Colorado General Assembly Website
This link will take you to the General Assembly's website that is chock full of information. You can find bills that have become laws; track bills during the legislative session; find your legislator - how to contact them, what bills they have introduced and which bills have become law and to which committees they are assigned; what's happening between legislative sessions; how to listen live to meetings or listen to recordings; and much more - a demonstration of transparency in our state government.
Colorado General Assembly
2024 Ballot Measures
The Colorado Ballot Initiatives process is in full swing for the 2024 election season! In addition to the ballot measures introduced and approved for the ballot by the Colorado General Assembly during the 2024 legislative session, Colorado citizens can introduce ballot initiatives for the 2024 ballot as well. You can see where each citizen initiative is in the process at the Colorado Secretary of State's website.
2024 Citizen Ballot Initiatives Filings
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The Colorado Legislative Session began on January 10, 2024. Here are some tools that will help you determine which bills in the current session are being followed by the Colorado League.
Handy Legislative Action Tools PowerPoint
Glossary of Legislative Terms
Be in the know about what is happening in the Colorado Legislature using these links!
Master Bill Tracker and Issue Area Bills
This link takes you to the LWVCO Legislative Action Report page. Find the blue box on the left side of the page. Click on the top entry in the box to access the Master Bill Tracker. It will continue to be populated throughout the 2024 Colorado General Assembly Session as the LWVCO Legislative Action Committee (LAC) votes on the Colorado League's stances on bills. Scroll down the column in the blue box to find bills in the issues area(s) of interest to you and click on the issue area name. Then, click on the individual
Bill Number to find: who sponsored the bill, what the current status of the bill is, the latest text of the bill, who voted for or against the bill in committee or in the whole legislated body, who is lobbying, and more.
The Colorado League's Legislative Action Committee studied, discussed, and came to a stance consensus on each of the bills listed. Again, these lists will grow during the legislative session, so check often to see which bills have been added to the League's bills of interest. The League stances are registered with the Secretary of State's office and include SUPPORT, OPPOSE, AMEND, OR MONITOR. Stances are based on LWVCO and LWVUS Principles and Positions.
Legislative Action Report
Access the current edition of the
LWVCO Legislative Report. The
Legislative Report highlights news from the Colorado House and Senate as well as featured bills the LWVCO Legislative Action Committee is watching as the bills progress through the legislative process.
Colorado General Assembly Display Board
Interested in the bills that will be debated in Committees or on the floor of the Colorado House or Senate
today? Use the General Assembly
Display Board link to
listen live to the testimony and debates, access the schedules, read the agenda and handouts, and learn the outcome of a bill hearing.
House and Senate Members
Using this tool, you can track which bills each legislator sponsors, how he or she votes, and determine how those votes align with LWVCO's positions. You will also find contact information for each member of the General Assembly.
2024 Colorado Legislators
Steps for Giving Testimony in the Colorado House or Senate as a private citizen
- Click on Public Testimony (Ignore top box which is for accessible testimony/handicapped, unless that applies to you.)
- Click on Your Choice of 1) In Person, 2) By Zoom, 3) Written testimony
- Find your bill hearing by looking it up by Committee 1) House Finance, 2) Date of hearing, 3) Bill number. Fill in all of the detail it asks for.
1. For written testimony: Prepare a 1-page written testimony, save it to a file, and when you get to the written choice it is ready to either cut and paste into the box. There is a signup with required name, email.
2. AFTER submitting written testimony, go back into the process and Click on Testify by Zoom. They have the same required name, email. After submitting this, an email comes to you telling you what the link is for the meeting, and a bunch of stuff if you don't know how to use Zoom, the protocol for being in front of a committee, etc.
3. In Person: Assume it is like #2 above. (not sure!)
If you testify by Zoom, you are not required to open your video and show yourself. If you wanted to just have the photo up, it would be o.k. They say NOT TO open your face or unmute yourself until they call your name. They pull you from the audience/attendee room to the "panelists" room on the screen and your name/photo is up there along with others signed up to testify online.
2024 Legislative Session Laws
This link opens to the bills that become Colorado laws during the 2024 Legislative Session. (Please note the results of the 2023 session are currently listed. It is too early in the 2024 session for a bill to go through the whole process to become a law.)
New 2024 Colorado Laws