Legislative session opens with calls to address affordability crisis
Leaders of all four of Colorado’s legislative caucuses called for new laws that will help to bring down the cost of living during Wednesday’s opening…
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2025 Colorado Legislative Preview: An enormous amount for business to watch
In terms of resets, Colorado’s November legislative election results were negligible compared to what happened nationally. Republicans flipped three districts in the 65-member state House…
Voters opt for middle ground in Democratic, Republican legislative primaries
Moderate and pragmatic candidates won big in both parties’ legislative primaries Tuesday, with Democrats appearing to oust progressive Reps. Elisabeth Epps and Tim Hernandez and…
A year makes a big difference for first-refusal, housing-study efforts
One year after Gov. Jared Polis saw local-government backers block his land-use reform bill and then vetoed his party’s efforts to give cities and counties…
Here’s what Polis’ affordable-housing package, now in law, does
Gov. Jared Polis today signed the last two pieces of legislation in his four-bill affordable-housing package, finalizing an incentive-laden effort one year after a proposal…
Businesses expected the worst in 2024. They got “the most successful session in years.”
At the start of the 2024 legislative session, Colorado business leaders cringed at the thought of frustrated progressives not just bringing back bills that were…
On session’s final day, Legislature passes modified right-of-first-refusal bill
One year after Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bill to give local governments a right of first refusal on many apartment complexes going up for…
Four business-opposed bills, including single-payer health study, die on Tuesday
Colorado legislators allowed the clock to run out on four bills Tuesday that critics warned would raise the already high cost of living, including another…
Time runs out for major construction-defects reform effort
The most significant effort in seven years to advance construction-defects reform ended Friday, with the House sponsor of a bipartisan bill choosing to kill it…
Bill to raise short-term rental tax rates suffers overwhelming defeat
A bill that sought to quadruple tax-assessment rates for Colorado owners of active short-term rental properties died at its first legislative committee hearing Tuesday, even…