| HB12-1007 | Regulatory Analysis Requirement For Rules |
| Comment: | House Bill 1007 by Rep Szabo (R-Arvada) will require a state administrative agency to issue a regulatory analysis of any proposed rule at least 15 days prior to a rule-making hearing without a request being filed. The analysis would need to specify the effects of the proposed rule. |
| Position: | Support |
| Status: | 03/20/2012 Senate Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-11 |
| HB12-1008 | GA & Public Input Proposed Agency Rules & Fees |
| Comment: | House Bill 1008 by Rep Acree (R-Aurora) will require any state agency, when adopting rules, to convene a representative group of participants with an interest in the rules being proposed and allow them to submit their views on the proposed rules. |
| Position: | Support |
| Status: | 05/17/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-11 |
| HB12-1027 | Home Kitchen Nonpotentially Hazardous Food |
| Comment: | House Bill 1027 by Rep Bradford (R-Collbran) will allow commercial food production in home kitchens without health inspections. |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Status: | 03/22/2012 Senate Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Energy Postpone Indefinitely |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-11 |
| HB12-1029 | Economic Stimulus Personal Property Tax Exemption |
| Comment: | House Bill 1029 by Rep Holbert (R-Parker) will exempt business personal property that is purchased at any time during the 2013 calendar year from the levy and collection of property tax. |
| Position: | Support |
| Status: | 03/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-11 |
| HB12-1088 | Deadly Force Against Intruder At Place Of Business |
| Comment: | House Bill 1088 by Rep Holbert (R-Parker) and Becker (R-Fort Morgan) will allow business owners to use deadly force against intruders under certain circumstances. |
| Position: | Neutral |
| Status: | 03/05/2012 Senate Committee on State, Veterans & Military Affairs Postpone Indefinitely |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-17 |
| HB12-1097 | Food Protection Act Civil Penalties |
| Comment: | House Bill 1097 by Rep Summers (R-Lakewood) will close a loophole being used by some local health departments to suspend or revoke a restaurant license without going through the civil penalty process in statute. |
| Position: | Strongly Support |
| Status: | 04/06/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-18 |
| HB12-1101 | Use Of Personal Info To Defraud |
| Comment: | House Bill 1101 by Rep Barker (R-Cheyenne) will make it illegal for a person to unknowingly use someone else’s personal identifying information, financial identifying information, or financial device. Currently, a person needs to know they are using someone else’s information in order for it to be illegal. |
| Position: | Neutral |
| Status: | 05/04/2012 Senate Committee on Judiciary Postpone Indefinitely |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-18 |
| HB12-1270 | Alcohol Retail Purchase By On-premises Licensee |
| Comment: | House Bill 1270 by Rep Ryden (D-Aurora) will raise the amount of liquor an on-premise liquor licensee can purchase from a retail liquor store to $2,000 a year. |
| Position: | Support |
| Status: | 05/29/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-02-07 |
| HB12-1280 | Video Lottery Terminals For College Scholarships |
| Comment: | House Bill 1280 by Reps Coram (R-Montrose) and Sonnenberg (R-Sterling) would license no more than two lottery retailers to install and operate no more than three Video Lottery Terminal sites for each licensee. Each of the sites could operate up to 2,500 Video Lottery Terminals. Proceeds from sales at these terminals would go to the Colorado College Scholarship Fund, which is created in this bill. |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Status: | 05/09/2012 House Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-02-07 |
| HB12-1309 | Colorado Mandatory E-verify Act |
| Comment: | House Bill 1309 by Rep Swalm (R-Centennial) would require the use of the federal E-verify program by all Colorado employers with any new hire. Employers would be required to us the program starting January 1st, 2013. It creates penalties of $5,000 for the first offense and $25,000 for the second, with another $25,000 and 6-month suspension of the establishment’s business license for each offense after the second. |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Status: | 05/08/2012 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-02-20 |
| SB12-003 | Permissible Use Of Credit Information By Employers |
| Comment: | Senate Bill 03 by Sen Carroll (D-Aurora) will prohibit the use of an employee’s or potential employee’s credit information in hiring if unrelated to the job. This bill would require an employer to inform the employee if their credit information was used to take adverse action against the employee and would allow the employee to file a lawsuit if the employer used credit information inappropriately. |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Status: | 03/19/2012 House Committee on Local Government Postpone Indefinitely |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-11 |
| SB12-020 | Immunity For Reporters Of Overdoses |
| Comment: | Senate Bill 20 by Sens Aguilar (D-Denver) and Steadman (R-Colorado Springs) will give immunity to people who participated in an illegal action involving drug or alcohol use where an overdose occurred if the people report the overdose and cooperate with law enforcement. |
| Position: | Neutral |
| Status: | 05/29/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-11 |
| SB12-048 | Local Foods Local Jobs |
| Comment: | Senate Bill 48 by Sen Schwartz (D-Snowmass) will allow commercial food production in home kitchens without health inspections. |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Status: | 03/15/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-11 |
| SB12-052 | Local & Statewide Assessed Prop Tax Exemption |
| Comment: | Senate Bill 52 by Sen Scheffel (R-Parker) will raise the property tax exemption for the next year property tax year cycle from $7,000 to $14,000. |
| Position: | Support |
| Status: | 02/16/2012 Senate Committee on Finance Postpone Indefinitely |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-13 |
| SB12-068 | No Trans Fats In Public School Foods |
| Comment: | Senate Bill 68 by Rep Guzman (D-Denver) will prohibit a public school or charter school from making available to a student any kind of industrially produced trans-fat. This will include cafeterias, vending machines, school stores and any fundraising efforts. |
| Position: | Oppose |
| Status: | 06/04/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-13 |
| SB12-118 | Repeal 25 Percent Food Threshold Liquor License |
| Comment: | Senate Bill 118 by Sen White (R-Hayden) was amended to keep the 25% food sales requirement but, will now establish a "one year" period to calculate the percentage in. |
| Position: | Strongly Support |
| Status: | 05/24/2012 Governor Action - Signed |
| Date Introduced: | 2012-01-31 |