First Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 11-0693.01 Bart Miller          HOUSE BILL 11-1213
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Williams A.,  Duran
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Jahn, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Education
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the exclusion of services performed by certain
            persons at the Auraria higher education center from
            the definition of employment for purposes of
            eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.  If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill specifies that services performed at the Auraria higher
       education center by a student or a student's spouse who is employed as
       part of financial assistance to the student does not constitute employment
       making one eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  8-70-131, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
       to read:
            8-70-131.  Employment does not include - school - college -
       university - Auraria higher education center.  (1)  "Employment" does
       not include services performed in the employ of a school, college, or
       university or the Auraria higher education center, if such the
       service is performed:
            (a)  By a student who is enrolled and is regularly attending classes
       at such the school, college, or university; or
            (b)  By a student in the employ of the Auraria higher
       education center who is enrolled and is regularly attending
       classes at a school, college, or university; or
            (b) (c)  By the spouse of such a student specified in paragraph
       (a) or (b) of this subsection (1), if such the spouse is advised, at the
       time such the spouse commences to perform such the service, that the
       employment of such the spouse to perform such the service is provided
       under a program to provide financial assistance to such the student by
       such the school, college, or university, or Auraria higher education
       center, and such the employment will not be covered by any program
       of unemployment insurance.
            SECTION 2.  Effective date - applicability.  This act shall take
       effect upon passage and shall apply to unemployment insurance claims on
       or after said date.
            SECTION 3.  Safety clause.  The general assembly hereby finds,
       determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate
       preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.