Ex Post Facto Laws, Effective Dates, and Legislative Time Travel
by Richard Sweetman and Rebecca Hausmann You want your bill to take effect on January 1, 2015, but your bill drafter says it’s not possible. Why not? Because the General […]
September 2014
Statutory Construction: Interpreting requirements for action by a public body, numbers, references to statutes, and introductory portions of statutes
by Julie Pelegrin Editor’s Note: Last September, LegiSource began a series of articles focusing on statutory construction. This week’s article is the fourth in the series. For the earlier articles, […]
A Case of Mistaken Identity: Word pairs that are deceptively different
by: Kurt Woock The English language is rife with confusing words. In English classes, you likely studied various categories of linguistic confusion: homophones, heteronyms, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms. At the root […]
Legislative Oversight of State Agency Rule-making
by Debbie Haskins Each year executive branch agencies in Colorado adopt over 500 sets of rules creating at least 16,000 pages of rules and accompanying materials. That’s a lot of […]