To date, Colorado and 10 other states have enacted paid family and medical leave laws. The other states include California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington. This memorandum provides a summary of the major components of the paid family and medical leave laws in each of these states.
This memorandum addresses questions around recent announcements and consideration of changes to the state employee payroll schedule. Legislative Council Staff has received inquiries regarding the timing and amount of state employee payroll during the months of July and August 2018 as a result of a March 8, 2018 email from the Department of Personnel and Administration (DPA) to Executive Branch employees. The email announces a transition in July 2018 from monthly to biweekly lag pay.
This memorandum provides an overview of programs that are designed to provide a boost to Colorado's economy, including incentivizing businesses to locate in Colorado, expand their Colorado-based workforce, or other wise grow their Colorado business operations.
This memorandum provides information regarding state laws penalizing those who misrepresent pets or other animals as service animals. Nine states have laws prohibiting the misrepresentation of pets, and nine states have laws prohibiting people from misrepresenting themselves as disabled in order to gain the use of service animals. Colorado prohibits impersonating an individual with disabilities, without specifying the use of a service animal.
The federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) authorizes $1.2 trillion to be spent over five years for transportation, water, energy, resiliency, and broadband. Of this amount, $550 billion is new spending and $650 billion is reauthorized spending from the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act and other previous authorizations. The majority of state funding in the IIJA is allocated through formulas, but the act also authorizes funding for new and existing competitive grants.
This memorandum provides a brief overview of the human services delivery structure in Colorado, which is primarily state-supervised and county-delivered. This includes an overview of the offices, divisions, and boards within the Colorado Department of Human Services (DHS) and a brief description of the services delivered through Colorado's 64 county departments of human or social services.
This document presents a forecast for annual receipts from the Tobacco MSA through FY 2024-25. The state is expected to receive $92.3 million in 2023; the actual amount received in 2023 will determine disbursements to MSA-funded programs in FY 2023-24.