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Colorado Senate opens, approves Jan. 23 journal, prints bills 77–86 and recesses until 10:15 a.m.
Summary
The Colorado State Senate convened Jan. 24, 2025, established a quorum, approved the Jan. 23 journal on a voice vote, recorded that Senate bills 77–86 were correctly printed, and recessed until 10:15 a.m. after a motion to recess carried.
The Colorado State Senate convened Friday at the State Capitol in Denver, established a quorum and approved the journal for Jan. 23, 2025.
Senator Kipp moved to approve the Senate journal of Jan. 23, 2025, “as corrected by the secretary,” and the Senate adopted the motion on a voice vote. The chamber then announced that Senate bills 77 through 86 were “correctly printed.” Later in the morning Assistant Majority Leader Cutter moved that the body recess until 10:15 a.m.; that motion passed by voice vote and the Senate recessed.
The session began with the clerk calling the roll; the morning roll call recorded 31 senators present and four excused, establishing a quorum for the 75th General Assembly. Senator Bright led the pledge of allegiance before the formal business began.
The announcements and procedural steps followed routine opening business: recognizing printed bills for the legislative record and moving the body into a brief recess to permit reading bills across the last desk later in the day. The record does not include a roll-call tally for the journal approval or the recess motion beyond the chamber’s voice votes.
Formal record items logged during the convening include the approved journal entry for Jan. 23, 2025, and the clerk’s statement that Senate bills 77–86 were correctly printed. The clerk and Senate secretary were identified as the staff officers involved in preparing and certifying those records.
