(1)(a) There is hereby
created the department of regulatory agencies, the head of which shall be the
executive director of the department of regulatory agencies, which office is hereby
created. The executive director shall be appointed by the governor, with the
consent of the senate, and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The
reappointment of an executive director after initial election of a governor shall be
subject to the provisions of section 24-20-109. The executive director shall have
those powers, duties, and functions prescribed for heads of principal departments
in the Administrative Organization Act of 1968. The department of regulatory
agencies shall be organized as provided in the Administrative Organization Act of
1968; but nothing in this part 1 shall be c
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(1) (a) There is hereby
created the department of regulatory agencies, the head of which shall be the
executive director of the department of regulatory agencies, which office is hereby
created. The executive director shall be appointed by the governor, with the
consent of the senate, and shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The
reappointment of an executive director after initial election of a governor shall be
subject to the provisions of section 24-20-109. The executive director shall have
those powers, duties, and functions prescribed for heads of principal departments
in the Administrative Organization Act of 1968. The department of regulatory
agencies shall be organized as provided in the Administrative Organization Act of
1968; but nothing in this part 1 shall be construed to prevent the establishment,
combination, or abolition of divisions, sections, or units other than those created by
law.
(b) Repealed.
(2) The executive director shall prepare and transmit annually, in the form
and manner prescribed by the heads of the principal departments pursuant to the
provisions of section 24-1-136, a report accounting to the governor for the efficient
discharge of all responsibilities assigned by law or directive to the department of
regulatory agencies and divisions thereof.
(3) Publications by the executive director circulated in quantity outside the
executive branch shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of section 24-1-136.
(4) Repealed.
(5) The executive director of the department of regulatory agencies may
enter into contracts pursuant to part 5 of article 50 of this title for the purpose of
decreasing appropriations in the annual general appropriation act.
(6) The executive director of the department of regulatory agencies may
contract, pursuant to part 5 of article 50 of this title, with a person having the
technical or subject matter expertise or the skill and experience to develop,
implement, and administer the licensing and examination functions of the divisions
in the department when the executive director determines that a division lacks
sufficient technical expertise to perform such licensing and examination functions.
(7) A contract entered into pursuant to this section may authorize a
contractor to collect fees directly from an applicant. The contract may allow the
contractor to retain all or a portion of the fees as payment for performance of the
services under the contract. Fees collected and retained by the contractor shall not
be subject to the provisions of article 36 of this title.
(8) This section shall not be construed to limit the powers of any type 1 board
or commission in the department of regulatory agencies.
(9) The executive director shall have the authority to accept and expend
gifts, grants, and donations for the purposes of implementing and administering the
provisions of section 24-4-103 (2.5).
(10) The executive director may contract pursuant to part 5 of article 50 of
this title with a person, corporation, or entity having technical or subject matter
expertise or skill and experience to develop, implement, and administer the
licensing and examination functions of the division of professions and occupations
when the executive director determines that the division of professions and
occupations is without sufficient technical expertise to perform such licensing and
examination functions.
(11) The executive director may contract pursuant to part 5 of article 50 of
this title with a person, corporation, or entity for the purpose of decreasing the
appropriations for the division of professions and occupations in the annual general
appropriations act.
(12) A contract entered into pursuant to subsection (10) or (11) of this section
may authorize a contractor to collect fees directly from an applicant. The
contractor may retain all or a portion of the fees designated as payment for
performance of the functions under the contract. All fees collected and retained by
the contractor shall not be subject to the provisions of article 36 of this title.
(13) The executive director shall include in the presentation to the legislative
committee of reference pursuant to section 2-7-203, C.R.S., the number of
confidential letters of concern issued in the twelve months prior to the presentation
by the director of the division of professions and occupations and any board
pursuant to title 12, C.R.S.
(14) In conjunction with the efforts of the office of information technology
regarding cyber coding cryptology for state records pursuant to section 24-37.5-407, the executive director of the department of regulatory agencies or the
director's designee shall consider secure encryption methods, especially
distributed ledger technologies, to protect against falsification, create visibility to
identify external hacking threats, and to improve internal data security, especially
to secure business ownership and stock ledger ownership data that might be
potential high-risk targets for corporate cyber theft and transaction falsification.
The considerations for distributed ledger technologies shall include best practice
attempts to maintain privacy of personally identifying information of the distributed
user base while utilizing the visibility of distributed transactions.