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A Colorado non-profit organization advocating for animals in the political arena |
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A Colorado non-profit organization advocating for animals in the political arena |
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Bill or Resolution # |
Description |
Committee Vote(s) |
Floor Vote(s) |
PVA Position(s) |
Final outcome of legislation |
| HB02-1116 | This bill would make cruelty to animals a felony on a second or subsequent conviction. | No1 | Yes | Killed by the House Appropriations Committee | |
| HB02-1183 | This bill would ease some of the restrictions on inter-county relocation of prairie dogs. | No2 | Yes | Killed by the House Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Committee | |
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HB02-1221 (House version) |
This bill would allow limited hunting (at the discretion of the Division of Wildlife) of black bears starting on June 25. Allowing hunting of black bears between March 1 and September 1 would contravene Amendment 10 of 1992, a statute initiated and passed by Colorado voters. This entry shows the representative's vote(s) on the original version of the bill. This original version of the bill was so offensive that in computing voting scores PVA counted all votes on it double. | Yes2 | Yes |
Very strong No (votes count double) |
This version was passed by the House and sent to the Senate. |
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HB02-1221 (Senate version) |
The Senate changed HB02-1221 completely. The Senate's amended version would allow wildlife "agents" to kill black bears between March 1 and September 1. Currently only employees of the state Division of Wildlife and the USDA, in the line of duty, are exempt from the voter-enacted ban on black bear hunting between those dates. After the Senate passed the amended bill, the House voted on whether to re-pass the bill as amended by the Senate in place of the original House version. This entry reports the representative's votes on (1) whether to concur with (accept) the Senate amendments and (2) whether to pass the bill as amended. If the bill doesn't pass on both votes, it dies. | Yes/Yes | Yes/No | Signed into law | |
| HB02-1237 | The Senate passed a last-minute amendment to this bill to make aggravated cruelty to animals a first-offense felony. This entry reports the representative's votes on (1) whether to concur with (accept) the Senate amendments and (2) whether to pass the bill as amended. If the bill doesn't pass on both votes, it dies. | Yes/Yes | Yes/Yes | The House concurred with the Senate amendments; signed into law | |
| HJR02-1015 | This resolution would proclaim March 25 as "Greyhound Adoption Day". | Excused | Yes | Passed by House; never heard by Senate; "allowed" to die in Senate | |
| SB02-117 | Current statute requires the "eradication" of "destructive rodent pests" in areas where they "infest" the land. This bill would change the mandate for eradication to an option. | No2 | Yes | Killed by the House Agriculture, Livestock, & Natural Resources Committee | |
| Scores | 0% | 50% | |||
| Note: Representative Rippy was the House sponsor of Senate bill 48 (SB02-048), a PVA-supported bill, which would have strengthened the state's cruelty statute by adding a first-offense felony charge for aggravated cruelty to animals, among other things. (The bill was killed by the House Committee on State, Veterans, and Military Affairs.) | |||||
| Legislator's Overall Score on PVA's Top-Priority Legislation ~ 27% | |||||
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1. House Committee on Appropriations 2. House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock, and Natural Resources |
| (PVA also tracks petition-related legislation; however, this legislator did not have the opportunity to vote on any of PVA's high-priority petition-related legislation during the 2002 session.) |
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