Date: 05/03/2012

Final
SCR12-001

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Refer Senate Concurrent Resolution 12-001 to the CPASS



05:42 PM -- SCR12-001

The committee recessed.


05:52 PM

The committee came back order. Representative Ferrandino, sponsor, presented Senate Concurrent Resolution 12-001. This concurrent resolution refers a constitutional amendment to voters at the 2012 general election that, if approved, will delete language in the Colorado Constitution rendered obsolete as a result of court rulings in 1994 and 2010. Certain campaign finance provisions and certain bill of rights provisions are affected as outlined in the bill.

The concurrent resolution proposes several amendments to Article XXVIII of the Colorado Constitution, concerning campaign and political finance, including: 1) the repeal of language that forbids expenditures that expressly advocate for the election of a candidate and that prohibit corporations or labor unions from providing funding for electioneering communication; 2) the repeal of four definitions that appear in Section 2 of the article, and; 3) the repeal of Sections 15, 16, and 17, which primarily deal with sole source government contracts.

Section 30 (b) of Article II, adopted in 1992, is also repealed. This section of the constitution prohibited the state from establishing a protected status based on homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation and was declared unconstitutional in 1994. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this section unconstitutional in 1996.

05:55 PM -- Rich Coolidge, representing the Colorado Secretary of State, testified in support of the resolution.
BILL:SCR12-001
TIME: 05:57:16 PM
MOVED:Pabon
MOTION:Refer Senate Concurrent Resolution 12-001 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a vote of 9-2.
SECONDED:Kagan
VOTE
Baumgardner
No
DelGrosso
Yes
Duran
Yes
Kagan
Yes
Lee
Yes
Nikkel
Yes
Pabon
Yes
Ryden
Yes
Sonnenberg
No
Waller
Yes
Gardner B.
Yes
Final YES: 9 NO: 2 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS