Title 24, Government - State

All banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, insurance companies, executors, administrators, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries may legally invest any moneys within their control in any notes issued in accordance with this article. Public entities, as define…

Except as otherwise provided in this section, the income from notes issued pursuant to this article is exempt from all taxation and assessments in the state. In the certificate, indenture of trust, or other instrument authorizing the issuance of notes, the board or the executive …

An action or proceeding at law or in equity to review any act or proceeding or to question the validity or enjoin the performance of any act or proceeding or the issuance of any notes or for any other relief against or from any act or proceeding done under this article, whether b…

(1) No later than January 15 of any year in which notes issued pursuant to this article are outstanding or any moneys are in the critical needs fund, each issuing authority shall submit a report to the members of the joint budget committee of the general assembly and the members …

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, proceeds from the issuance of notes may be invested in any manner in which public moneys generally may be invested as provided by section 24-75-601.1 or any other applicable law. (2) An issuing authority, in cons…

The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by this article shall not directly or indirectly modify, limit, or affect, the powers conferred to the department, the executive director, or th…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the corporation, the department, the board, and the executive director shall have the authority to issue notes and otherwise exercise the powers specified in this article only if voters statewide approve House Bill 05-1194, ena…

A public entity, as defined in section 24-10-103, employee, appointee, officer, official, or any other person acting on behalf of a public entity, or a person or entity licensed or regulated by the state, shall not provide any information or expend or use time, money, facilities,…

(1) A public entity, as defined in section 24-10-103, or a person or entity licensed or regulated by the state, shall not provide information or data, including patient medical records, patient-level data, or related billing information, or expend time, money, facilities, propert…

The attorney general has the sole discretion to enforce any action brought pursuant to this article 116 and any related legal action brought on behalf of the state. Source: L. 2025: Entire section added, (SB 25-129), ch. 96, p. 440, § 9, effective April 24.

The short title of this article 117 is the "Colorado BUILD Authority Act". Source: L. 2025: Entire article added, (SB 25-081), ch. 320, p. 1673, § 3, effective August 6.

(1) The general assembly finds and declares that: (a) Colorado faces significant challenges accessing and leveraging the funding needed for critical infrastructure projects spanning from housing to water, roads to broadband, and clean energy; (b) The state acknowledges and commen…

As used in this article 117, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Authority" means the building urgent infrastructure and leveraging dollars authority created in this article 117. (2) "Board" means the board of directors of the authority. (3) "Bond" means any bond, note, d…

(1) The building urgent infrastructure and leveraging dollars authority is created as a body corporate and a political subdivision of the state. The authority is not an agency of state government and is not subject to administrative direction by any department, commission, board,…

(1) In addition to any other powers granted to the authority in this article 117, the authority has the powers to: (a) Have the duties, privileges, immunities, rights, liabilities, and disabilities of a body corporate and political subdivision of the state; (b) Have perpetual exi…

(1) The authority may issue and sell building urgent infrastructure and leveraging dollars bonds, payable solely from the building urgent infrastructure and leveraging dollars bonding fund, in compliance with this article 117. This article 117 is, without reference to any other l…

(1) Bonds issued by the authority must not constitute or become an indebtedness, a debt, or a liability of the state nor do such bonds constitute the giving, pledging, or loaning of the full faith and credit of the state. Bonds issued by the authority are payable solely from the …

The building urgent infrastructure and leveraging dollars authority operational fund is created in the authority. The operational fund consists of money transferred to the operational fund; gifts; grants; donations; contributions from a governmental entity, not-for-profit organiz…

(1) The following are exempt from all taxation and assessments in Colorado: (a) The income or other revenues of the authority; (b) All properties at any time owned by the authority; (c) Any bonds, notes, or other obligations issued pursuant to this article 117 or any interest pai…

For the purposes of meeting the necessary expenses of initial organization and operation, until such date as the authority otherwise derives sufficient money pursuant to this article 117, the authority or the department of the treasury may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, …

(1) The authority has the power to: (a) Invest any money held in reserve, sinking funds, capital reserve funds, or any funds not required for immediate disbursement in property or in securities in which the state treasurer may legally invest money subject to the treasurer's contr…

(1) The infrastructure and long-term development assistance program is created in the authority. The purpose of the program is to provide financing to eligible projects. The authority is not responsible, through the program or otherwise, for assisting in a project qualifying as a…

Commencing in 2026, the authority shall submit a report of its activities to the governor, the capital development committee, and the transportation, housing, and local government committee of the house of representatives and the local government and housing committee of the sena…

(1) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, for the purposes of calculating the consumer price index for the 2025 calendar year as necessary to compare the consumer price index for 2025 to the consumer price index for 2024 and as necessary to compare the consumer price index for…

(1) Any state agency that purchases a flag of the United States for display may only display such flag if it has been made in the United States. (2) For purposes of this article, "state agency" means any department, commission, council, board, bureau, committee, institution of hi…

(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Form" means a document that collects population-level demographic data that is not individually identifiable. (b) "State" means the government of this state, and every state department, including the departm…

(1) (a) The general assembly finds and declares that the private social media administered by a state elected official or designee is a private account and does not create a public forum; (b) A state elected official has no duty to create or maintain private social media and no s…

(1) As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Article XXIX" means article XXIX of the state constitution approved by the voters at the 2006 general election. (b) "Commission" means the independent ethics commission created in section 5 (1) of article XX…

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Alternative forms of payment" means forms of payment, including but not limited to credit, charge, or debit cards, other than cash or check. (2) "Collector state governmental entity" means any state governmental…

(1) Any state governmental entity responsible for the collection of moneys payable to the state may accept one or more alternative forms of payment for the payment of such moneys in accordance with the provisions of this article. (2) A collector state governmental entity that cho…

(1) and (2) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2003, p. 1441, § 1, effective April 29, 2003.) (3) A state governmental entity may impose a convenience fee on persons who use alternative forms of payment, but the amount of any convenience fee imposed on or after April 29, 2003, shall not e…

(1) The state treasurer may negotiate and enter into one or more contractual master agreements with providers of alternative forms of payment in accordance with law. To ensure that state governmental entities accept alternative forms of payment in the most consumer-oriented, unif…

Any provider of alternative forms of payment that approves a transaction made by an alternative form of payment for the payment of moneys to a state governmental entity shall remit to the state governmental entity the net revenue of the approved transaction due to the state gover…

(1) The general assembly finds that: (a) The costs incurred by Colorado in addressing illegal immigration have increased in the last three years and are placing a burden on the state's budgetary and human resources; (b) The areas in which these costs have dramatically increased i…

(1) On and after July 31, 2006, the attorney general, on behalf of the state of Colorado, shall pursue all available remedies to recover any moneys owing from the federal government to the state for the reimbursement of costs incurred by the state in dealing with illegal immigrat…

The general assembly hereby finds and declares that the failure to enforce immigration laws at the federal level places an undue burden on state government resources and that there is a limitation on what can be done at the state level to enforce the federal laws and to implement…

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Covered person" means a member of the board of directors or comparable governing body, officer, or employee of a public entity. (2) "Institution of higher education" means a state university or college, communit…

(1) (a) In the absence of extenuating circumstances, no public entity may make travel-related expenditures on behalf of any covered person in an amount that would exceed, on a daily basis, two times the maximum allowable federal per diem rate that governs the location in which th…

(1) Any person who believes that a violation of section 24-19.9-102 has occurred may file a written complaint with the secretary of state within one hundred eighty days of the date of the alleged violation. The secretary of state shall refer the complaint to an administrative law…

Any board of education of any school district in the state of Colorado may enter into an agreement with the appropriate local civil defense agency or authorities for the purpose of establishing an orderly plan for the evacuation of any or all school buildings within the jurisdict…

In the event that such school district and the respective local civil defense agency or authorities desire to perform an evacuation drill for any or all school buildings, the board of education of such school district and its officers, employees, and agents participating therein …

For drill or other evacuation purposes as described in this part 10, buses and such other modes of transport as are operated by the respective school district for the transportation of pupils may be operated by the district outside the boundaries of the district. Source: L. 2012:…

For purposes of this part 10, a school district may expend available funds to utilize the services of its employees or properties and may, if the board of education so desires, pay premiums from available funds to procure liability and property damage insurance covering such dist…

When the officers, employees, or agents of any school district participating in any civil defense exercise in connection with this part 10 are required to go beyond the territorial limits of such political subdivision, such persons shall nevertheless have the same powers, duties,…

(1) The general assembly finds and declares that: (a) The various agencies of this state concerned with public safety have functioned independently and without central direction or focus; (b) Consolidation of these agencies under a single department would provide the state with g…

As used in this article 33.5, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "County" means any county in this state and includes a city and county. (1.5) "Department" means the department of public safety. (2) "Executive director" means the executive director of the department. (3) …