{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-24-74.1-101","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 24-74.1-101","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this article 74.1, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n(1) \"Employee\" means a person in the service of a public child care center, public school, local education provider, public institution of higher education, public health-care facility, or publicly supported library while acting in the person's employment capacity. \"Employee\" includes an officer or employee, whether elected or appointed and whether full-time, part-time, or temporary. \"Employee\" also includes an agent of a public child care center, public school, local education provider, public institution of higher education, public health-care facility, or publicly supported library when acting in their capacity as an agent of a public child care center, public school, local education provider, public institution of higher education, public health-care facility, or publicly supported library. \"Employee\" does not include a person acting in a volunteer capacity.\n\n(2) \"Federal immigration enforcement\" means an effort to investigate, enforce, or assist in the investigation or enforcement of a federal civil immigration law or a federal criminal immigration law that penalizes a person's presence in, entry or reentry to, or employment in the United States.\n\n(3) \"Local education provider\" means a school district, a charter school authorized by a school district pursuant to part 1 of article 30.5 of title 22, a charter school authorized by the state charter school institute pursuant to part 5 of article 30.5 of title 22, or a board of cooperative services created and operating pursuant to article 5 of title 22 that operates one or more public schools.\n\n(4) \"Public child care center\" means a child care center as defined in section 26.5-5-303 that is licensed pursuant to part 3 of article 5 of title 26.5 and has received money in the last five state fiscal years, in any amount, from the state.\n\n(5) \"Public health-care facility\" means a health-care facility that is licensed or certified pursuant to section 25-1.5-103 (1)(a)(I)(A) or article 3 of title 25, or an essential community provider as defined in section 25.5-8-103 (6), and that receives money, in any amount, from the state.\n\n(6) \"Public institution of higher education\" means a state institution of higher education, as defined in section 23-18-102; local district college, as defined in section 23-71-102; area technical college, as defined in section 23-60-103; or private institution of higher education, as defined in section 23-18-102, that receives college opportunity funding for an eligible undergraduate student.\n\n(7) \"Public school\" means a school of a school district; a district charter school authorized by a school district pursuant to part 1 of article 30.5 of title 22; an institute charter school authorized by the state charter school institute pursuant to part 5 of article 30.5 of title 22; an approved facility school, as defined in section 22-2-402; the Colorado school for the deaf and the blind, as described pursuant to section 22-80-102; or a school operated by a board of cooperative services created and operating pursuant to article 5 of title 22.\n\n(8) \"Publicly supported library\" has the same meaning set forth in section 24-90-103.","path":["Title 24 - GOVERNMENT - STATE","Article 74.1 - Policies Regarding Data and Access"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-24.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"2263a083c949e568c0d68aee36401b120d39d8a605cf751b3e43a255cdc85ced","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-24-74-108","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-24-74.1-102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}