| Bill # | Bill Title | Bill Summary |
| HB24-1029 | Prohibit Foreign Ownership Agriculture & Natural Resources | The bill prohibits, on or after January 1, 2025, a nonresident foreign citizen, foreign entity, or foreign government of the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, or any country determined by the United States secretary of state to be a state sponsor of terrorism from acquiring a controlling ownership share in agricultural land, mineral rights, or water rights in the state.The prohibition does not apply to a refugee who is a covered foreign person and acquires a controlling ownership share in real property used for the purposes of agriculture with prior approval of the acquisition by the Colorado secretary of state. |
| HB24-1128 | Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law | In 2006, the general assembly passed Senate Bill 06-090. This bill recreates and reenacts the 2006 bill. Current law prohibits: A person from being arrested while the person is present at a courthouse, or while going to, attending, or coming from a court proceeding, and provides remedies for a violation; A probation officer or probation department employee from providing personal information about an individual to federal immigration authorities; and State and local governmental entities from contracting with a private entity for immigration detention services or entering into agreements for immigration detention services. The bill repeals each of these laws. |
| HB24-1280 | Welcome, Reception & Integration Grant Program | The bill creates the statewide welcome, reception, and integration grant program (grant program) in the department of labor and employment (department) to provide grants to community-based organizations that provide culturally and linguistically appropriate navigation of services and programs to migrants who are within one year of arrival in the United States. |
| HB24-1286 | Equal Justice Fund Authority | The bill creates the equal justice fund authority as a special purpose authority to administer the equal justice fund for the purpose of providing monetary support to local organizations that provide legal representation and legal advice to low-income individuals. The bill requires certain court filings to incur an additional $20 filing fee that must be annually deposited into the equal justice fund. The bill prohibits a judge from requiring indigent parties to pay the docket fee for a civil action. |
| SB24-103 | Labor & Employment Status Technical Changes | Section 1 of the bill corrects a cross reference to the annual Colorado talent report by deleting a reference to a subsection that does not exist within the article regarding intrastate air service within the state of Colorado. Section 2 removes unnecessary language to clarify that a qualifying organization that receives a grant from the immigration legal defense fund shall only use the grant for services that include providing indigent clients with representation before the board of immigration appeals within the United States department of justice, but not representation before a United States district court, a United States circuit court of appeals, or the United States supreme court. |
| SB24-119 | Term Abandonment for Federal Classification Juvenile | Current law states that if there is sufficient evidence to determine that reunification of a child or youth with one or both parents is not viable due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis, the child or youth is eligible for federal classification as a special immigrant juvenile. The bill clarifies that “abandonment” includes the death of one or both parents. |
| SB24-125 | Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children | The bill enacts the “Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children.” The purpose of the compact is to: Provide a process through which children subject to this compact are placed in safe and suitable homes in a timely manner; Facilitate ongoing supervision of a placement, the delivery of services, and communication between the states; Provide operating procedures that will ensure that children are placed in safe and suitable homes in a timely manner; Provide for promulgation and enforcement of administrative rules implementing the compact and regulating the covered activities of the member states; Provide for uniform data collection and information sharing between member states; Promote coordination between the compact, the interstate compact for juveniles, the interstate compact on adoption and medical assistance, and other compacts affecting the placement of children and provision of services to children otherwise subject to this compact; Provide for a state’s continuing legal jurisdiction and responsibility for placement and care of a child that it would have had if the placement were intrastate; and Provide for the promulgation of guidelines, in collaboration with Indian tribes, for interstate cases involving Indian children as is or may be permitted by federal law. |
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