Legislative health-care debates commence this week with insurance bills
Several health-care bills — including two scheduled for their first hearings this week — are set to reignite the debate this legislative session on whether…
Legislative Session
Legislators will debate a very different wage-theft bill this year, but opposition remains
After Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a 2024 construction wage-theft-enforcement bill that he said could trip up law-abiding contractors, proponents are back with a follow-up that…
Task force on disability rights recommends major changes to Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act
Following three months of deliberations, a task force studying the rights of Coloradans with disabilities has softened some recommendations to boost awards in antidiscrimination lawsuits…
Insurance enterprise shortfall could spur calls for premium fee hike
A Colorado enterprise that offers free health insurance to undocumented immigrants and helps fund the state’s reinsurance program is likely to be short of revenue…
Labor Peace Act overhaul advances over business complaints
Senate Democrats used their first bill hearing of the 2025 legislative session Tuesday to advance a proposed major change to the state’s Labor Peace Act,…
Pinnacol opens up about business losses to build case to become private company
Pinnacol Assurance has lost 10,000 of its 60,000 customers over the past decade because of changing workplace dynamics and must become a fully privatized firm…
Poll: 70% of voters oppose changes to Labor Peace Act
Less than a week before the first scheduled hearing of a bill to rewrite Colorado’s Labor Peace Act, a coalition of business groups has released…
Senate Republicans offer regulatory-rollback package aimed at cutting specific fees, rules
Just days after Gov. Jared Polis called for legislators to pass regulatory reform, Colorado Senate Republicans offered the first package to that effect on Tuesday,…
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…