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 […]
2014
Legislative Council Set to Review 2014 Ballot Analyses
By Julie Pelegrin and Cathy Eslinger LegiSource acknowledges and thanks the Legislative Council Staff for their significant input on this article. The Legislative Council Committee will meet Wednesday, Sept. 3, […]
Statutory Construction: Singular v. Plural, Gender, and Time
by Julie Pelegrin Editor’s Note: Last September, LegiSource began a series of articles focusing on statutory construction. So far, we have posted two articles: “Introduction to Statutory Construction – the […]
Benefield et al. v. Colorado Republican Party: What Legislators Need To Know as Custodians of Public Records
by Sharon Eubanks In 2006, the Colorado Republican Party (CRP) made a request under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA), part 2 of article 72 of title 24, Colorado Revised […]
U.S. Supreme Court Spotlights Legality of False Statements in Election Laws
by Bob Lackner Currently some 16 states, including Colorado, make it a crime to make false statements in political campaigns. In the recently decided case of Susan B. Anthony List […]