In Re Interrogatories by the Colorado State Senate

This is an original proceeding in which the Senate of the Fifty-First General Assembly (1977) by Senate Resolution No. 13 seeks our opinion upon interrogatories submitted to us under article VI, section 3, of the Constitution of Colorado. The interrogatories question the constitutionality of House Bill No. 1247 entitled “A Bill for an Act Making an Appropriation to the Colorado Housing Finance Authority.'" The bill has passed the House of Representatives and is pending in the Senate following passage on second reading. The Senate found that “the question of the constitutionality of . . . [the…