2023 Indivisi-bills

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1	Indivisible Colorado Legislative Team 2023 Indivisi-bills
2	The Indivisible Colorado Legislative Team recommends these bills for unified action. * You can testify in person, virtually, or send in written testimony. Testimony is heard when the bill is in committee. * You can email or call your state Representative and Senator at any time to advocate for a bill.
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5	Category	Bill number, title	Current as of (date)	What would this bill do?	Status	Expected next step, timing	Call to Action - do this	Also do this

6	Climate	Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Measures SB-016	4/29/23	- Updates the statewide GHG emission reduction goals to add interim targets, a 65% reduction goal for 2035, an 80% reduction goal for 2040, a 90% reduction goal for 2045 and converts the current 90% by 2050 goal to 100%. - Requires insurance companies to complete "Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey”. - Gives income tax credit of 30% of the purchase price for new, electric-powered yard/lawn equipment. - Consolidate projects into "Colorado Electric Transmission Authority Act", allowing the CETA to finance and renovate, rebuild, or recondition existing transmission lines and requires expedited land use decisions. - Determines the calculation if a CSG’s (Community Solar Garden) net meter bill credits change annually. - Gives the oil and gas conservation commission (COGCC) authority over carbon/GHG injection wells for the ‘permanent’ sequestration of GHGs. Primary intent is to give the state control over its sequestration future rather than cede it to the federal government.	Passed House Finance Committee, Monday, April 24th. Bill is heading back to the Senate, to be scheduled.		Please call send your state representative a comment in support of SB23-016 here, a short statement is fine. If passed this bill takes several steps in the right dirrection. It wouldcreates a state income tax credit for new, electric-powered lawn equipment; requires the Public Employees’ Retirement Association and insurance companies to study climate risks to their investment portfolios; authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to regulate Class VI injection wells; updates the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals; and commissions a study on electric transmission capacity.
7	Repro Rights (bundle of 3 bills)	Protect Reproductive Health Care Patients and Providers (SB23-188), Ensure Access to Critical Care (SB23-189); Crack Down on Deceptive Practices by Anti-Abortion Centers (SB23-190)	4/17/23	1. Protect healthcare providers from being criminalized if they treat someone from out of state. 2. Make sure insurance coverage includes reproductive healthcare. 3. Prohibit inaccurate information from being distributed at crisis pregnancy centers.	All 3 bills Passed!		SB188 gives Colorado the strongest shield laws in the country
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9							SB190 is the first in the country to hold anti-abortion centers accountable for deceptive advertising
10	Affordable Housing	Repeal Prohibition Local Residential Rent Control HB23-1115	4/22/23	Repeal decades-old statewide prohibition on rent control. Allow local governments to adopt rent stabilization measures with certain protections, per amendments to bill.	Failed in the Senate Local Govt and Housing Committee
11	Healthcare	Analyze Statewide Publicly Financed Health-care HB23-1209	4/23/23	Re: ISSUE OF AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE: Bill Creates a task force to analyze implementation of CO Single Payer Healthcare	Being heard on 4/27 in the Senate Health/Human Svcs Committee at 1:30 pm; passed House	TBD	Use this link to email your support. Altho it passed the House, sponsors are less confident of support in Senate HERE IS A LINK TO A FACT SHEET: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YEPUyKiX9VU9htjx36fKPrH8AeRAWGax/view?usp=share_link
12	Gun Safety (bundle of 4 bills)	Waiting Period To Deliver A Firearm HB23-1219	4/28/23	Creates a three-day waiting period for all gun purchases	Signed into law
13		Gun Violence Victims' Access To Judicial System SB23-168	4/28/23	Makes it easier to sue firearm manufacturers for liability. Created for a person or entity that suffered harm as a result of an industry member violation of the firearm industry standards of responsible conduct, or for the attorney general or the attorney general's designee, for enforcement and remedy of any harms caused as a result of an industry member's violation.	Signed into law
14		Increasing Minimum Age To Purchase Firearms SB23-169	4/28/23	Increases the age to purchase a firearm to 21	Signed into law
15		Extreme Risk Protection Order Petitions SB23-170	4/28/23	Under current law a family or household member and a law enforcement officer or agency can petition for an extreme risk protection order. The bill expands the list of who can petition for an extreme risk protection order to include licensed medical care providers, licensed mental health-care providers, licensed educators, and district attorneys.	Signed into law
16	Additional Gun Safety Bills	Municipal Courts and Domestic Violence HB23-1222	5/3/23	Addresses issue of municipal courts and the relinquishment of firearms	Passed!
17		Assault Weapons Ban HB23-1230	4/19/23	Prohibit the sale of assault weapons	Lost
18		Ghost Guns (unserialized firearms) Ban SB23-279	5/5/23	This would impose a misdemeanor sentence for possession, sale, offer to sell, transfer and transport of ghost guns with some exceptions for gun dealers and manufacturers.	Passed!
19		Possession Of Weapon By Previous Offender Crimes SB23-022	4/25/23	Under current law, it is illegal for someone to possess a firearm if the person was convicted of or adjudicated for certain felonies. The bill adds aggravated motor vehicle theft to the convictions that prohibit a person from possessing a firearm	House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations		Testtify in support!! Instructions and tips on how to testify can be found here.
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