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.
In a hearing to determine whether to grant bail, creates a rebuttable presumption that the public would be put in significant peril if the accused person is released on bail when the accused person is...
Requires a court to impose a minimum sentence of at least 20 but not more than 30 years incarceration for an offender who commits sexual assault against a child who is 14 years of age or younger and 7 or...
Expands the criminal history background check requirement for employment at the Dept of Human Services to all employees of the department, and not just those that work directly with vulnerable persons....
Repeals the requirement that a defendant engage in plea negotiations with the district attorney for certain offenses before state-supported legal representation may be supplied. Changes the offense level...
Requires each adult arrested for or charged with a felony to submit to a DNA test. Requires the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to file and maintain the results of such DNA testing in a database and to...
Requires the state board of parole to work with DCJ to develop data related to the basis for and the outcomes of parole board decisions. Requires DCJ to provide the board with training regarding how to use...