Identity Theft

CUA’s advocacy efforts in the area of identity theft are focused on protecting consumers from various types of identity theft, and ensuring that the punishments for identity theft deter criminals.

Do you protect your personal information?
Click here for helpful tips to protecting personal information

Some of the legislation on this issue includes:

2004

Did not pass:

HB04-1122 Identity Theft Crime and Victim Remedies
View this bill

This bill would have created the crime of identity theft and a process by which a victim of identity theft may establish his or her innocence of crimes committed by the person who stole the victim’s identity.

Passed:

HB04-1134 Identity Theft
View this law

This law created a prohibition against using identity information for unlawful purpose.

2005

Passed:

SB05-137 Identity Theft Security Freezes
View this law

This law provided consumers with a way to put a freeze on their own credit report so that a potential identity thief could not use a person’s identity to obtain new credit. The law took effect July 1, 2006.

For information about how to put a freeze on your credit report:

www.ago.state.co.us/idtheft/securityfreeze.cfm

Did not pass:

HB05-1226 Identity theft
View this bill

This bill would have criminalized using a false identity to gain personal identifying information of another over the Internet and stealing ID’s from trash cans and requires companies to secure information.

HB05-1116 Identity Theft
View this bill

This bill would have made identity theft a class 4 felony. It would have added applying for government ID under false identity to the crime.

2006

Passed:

HB06-1326 Identity Theft
View this law

The law makes identity theft a class 4 felony and describes what is considered to be identity theft in detail. Broadly described, this includes a person who is knowingly in possession of personally identifying information of another person without permission and gathering identity information by deception.

HB06-1347 Identity Theft Fraud Board
View this bill

The law created a board of experts charged with providing statewide support to law enforcement on identity theft and financial fraud.

Financial Education in Schools

CUA supports initiatives that encourage and mandate financial education in schools.

2004

HB04-Financial Education Curriculum
View this law

The law requires the Department of Education to create a resource bank of materials pertaining to financial literacy, and specifies the minimum content of the resource bank. The bill also requires the department to provide technical assistance in designing a financial literacy curriculum to any school district or charter school that requests such assistance. School districts are encouraged to adopt a financial literacy curriculum and to make successful completion of courses on financial literacy a requirement for graduating.

2008

HB08-1168 Financial Literacy Content Standards
View this law

This law requires the State Standards and Assessments Development and Implementation Council (appointed by the Governor) to provide the State Board of Education with model content standard revision recommendations incorporating financial literacy into the mathematics standards.