As used in this article 74.1, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. (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.
2. (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.
3. (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.
4. (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.
5. (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.
6. (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.
7. (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.
8. (8) Publicly supported library has the same meaning set forth in section 24-90-103.

Source: L. 2025: Entire article added, (SB 25-276), ch. 240, p. 1215, § 13, effective May 23.