Dems unveil “system-changer” bills to limit oil and gas drilling, new emissions
The work of the interim committee on ozone pollution became manifest Thursday, as Colorado Democrats rolled out a trio of bills to ramp up regulation…
Legislative Session
Right-of-first-refusal bill returns in different form, gets first legislative OK
Sponsors of a 2023 bill vetoed by Gov. Jared Polis that would have given local governments a right of first refusal on buying for-sale apartment…
House OKs biometric data regulations, even as business concerns remain
Colorado House members unanimously passed a bill Tuesday that would ban companies from selling biometric data and restrict their collection of the information, but they…
Short-term rental taxation: The statewide issue riling mountain-town business leaders
While the Colorado Legislature is considering a host of bills this session that will impact businesses statewide, one measure — on short-term rentals — is…
House OKs changes that could boost deceptive-trade-practice lawsuits
Once again this year, it will fall to the Colorado Senate to decide whether to make a significant change to the Colorado Consumer Protection Act…
Coming bills would ban new oil-and-gas wells, stop summertime drilling
Democratic legislators are preparing to introduce three bills that would make industry-redefining changes to the Colorado oil and gas sector, including a ban on new…
Construction wage theft proposal passes legislative committee overwhelmingly
Democrats on a Colorado House committee enthusiastically advanced a bill Thursday that would make construction general contractors jointly liable for wages their subcontractors fail to…
Legislators may look to formerly incarcerated to help ease Colorado labor shortages
Some five years ago, as Colorado’s red-hot economy was exacerbating labor shortages, some restaurant owners began actively recruiting from prisons, seeking departing inmates who they…
Legislators advance a bill that would limit lawsuits against key real estate sector
After a decade-long period in which businesses have bemoaned the worsening of Colorado’s legal climate, members of one profession — appraisers — are fighting back…
Legislators looking to make sales-tax remittance easier for businesses
Seven years after Colorado began planning how to implement a one-stop sales-tax calculation and remittance system for retailers and three-and-a-half years after that system went…