- Dawn Alexander
Legislative Tracker
Updated: Feb 2
This year we are attempting to track ANYTHING that might be related or have an impact on your business. If you see anything that we are missing....please reach out!!
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SB23-017 - Additional Uses for Sick leave - The bill allows an employee to use accrued paid sick leave when the employee needs to: ! Care for a family member whose school or place of care has been closed due to inclement weather, loss of power, loss of heating, loss of water, or other unexpected occurrence or event that results in the closure of the family member's school or place of care; or ! Grieve, attend funeral services or a memorial, or deal with financial and legal matters that arise after the death of a family member.
Average Weekly Wage Paid Leave Benefits
Current law specifies that a covered individual's weekly paid family and medical leave benefit is determined based on the individual's average weekly wage earned during the covered individual's base period or alternative base period from the job or jobs from which the covered individual is taking paid family and medical leave, which excludes from the calculation recent wages from previous jobs. The bill eliminates the limit on calculating the benefit based on the average weekly wage earned only from the job or jobs from which the individual is taking paid family and medical leave.
Child-occupied Facility Lead-based Paint Abatement
Current law defines "child-occupied facility" for the purposes of lead-based paint abatement as a building or portion of a building that is visited by a child on 2 or more days within any week, with each visit totaling 6 or more hours. The bill reduces the total daily visit time to 3 or more hours.
Employer Notice Of Income Tax Credits
Current law requires an employer to provide its employees with an annual statement showing the total compensation paid and the income tax withheld for the preceding calendar year. The bill requires an employer to also provide, within a week before or after providing the statement and in the same manner as the statement is provided, written notice of the availability of the federal and state earned income tax credits and the federal and state child tax credits. The written notice must be in English and any other language the employer uses to communicate with employees and must include any additional content that the department of revenue prescribes.
Property Valuation
Most real property is reassessed every odd-numbered year. The bill establishes a one-time exception by making the reassessment cycle beginning on January 1, 2021, a 4-year cycle so that the next reassessment cycle will begin in 2025 instead of 2023.
Under current law, for the 2023 property tax year, the actual value used for purposes of valuation for assessment is reduced for commercial real property by $30,000 and for residential real property by $15,000. The bill eliminates these reductions.
The bill also sets the assessment rates for nonresidential real property and multi-family residential real property for the 2024 property tax year, so that they are the same rates as for the 2023 property tax year.
Lastly, the bill ensures that the actual value of property used for purposes of valuation for assessment does not increase by more than 5% between 2022 and 2025, for property that does not have an unusual condition which results in an increase or decrease in actual value.
Tax Credit Pre-adoption Leave
Beginning January 1, 2024, an employer is allowed an income tax credit in an amount equal to 50% of the employer's expenses incurred from voluntarily paying:
An employee during a period of leave for the purpose of adopting a child; and
For temporary replacement help, if any, during an employee's pre-adoption.
The maximum amount of pre-adoption leave for which an employer can claim the credit is 12 weeks per employee. To be eligible for the credit, an employer must have a written policy offering pre-adoption leave. The credit is limited to pre-adoption leave for employees who have been employed for at least one year and who for the preceding year earned less than $80,000. The credit does not include the cost of any compensation in addition to wages that an employer pays or provides to an employee.
Taxation Tobacco Products Remote Retail Sellers
The bill categorizes the remote sales of certain kinds of tobacco products for purposes of establishing the regulation and taxation of the sales. The bill exempts transactions involving tobacco products other than smokeless tobacco products or roll-your-own tobacco products from the definition of "delivery sale" and instead defines the term "remote retail sale" to include these transactions. The bill then establishes a system for the taxation and licensing of these "remote retail sales" that substantively mirrors the current system of taxation and licensing for "delivery sales".
The bill also resolves an ambiguity about how the "manufacturer's list price" of a tobacco product is determined for both "delivery sales" and "remote retail sales".
HB23-1091
Continuation Of Child Care Contribution Tax Credit
Concerning the income tax credit for a qualifying contribution to promote child care in the state, and, in connection therewith, continuing the credit for three years and expanding the types of contributions that qualify for the credit.
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-058
https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1079
