Representative Amy Stephens Legislative
Agenda 2008
This 2008 Session I have introduced four
bills and am co-sponsor to a number of bills that I believe will not only be
valuable to our House District 20 but will also be valuable to our state. I
have postponed indefinitely one bill due at the request of the organization I
worked on behalf of.
You can follow the bills that I am running
at the Colorado General Assembly website and you can look under House
Bills/Sponsor and draw up my name to check on the bills I am running. The
website is
www.leg.state.co.us
- HB08-1162 – Military Spouse Interim Ed
Authorization – Stephens/Bacon: Allows a military spouse to get
into our Colorado system in order to teach in a more streamlined and timely
manner. This bill passed unanimously out of the House Education Committee and
the House Floor and is now in the Senate.
- HB08-1180 – UI Benefit
Active Military Transfer – Stephens/Looper/Schaffer/Tapia : Allows
the military spouse of an active duty military to apply for unemployment
benefits through the UI Trust Fund – requirement that a spouse would have to
have paid into the fund for over a year. The bill will be in Appropriations
February 22, 2008 and should hit the House Floor by the week of February 25th.
- HB08-1308 – Parolee
Placement After New Crime – Stephens/Morse: This bill is run at the
request of the Department of Corrections that will deal with parolees that
violate parole allowing the DOC Executive Director to determine a parolee’s
place of confinement after parole violation. Limits the placement options for
a parolee who has an active felony warrant, detainer, or pending felony
criminal charges whose parole is revoked.
- SB1 – School Safety Resource Center
– Morse/Stephens: Allows the state of Colorado to create a school
safety resource center to be housed in the Department of Public Safety. The
Resource Center will look into the best practices of school safety in order to
allow the state to better prevent school violence and create plans to
implement school safety programs to best protect children. The bill passed
the Senate and is now on to the House.
- SB8-125 – Sexual Material Harmful to
Children – Harvey/Stephens: This bill recognizes the state’s interest in
protecting children from access to certain sexually explicit materials and the
General Assembly’s intent to prohibit access to that material by children.
This bill passed Senate committee and is now awaiting second reading on the
Senate floor.
- SB08-115 – Civil Action Gun-Free Zone –
Brophy/Stephens: Creates a civil action to enable a person who is injured
in a gun-free zone to recover damages as a result of criminal conduct in the
zone if a reasonable person would believe the possession of a firearm in the
zone could have helped the person defend himself or herself. Waives sovereign
immunity for a claim based on criminal conduct in a gun-free zone.
- SJR08-007 – Senate Joint Resolution
Honoring Ronald Reagan Day
You can follow the bills on their progress
via the Colorado General Assembly website. You can contact my office during
session (303) 866-2924 if you want to express a viewpoint on a certain bill.
