2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 44 - REVENUE - REGULATION OF ACTIVITIES (§§ 44-1-101 — 44-50-1001) › GAMING AND RACING (§§ 44-30-101 — 44-33-108) › Article 30 - COLORADO LIMITED GAMING ACT (§§ 44-30-101 — 44-30-1703) › Part 15 - SPORTS BETTING (§§ 44-30-1501 — 44-30-1519) › Section 44-30-1507 - Records - confidentiality - exceptions

(1)
Except as specified in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, information and records of the commission enumerated by this section are confidential and may not be disclosed except pursuant to a court order. No person may by subpoena or statutory authority obtain such information or records. Information and records considered confidential include:
(a)
Tax returns of individual licensees;
(b)
Credit reports and security reports and procedures of applicants and other persons seeking to do business or doing business with the commission;
(c)
Audit work papers, worksheets, and auditing procedures used by the commission, its agents, or employees; and
(d)
Investigative reports concerning violations of law or concerning the backgrounds of licensees, applicants, or other persons prepared by division investigators or investigators from other agencies working with the commission and any work papers related to the reports; except that the commission may, in its sole discretion, disclose so much of the reports or work papers as it deems necessary and prudent.
(2)
Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to requests for information or records described in subsection (1) of this section from the governor, attorney general, state auditor, any of the respective district attorneys of this state, or any federal or state law enforcement agency, or for the use of the information or records by the executive director, director, or commission for official purposes, or by employees of the division or the department in the performance of their authorized and official duties.
(3)
(a)
This section does not make confidential the aggregate tax collections during any reporting period, the names and businesses of licensees, or figures showing the aggregate amount of money bet during any reporting period. The division shall publicly report this information on a monthly basis in statements of net sports betting proceeds and sports betting taxes. Public reporting shall be made electronically and posted on the division's website.
(b)
(I)
The division shall publicly report monthly and annual net sports betting proceeds, aggregated on a city-by-city basis for the city of Cripple Creek, the city of Central, and the city of Black Hawk, based on the physical location of master licensees' casinos. The data must also contain subtotals for proceeds derived from on-site and internet sports betting operations, respectively. To the extent partial-year data are available for any reporting period that preceded January 1, 2022, the division shall report any available monthly figures and shall note that annual figures do not reflect activity during the entire reporting period.
(II)
If there are fewer than three holders of active and valid sports betting licenses in any of the cities listed in subsection (3)(b)(I) of this section, then, to protect the licensees' privacy, the division shall aggregate that city's sports betting proceeds with the sports betting proceeds of the city that has the next lowest number of active and valid sports betting licensees.
(III)
If the Gilpin county assessor or Teller county assessor uses information aggregated pursuant to subsection (3)(b)(II) of this section to establish the actual value of a casino, whether sports betting is offered on the premises of the casino or online by the casino or by a contractor, and the use of the aggregated information results in an increase in the actual value of the casino's real property, the county assessor or an authorized agent of the assessor shall:
(A)
Present the county assessor's estimate of the increase in the casino's valuation, based on the aggregated data, to the taxpayer on or before March 1 of each revaluation year;
(B)
Consider any information that the taxpayer, in its discretion, chooses to disclose and provides to the county assessor or authorized agent of the assessor on or before March 15 of the revaluation year tending to show that the value attributed to the casino based on the aggregated data is incorrect;
(C)
Treat any such disclosure by the taxpayer as the proprietary and confidential information of the taxpayer and shall not reveal the information to any other person, notwithstanding any provision of the "Colorado Open Records Act", part 2 of article
72
of title
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, or any other law. The confidentiality created by this subsection (3)(b)(III)(C) applies at all times during the real property assessment process, beginning when the information is first provided to the county assessor or authorized agent of the assessor and continuing through county board of equalization proceedings, any protest process, any board of assessment appeal proceedings, and any court proceedings. To the extent this information is the subject of administrative or court proceedings, the discussion of the information shall not be public and shall be restricted to in camera proceedings under seal.
(D)
Only use such aggregated information or information provided by the taxpayer that establishes income actually received by the casino because the casino conducts sports betting on its licensed premises, either directly or by contracting with a licensed sports betting operator; or contracts with a third party so that the third party may conduct a licensed online sports betting operation in conjunction with the casino's master license.
(IV)
Nothing in this subsection (3)(b) authorizes the division to produce any document or information that directly discloses, or would indirectly result in the disclosure of, taxpayer information that is confidential under this article 30 or any other provision of law.
(4)
(a)
A person who discloses confidential records or information in violation of this section commits a class 2 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section
18-1.3-501
. A criminal prosecution pursuant to this section must be brought within five years after the date the violation occurred.
(b)
If a person violating this section is an officer or employee of the state, in addition to any other penalties or sanctions, the person is subject to dismissal if the procedures in section
24-50-125
are followed.
(c)
A person is liable for treble damages to an injured party in a civil action the subject of which includes the release of confidential records or information, if the person violating this section is a current employee or officer of the state who obtained the confidential records or information specified in subsection (1) of this section during his or her employment.
(d)
A former employee or officer is liable for treble damages to an injured party in a civil action the subject of which includes the release of records or information after leaving state employment if the person violating this section is a former employee or officer of the state who obtained the confidential records or information during his or her employment and the person executed a written statement with the state agreeing to be held to the confidentiality standards expressed in this subsection (4).
Amended by 2021 Ch. 462, § 797, eff. 3/1/2022.
Amended by 2021 Ch. 466, § 2, eff. 1/1/2022.
Added by 2019 Ch. 347, § 12, eff. 5/1/2020.
L. 2019: Entire part added, (HB 19-1327), ch. 3227, p. 3227, § 12, effective 5/1/2020. L. 2021: (3) amended, (HB 21-1292), ch. 3357, p. 3357, § 2, effective 1/1/2022; (4)(a) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 3330, p. 3330, § 797, effective 3/1/2022.
(1) Section 16(2) of chapter 347 (HB 19-1327), Session Laws of Colorado 2019, provides that this section takes effect May 1, 2020, only if, at the November 2019 statewide election, a majority of voters approve the ballot question submitted pursuant to §
44-30-1514
. That ballot question, referred to the registered electors as proposition DD, was approved on November 5, 2019, and was proclaimed by the Governor on December 20, 2019. The vote count for the measure was as follows:
FOR:800,745
AGAINST:756,712
(2) Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.
For the legislative declaration in HB 21-1292, see section 1 of chapter 466, Session Laws of Colorado 2021.