2025 legislative review: Business wins, a few losses and more battles to come
The 2025 legislative session was one where business leaders engaged early — rallying against the first bill to get a Senate committee hearing — and…
Housing
Big decisions on workers’ comp and construction-lawsuits bills mark session’s last day
Colorado legislators closed the 2025 session with a flurry of activity Wednesday, killing a measure that could have interfered with construction-defects reform, passing several health-care…
Architects, engineers: Legislators advancing bill that could cancel out construction-defects reform
Even as legislators are advancing construction-defects reform, a subset of construction professionals point to another bill moving quietly through the Legislature and argue it could…
Builders explain why construction-defects reform bill may not restart condo market
Even after members of a key Senate committee rallied around a construction-defects reform bill this week, homebuilders continue to have serious questions about whether it…
Construction-defects reform bill getting support. But will it get condos built?
After the addition of eight amendments meant to salve critics, sponsors of a construction-defects reform bill watched it pass the House Monday by a 59-5…
Construction-defects reform decisively clears major hurdle
Given the choice between very different approaches to addressing construction-defects law, Colorado legislators on Tuesday overwhelmingly backed a bill to make it harder for condo…
New effort to ban “junk fees” shifts focus to different industry
Colorado Democrats once again are seeking to ban “junk fees” that get added without option onto the advertised prices of goods and services, but their…
Legislators introduce divergent bills addressing construction defects
Gov. Jared Polis and a bipartisan group of lawmakers rolled out the latest effort to reform construction-defects laws and jumpstart the condominium market Wednesday —…
In State of State Address, Polis seeks regulatory reform and caution in potential Labor Peace Act changes
Gov. Jared Polis used his State of the State Address on Thursday to call out several major business priorities, including asking legislators to undertake regulatory…
Opening-day bills tackle unionization, wage theft, price gouging, Ozempic and more
Colorado legislative Democrats stormed out of the gate Wednesday by introducing two major pro-labor efforts as well as several cost-of-living bills that are likely to…