During each legislative session, we track numerous bills that address important issues that affect our freedoms, and when appropriate, we provide testimony around these bills in the Colorado House and Senate.
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Our Legislative Database catalogs all the bills we've monitored in recent years. Search or browse it to gain historical perspective on all of our legislative victories and defeats.
The bill establishes a definition for a drug-endangered child for purposes of cases of child abuse or neglect in the children's code.
2014
The bill defines a chop shop as any building, lot, facility, or other structure or premise where: • Any person or persons possess, receive, store, disassemble, or alter, including the alteration or...
Under current law, certain earned time that is awarded to an inmate or a parolee by the state department of corrections vests and may not be later revoked or withdrawn. On and after the effective date of...
Current law provides that part of a criminal sentence must include a sentence to prison if an individual criminal defendant fails to pay a fine. The bill changes this requirement so that the sentence must...
The bill requires the Colorado supreme court to rule on a death penalty unitary appeal within 3 years of the filing of the notice of appeal unless extraordinary circumstances prevent compliance.
Under current law, a person who was convicted of a felony is prohibited from using, possessing, or carrying a firearm. The bill creates a process to allow a person convicted of a certain nonviolent felony...