The Colorado Senate advanced SB 9 (decoupling Colorado nonprofit tax status from federal determinations) and SB 14 (NGRI community placement reforms) on second reading over a divided 19-11 vote, while rejecting four floor amendments to SB 14 that would have added victim notification requirements, mandatory judicial review, a violence-history bar, and a felony-class bar on unconditional release. The session also adopted twelve unanimous House Joint Resolutions honoring military veterans.
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Senator Carson argued constituents whose family members were killed reported they 'were never properly informed about this community placement process,' and maintained that even if provisions exist in law the system 'doesn't seem to be working.' Senator Amabile countered that the amendment's provisions 'are already substantially in law,' warned against creating 'legal limbo,' and stated that Carson had conflated NGRI with incompetency proceedings — calling them 'not related.'
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“Political considerations should not be dictating whether a nonprofit maintains their nonprofit status. So what this bill does is it says if the, if there's any action at the federal level that is not a ending of their nonprofit status, we will continue to recognize that in Colorado, specifically in this bill for sales and use tax, but also realize there are good guardrails in place. So if a non profit loses their status for cause, whether that's malfeasance or misfilings, we still have the absolute ability to take away their nonprofit status.”
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