Members of the Senate Veterans & Military Affairs Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to advance a bill that would further expand who can ask a judge to temporarily restrict a person’s access to firearms under Colorado’s extreme risk protection order law.
The committee voted 3-2, on a party-line vote, to move the bill to the Senate for debate. According to the University of Michigan’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, 22 states and the District of Columbia have ERPO laws. Six states, including Texas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, have laws that ban or restrict the adoption of ERPO legislation.