Single-payer, take two: House again approves study
For the second year in a row, Colorado House members on Monday passed a bill to study what it would take to create a single-payer…
Legislative Session
A battle over Colorado railroad regulations is about safety, costs
A storied part of Colorado’s history, railroads continue to serve as key infrastructure for its present too, hauling durable goods, consumer items and oil and…
Committee kills health-care bill when even sponsors won’t defend it
A one-time bill to boost access to primary-care doctors that morphed significantly as it moved through the Colorado House died this week after its Senate…
Legislators criticize state agencies as they look to upend recent environmental rulemakings
Three years after passing the Environmental Justice Act to target polluters throughout Colorado, environmentally focused legislative Democrats returned Thursday with an ideologically similar bill that…
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…
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…