Date: 04/14/2014

Final
HCR14-1001

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON STATE, VETERANS, & MILITARY AFFAIRS

Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Postpone HCR14-1001 indefinitely. The motion passe
Refer HCR14-1001 to the Committee on Appropriation		PASS
FAIL



02:29 PM -- HCR14-1001

Representative Sonnenberg, sponsor, returned to the table to provide closing comments on House Concurrent Resolution 14-1001. The concurrent resolution refers a constitutional amendment to voters at the 2014 general election that, if approved, will allocate one state representative in the Colorado House of Representatives to each county. State House district boundaries will be set along county lines and the number of state representatives will be equal to the number of counties in the state. The change in state House districts will take effect on January 10, 2017, if approved by voters. State Senate districts are not affected by the resolution. Testimony on the resolution was originally heard on Wednesday, April 9, 2014.

Members of the committee discussed their positions on the bill. Representative Ryden distributed information about Lucas v. Forty-fourth General Assembly of Colorado, 377 U.S. 713 (1964), a U.S. Supreme Court case that held that a majority-approved state apportionment plan that permits one house of its state assembly to be largely apportioned on the basis of factors other than population distribution is in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause (Attachment A).

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BILL:HCR14-1001
TIME: 02:45:21 PM
MOVED:Dore
MOTION:Refer HCR14-1001 to the Committee on Appropriations. The motion failed on a vote of 4-7.
SECONDED:Humphrey
VOTE
Conti
Yes
Dore
Yes
Foote
No
Humphrey
Yes
Labuda
No
Melton
No
Moreno
No
Nordberg
Yes
Williams
No
Salazar
No
Ryden
No
YES: 4 NO: 7 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: FAIL


BILL:HCR14-1001
TIME: 02:46:21 PM
MOVED:Salazar
MOTION:Postpone HCR14-1001 indefinitely. The motion passed on a vote of 7-4.
SECONDED:Melton
VOTE
Conti
No
Dore
No
Foote
Yes
Humphrey
No
Labuda
Yes
Melton
Yes
Moreno
Yes
Nordberg
No
Williams
Yes
Salazar
Yes
Ryden
Yes
Final YES: 7 NO: 4 EXC: 0 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS