Businesses expected the worst in 2024. They got “the most successful session in years.”
At the start of the 2024 legislative session, Colorado business leaders cringed at the thought of frustrated progressives not just bringing back bills that were…
Legislative Session
Property-tax break crosses finish line as 2024 legislative session adjourns
A bill to offer a $1.3 billion property-tax cut completed a whirlwind ride through the Legislature on the final day of the 2024 session Wednesday,…
On session’s final day, Legislature passes modified right-of-first-refusal bill
One year after Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bill to give local governments a right of first refusal on many apartment complexes going up for…
Four business-opposed bills, including single-payer health study, die on Tuesday
Colorado legislators allowed the clock to run out on four bills Tuesday that critics warned would raise the already high cost of living, including another…
Legislators give two late-session legal wins to business groups
Colorado businesses are getting two legal wins at the end of the 2024 legislative session. The Senate on Tuesday approved a negotiated deal on lawsuit…
Bill to upend emissions rulemakings dies quietly in Legislature
A bill that sought to unwind concessions granted to businesses at two key Colorado Air Quality Control Commission rulemakings last year is dead after it…
A water fight no more: Competing permitting bills mesh into consensus legislation
Colorado legislators sent to Gov. Jared Polis on Monday a bill to create a new dredge-and-fill permitting program that fused together parts of separate water…
Legislators announce, advance bipartisan bill to reduce property taxes
On the last possible day to do so, a bipartisan group of legislators announced a deal Monday to reduce property taxes for homes and commercial…
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…
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…