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2008 Legislative Session Summary
January 20, 2009
2008 legislative session update as posted in Wikipedia:
In the 2008 session of the Colorado General Assembly, King sits on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Local Government Committee.
King was a co-chair of a special legislative committee that recommended the censure of Rep. Douglas Bruce for kicking a photographer; King had called for his suspension from the House and voted to require Bruce to apologize for his actions
During the 2008 session, King sponsored legislation to give universities (specifically, Mesa State College in his district and Colorado State
University) greater control over their own investment funds,to raise bails for DUI charges in which suspects also committ "aggravating offenses," and to prevent child pornography from being copied during legal proceedings. He also sponsored a ballot measure to allow senior citizens to take advantage of property tax credits even after moving. In total, King sponsored 12 House and Senate bills, 7 of which were passed into law.
In September 2007, King was appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter to a 21-member task on handling and use of DNA evidence. The task force recommended legislation, co-sponsored by King in the state house, to require that DNA evidence in capital cases be preserved. The bill spurred opposition from a number of district attorneys because of a provision that would require new trials in cases where evidence had been lost by law enforcement. After the bill passed and was signed into law, Grand Junction law enforcement officials expressed concerned about the storage capacity required to meet the law's evidence preservation requirements, and approached King for assistance.
Following the legislative session, King was named to an interim committee focusing on wildfire and development issues in mountain areas of Colorado. In October, King called for a legislative audit on enforcement of a state law prohibiting sanctuary city policies.
In December 2008, King, frustrated with new regulation and with comments made regarding job losses in Colorado's energy industry, called for Gov.
Ritter to fire Dave Neslin, the directory of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
2009 legislative session Preview:
For the 2009 legislative session, King was named to seats on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Transportation and Energy Committee.
King plans on introducing legislation to require all Colorado schools to develop plans for emergency situations requiring lockdown, a measure he expects to push in spite of a tight statewide budget
The information was provided from WIKIPEDIA with minor edits for presentation purposes.
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