 trillion to be spent over five years for transportation, water, energy, resiliency, and broadband. Of this amount, $550 billion is new spending and $650 billion is reauthorized spending from the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act and other previous authorizations. The majority of state funding in the IIJA is allocated through formulas, but the act also authorizes...
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This memo discusses the scope of bullying in Colorado schools; summarizes the provisions and programs in Colorado state law related to bullying prevention, including safe school plans and criminal penalties; and provides information on training resources and best practices for preventing bullying.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This memorandum provides information regarding state laws penalizing those who misrepresent pets or other animals as service animals. Nine states have laws prohibiting the misrepresentation of pets, and nine states have laws prohibiting people from misrepresenting themselves as disabled in order to gain the use of service animals. Colorado prohibits impersonating an individual with disabilities, without specifying the use of a service animal.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An enterprise is a self-supporting, government-owned business that receives revenue in return for the provision of a good or service. An enterprise may receive up to 10 percent of its annual revenue from state and local government sources. Otherwise, an enterprise must be financially independent of any government. In addition, an enterprise must have bonding authority.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This memorandum addresses questions around recent announcements and consideration of changes to the state employee payroll schedule. Legislative Council Staff has received inquiries regarding the timing and amount of state employee payroll during the months of July and August 2018 as a result of a March 8, 2018 email from the Department of Personnel and Administration (DPA) to Executive Branch employees. The email announces a transition in July 2018...
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This memorandum covers the actions the Colorado General Assembly has taken to strengthen Colorado's behavioral health care system, including creating the Behavioral Health Administration, strengthening the behavioral health care workforce, increasing rural health care access, and treating and preventing substance abuse issues.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This document presents a forecast for annual receipts from the Tobacco MSA through FY 2024-25. The state is expected to receive $92.3 million in 2023; the actual amount received in 2023 will determine disbursements to MSA-funded programs in FY 2023-24.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An enterprise is a self-supporting, government-owned business that receives revenue in return for the provision of a good or service. An enterprise may receive up to 10 percent of its annual revenue from state and local government sources. Otherwise, an enterprise must be financially independent of any government. In addition, an enterprise must have bonding authority.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This memorandum addresses abuse of corpse laws in the 50 states. While the vast majority of states have enacted abuse of corpse or other related laws, they differ in definition and crime classification. For example, some states outline penalties for mutilating or defacing a corpse, while others more broadly define it as "outraging family sensibilities." Over half of the states (29) have classified this crime as a felony instead of a misdemeanor.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An enterprise is a self-supporting, government-owned business that receives revenue in return for the provision of a good or service. An enterprise may receive up to 10 percent of its annual revenue from state and local government sources. Otherwise, an enterprise must be financially independent of any government. In addition, an enterprise must have bonding authority.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This memorandum provides information on five types of programs that provide property tax and/or rental cost relief to seniors. These include: property tax exemptions; property tax credits, and income tax credits that reimburse housing costs; "circuit breaker" programs that provide targeted housing cost relief to low-income seniors; property tax freezes; and property tax deferrals.
Author
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This memorandum provides an overview of broadband internet service programs in Colorado, including the Colorado High Cost Support Mechanism; state grant programs and other state programs; the ability of local governments to provide broadband; and related recent legislation.
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