ColoradoPolitics.com. “We are grateful to our legislators and to all Coloradans who advocated to see these bills pass with bipartisan support.”The bill banning the gay and trans panic defense was previously killed in the Senate Judiciary Committee after the legislature resumed following a seven-week recess due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ostensibly, the bill was killed in order to focus on other, more pressing concerns, with Senate leaders saying they weren’t aware of any attempts to use the defense in Colorado.
But Colorado Democrats, particularly LGBTQ members of the General Assembly, were outraged and quickly introduced another bill to ban the panic defense in June. “When we came back into session, a lot of bills that weren’t.
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