DENVER Colorado lawmakers will again consider requiring all homes to have carbon monoxide detectors following the death of a college student due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Lauren Johnson, 23, of Vancouver, Wash., died Monday after being taken from a unit at a Denver apartment building, according to Michelle Weiss-Samaras, Denver's chief deputy coroner. Investigators said a faulty boiler vent that was damaged during a windstorm may have led to high levels of carbon monoxide in the unit.
Johnson was a graduate student at the University of Denver.
State Sen. Chris Romer, a Denver Democrat whose district includes Johnson's apartment building, said Wednesday he will ask legislative leaders to speed up consideration of a bill so it could become law by next week.
Bill sponsor Rep. John Soper, D-Thornton, said he wants to have testimony on the bill but that it's possible legislation could be passed within the first month of the 2009 session that began Wednesday.
A similar measure failed last year following opposition from home builders.
In November, four members of a Denver family died in a luxury home near Aspen where high levels of carbon monoxide were found. Romer also represented that family Parker and Caroline Lofgren and their two children.
Lauren Johnson, 23, of Vancouver, Wash., died Monday after being taken from a unit at a Denver apartment building, according to Michelle Weiss-Samaras, Denver's chief deputy coroner. Investigators said a faulty boiler vent that was damaged during a windstorm may have led to high levels of carbon monoxide in the unit.
Johnson was a graduate student at the University of Denver.
State Sen. Chris Romer, a Denver Democrat whose district includes Johnson's apartment building, said Wednesday he will ask legislative leaders to speed up consideration of a bill so it could become law by next week.
Bill sponsor Rep. John Soper, D-Thornton, said he wants to have testimony on the bill but that it's possible legislation could be passed within the first month of the 2009 session that began Wednesday.
A similar measure failed last year following opposition from home builders.
In November, four members of a Denver family died in a luxury home near Aspen where high levels of carbon monoxide were found. Romer also represented that family Parker and Caroline Lofgren and their two children.


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