Throwback Thursday: Looking Back at the Twenty-second General Assembly
By Patti Dahlberg If we stepped back one hundred years and fifty legislative sessions, what would we find? Well to start with, when the dust cleared from the 1918 elections, […]
2019
The Title 12 Recodification Bill is Coming!
By Thomas Morris Back in 2016, the General Assembly enacted Senate Bill 16-163, which directed the Office of Legislative Legal Services (OLLS) to conduct a study regarding an “organizational recodification […]
CCUSL Recommends Six Uniform Acts for Introduction in 2019
by Patti Dahlberg and Thomas Morris The Colorado Commission on Uniform State Laws (CCUSL) is Colorado’s delegation to the national Uniform Law Commission (ULC), which is comprised of more than […]
Happy Birthday House of Burgesses
by Jery Payne The year was 1619. Although the colony of Virginia had yet to produce much in the way of profit, the years of starvation were at last over. […]
Freedom of Speech for the New Legislator
by Esther van Mourik and Pierce Lively It is a prized American privilege to speak one’s mind, although not always with perfect good taste, on all public institutions.” – Supreme […]