Each entry includes a link to the original "Recommendation Text", its Commission member "Votes", and its implementation "Status", and, where applicable, any "Related Bill" connected to the recommendation. If the "Recommendation Text" link is not available, please see the relevant annual report for the full text of the recommendation.
FY15-CS01 EARLY DISCHARGE FROM LIFETIME SUPERVISION PROBATION FOR SEX OFFENDERS DUE TO DISABILITY OR INCAPACITATION
Implementation Unknown
Amend C.R.S. 18-1.3-1008 to provide that offenders sentenced to the Lifetime Supervision Act, who suffer from a severe disability to the extent they are deemed incapacitated and do not present an unacceptable level of risk to public safety, may petition the court for early discharge from probation supervision.  Also, if necessary, make conforming amendments to the Colorado Victims' Rights Act regarding a "critical stage" for victim notification.
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FY14-CS01 HARMONIZE VALUE-BASED OFFENSE LEVELS WITH THE 2013 REVISION TO COLORADO'S THEFT STATUTE.
Implementation Complete
The Comprehensive Sentencing Task Force recommends amending the statutes defining the following value-based crimes, thereby harmonizing their offense levels with the General Assembly's recent revisions to the theft statute: Criminal Mischief, § 18-4-501; Fraud by Check, § 18-5-205; Defrauding a Secured Creditor or Debtor, § 18-5-206; Unauthorized Use of a Financial Transaction Device, § 18-5-702, and Computer Crime, § 18-5.5-102.
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FY14-CS02 RETROACTIVELY PROVIDE EARNED TIME CREDIT TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS SENTENCED UNDER THE HABITUAL CRIMINAL STATUTE
Implementation Complete
Retroactively expand the availability of earned time credit to individuals sentenced under the "big" provision of the habitual criminal statute for crimes occurring between July 1, 1985, and June 30, 1993. Therefore, amend section 17-22.5-104.
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FY14-CS03 HARMONIZE FIRST DEGREE AGGRAVATED MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT OFFENSE LEVELS WITH THE 2013 AMENDMENT TO COLORADO'S THEFT STATUTE.
Implementation Complete
This recommendation harmonizes the offense levels of the value-based crime of Aggravated Motor Vehicle Theft in the First Degree, § 18-4-409(3) with the General Assembly's recent revisions to the theft statute.
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FY13-CS01 MODIFY AND EXPAND CRS 18-4-401, THEFT OFFENSES.
Implementation Complete
Reclassify CRS 18-4-401 to expand the sentencing options available for theft crimes. Specifically, reclassify theft CRS 18-4-401 as specified in the following tables. Any cost savings from this recommendation should be reinvested in diversion and justice system programs.
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FY13-CS02 MODIFY AND CONSOLIDATE COLORADO REVISED STATUTE 18-4-401 TO INCREASE CLARITY AND REDUCE DUPLICATION.
Implementation Complete
Modify and consolidate C.R.S. 18-4-401 to increase clarity and reduce duplication. Consolidate theft, theft by receiving, theft of rental property, and fuel piracy. Repeal newspaper theft as an isolated offense.
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FY13-CS03 ELIMINATE COLORADO'S EXTRAORDINARY RISK STATUTE
Partial Implementation
Colorado's Revised Statutes pertaining to Crimes of Violence, Extraordinary Risk Crimes, and Aggravated Ranges are complex, convoluted and often duplicative.  The CCJJ Comprehensive Sentencing Task Force recommends the following changes:
  1. Eliminate Extraordinary Risk (18-1.3-402(10)) and move child abuse (18-6-401(1)(a);(7)(a)(I) and 18-6-401(1)(a);(7)(a)(III) and 2nd and subsequent stalking (18-3-602(3)(b)) to the Crime of Violence Statute (18-1.3-406) and strike 18-3-602(5) as follows:
If, at the time of the offense, there was a temporary r permanent protection order, injunction, or condition of bond, probation, or parole or any other court order in effect against the person prohibiting the behavior described in this section, the person commits a class 4 felony.  In addition, when a violation under this section is committed in connection with a violation of a court order, including but not limited to any protection order or any order that sets forth the conditions of a bond, any sentence imposed for the violation pursuant to this subsection (5) shall run consecutively and not concurrently with any sentence imposed pursuant to this section 18-6-803.5 and with any sentence imposed in a contempt proceeding for violation of the court order.
2. Change Crime of Violence and mandatory minimum (18-1.3-401(8)) ranges to set to the minimum of the presumptive range.
3. The upper end of the sentencing ranges for Crimes of Violence mirrors the current upper end ranges in the statute.
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FY13-CS04 EXPAND THE AVAILABILITY OF ADULT PRETRIAL DIVERSION OPTIONS WITHIN COLORADO'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
Implementation Complete
The Comprehensive Sentencing Task Force recommends enhancing the availability of pretrial diversion options throughout the state, as well as developing appropriate funding alternatives, by:
1. Replacing the existing deferred prosecution statute (C.R.S. 18-1.3-101) with the three statutory sections proposed below.  
2. Amending the Victim's Rights Act to ensure victims are able to provide input to the pretrial diversion decision.
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FY12-CS01 REMOVE WALKAWAY ESCAPES AS ELIGIBILITY FOR HABITUAL CRIMINAL SENTENCING
Implementation Complete
Add the following subsection to CRS 18-1.3-801:
 
(2.6)  THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPHS (1.5) AND (2)(A) SHALL NOT APPLY TO A CONVICTION OF FELONY ESCAPE PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-8-208(1), (2) AND (3) OR FOR A CONVICTION OF ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-8-208.1(1), (1.5) AND (2) UNLESS THE PLACE OF CUSTODY OR CONFINEMENT IS A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 17-1-104.3 OR FROM INSIDE A COUNTY JAIL FACILITY OR FROM TRANSPORT IN PHYSICAL CUSTODY.  
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FY11-CS01 TO REDUCE "DESIGNER CRIMES"
Implementation Complete
Require that Legislative Council provide additional information in fiscal notes provided to the general assembly when a bill creates a new criminal offense, increases or decreases the crime classification of an existing criminal offense, or changes an element of an existing offense in such a way that the offense would create a new factual basis for the offense. The additional information provided in the fiscal note would include:
 
1. The unique elements of the proposed crime;
2. Whether the offense proposed in the legislation can already be charged under current law;
3. Whether the crime classification and potential penalty proposed in the bill is appropriate given other offenses of a similar type; and
4. The anticipated prevalence of the behavior the proposed legislation is intended to address.
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Recommendation TASK FORCE: ComprehensiveSentencingTF