2017 Legislative Session: Ensuring the health, rights and dignity of the Latinx community! We should all be able to make personal decisions, have access to affordable health services and maintain our bodily autonomy. We should be able to define our gender and build our families. We should not have to worry about our families being torn apart or harmed by a broken immigration system. COLOR works hard to engage and support Latinas to shape policies that impact our community. This session we saw big victories and losses, but we are proud of the work that we did this session to speak out, make a difference and build a stronger movement for reproductive justice in Colorado!
SUPPORT Budget Amendment #5, provide funding for feminine hygiene products for women in prisons – passed Resolution 1005, affirm the right to access contraception, abortion, prenatal and maternity care and fertility services – Signed by the House House Bill 1035, allow people who have survived sexual assault or stalking to break their leases in order to seek a safe place to live – Sent to the Governor for Signature House Bill 1186, require private health plans to allow women to pick up a 12-month supply of their contraception – Sent to the Governor for Signature House Bill 1022, support multicultural education in public schools - Postpone Indefinitely (Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs) House Bill 1307, create paid family leave insurance program - Postpone Indefinitely (Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs) House Bill 1206, expand program providing driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants – Postpone Indefinitely (Senate Committee on Transportation)
House Bill 1230, push back on federal overreach and policies that harm immigrants - Postpone Indefinitely (Senate Committee on Judiciary) House Bill 1320, ensure young people’s access to mental health care - Postpone Indefinitely (Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs) House Bill 1122, update process for transgender Coloradans to change the gender marker on their birth certificate - Postpone Indefinitely (Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs) House Bill 1156, prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in the discredited practice of conversion therapy with anyone under 18 - Postpone Indefinitely (Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs) House Bill 1001, provide leave for parents who want to be involved in their child’s academic activities Postpone Indefinitely (Senate Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs) House Bill 1195, create a state sales tax exemption for diapers activities - Postpone Indefinitely (House Appropriations) House Bill 1127, exempt feminine hygiene products from the state sales tax - Postpone Indefinitely (House Appropriations)
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OPPOSE Senate Bill 281, take away sanctuary protections and use harmful language about immigrants – Postpone Indefinitely (House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs) House Bill 1134, threatens the ability to create sanctuary cities by pushing unnecessary, special liabilities for the rare cases of a crime being committed by someone who happens to be undocumented – Postpone Indefinitely (House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs) Senate Bill 284, impose a range of medically unnecessary restrictions on abortion to make care harder to get - Senate Second Reading Lost with Amendments – Senate Committee of the Whole House Bill 1099, limit the use of fetal tissue in research at local universities – Postpone Indefinitely (House Committee on State, Veterans, & Military Affairs) House Bill 1085, interfere with provision of abortion through intrusive requirements and create a 24 hour wait period – Postpone Indefinitely (House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment) House Bill 1086, require doctors to provide medically inaccurate information to patients before administering a medication abortion – Postpone Indefinitely (House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment) House Bill 1108, insert personhood into Colorado laws by defining life as beginning at conception – Postpone Indefinitely (House Committee on Health, Insurance, & Environment)
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