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ELCA Advocacy Ministries
ELCA World Hunger is a comprehensive and sustainable program that uses multiple strategies — relief, development, education, and advocacy — to address the root causes of hunger and poverty.
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Important Legislation
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House Bill 1064
A plan to reduce poverty by half in Colorado in ten years.
House Bill 1064 would establish a Legislative Task Force to: -
1) Assess current state polices and practices, along with evidence-based solutions utilized in other states that promote economic opportunity and poverty reduction.
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2) Develop a comprehensive plan to reduce the number of Coloradans living at or below the federal poverty level by 50% in ten years.
House Bill 1274
Abolish the Death Penalty
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House Bill 1274 would abolish the Death Penalty in Colorado. This bill will make Class 1 Felonies punishable by life imprisonment. The resulting savings from Colorado not having the death penalty would go into the Colorado “cold case” file to help use new technologies to solve old cases.
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For more information about these bills and other legislation, please contact Brad Wood, Director of Lutheran Advocacy Ministry - Colorado, at 303-777-6700 (800-525-0462) or bwood@rmselca.org .
Updates
- ELCA Members Named
to Leadership Positions
in the State Legislature
Senator Betty Boyd- was elected Senate President Pro Tem, and appointed Chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
Senator Boyd is a member of Lutheran Church of the Resurrectionh in Lakewood, CO. - Representative
Jim Riesberg - was appointed Chair of the House Health and Human Services Committee.
Rep. Riesberg is a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Greeley, CO. - We want to express our congratulations to Senator Boyd and Representative Riesberg, and our gratitude
for their public service!