Senate passes workers’ compensation overhaul, setting up veto battle
The Colorado Senate on Wednesday approved of a massive change in how injured employees can choose the doctors who will provide their workers’ compensation care,…
Legislative Session
Gov. Polis stared down legislators that sought social-media regulation. Polis won.
During an April 14 news conference urging Gov. Jared Polis to sign a bill seeking to impose new child-safety protections on social-media companies, Chelsea Congdon…
Following changes, regulatory-reform bill getting across-the-board support
Five days ago, opponents of a bill to boost oversight of two key Colorado regulatory departments called it unfair to state workers and accused backers…
After asking Legislature for heaping of help, restaurants receive only crumbs
Colorado restaurants’ two-part strategy to reduce cost pressures during a period of significant eatery closings fully collapsed this week after a Senate committee killed a…
Bipartisan alternative emerges to bill seeking to cap hospitals’ reimbursements
With a controversial bill to cap insurance payments to hospitals idling in the House without a reliable path to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk, hospitals are…
Legislators fix bill to help commercial buildings meet emissions-cut mandates
Months of negotiations have resulted in what business leaders called a mutually beneficial agreement with state regulators on how to proceed with commercial-building decarbonization efforts…
Bipartisan bill to require audits of Colorado regulators gets labor, enviro pushback
Signs of overregulation are rampant for Colorado businesses, from the 459 days it takes to get an air-quality permit to the 43 major energy-related rulemakings…
Effort to “educate” consumers about impacts of gas products with warning labels is dead
Colorado convenience stores won’t have to attach stickers to gas pumps warning of the products’ environmental and public-health impacts after sponsors of a bill that…
Legislature sends twice-killed single-payer-healthcare study bill to Polis for first time
Following two years in which it died on the Senate clock at the end of the legislative session, a bill to study converting Colorado to…
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…