Wide-ranging ban on “junk fees” dies — at least for 2024 session
A Colorado bill to ban “junk fees” is headed to the legislative trash heap after backers and tech industry leaders could not agree on several…
Legislative Session
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…
Legislators must choose between water bills impacting construction, utility industries
Eleven months after the U.S. Supreme Court limited the scope of waterways over which the federal government has Clean Water Act jurisdiction, Colorado legislators are…
Affordable-housing package — and new tax credit bill — clears several hurdles
Gov. Jared Polis advanced his affordable-housing package in several big ways in recent days — including signing the first bill that is part of it…
Legislators OK bill to raise malpractice damage caps — despite trial attorneys’ opposition
As business and trial-attorney groups continue their staredown over a potential ballot battle on lawsuit damage caps, Colorado legislators are advancing a bill that would…
Dems define “cumulative impacts” in carbon-capture bill, pausing agency rulemaking
Two Colorado House Democrats pushed a bill through a committee Thursday to streamline the permitting of carbon-capture operations — but not before tacking on an…
Senate victory for construction-defects bill leaves two proposals with conflicting aims
Supporters of a construction-defects bill made changes Wednesday to win it significant backing in the Colorado Senate, preparing it to move it to the House…
Large, contested fiscal notes could be obstacles for air-quality bills
As Colorado legislators sit down in the coming weeks to try to fit a large swath of spending bills into a small budget allocation that’s…
House approves bill to give local governments rights to for-sale apartment complexes
After even more changes, Colorado House members on Monday passed a revamped bill to give local governments rights of first refusal and first offer on…
Transportation, delivery companies try to find consensus with legislators on bills to regulate them
Transportation- and delivery-network companies from Uber to DoorDash to Instacart are “working earnestly” to reach agreement on two bills to impose nationally precedent-setting regulations on…