The Colorado Senate on April 4 moved a large number of bills through third reading or concurrence actions and confirmed several governor appointments. Most measures passed with clear majorities; a subset recorded named “no” votes. Several bills were laid over for consideration on later calendar dates.

Key votes and procedural outcomes from the morning and floor session:

- Senate Bill 204 (consent calendar): Passed on third reading; presiding officers recorded the measure as passed with the roll shown on the record.

- House Bill 11-85 (court proceedings when child conceived as result of sexual assault): Passed on third reading after a motion for passage on the consent calendar and later reconsideration and final passage; recorded vote on final passage showed 35 ayes, 0 no, 0 absent.

- House Bill 11-72 (psychiatric residential treatment facility perimeter fences): Passed on third reading; several senators requested to be recorded as a no vote (Sen. Bazely and others); the measure passed on the consent calendar.

- House Bill 11-82 (tools to assess risk for underwriting property insurance): Passed on third reading; one recorded no vote (Sen. Carson) during consent calendar action; final tally recorded on the floor was 33 ayes, 1 no, 0 absent when excused.

- House Bill 12-34 (consumer protection for utility customers): Passed on final passage with a recorded vote of 23 ayes, 11 no, 0 absent, 1 excused.

- House Bill 10-10 (prohibition on price gouging): Passed on third reading, final passage recorded at 23 ayes, 11 no, 0 absent, 1 excused.

- Multiple other House bills passed on third reading with recorded tallies listed on the floor record including, among others: HB 11-65, HB 11-47, HB 11-68, HB 11-48, HB 11-52, HB 11-35, HB 12-47, HB 12-80, HB 11-32, HB 11-13, HB 10-60, HB 10-87, HB 10-06 and HB 12-24. Where a roll call was read into the record, the floor transcript records the ayes and nos for each bill.

- Senate Bill 200 (education screening and dyslexia measures): Adopted on second reading in the Committee of the Whole and ordered engrossed for third reading (see separate coverage).

- Concurrence and repassage actions: The Senate concurred with House amendments and repassed several Senate bills, including SB 85 (animal adoption of research subjects), SB 86 (social media protections), SB 87 (academic adjustments for students with disabilities), and SB 143 (limited facial recognition use by schools). The concurrence motions were adopted by recorded votes or voice votes as noted on the floor.

- Governor appointments: The Senate confirmed appointments on the consent calendar, including members to the State Historical Society Board of Directors (Richard Benson; Paul Weismann; Claudia Moran; Jackie Malay), the Colorado Banking Board (Douglas Price), the Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commission (Kevin Hyland; Ahilya George; Phil Workman) and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (Eric Artis). The confirmations were adopted by voice vote with a recorded tally of 35 ayes, 0 no, 0 absent, 0 excused.

- Layovers and calendar actions: Several bills were laid over to later dates (for example SB 127 and SB 196 to April 7; SB 201 to April 10; multiple bills including SB 205, HB 10-11 and HB 12-40 were laid over to April 7) and retain their places on the calendar as announced by the majority leader.

Votes recorded on the transcript: Where the floor transcript recorded named no votes or exact tallies, those names and counts are reflected above. If a named senator asked to be recorded as a no vote on a specific bill, that notation appears in the transcript and is included in the record above.

What to watch next: Bills ordered to third reading will return for final passage; bills laid over will appear on the April 7 or April 10 calendars; committees and the Department of Education will need to prepare guidance and implementation details for measures that create administrative duties (for example, SB 200).