Legislators kill effort to force employers to help fund Medicaid benefits
Colorado won’t become the first state to make large employers help pay workers’ Medicaid benefits, after progressives and conservatives on a Senate committee agreed Thursday…
Articles by Ed Sealover
Surveillance-data price- and wage-setting ban passes Senate, launching potential veto battle
A bill that would ban the use of surveillance data to set individual prices and wages is one procedural step away from Gov. Jared Polis’…
Insurers no longer facing $40M fee hike to subsidize state health enterprise
Colorado insurers — and the businesses that purchase health-care policies from them — will not have to pay $40 million in new fees next year…
Once-controversial AI regulatory bill gets unanimous backing in first committee
Regulation of artificial intelligence — which has been one of the most divisive legislative subjects in recent years, producing several failed efforts at consensus in…
Farming, financial workforces to get help from newly signed laws
The agricultural and accounting sectors are expected to get boosts from a pair of bills — one controversial and one passed without a single opposing…
House passes tax package to end $555 million in business tax breaks
Colorado House members approved a sprawling four-bill tax package Monday that will reduce business tax breaks by more than $550 million annually to fund a…
May 4 “Colorado Chamber Office Hours”: Dissecting artificial-intelligence rules
Colorado Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez introduced his heavily anticipated proposal to update artificial-intelligence regulations on Friday. And in today’s “Colorado Chamber Office Hours” episode,…
Regulatory review, AI rules discussed on May 1 “Colorado Inside Out”
Ed Sealover, vice president of strategic initiatives for the Colorado Chamber of Commerce and editor of The Sum & Substance, appeared on the May 1…
Rodriguez introduces new AI bill, drawing kudos from business and consumer groups
With less than two weeks remaining in the 2026 legislative session, Colorado Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez introduced one of the most anticipated bills of…
Colorado Senate passes Labor Peace Act overhaul, sends bill to governor
Following a debate that seemed almost muted compared to last year’s spirited slugfest, the Colorado Senate passed a bill Friday to overhaul the Labor Peace…