State senators Wednesday killed a bill that would have given state and local government entities more time to respond to Colorado Open Records Act requests to address what proponents called the “abuse” of CORA.

Sen. James Coleman, a Denver Democrat who chairs the five-member Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, voted against House Bill 24-1296 along with Republican Sens. Larry Liston of Colorado Springs and Mark Baisley of Woodland Park.

The committee members didn’t explain their opposition to the measure, which changed considerably from its introduction in February by Reps. Cathy Kipp, D-Fort Collins, and Matt Soper, R-Delta, to its passage by the House less than two weeks ago.

As initially proposed by Kipp and Soper, the bill not only lengthened CORA response times but also allowed records custodians to label certain annoying or harassing people as “vexatious” and bar them from obtaining public records for 30 working days. The introduced version additionally limited public inspection of government employee calendars and included a broad new CORA exemption allowing the withholding of “any record containing information that, if disclosed, would invade another individual’s personal privacy.”