| Bill | Title | Summary |
| HB24-1295 | Creative Industry Community Revitalization Incentives | Section 1 of the bill modifies the community revitalization grant program by: Including projects that are eligible for funding under the space to create program administered by the creative industries division within the office of economic development as projects intended to be supported by the grant program; Extending deadlines for the adoption of policies, procedures, and guidelines for the grant program and for grant program reporting; and Extending the scheduled repeal of the grant program from January 1, 2025, to the date on which all money transferred or otherwise credited to the community revitalization fund pursuant to this section is expended. |
| HB24-1281 | Frontier Communities Regional Tourism Projects | The “Colorado Regional Tourism Act” establishes a process for approving and a mechanism for financing, through state sales tax increment revenue, regional tourism projects that are submitted by local governments and approved by the Colorado economic development commission. The commission currently does not have authority to approve any more regional tourism projects. On or after September 1, 2024, the bill allows the commission to approve up to 2 new regional tourism projects, both of which must be located in a frontier community. The bill also specifies that the term “regional tourism project” includes an agritourism facility together with ancillary uses, structures, and improvements. |
| HB24-1237 | Programs for the Development of Child Care Facilities | The bill creates 3 new programs to be implemented and administered by the division of housing in the department of local affairs. The division is required to adopt policies, procedures, and guidelines for each program on or before November 1, 2024. Each program will be available for 4 years. For each program, collaboration between the division and the department of early childhood is required for the policies the division develops and adopts to implement the programs. |
| SB24-140 | Small Business Research Matching Program | The bill creates the Colorado small business innovative research matching money program in the Colorado office of economic development. The program provides businesses with money to match money that a business received pursuant to a federal small business innovative research program award or a federal small business technology transfer program award. To be eligible for an award from the program, a business must be Colorado-based and must maintain a meaningful nexus to the state for at least 3 years following the commercialization of a service, product, concept, design, or other marketable asset developed using money from the program. A business must also agree to certain reporting requirements. |
| SB24-134 | Operation of Home-Based Businesses | The bill prohibits a unit owners’ association from prohibiting the operation of a home-based business in a common interest community. The operation of a home-based business must still comply with any applicable and reasonable unit owners’ association rules or regulations related to architectural control, parking, landscaping, noise, nuisance, and other matters that may impact the operation of a specific home-based business. The operation of a home-based business must also comply with municipal and county noise and nuisance ordinances or resolutions. |
| SB24-123 | Waste Tire Management Enterprise | The bill creates the waste tire management enterprise. Under current law, when a consumer buys new tires, the retailer charges the consumer a waste tire fee that is then collected by the department of public health and environment and distributed into 2 separate cash funds: The waste tire administration, enforcement, market development, and cleanup fund; and The end users fund. The department uses the money in the waste tire administration, enforcement, market development, and cleanup fund for various purposes related to waste tire recycling and management. |
| HB24-1160 | Economic Development Organization Action Grant Program | The bill creates the economic development organization action grant program within the Colorado office of economic development to provide grants to Colorado-based EDOs to support and increase EDO capacity to implement community-specific economic development programming, as identified in each EDO’s program application. The office is required to administer the program in consultation with the Colorado economic development commission and a statewide economic development organization. |
| HB24-1157 | Employee-Owned Business Office & Income Tax Credit | The bill creates the employee ownership office, which was originally created administratively by the governor in 2020, as a statutory entity within the office of economic development and international trade. The bill also creates an income tax credit for specified costs incurred by new employee-owned businesses, to be administered by the employee ownership office. |
| HB24-1156 | Chamber of Commerce Alcohol Special Event Permit | Under current law, a special event permit allows the service of alcohol beverages during special events. The bill authorizes a special event permit to be issued to a chamber of commerce and chamber of commerce members to participate in a special event. Certain types of business are excluded from participating in the special event. The holder of a retail establishment permit may serve complimentary alcohol beverages during the event but must make snacks and sandwiches available during the event. |
| HB24-1151 | Disclose Mandatory Fees in Advertisements | The bill prohibits a person from advertising a price for a product, good, or service that does not include all mandatory or nondiscretionary fees or charges. A violation of this prohibition is a deceptive trade practice enforceable by the attorney general or a district attorney. |
| HB24-1148 | Amending Terms of Consumer Lending Laws | The bill amends the Colorado “Uniform Consumer Credit Code” to change the terms and interest rates a nondepository institution may charge in a consumer credit transaction. For a consumer credit transaction in which a nondepository institution makes a supervised loan or a consumer credit sale, the bill amends the calculation of the total amount of the finance charge that the nondepository institution may contract for and receive to include the total cost of specific additional charges. |
| HB24-1129 | Protections for Delivery Network Company Drivers | The bill requires a delivery network company operating in the state to provide various disclosures to its drivers and to consumers of the DNC regarding payments that a consumer makes to the DNC and the amount that the DNC then pays to a driver. The bill also requires a DNC to provide specified disclosures to the division of labor standards and statistics (division) in the department of labor and employment regarding the DNC’s operations in the state. The division shall make this information available to the public. The bill imposes specific requirements on the manner in which a DNC may provide contracts to drivers and merchants. The bill specifies how a DNC may deactivate a driver from the DNC’s digital platform. |
| HB24-1121 | Consumer Right to Repair Digital Electronic Equipment | Under current law, an original equipment manufacturer of agricultural equipment or a powered wheelchair is required, upon request, to provide parts, tools, documentation, and other resources to independent repair providers and owners of the manufacturer’s agricultural equipment or powered wheelchairs to facilitate an independent repair. The bill expands the right-to-repair statutes to digital electronic equipment and adds exemptions for various types of digital electronic equipment. |
| SB24-073 | Maximum Number of Employees to Qualify as Small Employer | For the purposes of providing health insurance coverage, current law defines a “small employer” as any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that employs between one and 100 employees during a calendar year. Effective January 1, 2026, the bill amends the definition to define a “small employer” as any person that employs between one and 50 employees during a calendar year. |
| SB24-066 | Firearms Merchant Category Code | The bill requires certain networks that facilitate payment transactions to make the merchant category code for firearms and ammunition available to merchant acquirers who process transactions for firearms merchants. A processor must assign the code to each firearms merchant to which the processor provides services. The attorney general’s office has exclusive authority to enforce the bill. Before bringing an enforcement action, the attorney general’s office must notify in writing the person alleged to have violated the bill. |
| SB24-046 | Restrict Sales of Certain Lighters | The bill prohibits the offer for sale of any counterfeit lighter, unsafe lighter, or novelty lighter. The bill does not prohibit: The interstate transportation of counterfeit lighters, unsafe lighters, or novelty lighters through this state; or The storage of counterfeit lighters, unsafe lighters, or novelty lighters in any distribution center or warehouse if such distribution center or warehouse is closed to the public and does not distribute or sell, at retail, such lighters to the public. |
| SB24-020 | Alcohol Beverage Delivery & Takeout | Current law authorizes certain businesses licensed to sell alcohol beverages at retail by the drink to deliver these beverages or to allow the customer to take these beverages from the licensed premises. This authorization is scheduled to repeal on July 1, 2025. The bill removes this repeal, thereby continuing indefinitely the authorization for alcohol beverage delivery and takeout by specified licensees. |
| SB24-018 | Physician Assistant Licensure Compact | The bill enacts the Physician Assistant Licensure Compact. The compact is designed to enable a physician assistant with a license in a state that has signed the compact to more easily become authorized to practice in any other participating state. Participating states and physician assistants must meet specific conditions enumerated in the compact to participate in the compact. The compact allows only the participating state where a physician assistant is licensed to discipline the physician assistant, but allows a participating state where the physician assistant is practicing, but is not licensed, to revoke the physician assistant’s authority to practice in that state. |
| SB24-011 | Online-Facilitated Misconduct & Remote Tracking | The bill requires an online dating service to have a safety policy that includes certain elements. It is a deceptive trade practice if a service does not have a compliant safety policy. A service shall post its safety policy on the front page of its website or mobile application, include the policy in its dating service contract, and file its safety policy with the attorney general’s office. A service shall annually file a report with the attorney general’s office that includes information about reports of misconduct committed by members that the service has received and actions taken by the service against members who are the subject of those reports. The bill creates a civil cause of action for a person who was tracked by means of a tracking device or tracking application to bring a claim against the actor who installed a tracking device on the person’s property or who caused a tracking device or tracking application to track the person or person’s property without the person’s consent. |
| HB24-1078 | Regulation of Community Association Managers | The bill establishes licensure requirements for business entities that perform community association management for common interest communities in the state and makes it unlawful, on and after July 1, 2025, for a business entity to perform community association management duties without a license. The division of real estate in the department of regulatory agencies is tasked with administering the regulatory program for community association managers. |
| HB24-1051 | Towing Carrier Regulation | The bill requires a driver of tow trucks to undergo a fingerprint-based criminal history record check. If the check produces a criminal history that the public utilities commission determines is inappropriate to drive a tow truck, the driver will not be permitted to drive the tow truck. |
| HB24-1014 | Deceptive Trade Practice Significant Impact Standard | The bill establishes that evidence that a person has engaged in an unfair or deceptive trade practice constitutes a significant impact to the public. |
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