Colorado legislators introduced a bill that would require an insurer to provide summaries in either English or Spanish based on the choice of the insured. Failure to comply for auto insurance policies would allow insureds to void any mandatory coverage rejections, recover reasonable attorney fees and costs associated to rewrite or reinstate the coverage and they wouldn’t need to pay any premiums for the policy period applicable for the rewritten coverage.
Also introduced this week is a bill that would remove the requirement for a court order obligating a child’s parent to pay the fee for residential child care and guardian ad litem costs if the child is being placed with a public agency.
Bill Number: HB24-1440
Title: Property & Casualty Insurance Documents & Forms
Introduced: April 4
Sponsors: E. Velasco, J. Gonzales
Summary: The bill repeals requirements for insurers that issue commercial and personal automobile, homeowners and renters insurance policies to provide certain policy documents in an insured’s selected language of choice and instead requires insurers, starting Jan. 1, 2026, to provide the information in either English or Spanish, based on the choice of the insured. If an insurer fails to comply with the requirements of the bill with regard to an automobile insurance policy, the insured may elect to void any mandatory coverage rejections or exclusions in the automobile insurance policy, may recover reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred for reinstating or rewriting the coverage and isn’t required to pay any premium for the policy period applicable for the reinstated or rewritten coverage.
Bill Number: SB24-198
Title: Regulated Natural Medicine Implementation
Introduced: April 5
Sponsors: S. Fenberg, D. Michaelson Jenet, K. Brown, K. McCormick
Summary: The bill authorizes the director of the division of professions and occupations in the Department of Regulatory Agencies to approve facilitator education and training programs, exempts facilitator education and training programs from regulation as private educational schools and updates rule-making by the Department of Public Health and Environment and the state licensing authority related to laboratory testing and certification of natural medicine products. It also prohibits individuals, rather than all persons, from having a financial interest in more than five natural medicine business licenses and clarifies that a person may operate a natural medicine testing facility at the same location as a regulated marijuana testing facility.
Bill Number: SB24-202
Title: Assignment of Child Support Foster Youth
Introduced: April 8
Sponsors: R. Fields, J. Joseph
Summary: Current Colorado law requires that a decree providing for placement of a child with a public agency be accompanied by a court order that obligates the child’s parent to pay a fee, based on the parent’s ability to pay. The fee covers the costs of a guardian ad litem and of providing for residential care of the child. The bill removes the requirement for a court order obligating a child’s parent to pay the fee for residential child care and guardian ad litem costs.
Bill Number: SB24-200
Title: Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in Child Welfare
Introduced: April 8
Sponsors: D. Michaelson Jenet, J. Coleman, J. Bacon, J. Joseph
Summary: The bill creates multiple ways to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion in Colorado’s child welfare system. The state Department of Human Services is directed to work with county departments of human or social services to update the existing annual departmental EDI report using state data sources and national child welfare data clearinghouses. Among other provisions, the department would also need to identify necessary demographic or other data that is not currently collected in Colorado’s child welfare case management system and determine recommendations for improving data collection statewide.
Bill Number: HB24-1445
Title: Probation & Parole Reporting & Fee Conditions
Introduced: April 9
Sponsors: J. Bacon, R. Armagost, B. Gardner, J. Gonzales
Summary: The bill requires the state court administrator to annually report on probation and parole supervision fees assessed in the previous year during its SMART Act hearing. Unless inconsistent with another probation condition, the bill requires the court to allow an adult or juvenile on probation to meet with the probation officer through a telephone call or audio-visual communication technology. Furthermore, when scheduling probation meetings, the probation officer is required to schedule, in good faith, a mutually agreeable time for the meeting.
Bill Number: SB24-205
Title: Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence
Introduced: April 10
Sponsors: R. Rodriguez
Summary: The bill requires a developer of a high-risk artificial intelligence system to use reasonable care to avoid algorithmic discrimination in the high-risk system. There is a rebuttable presumption that a developer used reasonable care if the developer complied with specified provisions in the bill, including making available to a deployer of the high-risk system a statement disclosing specified information about the high-risk system.
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