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Senate Judiciary advanced SB26-120, a bill requiring peace-officer training on Colorado's missing-person alerts and a six-hour deadline for colleges to notify law enforcement after a student is reported missing, following wrenching testimony from families of two young women who died in 2025.
Key Actions
·Missing Person Training & Higher Education ReportingPassed
Notable Quotes
“Two gaps in our system that I had to personally bridge because no one else was there to do it. I should not have been the bridge. The law should be the bridge.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)John Carson, Lindsey Daugherty, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Dylan Roberts, Mike Weissman
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Good. Okay. Good. Good afternoon. Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order today as Wednesday, March 4th. Ms. Jensen, please start us off with a roll call. Senators Carson. Present. Doherty excused for now. We'll check out the zoom and make sure Senator Doherty can participate that way. Henriksen. Here. Wallace. Present. Zamora Wilson. Present. Robert? Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, Quorum is present. For the record, Senator Doherty did mention she had to present a bill in education. We expect that she'll join us here shortly. But we'll jump into our agenda, beginning with Senate Bill 120. We'll take up Senate Bill 75 after that. Thank you, sponsors, for being ready to go. Senator Wallace, Senator Marchman, whoever would like to start off with opening comments on SB120? Senator Marchman. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I want to start by telling you why I'm running this bill. I'm a parent. And like every parent who sends a child to call college in Colorado, I believe that when something goes wrong, when my child goes missing, someone at that institution will have a plan. I'm here today because I learned the hard way that for…
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