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BILL #

CHAPTER #

ISSUE

BILL DESCRIPTION

HB 1008

245

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Concerns workers' compensation coverage for firefighters who contract certain types of cancer. Effective: May 17, 2007.

HB 1020

369

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic offenses

Increases to a class 1 misdemeanor the penalty for failing to register a motor vehicle 2 or more times in 5 years. Prohibits the issuance of more than 2 temporary registrations per year to a Class A or Class B motor vehicle unless the delay is caused by a title or lien problem as specified by rule promulgated by the department of revenue. Effective: July 1, 2007.

HB 1063

53

Motor vehicle insurance - miscellaneous provisions

Concerns disclosure of information collected pursuant to the Uninsured Motorist Identification Database Program. Effective: August 3, 2007.

HB 1065

330

Motor vehicle insurance - enforcement issues

Concerns a requirement that certain motor vehicle carriers that transport passengers obtain criminal history record checks. Effective: May 30, 2007.

HB 1104

249

Producer licensure - miscellaneous provisions

Provides that an insurer or its agent that issues or renews a policy that insures real or personal property shall not directly or indirectly require that appraisals or repairs to the property be made or not be made by a certain repair business, represent to a beneficiary or claimant that the use of, or the failure to use, a particular repair business may result in the nonpayment or delayed payment of a claim, intimidate, coerce, threaten or induce by incentive a claimant to use a particular repair business. Effective: May 18, 2007.

HB 1113

134

Motor vehicle insurance - enforcement issues

Concerns the information submitted by an applicant for registration of a motor vehicle. Effective: August 3, 2007.

HB 1117

344

Motor vehicle insurance -- motorcycles

Concerns the requirement that a protective helmet be worn by a person under eighteen years of age during the operation of certain vehicles. Effective: July 1, 2007.

HB 1146

189

Building codes

Concerns the requirement that certain local governments adopt an energy efficiency code in connection with the construction of certain buildings; provides that the board of county commissioners of a county that has enacted a building code shall adopt a building energy code; provides exceptions. Effective: July 1, 2007.

HB 1148

136

Motor vehicle insurance - enforcement issues

Provides for the registration of vehicles at intervals of less than one year upon payment of the appropriate registration fee and specific ownership tax in order to allow the owner of more than one vehicle to provide for the owner's vehicle registrations to expire simultaneously; provides that the owner of a vehicle that is eligible may elect a registration pursuant to these provisions. Effective: August 3, 2007.

HB 1166

137

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic offenses

Concerns the clarification of existing laws regarding crimes that require driver's license restraint. Effective: July 1, 2007.

HB 1176

204

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Concerns the ability of an injured employee under the Workers Compensation Act of Colorado to select a treating physician from a list prepared by an employer under certain circumstances. Effective: January 1, 2008.

HB 1229

313

Motor vehicle insurance - commercial auto

Concerns an enhancement of the penalties for the operators of commercial vehicles who fail to comply with inclement weather restrictions. Effective: August 3, 2007.

HB 1234

424

State regulation

Requires the Division of Insurance to post a notice on its web site in advance of any rate increase for a type II kind of insurance including fire, casualty, inland marine, title, medical malpractice by a joint underwriting association, credit, and employers' liability and excluding workers' compensation, to provide notice to the public; provides that rate filing shall be in an electronic format. Effective: January 1, 2008.

HB 1297

174

Workers' compensation - disputes and settlements

Concerns the amount of an award for disfigurement under the Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado for a worker who suffers a permanent disfigurement as a result of a workplace injury. Effective: July 1, 2007.

HB 1338

164

Property insurance

Concerns the elimination of certain restrictions on legal rights available to residential property owners with respect to construction defect actions; enacts the Homeowner Protection Act of 2007. Effective: April 20, 2007.

HB 1366

430

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Requires that every person who contracts for the performance of work at a construction site to either provider workers' compensation coverage or require proof of workers' compensation coverage for every person performing construction work at the site; punishes violations with a specified civil penalty, payable to the workers' compensation cash fund. Effective: June 1, 2007.

SB 45

150

Public records

Revises the provisions of existing law related to fees for providing a copy, printout or photograph of public records. Effective: August 3, 2007.

SB 62

221

Motor vehicle insurance - commercial auto

Concerns motor carriers who fail to pay civil penalties imposed for violating commercial vehicle standards. Effective: July 1, 2007.

SB 66

49

Tort reform -- miscellaneous

Concerns the form of payment of judgments under the Health Care Availability Act; revises procedures to allow for a lump-sum payment. Effective: August 3, 2997.

SB 70

376

Motor vehicle insurance - salvage title

Authorizes a motor vehicle recylcer to receive a vehicle when the seller or transferor is the owner on the certificate of title, an operator, or a license motor vehicle dealer, the seller or transferor provides a completed bill of sale on a form prescribed by the Department of Revenue or the receiver or purchaser checks whether the vehicle has been stolen and holds the vehicle for 7 days; creates the Motor Vehicle Verification System for use by the public to check and see if a vehicle is stolen. Effective: July 1, 2007.

SB 77

155

Motor vehicle insurance - teen drivers

Concerns a requirement of behind-the-wheel training for driver licensing. Effective: April 20, 2007.

SB 79

71

Workers' compensation - miscellaneous provisions

Provides the requirements of contractual agreements between health care providers and health maintenance organization plans, commercial health plans that are not a health maintenance organization plan, Medicare, Medicaid or Workers' Compensation. Effective: August 3, 2007.

SB 87

118

Contractor insurance coverage

Concerns a prohibition against the shifting of financial responsibility for negligence in construction agreements. Effective: July 1, 2007.

SB 129

83

Tort reform -- miscellaneous

Concerns adjustments to damages limitation statutes to reflect the effects of inflation; requires a post-enactment review of the implementation of this act. Effective: July 1, 2007.

SB 154

261

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic offenses

Concerns the authority of a law enforcement officer under the Express Consent Law to request a driver to take a test other than the test elected by the driver for the purpose of determining the driver's alcohol content. Effective: July 1, 2007.

SB 201

163

Workers' compensation - fund management

Authorizes continuous appropriation of moneys in the Subsequent Injury Fund, the Major Medical Insurance Fund and the Medical Disaster Insurance Fund to the Division of Workers' Compensation in the Department of Labor and Employment for the purpose of paying benefits to claimants and legal fees. Effective: April 20, 2007.

SB 256

413

Motor vehicle insurance - financial responsibility

Requires that, if a consumer opts to purchase uninsured and underinsured motor vehicle insurance, the insurance be provided as excess to any motor vehicle liability coverage; requires the uninsured and underinsured coverage to pay the difference between the amount of any legal liability coverage and the amount of the damages sustained; prohibits the reduction of the uninsured and underinsured coverage from a setoff from any other insurance. Effective: January 1, 2008.

SB 258

341

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Makes several workers' compensation changes, including clarifying that the workers' compensation fee schedule applies to all services provided by a medical professional. Effective: May 30, 2007.