Colorado Vote Reports

Repealed Colorado's statute clarifying that a marriage is valid only if it is between one man and one woman.

Requires local governments to ensure their building codes meet or exceed the accessibility provisions of the International Building Code.

Replaced gender-specific language with gender-neutral language throughout Title 35 of the Colorado Revised Statutes.

Tightens rules on ammunition sales in the state.

Creates a new refundable state-tax credit program to support the film-festival industry.

Expands legal protections for transgender individuals in Colorado.

A supplemental appropriations bill that provided additional funding adjustments for the Colorado Department of Education for the 2024-25 fiscal year.

Requires local governments to ensure their building codes meet or exceed the accessibility provisions of the International Building Code.

Creates a new refundable state-tax credit program to support the film-festival industry.

Restricts the manufacture, sale, transfer, and purchase of specified semiautomatic firearms.

Expands eligibility for Colorado's statewide Welcome, Reception, and Integration Grant Program.

Expands legal protections for transgender individuals in Colorado.

Establishes new fees on oil and gas production in Colorado.

Grants the Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) authority to seek federal approval for Class VI injection wells for underground carbon storage.

Makes price gouging of rent-based housing during disaster periods in designated areas an "unfair and unconscionable act."

Delays some parts of the Healthy School Meals for All program until FY 2025-26, extends certain reimbursements for a year, and creates a new cash fund for the program to help reduce costs and maximize federal funding.

Mandates that local governments and state Department of Personnel cannot install (and must ban others from installing) nonfunctional turf, artificial turf, or invasive plants in new developments or redevelopments.

Mandates that payment card networks must offer a merchant category code for firearms and payment processors must assign this code to firearms merchants.

Creates the Statewide Welcome, Reception, and Integration Grant Program to provide grants to "community-based" organizations that assist illegal migrants with accessing state services.

Creates the 14-member "Black Coloradan Racial Equity Commission" to study the "historical" and "ongoing effects" of slavery and "systemic racism" on black Coloradans.

Increases Colorado's public-school funding for FY 2024-25, raising base per pupil funding by $419.97 to $8,496.38, with total program funding set at $9.7 billion.

Updates the Colorado Potato Seed Act by requiring potato growers to have uncertified seed tested by the Department of Agriculture (CDA) before planting.

Modifies Colorado's assisted-suicide law by allowing advanced-practice nurses to prescribe life-ending medication and reducing the waiting period between oral requests from 15 days to 7 days.

Shrinks the small-group health plan market by lowering the employer size limit from 100 to 50 employees, forcing many businesses into the costlier large-group market.

Lets a county clerk and recorder issue a "marriage" or "civil union" license without the applicants appearing in person.

Creates "bonus payments" to incentivize participation in the Colorado universal preschool provider program.

Limits the issuance of a "no-knock search warrant" to a situation in which there is either probable cause for an arrest of a suspect or because of a "credible threat to the life of any person."

Permits recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to become law enforcement officers.

Requires certain health benefit plans to cover "abortion care" and "sterilization services," while allowing "contraceptive procedures, supplies, or information" to be offered to minors without parental notification or consent.

Designates March 14, 2023, as "Equal Pay Day," due to "the persistent problem of wage disparity" among "women, trans women, gender-expansive people, and women of color."

Creates "bonus payments" to incentivize participation in the Colorado universal preschool provider program.

Limits the issuance of a "no-knock search warrant" to a situation in which there is either probable cause for an arrest of a suspect or because of a "credible threat to the life of any person."

Requires health benefit plans to cover a continuous 12-month use of over-the-counter or prescription contraceptives.

Provides that a grandparent may overcome the presumption that any parental determination regarding "family time" is in the "best interests of the child" during a custody case, allowing a court to appoint a child's legal representative.

Permits recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to become law enforcement officers.

Proclaims that "it is time for the United States Congress to pass the Equal Rights Amendment."

Rescinds of all previous requests by the Colorado Legislature for a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution.

Makes it illegal to impose restrictions on abortion and makes it legal to murder preborn babies up to the moment of birth.

Gives more rights to those who are incarcerated.

Urges Congress to pass comprehensive voting rights legislation that compromises election integrity.

Sets standards to reduce building greenhouse gas emissions.

Creates the Displaced Aurarian scholarship for the descendants of Aurarians, a neighborhood in Denver, displaced by the development of the Auraria Higher Education Center between 1955 and 1973.

Rescinds of all previous requests by the Colorado Legislature for a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution.

Makes it illegal to impose restrictions on abortion and makes it legal to murder preborn babies up to the moment of birth.

Prohibits deceptive tactics during custodial interrogation of a juvenile.

Urges Congress to pass comprehensive voting rights legislation that compromises election integrity.

Sets standards to reduce building greenhouse gas emissions.

Creates the Displaced Aurarian scholarship for the descendants of Aurarians, a neighborhood in Denver, displaced by the development of the Auraria Higher Education Center between 1955 and 1973.