Business leaders, trial lawyers strike deal on lawsuit damage caps
For the second time in less than a week, legislators reached a compromise Sunday to avert a multimillion-dollar battle on competing ballot initiatives — this…
Legislative Session
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…
Colorado leaders push incentives that could leverage significant federal technology funds
As legislators try to squeeze new programs into a tight budget hole this year, state economic-development leaders are working similarly to leverage limited resources to…
Bills to boost regulations on Uber, DoorDash and others appear headed to Polis’ desk
Companies from DoorDash to Uber to Lyft that use gig workers to deliver people and goods throughout Colorado largely have reached agreement — even if…
Grand deal or “Faustian bargain”? Compromise oil-and-gas bills move forward.
Legislators began advancing two bills Thursday that emerged from a “grand deal” between oil-and-gas companies, environmentalists and state-government officials — even as some oil-and-gas firms…
Legislators decide right-of-way access will come at annual cost to telecom firms
The Colorado Department of Transportation will be able to charge both initial and annual fees to telecommunications firms laying broadband fiber in highway right-of-way areas,…
Legislature gives final approval to digital electronics right-to-repair bill
Colorado legislators on Tuesday sent to Gov. Jared Polis a slightly tightened bill that will add to the state’s growing right-to-repair law the ability for…
Agreement axes air-quality bills, ballot measures for new drilling fee, other regulations
Oil and gas companies, environmental groups and Gov. Jared Polis announced an agreement Monday that will jettison the most industry-opposed portions of three air-quality bills…
Medicaid, many private insurers could soon be forced to cover new anti-obesity drugs
Colorado senators are poised to pass a mandate for state-regulated public and private insurance plans to cover new anti-obesity drugs that could cost the state…
Wage-theft bill hangs in balance in Colorado Senate
Colorado legislators have 10 days left to decide whether to seek to add financial liability to construction-industry general contractors in order to deter wage theft…