NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 4/26/2013.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 13-1123
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Exum, Buckner, Court, Duran, Fischer,
      Hamner, Hullinghorst, Labuda, Lebsock, Lee, Melton, Moreno, Rosenthal,
      Ryden, Salazar, Schafer, Tyler, Young, Ferrandino;
      also SENATOR(S) Kerr, Guzman, Heath, Newell, Schwartz, Steadman,
      Tochtrop, Todd.
      
      
      Concerning the right of a person to waive confidentiality
           requirements protecting personal work information
           obtained by the department of labor and employment for
           unemployment benefit claims to permit the department to
           forward certain information to potential employers.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  Legislative declaration. (1)  The general assembly
      determines that Colorado's government needs to do a better job of helping
      its approximately forty-nine thousand unemployed veterans find good
      employment opportunities.
      
           (2)  The general assembly hereby declares that allowing job
      applicants to waive the confidentiality of certain information will enable the
      division of unemployment insurance to make the information available to
      potential employers while allowing the veterans to control their privacy.
      Therefore, this legislation is needed to establish the waivers allowing
      veterans and other unemployed individuals to more easily contact potential
      employers.
      
           SECTION 2.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 8-83-106 as
      follows:
      
           8-83-106. Division - offer waiver of confidentiality for
      employment purposes. Notwithstanding the confidentiality
      requirements in section 8-72-107 (1), the division may offer
      veterans and other persons seeking employment the opportunity
      to waive the confidentiality of certain information including the
      person's name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address so
      that the division may make available the waived information to
      bona fide employers seeking employees.
      
           SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      7, 2013, if adjournment sine die is on May 8, 2013); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2014
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
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      Mark Ferrandino                         John P. Morse
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO