The bill limits the power of the governor and other state and local officials with respect to emergency orders, decrees, regulations, or other mandates (emergency orders) that bind or regulate the public by: Requiring emergency orders that bind, curtail, or infringe the rights of private parties to be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety purpose and limited in duration, applicability, and scope in order to reduce any infringement of individual liberty; Stating that state courts have jurisdiction to hear cases challenging the lawfulness of state and local emergency orders, requiring courts to expedite consideration of such challenges so that they are heard within 72 hours of being filed and to apply a strict scrutiny standard of judicial review when reviewing such challenges, and stating further that inequality in the applicability or impact of emergency orders on analogous groups, situations, and circumstances may constitute a ground for a court to invalidate or enjoin an emergency order, or some of its applications, as not narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety purpose; Allowing only the governor to issue an emergency order that infringes constitutional rights in a nontrivial manner and specifically identifying as constitutional rights the rights to travel, work, assemble, and speak; freedom of religious exercise; the nonimpairment of contract and property rights; freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; and freedom to purchase lawful firearms and ammunition; Further limiting such infringing emergency orders by: Making an emergency order expire in 7 days unless the general assembly is in a regular legislative session and has at least 15 days to consider and vote to ratify, by a 2/3 supermajority vote, or terminate, by a simple majority vote, the emergency order or the governor calls the general assembly into a special legislative session for the purpose of considering and voting on the emergency order; and If the 7-day expiration does not apply, making any such order expire in 30 days unless: The governor or the general assembly terminates the order sooner; or The general assembly, by a 2/3 supermajority vote, adopts a joint resolution ratifying the order during the 30-day period; Authorizing each house of the general assembly to vote to ratify or terminate emergency orders by remote debate and electronic or other means; and Stating that if, during the pendency of a given emergency, the governor reissues any emergency order or issues another emergency order that is substantially similar to an emergency order that expired without legislative approval or that the general assembly terminated, the reissued or substantially similar emergency order shall not take effect unless the general assembly, by a 2/3 vote of the members of each house, adopts a joint resolution ratifying the emergency order. The bill also states that state and local officials may issue nonbinding recommendations and guidelines that do not include provisions for enforcement or surveillance and that they may help coordinate public and private action to prevent or respond to an emergency. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
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The bill allows surplus military vehicles to be driven on roadways. Historical military vehicles, which are vehicles valued for historical purposes, are of a model year 1980 or earlier, and maintain historically appropriate markings, may be driven on a highway, but only: To and from assemblies, conventions, or other meetings where historical military vehicles and their ownership are the primary interest; On special occasions, for demonstrations and parades; On occasions when the operation of the vehicle on the highways will not constitute a traffic hazard; and To, from, and during local, state, or national tours held primarily for the exhibition and enjoyment of historical military vehicles. The vehicles will be issued a certificate of title as a motor vehicle and a registration as a motor vehicle. But if the vehicle is transferred to another person who does not intend to use the vehicle for historical purposes, the title will revert back to an off-highway title and the vehicle will no longer be registered. Historical military vehicles are exempted from emissions testing. An historical military vehicle is exempt from the inspection and use of emission controls unless emission controls are standard equipment at the time of manufacture, in which case, the equipment must be in proper working condition to operate the historic military vehicle on the highway. (Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.) (Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)
The bill prohibits terminating the life of an unborn child and makes a violation a class 1 felony. The following are exceptions to the prohibition: A licensed physician performs a medical procedure designed or intended to prevent the death of a pregnant mother, if the physician makes reasonable medical efforts under the circumstances to preserve both the life of the mother and the life of her unborn child in a manner consistent with conventional medical practice; and A licensed physician provides medical treatment, including chemotherapy or removal of an ectopic pregnancy, to the mother that results in the accidental or unintentional injury to or death of the unborn child. The pregnant mother upon whom termination of the life of an unborn child is performed or attempted is not subject to a criminal penalty. The sale and use of contraception is not prohibited by the bill. A conviction related to the prohibition of the termination of the life of an unborn child constitutes unprofessional conduct for purposes of physician licensing. The bill states that any act, law, treaty, order, or regulation of the United States government that denies or prohibits protection of a human person's inalienable right to life is null, void, and unenforceable in this state and that the courts of the United States have no jurisdiction to interfere with Colorado's interest in protecting human life at conception when human life begins. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill allows a school district to provide transportation, or reimburse a parent or guardian for providing transportation, to the schools of its district to a student from any other Colorado school district who is enrolled in its schools, if the student is, or has been in the preceding school year, eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch under the national school lunch program or who is a student with a disability and who is, or was in the preceding school year, receiving special education services.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill establishes the "Live and Let Live Act" in Colorado. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill permits a clerk to issue a license to marry and a marriage certificate only upon satisfactory proof that the marriage will be between one man and one woman, regardless of judicial decisions to the contrary. The bill authorizes a court, county department, or licensed child placement agency to approve an adoptive placement of a child only with prospective parents whose marriage consists of one man and one woman, or whose civil union, if it were considered a marriage, is only between one man and one woman, regardless of any judicial decisions to the contrary, and to allow stepparent adoptions only to a parent who is in a marriage or civil union that is between one man and one woman. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
The bill repeals statutory provisions: Prohibiting the possession of certain ammunition magazines; and Requiring each of certain ammunition magazines that are manufactured in Colorado on or after July 1, 2013, to include a permanent stamp or marking indicating that the magazine was manufactured or assembled after July 1, 2013.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)
Surplus military vehicles - certificates of title - on-road and off-road use - appropriation. The act defines surplus military vehicles as off-highway vehicles for the purposes of titling these vehicles and of using these vehicles on and off road. These changes in the definition are as follows: A surplus military vehicle may be titled as an off-highway vehicle; A surplus military vehicle is not registered as a motor vehicle; and A surplus military vehicle is treated as an off-highway vehicle for the purposes of on-road use and off-road use. These changes do not apply to military vehicles that are valued for historical purposes. To implement the act, $45,000 is appropriated to the department of revenue from the Colorado DRIVES vehicle service account. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
Alcohol regulation - licensed premises - National Western Center. The act authorizes the city and county of Denver to promulgate an ordinance authorizing a person to remove an alcohol beverage from the licensed premises of a vendor within the National Western Center so long as the person does not leave the National Western Center.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.) Read More
The bill repeals the authorization for the state, a county, a city and county, or a municipality to use automated vehicle identification systems, including red light cameras, to identify violators of traffic regulations and issue citations based on photographic evidence and creates a prohibition on such activity. The bill repeals the authorization for the department of public safety to use an automated vehicle identification system to detect speeding violations within a highway maintenance, repair, or construction zone.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.) Read More