Senate Judiciary
The Senate Judiciary Committee killed a mandatory-sentencing bill for child sex offenders after hours of wrenching testimony from survivors and offenders alike, while advancing bills to extend jail-oversight rules to municipal jails and to narrow the Colorado Survivor Justice Act to a technical fix. A routine cleanup of the community-property death act sailed onto the consent calendar.
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Sign in to subscribeGood afternoon. The Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order. Today is Wednesday, the 18th of March. Ms. Jensen, please start us off with a roll call. Senators Benavides. Here. Carson. Here. Henriksen. Here. Wallace. Here. Zamora Wilson. Present. Robert. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, everyone's present. Thank you. Just to note our agenda for the record. We have four bills that will go in House Bill 1189, followed by House Bill 1039, followed by Senate Bill 124, and then Senate Bill 111. I am due to present a bill now in the Education Committee, so I'll be turning the gavel over to the vice chair to get us through the first part of the hearing. Okay. So beginning with House Bill 1189, we have Senator Snyder in front of us, who just can't get enough of Judiciary. He's back. Welcome back. Thank you. That really means a lot. My time serving on Senate Judiciary was brief but unforgettable. Of course. Yeah. Okay. Well, thank you, Committee and Chair Roberts, for hearing this bill. This is kind of unique. Back in 23, Senator Gardner and I carried and got passed Senate Bill 100, which was the Uniform Community Property…
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