Current Bills and Resolutions
HB24-1002 - Social Work Licensure Compact
Eliminate the necessity for social workers to obtain licenses from multiple states by providing for the mutual recognition of licenses from other states that have signed the compact (member states)
HB24-1048 - Providing Veterinary Services Through Telehealth
The bill concerns the use of telehealth to provide veterinary services. The bill defines different types of telehealth tools that can be used in a veterinary practice.
HB24-1093 - Peace Officer Provisional Certification Requirements
The bill removes the exception for the armed forces, so that being a peace officer in the armed forces satisfies that requirement for a provisional certificate.
HB24-1110 - Employer to Post Veterans' Benefits Availability
Concerning requiring employers to post in the workplace the benefits that are available to veterans of the armed services.
HB24-1111 - Adopt Cosmetology Licensure Compact
Concerning the adoption of the cosmetology licensure compact.
SB24-027 - Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Process Study
The bill requires the division of criminal justice (division) in the department of public safety to conduct a study to examine how individuals proceed through the various stages of criminal and juvenile justice proceedings, including sentences and alternative sentencing programs.
SB24-030 - Recidivism Definition Working Group
The bill requires the division of criminal justice in the department of public safety to convene a working group to develop a definition of "recidivism" to be used by each state entity that collects data or reports on recidivism, in any report issued by the entity. The working group consists of representatives of the judicial department, the department of corrections, the division of youth services in the department of human services, the state board of parole, the department of public safety, an institution of higher education, and a community-based organization that works for criminal legal reform and supports consistent data collection.
SB24-038 - Authorize Conservancy District Water Management
Concerning conservancy districts, and, in connection therewith, authorizing a conservancy district to participate in a plan for augmentation; contract with water users outside the conservancy district for the provision of services; exercise certain powers regarding the control, delivery, use, and distribution of water; establish a water activity enterprise; and sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the use of water or capacity in works by contract.
SB24-091 - Rights-of-Way Permits for Broadband Deployment
Concerning the creation of an additional process by which entities may gain access to public rights-of-way for the deployment of broadband.
SB24-097 - Property Tax Distraint Sale Mobile Home
Concerning the distraint sale of a mobile home to collect delinquent property taxes, and, in connection therewith, modifying the provision for payment of any surplus proceeds to align with a federal supreme court decision and extending the redemption period for certain mobile home owners from one to two years.
2023 Laws Passed
HB23-1037: Department Of Corrections Earned Time For College Program Completion
HB23-1088: Veterans Mental Health Session Reimbursement Program
SB23-157: Sunset Offender Reentry And Education Programs
HB23-1261: No Requirement For Selective Service Higher Education
SB23-291: Utility Regulation is a bill concerning the public utilities commission's regulation of energy utilities.
SB23-205: Universal High School Scholarship Program
SB23-088: Sentence Served Before Parole And Notify Victim concerning an study on an offender's eligibility for release from confinement.
HB23-1093: Higher Education Staff Sabbaticals
HB23-1139: Modification of Rural Counties Officer Salary Categories
SB23-052: Municipal Priority Lien Surviving Treasurer's Deed