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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.
Section 1 of the bill removes from the list of forms of documentation used for establishing identification for purposes of the Uniform Election Code of 1992 (code): • A copy of a current utility bill...
Under current law, an offender convicted of a misdemeanor involving unlawful sexual conduct must provide a DNA sample for inclusion in the Colorado bureau of investigation's DNA database. The bill would...
Current law requires that all elections conducted under the Uniform Election Code of 1992 be conducted by mail ballot. Sections 2 and 3 of the bill allow an elector, in accordance with rules adopted...
Under current law, a jury can only impose the death penalty based on a unanimous agreement. The bill changes the requirement to 9 out of 12 members of the jury.
2016
The bill broadens the protections of the state whistleblower protection law by specifying that no appointing authority or supervisor may take disciplinary action against a state employee for disclosing...
Under current law, for a person convicted of 2 or more separate crimes of violence arising out of the same incident, the court must require the person to serve the resulting sentences consecutively rather...