Colorado lawmakers have submitted more than 305 bills so far in the legislative session. A few of them are sure to receive attention, not for being controversial or partisan or headline grabbing, but for seeming so… odd.

Here’s a short list of some of those unusual bills: Pets and pests, cadaver tamperers, madams attorney general and dead-shot pink:

HB-10: Destructive rodent pest release authorization requirements

A side effect of attracting a constant influx of new residents to the state is that new homes are often built atop prairie dog land, and prairie dog lovers, conservationists, elected officials, home builders and others often have different ideas about what to do with the little guys. In April, The Denver Post reported that authorities seized more than 100 prairie dogs from a woman’s garage in Castle Rock. She said she was protecting them from extermination.

Life isn’t easy for the rodents. They are an important part of the prairie ecosystem, feasted on by eagles, hawks and badgers. You can watch them get carried away in the clutches, and you can also watch them get sucked out of their tunnel cities by developers using enormous roving vacuum cleaners. Crews suck up the stunned critters and move them to some other prairie land — which is the problem. Not a lot of counties want an influx of prairie dogs, and there’s no statewide provision governing rodent relocation.

“(Moving the prairie dogs) destroys pastures. It causes problems for our ranchers,” said Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, sponsor of the “prairie dog bill,” which would require notification and approval before the rodents could be moved.

“This is a huge issue right now,” Sonnenberg said. “Our neighbors in urban Colorado see them as pets, whereas us living in rural areas see them as pests.”

SB-34: Tampering with a deceased human body

Sonnenberg is the sole sponsor on this bill, which sounds like something straight out of a Crime Scene Investigation show. It’s already a crime to tamper with evidence, but the definition of “evidence” does not yet include human remains. Sonnenberg’s bill would make “impairing the appearance” of a dead body a felony.

The bill would also make it illegal to neglect to notify authorities if you come upon a dead body that seems likely to have been the victim of foul play or likely to have gone unreported.

“This adds another tool for law enforcement and attorneys to find dead bodies,” Sonnenberg said.

The disappearance in 2013 of 22-year-old Kelsie Schelling prompted the bill, Sonnenberg said.

Schelling went missing after driving from Denver to Pueblo to tell her boyfriend, Donthe Lucas, that she was two-months pregnant with his baby, according to a lawsuit Schelling’s family filed against Lucas, who they suspect knows what happened to Schelling, and against the Pueblo Police Department for allegedly botching the case.

There have been no arrests in the case, but an unidentified man was seen on surveillance video getting into Schelling’s car, which was found across town.

Sonnenberg said the search for Schelling might get a boost with the leverage his bill would give district attorneys to charge — or threaten to charge — anyone who may have moved or tampered or neglected to report on Schelling’s body.

Citing the furor raised among anti-abortion politicians last year over videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood illegally trafficking fetal tissue, pro-choice groups in Colorado are carefully watching for amendments to this bill to see if it turns from an odd-sounding “Tampering with a deceased human body” bill to an anti-abortion personhood or fetal homicide bill.

HB-1094: Make references to attorney general gender neutral

Although Cynthia Coffman is the second woman to hold the office of attorney general in Colorado, statute writers had always assumed the position would be held by a man. This bill amends all of the Colorado Revised Statute to include a feminine pronoun in every reference to the Attorney General. The bill is popular. So far, it has 18 House sponsors from both parties.

SB-68: Hunter safety pink

This could be the unanimously bipartisan bill. Lawmakers might all agree that in Colorado big game hunters may wear fluorescent pink if they want to. Democrats, Republicans, urban dwellers and country folk support the bill. Sens. Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, and Michael Johnston, D-Denver, are sponsoring the bill alongside Reps. Daneya Esgar, D-Pueblo, and Yeulin Willett, R-Grand Junction.

Under current law, hunters can only sport fluorescent orange.

“Sen. Donovan called and she said. ‘I have this crazy bill,’” Esgar said. “I signed on because for me it’s all about safety. Maybe more choices for people will encourage more safety.”

The Wisconsin legislature passed a similar bill last year. The Associated Press reported that women hunters in the Midwest were torn on the issue. Some pegged the bill as sexist. Others believed it would draw more women into the sport.

Esgar said she hopes the Colorado bill doesn’t suffer the same controversy. She said the priority should be safety — and if men want to wear pink, that’s “totally cool too,” she said.

— kara@coloradostatesman.com