Colorado commission on track to get ability to raise water-quality permitting fees
A bill to let the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission raise clean- and drinking-water fees without legislative approval is on its way to Gov. Jared…
Articles by Ed Sealover
Polis signs law fixing Colorado retail delivery fee
Colorado’s recently enacted retail delivery fee isn’t going away. But at least it’s getting easier for retailers with delivery arms to administer. Gov. Jared Polis…
Equal-pay law upgrade heads to governor’s desk largely unchanged
Despite extensive negotiations on the part of business leaders, a bill to add more regulations to Colorado’s equal-pay law is on its way to Gov….
Could Colorado bills stifle the new energy sources they seek to promote?
Colorado stands poised to set up regulatory frameworks for alternative energy sources that, if developed correctly, could net the state “billions of dollars of wages…
Gig-worker transparency bill runs out of gas
Colorado’s attempt to craft the strictest transparency law in the country for transportation- and delivery-network companies crashed to halt Tuesday, stifled by what some of…
Changes restore most original provisions to land-use reform bill
Less than one week after a Senate committee gutted a bill to create statewide standards that would allow more development of urban housing, a House…
Legislators nix idea of boosting unemployment benefits
Colorado legislators will not be dipping into the state’s still-insolvent Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund to create new payments for children of unemployment-benefit recipients, after a…
Polis, Democrats propose plan to limit property-tax bill increases
With businesses and homeowners facing huge property-value assessment hikes this year, Gov. Jared Polis announced a plan Monday to cap property-tax collections, cut assessment rates…
A long-stalled bill no longer impacts the issue of construction-defects reform
A Senate committee on Monday stripped a key provision from a significantly debated bill that homebuilders and business groups warned could have launched a new…
Bill could limit Colorado employers from asking about job applicants’ ages
Employers will have to remove questions from job applications about prospective workers’ ages and dates of schooling if Gov. Jared Polis signs into law a…