{"data":{"id":"us-co/c.r.s.-25-7-129","jurisdiction":"us-co","citation":"C.R.S. § 25-7-129","heading":"Disposition of fines - community impact cash fund - repeal.","body":"(1) There is hereby created in the state treasury the community impact cash fund, referred to in this section as the \"fund\". The fund consists of money credited to the fund pursuant to subsection (2) of this section and any other money that the general assembly may appropriate or transfer to the fund. The state treasurer shall credit all interest and income derived from the deposit and investment of money in the fund to the fund. Any unexpended and unencumbered money remaining in the fund at the end of any fiscal year remains in the fund.\n\n(2) (a) The state treasurer shall credit the receipts from penalties or fines collected under sections 25-7-115, 25-7-122, and 25-7-123 in the following manner:\n\n(I) For state fiscal year 2021-22, twenty percent of the receipts from penalties or fines collected during the fiscal year shall be credited to the fund, and eighty percent to the general fund;\n\n(II) For state fiscal year 2022-23, forty percent of the receipts from penalties or fines collected during the fiscal year shall be credited to the fund, and sixty percent to the general fund;\n\n(III) For state fiscal year 2023-24, sixty percent of the receipts from penalties or fines collected during the fiscal year shall be credited to the fund, and forty percent to the general fund;\n\n(IV) For state fiscal year 2024-25, eighty percent of the receipts from penalties or fines collected during the fiscal year shall be credited to the fund, and twenty percent to the general fund; and\n\n(V) For state fiscal year 2025-26 and any state fiscal year thereafter:\n\n(A) The first one million dollars to the motor vehicle emissions assistance fund established in section 25-7-129.5; and\n\n(B) One hundred percent of the remainder to the fund.\n\n(b) This subsection (2)(b) and subsections (2)(a)(I), (2)(a)(II), (2)(a)(III), and (2)(a)(IV) of this section are repealed, effective September 1, 2027.\n\n(3) (a) Beginning in fiscal year 2022-23, the department may expend money from the fund to provide grants for environmental mitigation projects pursuant to section 25-1-134 (2)(g)(VII).\n\n(b) Money in the fund may also pay for the direct and indirect costs of the environmental justice advisory board created in section 25-1-134 (2), including per diem and expenses of the advisory board, and the department's costs for administering the grant program created in section 25-1-134 (2)(g)(VII).\n\n(c) Money in the fund is exempt from section 24-75-402 (3).\n\n(d) The department may seek, accept, and expend gifts, grants, or donations from private or public sources for the purposes set forth in this subsection (3).\n\n(e) Subject to annual appropriation by the general assembly, the department may expend money from the fund to accomplish the purposes set forth in this subsection (3).\n\n(f) The department may expend money from the fund for purposes of any environmental equity and cumulative impact analyses in accordance with section 25-1-133.\n\n(g) (I) Pursuant to the department of public health and environment's authority to expend money from the fund to provide grants for environmental mitigation projects in disproportionately impacted communities pursuant to section 25-1-134 (2)(g)(VII), the department may expend money from the fund to provide grants for municipal solid waste landfill methane emission reduction projects that are conducted in accordance with rules adopted by the commission under this article 7 and that qualify as environmental mitigation projects, as defined in section 25-1-134 (4)(b).\n\n(II) The environmental justice advisory board, created in section 25-1-134 (2)(a), shall prioritize a grant request for the purpose of complying with municipal solid waste landfill methane emission reduction requirements from a local government that owns or operates a municipal solid waste landfill over a grant request from a private entity that owns or operates a municipal solid waste landfill.\n\n(III) An entity shall use money expended by the department of public health and environment pursuant to subsection (3)(g)(I) of this section as supplemental funding only and not as the exclusive source of funding for compliance with municipal solid waste landfill methane emission reduction requirements. With the exception of supplemental funding grants for environmental mitigation projects provided pursuant to subsection (3)(g)(I) of this section, nothing in this subsection (3)(g) relieves an entity of the responsibility to otherwise ensure adequate funding for municipal solid waste landfill methane emission reduction projects in compliance with applicable commission rules.\n\n(4) (a) On July 1, 2025, the state treasurer shall transfer six million dollars from the fund to the general fund.\n\n(a.1) On June 30, 2026, the state treasurer shall transfer five million one hundred sixty-two thousand three hundred seventy-three dollars from the fund to the general fund.\n\n(a.3) On June 30, 2027, the state treasurer shall transfer five million dollars from the fund to the general fund.\n\n(b) This subsection (4) is repealed, effective July 1, 2028.\n\n(5) (a) On July 1, 2026, the state treasurer shall transfer one million seven hundred forty-eight thousand eight hundred sixty-three dollars from the fund to the information technology capital account created in section 24-75-302 (3.7).\n\n(b) This subsection (5) is repealed, effective July 1, 2027.","path":["Title 25 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT","Article 7 - Air Quality Control","Part 1 - AIR QUALITY CONTROL PROGRAM"],"source_url":"https://olls.info/crs/crs2026-title-25.htm","current_through":"Colorado Revised Statutes 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:37:45Z","sha256":"481f14fe7888952077a325bb684f728f9cdde9e6a365fb0e0b323a078b8c5c46","source_id":"us-co","stale":false,"prev":"us-co/c.r.s.-25-7-128","next":"us-co/c.r.s.-25-7-129.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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