Final statistics on the bills offered by lawmakers during the 2024 session are in.

As previously reported by Colorado Politics, lawmakers introduced 705 bills. That’s the most since 2019 when 721 bills were introduced, but far short of the record set in 2003, at 735.

Here’s what happened to them.

The General Assembly approved 525 bills, or 74%, with 358 bills from the House and 167 from the Senate.

The busiest committee was, not surprisingly, appropriations, in both the House (373) and Senate (337). Finance took second place with 128 bills in the House and 117 in the Senate. In third place was the health committee in the House, with 86 and 79 for the Senate’s version.

Number of conference committees: 11 for House bills, just two for Senate.

As of May 17, Gov. Jared Polis has signed 192 bills, 137 from the House and 55 from the Senate. He’s got another 333 waiting in the wings.

The governor has not vetoed any bills from the 2024 session.

The number of bills lost was 180, with 114 from the House and 66 from the Senate. That includes the “red wedding” day of Monday, May 6, when more than 50 bills died on the calendar in appropriations committees. Virtually all failed to make it out because the state budget didn’t have room for those measures.

Only one bill never got a committee hearing. Senate Bill 219 was a Joint Budget Committee bill dealing with signage for the Colorado Department of Transportation. It was introduced on April 25 and assigned to the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The bill sponsors, Sens. Jeff Bridges, D-Englewood, and Barbara Kirkmeyer, R-Weld County, along with their JBC colleagues and after input from CDOT and the Attorney General’s office, decided not to move forward with the bill and work on it again next year.

But the bill never got a hearing, so it was postponed indefinitely, raising questions about adherence to the state’s GAVEL (Give a Vote to Every Legislator) amendment. Among its provisions, approved by voters in 1988, was that every bill must get a hearing and a vote.

In addition to sponsoring the bill, Bridges is the chair of the committee that would have heard it.

He pointed out that GAVEL was intended to prevent committee chairs from making “pocket vetoes” of legislative measures, in which a chair could postpone scheduling a hearing on a bill until the end of the session.

That was not the case with SB 219; Bridges acknowledged the oversight.