Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Colorado State Senate is the upper house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Colorado. It is composed of 35 members elected from single-member districts, with each district having a population of about 123,000 as of the 2000 census. Senators are elected to four-year terms, and are limited to two ...
The first women who served in the Colorado House of Representatives were Clara Cressingham, Carrie Holly and Frances Klock. All three were elected to serve in 1895-1896. [ 27 ] Carrie Holly introduced and passed a Bill that raised the age of consent for girls from 16 to 18 and another that gave mothers the same rights to their children as fathers.
District 16 is based in the far western suburbs of Denver, covering all of Gilpin County and parts of Boulder County and Jefferson County, as well as the southwestern corner of Denver proper. Other communities in the district include Superior , Central City , Golden , Evergreen , Conifer , Genesee , Indian Hills , Kittredge , West Pleasant View ...
Rep. Daniel Singh, R-Cheyenne, presented Colorado House Bill 24-1058 to the Legislature’s Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology on Tuesday.
Colorado's Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms. House Bill 1292 was passed Sunday with a 35-27 vote along ...
[5] [6] He was also an outspoken proponent of expanding Colorado's "Make My Day" law to cover businesses, [7] [8] and against legislation which would have ended Colorado's use of the death penalty. [9] [10] In September 2007, King was appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter to a 21-member task on handling and use of DNA evidence. [11]
District 24 covers the northern suburbs of Denver in Adams County, including most of Northglenn and parts of Thornton and Westminster. [5] The district overlaps with Colorado's 6th and 7th congressional districts, and with the 31st, 34th, 35th, and 56th districts of the Colorado House of Representatives. [6]
Colorado's efforts were unique because they placed term limits on members of Congress in addition to state-level officials. [1] The term-limits movement resulted in the Supreme Court case U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995), which determined that states could not place restrictions on congresspeople beyond the constitutional requirements ...