House Judiciary
House Judiciary advanced a bill barring insurance companies from collecting criminal restitution over four Republican objections, sent a broad victims'-rights measure to Appropriations after adopting safety and privacy amendments, and passed the annual statute-enactment bill amid unusually poetic floor rhetoric.
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“I have been paying restitution since 2013. As of today, I have paid $54,000 towards that obligation in interest alone. Though now I owe an additional $64,000 in just interest. That means my total remaining balance is $88,000 more than I originally owed.”
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Sign in to subscribeLate. The committee will come to order. Ms. Shipley, please call the roll. Please call the roll. Representatives. Bacon. It's Bacon. Excused. Excused. The third. Excused. Do we have a door? Echoing. Can we mute the zoom? Espinosa. Espinosa. Present. Flannel. Garcia. Kelty. Here. Sla here. Soper. Here. Carter. Present. Mr. Chair. Here. Let the record show AML. Bacon is also here. All right. We are starting off with the enactment bill. Rep. Soper. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, members of the committee members. This is our annual enactment bill. It's also called the Publications Bill because it takes all of the laws that were passed last session and incorporates them physically into the statute book that we have here. If this bill were to not pass, what would happen is people would rely on the 2025 set of statutes, plus the 25 session laws, which is another set of books. It's your gray, kind of brownish gray books. And that's what would be used to interpret what the law is in Colorado. It's very confusing and clunky. If that were the way it's good for the public, for attorneys, for anyone who wants to know what the…
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