Gun Violence Prevention & Parents of Students

Added co-sponsors to both House and Senate sponsorship lists, expanding the bill's bipartisan support.

Updated committee assignments from House Education to House Education and Senate Health & Human Services.

Reorganized bill sections and renumbered existing provisions to accommodate the new reporting requirement section.

Added a new section requiring the Department of Education to include gun violence prevention materials in its annual 'Smart Act' hearing presentation starting January 2026.

Document structure changed from final act format to preliminary bill format with committee amendments and new page headers.

Removed final act language about Governor signatures and legislative status sheet references.

Added First Regular Session, Seventy-fifth General Assembly, and PREAMENDED headers.

Reorganized bill sections with new line numbers and formatting for committee review.

Added a note at the beginning of the document stating that the bill has been prepared for signatures and directing readers to consult legislative status sheets for Governor action.

Added institute charter schools to the list of local education providers required to distribute gun violence prevention materials to parents.

Added a new definition for 'materials' to clarify that it refers to gun violence prevention materials created by the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and posted on its website.

Added new Senate sponsors to the bill sponsorship list.

Added additional names to the list of House sponsors (Bacon, Bird, Boesenecker, Brown, Camacho, Clifford, Froelich, Garcia, Gilchrist, Jackson, Joseph, Lindsay, Lindstedt, Mabrey, McCormick, Rutinel, Sirota, Smith, Stewart R., Story, Woodrow).

Updated the bill summary header from 'ENGROSSED' to 'REENGROSSED' to reflect that amendments were adopted during the House of Introduction.

Added a 'Amended 3rd Reading' stamp and date (March 19, 2025) to the bill summary page.

Minor formatting adjustments to line numbers and spacing in the bill text that do not affect the legal content.

Added Duran as a co-sponsor alongside Hamrick.

Clarified that the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind is an authorized local education provider.

Changed the requirement from posting materials to posting or linking to materials on websites.

Added a new requirement for the Department of Public Health and Environment to include information about gun violence prevention materials in its annual Smart Act hearing presentation starting January 2026.