Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald said today she doesn’t support a House proposal that implements Amendment 41, the controversial and confusing ethics measure that voters approved last year.

She said the House bill could be viewed as a "complete rewrite of Amendment 41."

"It could be interpreted as gutting it," said Fitz-Gerald, D-Coal Creek Canyon.

The House sponsor, Rep. Rosemary Marshall, D-Denver, said only, "All I can assume is that she hasn’t read the bill."

The House is expected to pass Marshall’s bill, but Fitz-Gerald’s comments leave little doubt that it will die in the Senate.

Most Senate Republicans and a number of Senate Democrats oppose the bill.

They say Amendment 41 was poorly written but they don’t have the authority to fix the flaws.

A Senate committee was scheduled to hear two Senate bills on Amendment 41 this afternoon, both sponsored by Sen. Peter Groff, D-Denver, and Sen. Andy McElhany, R-Colorado Springs.

But the sponsors plan to kill one measure, SB 188, because its title "Amendment 41 implementation" is too broad, Fitz-Gerald said.

That leaves SB 210, which would create an ethics commission.

Amendment 41, approved by voters in November, bans government workers and their families from receiving anything of more than $50 value. It also created an ethics commission to handle complaints.

Fitz-Gerald said she believes lawmakers will be able to reach a compromise on the commission.