No sanctuary for illegal immigrants: Prohibits local government from passing an ordinance or policy to bar police officers, other staff and officials from cooperating with federal officials regarding legal status of immigrants; requires police officers, other staff and officials to report suspected illegal immigrants to federal immigration and customs enforcement office.
SFI: None; Local fiscal impact: None

S: Wiens
H: Harvey

S: Brophy
H: Schultheis

Smuggling enforcement: Creates a new division in the Colorado State Patrol to address human smuggling and trafficking; takes effect only if SBs 206 and 207 are passed and signed
SFI: $1.5 million in 06-07; $2.1 million in 07-08

Citizenship data for K-12 students: Requires public schools to collect citizenship status of all students and report, in aggregate, to the state; bars referrals for legal action.
SFI: None
Bell Opportunity Note

Public contracts, business licenses, arrests: Bars state government from awarding contracts to companies that knowingly employ illegal immigrants or hire subcontractors that do so; requires state business licensing boards to set rules for license revocation if businesses employ illegal workers; sets a process for possible employer sanctions triggered when a suspected illegal immigrant is arrested; requires annual Judiciary Dept. report on citizen and immigrant status among defendants prosecuted in state criminal courts.
SFI: $530,466 in 06-07; $455,850 in 07-08

Public contracts: Bars state and local governments from contracting for services with a company that knowingly employs illegal immigrants, or hires subcontractors that do so; requires all public contracts for service to require contractors to have a policy preventing employment of or contract work by illegal immigrants; sets penalties for breach of these contract provisions; bars undocumented immigrants from qualifying for in-state tuition at state colleges or universities.
SFI: $240,382 in FY 06-07; $225,357 in FY 07-08

Introduced 1/16/06
Postponed Indefinitely House State, Veterans & Military Affairs 2/21

Local law enforcement of U.S. immigration law: Requires state director of public safety, county sheriffs, city councils and town boards to seek a memorandum of agreement with U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to train deputies and officers to identify, process and, when appropriate, detain persons suspected of immigration offense; immigration enforcement applies during routine law enforcement activity.
SFI: Conditional impact for state and local government

Introduced 1/16/06
Postponed Indefinitely House State, Veterans & Military Affairs 2/21

Introduced 2/2/06
Postponed Indefinitely House State, Veterans & Military Affairs 2/21

Pregnant Women in CHP+: Uses tobacco settlement money to insure low-income pregnant women through the state's Child Health Plan Plus.
SFI: $353,161 in FY 2006-07
Bell Opportunity Note, March 1

Introduced 1/18/06
Passed: House 3rd reading 3/7
Passed amended Senate 3rd reading 4/24
House considers Senate amendments, concurred & repassed 4/28
Signed by Gov. 5/17

Introduced 1/31
Passed House 3rd reading 2/28
Passed Senate 3rd reading 3/29
House considers Senate amendments, concur & repass 4/4
Sent to Gov. 4/11
Signed by Gov. 4/22

Parental leave: Allows workers up to 30 hours a year in unpaid leave to attend parent-teacher conferences or other academic activities.
SFI: None

Compulsory attendance age: Lowers the minimum age for school attendance from 7 to 6. (Also listed in Gateway 5)
SFI: None in 06-07; $1.27 million in 07-08

Local funding for full-day kindergarten: Allows school district voters to impose a mill levy to fund added costs for full-day kindergarten.
SFI: none

Introduced 1/12/06
Passed: House 3rd reading 1/30
Passed amended Senate 3rd reading 3/10
Concurred House okayed Senate amenments 3/13
Vetoed by Gov. 3/30

School Finance Act: modifies several laws affecting public schools and school programs; increases funding for special education and preschool, raises the per pupil base amount by 3.1 percent.
SFI: $23.7 million in 05-06; $29.5 million in 06-07; $36.3 million in 07-08

Introduced 3/9/06
Passed amended House 3rd reading 3/23
Passed amended Senate 3rd reading 4/5
Signed by Gov. 4/28

Dental screening in schools: Creates a pilot program for all students at designated schools.
SFI: $200,000 in 2006-07; none in 2007-08

S: Tapia
H: Frangas

Introduced 1/12/06
Passed amended Senate 3rd reading 4/19
Passed amended House 3rd reading 5/3
Senate rejects House amendments, 5/4
House rejects conference committee report 5/8
(Because the two houses could not agree on final language, the bill was effectively killed.)

Substance Abuse Treatment Fund: Creates Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Fund; uses fines paid for underage drinking crimes.
SFI: $55,978 in 2006-07 and FY 2007-08

Bell Opportunity Note

S: Traylor
H: Weissmann

Introduced 1/26/06
Passed amended Senate 3rd reading 4/7
Refer unamended House Health & Human Services 4/12
Passed unamended House Finance 4/19
Passed unamended House Appropriations 4/27
Passed House 3rd reading 5/5
Signed by Gov. 6/1

Free Fruits & Vegetables: Moves $150,000 a year from school breakfast program to provide free fruits and vegetables to public schools students.
SFI: None

Introduced 1/26/06
Passed, amended Senate 2/8
Passed House Education 3/7
Passed House Appropriations 4/21
Passed amended House 3rd reading 4/24
Signed by Gov. 5/25

Public school vending machines: Requires at least half of vending machine items meet acceptable nutrition standards by the 2008-09 school year.
SFI: None

Introduced 1/11/06
Passed House 3rd reading 2/1
Passed Senate Education 3/15
Passed Senate 3rd reading 3/24
Gov. vetoed 4/11

Juvenile justice mental health family advocate: Creates six demonstration programs that will train advocates, report outcomes.
SFI: $324,520 in 2006-07; $395,585 in 2007-08
Bell Opportunity Note

H: Stafford
S: Windels

Introduced 1/11/06
Referred: House Judiciary to House Appropriations (unamended) 1/24
Postponed Indefinitely
House Appropriations 4/11

Teacher training on juvenile mental health: Grants professional development credit for teachers attending in-service presentations on mental health, including suicide awareness and prevention.
SFI: None

H: Cloer
S: Keller

Introduced 1/11/06
Passed House 3rd reading 2/1
Passed Senate 3rd reading 3/15
Signed by Gov. 3/31

Medicaid eligibility sites at schools: Creates a demonstration project to allow qualified school staff to determine student eligibility for Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus.
SFI: $29,766 in FY 06-07; $336,727 in FY 07-08;
Federal funds: $29,766 in 06-07; $385,974 in 07-08
Bell Opportunity Report

Introduced 2/1/06
Passed amended House 3rd reading 4/17
Refer unamended Senate Education 4/27
Passed unamended Senate Appropriations 4/28
Passed amended Senate 3rd reading 5/3
House considers Senate amendments, concur & repass 5/5
Signed by Gov. 6/2

Health care coverage for grandchildren: Expands the definition of a dependent for health care coverage to include grandchildren under age 25 who live with or are financially dependent on their grandparents.
SFI: None

Introduced 2/21/06
Passed amended House 3rd reading 3/14
Passed amended Senate 3rd reading 5/2
House considers Senate amendments, concur & repass 5/5
Vetoed by Gov. 5/26

Introduced 2/21/06
Passed amended House 3rd reading 3/7
Passed Senate 3rd reading 4/6
Signed by Gov. 4/24

School-based health centers: Creates a grant program to supplement existing funding to create, expand and support school-based health centers, run by school districts in cooperation with health service providers.
SFI: $500,000 in 06-07; $500,000 in 07-08
 

Introduced 4/6/06
Pass as amended House 3rd reading 4/24
Passed amended Senate 3rd reading 5/5
House considers Senate amendments, concur & repass 5/5
Signed by Gov. 6/2

Student ID number: Requires K-12 schools to assign each student an ID number that will carry through college.
SFI: $106,000 FY 2009-10 (as amended)

Academic standards: Bars the state from requiring certain high school classes to qualify for admission to state colleges and universities.

S: Brophy
H: Merrifield

Introduced 1/11/06
Postponed Indefinitely Senate Education 1/18

School Leadership Academy: New program to train and support school principals and develop best practices for school leadership.
SFI: None, funding for the academy would come from grants and donations; local districts would pay fee for principals who attend

Introduced 1/11/06
Postponed Indefinitely
Senate Education 3/2

P-16 education system: Creates a legislative oversight committee to study creation and implementation of an integrated system of education from preschool to graduation from college.
SFI: $20,156 in 06-07 and 07-08
Bell Opportunity Note

S: Tupa
H: Merrifield

Introduced 1/11/06
Amended & Passed
Senate Education 2/1
Passed amended Senate Appropriations 3/31
Passed Senate 3rd reading 4/20
Refer unamended House Education 4/27
Passed amended House Appropriations 5/1
Passed amended House 3rd reading 5/5
Senate considers House amendments, concur & repass 5/8
Vetoed by Gov. 5/26

School assaults: Adds disorderly conduct and 3rd degree assault to types of crimes school districts must report to the state Dept. of Education.
SFI: None

Compulsory attendance age: Raises minimum age for school attendance from 16 to 17.
(Also listed in Gateway 3)
SFI: None in 06-07; $1.27 million in 07-08

Reporting student performance on CSAP tests: Requires school districts with 12,000 or more students to prepare annual pass-fail report for each school and send the report to parents.
SFI: None

H: Butcher
S: Tapia

Introduced 1/11/06
Postponed Indefinitely
House Education 2/7

Statewide data-sharing: Instructs Dept. of Education to issue a contract for development of an electronic system for information sharing between school districts and the state agency.
SFI: $500,000 in 06-07; $500,000 in 07-08

Introduced 1/11/06
Passed, amended House Education 2/9
Passed amended House Appropriations 3/17
Passed House 3rd reading 3/22
Postponed Indefinitely Senate Education 3/30

Alternative high school programs: Makes community colleges that offer alternative high school diploma programs eligible for the Second Chance program for problem students.
SFI: None

Introduced 1/18/06
Passed House 3rd reading 2/20
Postponed Indefinitely Senate Education 3/16

Funding for online education: Approves state funding for school districts or charter schools for online education programs.
SFI: not available

Introduced 1/31/06
Postponed Indefinitely House Education 2/23

Voluntary school restructuring: Schools receiving an "unsatisfactory" performance rating could operate under a school improvement plan for two years. If performance does not improve, the school could convert to a charter school or continue under the plan.
SFI: None, but school districts could incur costs for restructuring

Introduced 1/31/06
Passed, amended House 3rd reading 2/23
Passed Senate 3rd reading 3/27
Signed by Gov. 4/6

School budget accountability: Refers a measure to the November ballot to require school districts to spend at least 65 percent of their operating budgets on services that directly help student achievement, including instruction, teacher training, student support, food service, extracurricular activities and transportation; allows school district voters to opt out from the requirement.