One day after a Denver college student died from carbon monoxide poisoning in her apartment, state Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, said he would ask that a bill requiring all homes have carbon monoxide detectors be fast-tracked.

Romer said he hoped the bill would clear the legislature and be signed into law in time for the requirement to take effect this winter, the time when most carbon monoxide poisonings occur. Lawmakers considered a similar bill last year, but it failed. Interest in the bill returned for this session after four members of a Denver family died in November at a home in Aspen from carbon monoxide poisoning.

“We’ve lost now five members of our community who could have been saved by carbon monoxide monitors,” Romer said Wednesday, the first day of the legislative session.

“It’s now time for us to act with all speed and all due deference that literally by a week from today everybody knows that it’s the law of the land that all houses have carbon monoxide monitors so we don't lose anyone else.”

The bill is to be sponsored by state Rep. John Soper, D-Thornton. As of late Wednesday afternoon, it had not yet been introduced.