{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-22-29.5-113","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 22-29.5-113","heading":"Harassment.","body":"(1) A local education provider shall ensure that a qualified student with a disability is free from harassment that creates a hostile environment. A \"hostile environment\" includes an environment that interferes with or limits the student's ability to participate in or benefit from the local education provider's services, activities, or opportunities.\n\n(2) When a local education provider knows or reasonably should know of possible disability-based harassment, it must take immediate and appropriate action to investigate or otherwise determine what occurred.\n\n(3) If the investigation required by subsection (2) of this section reveals that disability-based harassment is sufficiently serious to create a hostile environment, the local education provider must take prompt and effective steps reasonably calculated to end the disability-based harassment, eliminate the hostile environment, prevent harassment and a hostile environment from recurring, and, as appropriate, remedy the hostile environment's effects.\n\n(4) Harassment on any basis may also impact a qualified student with a disability's receipt of a free and appropriate public education, in which case the effects of harassment, even if not based on disability, must be addressed by the student's section 504 team or IEP team.","path":["Title 22 - EDUCATION","Article 29.5 - Disability Rights Protections in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-22.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"165583a2541afe97c6cb161161998266a5aecc74559b8aa1bc1d616b15d4cafb","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-22-29.5-112","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-22-29.5-114"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}