What happens when multiple bills amend the same provision of law?
by Bethanie Pack Editor’s note: This article was originally posted on March 15, 2019. It has been updated where appropriate. It’s very common for multiple bills to amend the same […]
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What does it take to get a bill to the Governor?
by Kathy Zambrano and Anja Boyd You’d think that once a bill makes it through both houses and the first house concurs with second house changes, if necessary, the bill […]
What Happens to a Statute Declared to be Unconstitutional?
Editor’s note: This article was originally posted October 8, 2015. by Jennifer Gilroy and Michele Brown Several years ago, a librarian at the Sturm College of Law (at the University […]
Contracting for the Publication of the Colorado Revised Statutes
by Jennifer Gilroy Have you ever stopped to wonder how those pretty red statute books, the Colorado Revised Statutes, are published? As you can imagine, it’s very important that citizens […]
United States Supreme Court Equates Annotators to Legislators and Judges
By Michele Brown In a case that began in Georgia in 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded last Monday that copyright protection for original works of authorship does not extend […]