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PAGE A4 TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015 FORT COLLINS COLOR ADOAN Efforts to repeal ammo limits advance -77- By Kristen Wyatt bill. "We're not just trying to makea point. No, we believe in it," said Sen. John Cooke, a Republican who unsuccessfully sued to repeal the ammunition law while sheriff of Weld County. Cooke's bill cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee 3-2.

"We're here to do away with an unenforceable, ineffective law," Cooke said. DENVER Colorado Republicans advanced one of their last efforts to repeal recent gun control laws Monday, approving a bill to undo a 15-round limit on ammunition magazines even though it faces certain death in the Democrat-controlled House. The House has already rejected a similar ammunition ERIN HULLTHE COLORADO AN Equipment sits at the morgue at McKee Medical Center in Loveland. Suicide rates in Larimer County have risen 34 percent since 2013. Coroner Continued from Page A1 dented 12 heroin fatalities in 2012.

"Eighty-five, maybe even 90, percent of the people that call our facility for help are family members," Eisele said. "I can guarantee you most of them would have never thought their children would have gotten into this sort of problem." Drug overdose cases have raised concerns within the coroner's office for another reason. Toxicology costs per autopsy have crept up in recent years, from $174 in 2003 to nearly $300 in 2012. The Larimer County Coroner's Office operated on a $980,000 budget last year. Tasked with investigating non-natural deaths, the office monitors all traffic deaths, homicides and suicides, numbers that each climbed slightly in 2014, reports indicate.

Only falls accounted for more accidental deaths (38) than drug overdoses last year in Larimer County. Twenty-six people died in vehicle crashes. Nearly one in four suicides last year in Larimer County included drugover-doses, most often oxycodone, records show. The number of suicides last year 83 represented a House OKs tax cut for teacher supplies 34 percent climb over 2013. Drugs, alcohol or both were present in 73 percent of people who died by suicide last year.

"The biggest thing we have to deal with is trying to get people to understand that (addiction) is an illness a disease that nobody gripped by this condition wants to choose. Once you're in it, it's hard to get out of," Eisele said. Deaths from drug overdoses have been on the rise nationally in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 120 people die as a result of drug overdoses every day in the U.S., and more than 6,700 are seen in emergency rooms for prescription drug abuse. Of the 43,982 fatal drug overdoses in the U.S.

in 2013, nearly 52 percent were related to prescription pain medications, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's in addition to approximately 1.4 million emergency room visits for prescription drug abuse. Reporter Jason Pohl covers breaking news and public safety issues for the Coloradoan. Follow him on Twitter: pohljason. The bill is meant to make up for a federal tax change.

A federal educator expense deduction has been offered in past years but won't be available in tax year 2015. Fiscal analysts say the state tax exemption would cost about $720,000 a year by 2018. The bill awaits a final vote by the House before heading to the Senate. Associated Press DENVER Colorado teachers would get a tax break for spending up to $250 a year on school supplies under a bill that won unanimous approval Monday in the state House. The bill would allow educators to deduct unreimbursed education expenses from on their state taxes beginning in tax year 2016.

The cut would go up to $750 a year by 2018. Proposals Continued from Page A1 Jack, of Castle Rock, said in written testimony read to lawmakers that Colorado's current anti-discrimination law "abridges the right of free speech and artistic expression of all bakers, florists, photographers and other business owners who are compelled to participate in activities that their creed instructs them violates their sincerely held beliefs and consciences." Similar clashes have arisen in other states. A Washington state florist, for example, is contesting a judge's ruling against her for refusing to create floral arrangements for a gay wedding. In New Mexico, the state's Supreme Court ruled that a photographer who refused to take pictures of a gay couple's commitment ceremony violated discrimination law. As such conflicts continue to materialize, lawmakers around the country have sought to strengthen religious protections.

Colorado's proposals were rejected in a Democrat-led House committee that heard them. But they highlight ongoing concerns from conservatives about religious freedom as gay rights gain greater acceptance. "My bill does not encourage discrimination," said Rep. Gordon Klingensch-mitt, R-Colorado Springs, who sponsored the bill to restrict penalties in discrimination complaints. "My bill does not deny anybody a sandwich, or a restaurant.

My bill protects the artists, including the bakers, and the florists, and the photographers." That bill failed on a 9-2 vote, with some Republicans voting no. Rep. Patrick Neville, R-Franktown, sponsored the bill saying government officials can't interfere with someone's religious expression. He said his proposal would protect both Colorado bakers facing complaints. "From my eyes, it actually prevent the government from discriminating against the individual," he said.

That bill failed on a 7-4 vote, with one Republican voting no. It's an active debate in Utah, where lawmakers are considering a bill that bars discrimination in housing and employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill, which has support from both parties, includes exemptions for religious groups and protections for religious individuals to voice their views. Donnelly agreed. Referencing the April 2014 timeline, he said emergency repairs to vital roads were still going on and that it wasn't a time for a 90-day pause to put the project out to a full bid.

Funds Continued from Page A1 "grossly irresponsible" to put the contracts out for a new bid at that time. pid, paperwork busyness nonsense like this particular example is, I'm going to opt for getting the emergency repairs done every time," he wrote in an email. "And fight FEMA later for reimbursement if I have to" Commissioners Tom Donnelly and Steve Johnson said they weren't aware of the report until Monday. They added many of the violations sounded like bureaucratic requirements that would have interfered with a quick re- sponse to an emergency. Johnson noted a requirement that employees needed to log every time they got into a truck and called it "stupid." "If it is a choice of getting these emergency repairs done or complying with stu- 1 mmmm i 40 off rj (rarosrcwaKqcifliMafirafl stiftBANCE j.

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