Opinion ID: 2515085
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Heading: Canister provides a two-step analysis for special legislation.

Text: The Colorado Supreme Court outlined a two-step analysis to determine whether laws that implicate one of the express prohibitions enumerated in the constitutional provision are special or general. Id. at 383. The first step required the court to determine whether the classification adopted by the legislature is a real or potential class, or whether it is logically and factually limited to a class of one and thus illusory. Id. (quoting In re Interrogatory Propounded by Governor Roy Romer on House Bill 91S-1005, 814 P.2d 875, 886 (Colo.1991) (hereinafter  Interrogatory )) (internal quotations omitted). If the law created an illusory class it was prohibited special legislation. Id. If the law created a genuine class, the second step of the analysis required the court to determine whether the class was reasonable. Id.