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After three days of legislative work, the Colorado General Assembly has adjourned the 2020 special
session. While 35 bills were introduced on Monday, only 10 were passed and sent to the Governor for
his signature. Seven key policy issues were the focus of the Governor’s call of the special session: small
business relief; child care support; housing and direct rental assistance; increasing broadband access for
P-12; food insecurity; utilities assistance; and public health response. Below is more information and
links to the bills that were adopted.
• HB20B-1001 — Grants to Improve Internet Access in P-12 Education — The bill creates the
Colorado Students Grant Program to provide $20M in grants to local education providers to use
in providing broadband services and other technology for increased access for students,
educators and other staff. http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20b-1001
• HB20B-1002 — Emergency Relief for Child Care Sector — The bill creates two grant programs to
support child care in the state and appropriates $45M for these
programs. http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20b-1002
• HB20B-1003 — Food Pantry Assistance Grant Program — The bill makes changes to the Food
Pantry Assistance Grant Program and appropriates $5M for the
program. http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20b-1003
• HB20B-1004 — Qualified Retailer Retain Sales Tax For Assistance — The bill allows qualifying
retailers to temporarily deduct up to $70,000 in net taxable sales from their monthly state sales
tax return and retain the resulting sales tax revenue for sales made in November and December
2020 and in January and February 2021. This bill applies to retailers in the alcoholic beverages
drinking places industry, the restaurant and other eating places industry, and the mobile food
services industry. http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20b-1004
• HB20B-1005 — Local Authority to Impose Food Delivery Fee Restrictions — The bill allows
municipalities and counties to limit the fee that a third-party food delivery service may charge to
a retail food establishment and place other restrictions on delivery
services. http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20b-1005
• HB20B-1006 — Insurance Premium Tax Payments and Credits — The bill makes changes to how
insurance premium estimated taxes are paid, including adjusting how calendar quarter
estimates are calculated and allowing each calendar quarterly estimate payment to include
adjustments for any previous calendar quarter estimates of taxes including tax credits.
http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20b-1006
• SB20B-001 — COVID-19 Relief Small and Minority Business Arts Organizations — The bill
provides relief to small businesses, arts and cultural organizations, and minority -owned
businesses. It appropriates $57.1M for these purposes. http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20b-001
• SB20B-002 — Housing and Direct COVID Emergency Assistance — The bill creates the
Emergency Direct Assistance Grant Program in DOLA to support housing assistance programs. It
transfers $60M from the General Fund for these purposes. http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20b-
002
• SB20B-003 — Money for Energy Utility Bill Payment Assistance — The bill transfers $5M from
the General Fund to the Energy Outreach Colorado Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund to
provide direct energy bill payment assistance to low-income
households. http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20b-003
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• SB20B-004 — Transfer to Make Money Available for COVID-19 Emergency — The bill transfers
$100M from the General Fund to the Controlled Maintenance Trust Fund and allows the
Governor to transfer these funds to the Disaster Emergency Fund for public health and critical
response associated with the COVID-19 emergency. http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb20b-004