| Bill # | Short Title | Bill Summary |
| HB24-1008 | Wage Claims Construction Industry Contractors | For wage claims brought by individuals working in the construction industry, the bill: Requires that a subcontractor that receives a written demand for payment forward a copy of the written demand for payment to the general contractor within 3 business days after receipt; Specifies that a general contractor and a subcontractor that is a direct employer of an employee are jointly and severally liable for all debts owed based on a wage claim or investigation that are incurred by the subcontractor acting under, by, or for the general contractor; and Allows a general contractor to require the following information from each subcontractor acting under, by, or for the general contractor: Pay data; Contact information; and An affidavit attesting to whether the subcontractor has participated in a civil or administrative proceeding within the last 5 years and, if so, the outcome of the proceeding. |
| HB24-1015 | Workplace Suicide Prevention Education | The bill requires the division of labor standards and statistics in the department of labor and employment to create and make available to employers suicide prevention education posters and notices. |
| HB24-1066 | Prevent Workplace Violence in Health-Care Settings | The bill enacts the “Violence Prevention in Health-care Settings Act”, applicable to hospitals, freestanding emergency departments, nursing care facilities, assisted living residences, and federally qualified health centers, and the “Violence Prevention in Behavioral Health Settings Act”, applicable to comprehensive community behavioral health providers. |
| HB24-1095 | Increasing Protections for Minor Workers | The bill increases penalties for violations of the “Colorado Youth Employment Opportunity Act of 1971” and requires that the penalties be deposited into the wage theft enforcement fund. Entities that violate the act must also pay specified damages to the individual who is aggrieved. |
| HB24-1110 | Employer to Post Veterans’ Benefits Availability | The bill requires the department of labor and employment, in consultation with the department of military and veterans affairs, to create and distribute a poster that provides information on services, resources, and benefits that are available to veterans of the armed services. |
| 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 in the department of labor and employment regarding the DNC’s operations in the state. |
| HB24-1132 | Support for Living Organ Donors | Section 1 of the bill creates the “CARE for Living Organ Donors Act” to include benefits and recognition for living organ donors. Section 3 prohibits an employer from intimidating, threatening, coercing, discriminating, or retaliating against or taking an adverse action against an employee who is or becomes a living organ donor. |
| HB24-1139 | Death Benefit for State Employee Surviving Spouse | Pursuant to the “Workers’ Compensation Act of Colorado”, if an employee dies, death benefits are paid to a dependent surviving spouse of the employee for life or until remarriage. |
| HB24-1220 | Workers’Compensation Disability Benefits | The bill allows a claimant for workers’ compensation benefits to refuse an offer of modified employment if the employment requires the claimant to drive to and from work and the treating physician has restricted the claimant from driving. |
| HB24-1245 | Fair Labor Practice Requirements for Broadband Projects | The Colorado broadband office is authorized to seek or apply for, accept, and expend money from the federal government for broadband deployment. |
| HB24-1260 | Prohibition Against Employee Discipline | The bill prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to attend meetings, listen to speech, or view communications concerning religious or political matters. The bill also prohibits an employer from threatening an employee, subjecting an employee to discipline, or discharging an employee on account of the employee’s refusal to attend or participate in an employer-sponsored meeting where the employer communicates religious or political matters or opinions. |
| HB24-1280 | Welcome, Reception, & Integration Grant Program | The bill creates the statewide welcome, reception, and integration grant program in the department of labor and employment 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. |
| HB24-1317 | Workforce Data Collection | The bill requires the director of the division of employment and training in the department of labor and employment to annually collect, analyze, and make recommendations to the general assembly based on data from workforce centers; the state, in relation to data it has collected concerning workers in specific age categories, beginning at age 50; and individuals with disabilities. |
| HB24-1324 | Attorney General Restrictive Employment Agreements | The bill grants the attorney general rule-making authority over restrictive employment agreements. |
| HB24-1329 | Sunset Architects Engineers & Land Surveyors | The bill implements the recommendations of the department of regulatory agencies contained in the department’s 2023 sunset review of the state board of licensure for architects, professional engineers, and professional land surveyors. |
| HB24-1360 | Colorado Disability Opportunity Office | The bill creates the Colorado disability opportunity office within the department of labor and employment as a type 1 entity. |
| HB24-1409 | Employment-Related Funding & Workforce Enterprise | Under current law, employers pay an annual support surcharge to fund unemployment administration and to support the solvency of the unemployment insurance trust fund. The bill requires the maximum amount to be adjusted for inflation based on the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood consumer price index. |
| HB24-1439 | Financial Incentives Expand Apprenticeship Programs | For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035, section 1 of the bill creates a refundable state income tax credit that an employer may claim if the employer employs an apprentice for at least 6 months during an income tax year and either has a registered apprenticeship program or is an employer-partner of a registered apprenticeship program. Section 2 ends the state income tax credit for qualified investments made in a qualified school-to-career program for income tax years after December 31, 2024. Section 4 creates the scale-up grant program in the department to start new registered apprenticeship programs or expand existing programs in Colorado. Section 5 creates the qualified apprenticeship intermediary grant program in the department to support entities that demonstrate expertise in connecting employers or apprenticeship program participants to registered apprenticeship programs or in convening stakeholders to develop registered apprenticeship programs. |
| HJR24-1023 | Resolution Forced Labor Electric Vehicles | Concerning government procurement of electric vehicles with forced labor components. |
| SB24-050 | Colorado Workforce Demonstration Grants Pilot Program | The bill creates the Colorado workforce demonstration grants pilot program in the office of economic development to provide grants to eligible workforce training providers in order to facilitate workforce training for eligible participants. The office administers the pilot program and awards grants from the Colorado workforce demonstration grants pilot program cash fund, which is created in the bill. money. |
| SB24-073 | Maximum Number of Employees to Qualify as Small Employer | 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. |
| SB24-075 | Transportation Network Company Transparency | The bill requires a transportation network company operating in the state to provide various disclosures to the TNC’s drivers regarding payments that a consumer makes to the TNC and the amount that the TNC then pays to a driver. On or before May 1, 2025, a TNC is required to develop a driver deactivation policy describing the TNC’s procedures for deactivating a driver from the TNC’s digital platform. The TNC is required to disclose to drivers its driver deactivation policy. |
| SB24-103 | Labor & Employment Statutes 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. Section 3 clarifies that the “approval” granted by a state apprenticeship agency refers to the approval of an apprenticeship program. Sections 4 and 5 correct inconsistencies in the membership of 2 committees regarding apprenticeships. |
| SB24-104 | Career & Technical Education & Apprenticeships | The bill requires the state apprenticeship agency in the department of labor and employment, in coordination with the career and technical education division of the Colorado community college system, to align the high school career and technical education system and the registered apprenticeship system for programs and occupations related to infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, education, or health care. |
| SB24-109 | Continue Colorado Veterans’ Service-to-Career Program | The bill extends the repeal date for the program from July 1, 2024, to September 1, 2025. In addition, the bill removes the provision permitting the appropriation of money from the marijuana tax cash fund and instead allows the general assembly to appropriate money from the general fund to be used for the program. |
| SB24-149 | Workers’ Compensation State Employees | The bill removes the state’s ability to elect self-insurance as a means of maintaining the state employee workers’ compensation account, while leaving intact the state’s ability to procure commercial workers’ compensation insurance to maintain the account. |
| SB24-155 | Payment of Family & Medical Leave Benefits | The bill specifies that a judgment for a debt for overpayment of paid family and medical leave benefits is eligible to be assigned, released, or commuted and is not exempt from claims of creditors or from levy, execution, and attachment or other remedy or recovery or collection of a debt. The bill adds family and medical leave benefits to the list of exceptions for which workers’ compensation benefits may be assigned, levied, or attached. |
| SB24-160 | Records of Workplace Discrimination Complaints | The bill resolves the conflict between Senate Bill 23-172 and Senate Bill 23-286 by allowing public inspection of records in an employer’s designated repository that pertain to a sexual harassment complaint or investigation against an elected official found culpable of sexual harassment. Additionally, the bill designates the office of legislative workplace relations as the repository of complaint records for the employers in the legislative department. |
| SB24-205 | Consumer Protections for Artificial Intelligence | 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. |
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