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Key Bills

Key Terms

Actively Support: ACLU actively lobbied or testified for the passage of the bill.
Passive Support: ACLU supported the bill but did not testify on it.
Actively Oppose: ACLU actively lobbied or testified in order to prevent a bill’s passage.
Passive Oppose: opposed the bill but did not testify on it.
Monitor: The bill didn’t have a positive or a negative input on civil liberties but there was a potential for that to occur.
Postponed Indefinitely: The bill was killed in committee, before going to a legislative floor vote.
Note: If the current status shows action by the governor, it means that the bill passed both houses of the Colorado legislature.

Key Bills

Every legislative session we monitor certain bills that concern our ACLU mission, and sometimes take positions (support or oppose). Follow our KEY BILLS for 2009.

Legislative Reports for 2008

Here are the end-of-session reports listing every bill we monitored, supported or opposed last year. As bills died during the session, they were dropped from the report, so if you don't see the one you're looking for, try the "Failed Bills" PDF.

Legislative Recaps

For information on legislation during the 2008 session, click here.
---------2008 Session, final legislative report, failed bills.
---------2008 Ballot Issues, click here. (1.44MB PDF)
For information on legislation during the 2007 session, click here.

Eye on Colorado Legislative Scorecard

For four straight years, the ACLU of Colorado has published its Scorecard for Civil Liberties.The Scorecard highlights many of the bills that we feel had the biggest impact on civil liberties. The voting record of each legislator has been included in it as well, to provide the general public with an easy way to see the exact stance of their elected representatives on many key issues.
For the 2008 Scorecard, click here.
For the 2007 Scorecard, click here.
For the 2006 Scorecard, click here.
For the 2005 Scorecard, click here.

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