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The act declares that the regulation of automated driving systems is a matter of statewide concern, and, therefore, local authorities are prohibited from setting different standards for these systems than for human drivers. The use of automated driving systems is authorized if the system is capable of conforming to every state and federal law applying to driving. If not, a person testing a system is required to obtain approval from the Colorado state patrol and the Colorado department of transportation.
Year: 2017•State: Colorado•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Colorado State LegislatureThis act adjusts fair debt collection practices. The act creates requirements for debt collectors and collection agencies that bring legal actions on debts owned. Additionally, it defines what is expected of a collection agency that purchases, sells, or attempts to collect on a purchased debt.
Year: 2017•State: Colorado•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Colorado State LegislatureThis act expands the employment protections provided to pregnant women under the state's anti-discrimination law. It requires employers to provide a reasonable workplace accommodation for a pregnant employee or applicant, unless the employer demonstrates that the accommodation would be an undue hardship. The bill also prohibits employers from (1) limiting, segregating, or classifying an employee in a way that would deprive her of employment opportunities due to her pregnancy or (2) forcing a pregnant employee or applicant to accept a reasonable accommodation if she does not need one. It also eliminates certain employment protection provisions related to transfers to temporary positions for pregnant workers.
Year: 2017•State: Connecticut•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Connecticut State LegislatureThis act repeals prohibitions against wage information sharing. The act strikes the reference to that exemption and extends the current law to those classes of employers, thereby providing wage transparency protections to all employees.
Year: 2017•State: Colorado•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Colorado State LegislatureThis act concerns criminal justice reform, specifically property seizure rules. It requires that county executives to create an official form for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and multijurisdictional task forces (seizing agencies) to use in submitting to the department biannual reports containing specified information on seizures through which the seizing agencies received proceeds from a forfeiture and the use of the proceeds.
Year: 2017•State: Colorado•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Colorado State LegislatureThis act adjusts the state's renewable energy plan. It adjusts what rebates can be given for energy efficient cars, changing the focus from "clean burning" to "alternative".
Year: 2017•State: Arkansas•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Arkansas State LegislatureThis act creates catastrophic leave banks for employees, with some limitations and discretion on the organizations able to. The act also mandates that certain leaves may not be exercised for certain reasons, such as an employee not being forced to use leave days for their maternity days.
Year: 2017•State: Arkansas•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Arkansas State LegislatureThe act requires the department of public safety to include in its annual 'State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act' hearing information concerning reports submitted by law enforcement agencies concerning crimes committed in the state during the previous year, including but not limited to information concerning reports of bias-motivated crimes.
Year: 2017•State: Colorado•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Colorado State LegislatureThe act requires health insurers that issue individual and group sickness and accident policies, contracts, or plans that are required under current law to provide contraception coverage to reimburse participating providers or in-network dispensing entities for: Dispensing prescription contraceptives in a 3-month supply for the first dispensing to the insured person and for a 12-month supply for subsequent dispensing of the same prescription contraceptive to the insured person; or dispensing to the insured person a prescribed vaginal contraceptive ring intended to last for 3 months.
Year: 2017•State: Colorado•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Colorado State LegislatureColorado's law concerning bias-motivated crimes prohibits the intimidation or harassment of another person because of that person's actual or perceived race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, physical or mental disability, or sexual orientation. The bill adds physical or mental disability and sexual orientation to the categories described in the harassment statute to make the statute consistent with Colorado's law concerning bias-motivated crimes.
Year: 2017•State: Colorado•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Colorado State Legislature