Date: 02/02/2006
Final
BILL SUMMARY for HB06-1090
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY
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10:11 PM -- House Bill 06-1090
Representative Green, prime sponsor, presented HB 06-1090. The bill makes a number of provisions regarding sex offenders. The bill requires sex offenders to receive risk assessment screening results in a pre-sentence report, requires community notification of sexually violent predators, and removes the statute of limitations for sex offenses against children. The bill makes requirements for the posting of sex offender registration information by local law enforcement agencies. Finally, the bill requires the Department of Corrections and the Judicial Branch to submit an annual report on sexually violent predators to the Joint Judiciary Committees and the Governor. Committee members were provided with Amendment L.001 (Attachment W), L.005 (Attachment X), and L.006 (Attachment Y). The sponsor asked people who testified earlier on the statute of limitations issue on HB 06-1088 (Representative Marshall, prime sponsor) not to repeat their testimony on this bill, and stated that HB 06-1090 is identical to HB 06-1088, except that HB 06-1090 only applies to adults, not juvenile offenders.
The following testified on the bill:
10:21 PM -- Mr. David Kaplan, State Public Defender, spoke in opposition to the bill.
10:25 PM -- Mr. Harl Hargett, representing Lost and Found Inc., spoke in opposition to the bill and described his concerns with the bill.
10:31 PM -- Ms. Tamika Payne, representing the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault, spoke in support of the importance of public education regarding sex offenders.
10:31 PM -- Ms. Barbara Blaine, representing SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), spoke in support of the bill.
10:35 PM -- Mr. Greig Veeder, representing Teaching Humane Existence, spoke in support of the bill.
Several others signed up to testify but left before the bill was heard.
10:36 PM
The chairman closed public testimony and laid the bill over for action at a later date.