Colorado § 2-2-2307 - Black Coloradan racial equity study - report - presentation to legislative committees.

§ 2-2-2307. Black Coloradan racial equity study - report - presentation to legislative committees.

(1) No later than three years after September 5, 2024, the commission shall submit a report to the general assembly and the governor about the study. The commission shall provide the report to the state board of education, the Colorado commission on higher education, the Colorado attorney general, and the health equity commission created in section 25-4-2206, and make the report available on a publicly accessible web page of the general assembly's website. The report must include:

(a) A description of the study's goals;

(b) The results of the historical research and economic analysis;

(c) Recommendations that are consistent with the constitution to address any past harm potentially caused by governmental entities, policies, systems, and practices that are discovered through the study;

(d) Recommendations about how outcomes of the historical research and economic assessments of past harm potentially caused to Black Coloradans by the practices, systems, and policies of the state can be incorporated into the state history standards for K-12 students; and

(e) Recommendations about how to increase public awareness about research and economic assessments of past harm potentially caused to historically impacted Black Coloradans by governmental entities, policies, systems, and practices.

(2) The commission shall present the report described in this section to the house of representatives state, civic, military, and veterans affairs committee and the senate state, veterans, and military affairs committee, or their successor committees, during the next regular legislative session that begins after the report is submitted to the general assembly and governor or, if the general assembly is in regular session when the report is submitted and upon request of the chair of the committee, during that ongoing regular legislative session.

Source: L. 2024: Entire part added, (SB 24-053), ch. 368, p. 2479, § 1, effective August 7 (see editor's note).

Editor's note: Section 2-2-2309 provides that this section is effective if the commission receives seven hundred eighty-five thousand dollars of gifts, grants, or donations for the purposes of this part 23 and the director of research of the legislative council notifies the revisor of statutes in writing of the date on which the condition specified has occurred by emailing the notice to revisorofstatutes.ga@coleg.gov. This § 2-2-2307 takes effect upon the date identified in the notice that the commission has received seven hundred eighty-five thousand dollars of gifts, grants, or donations for the purposes of § 2-2-2309 or, if the notice does not specify that date, upon the date of the notice to the revisor of statutes. The revisor of statutes was notified on September 6, 2024, that the condition specified occurred on September 5, 2024. For more information, see SB 24-053 (L. 2024, p. 2481).