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…
Legislative Session
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…
Legislators dedicating portion of unemployment-tax revenues to new workforce enterprise
One year after members of the Joint Budget Committee stepped in to stop unemployment-tax revenue from being used to fund enforcement of labor regulations, leaders…
Committee considers whether carbon capture has future in Colorado
As Colorado aims to achieve 100% net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, leaders of key state agencies argue that they can’t meet that goal without employing…
Committee kills bill to prevent drilling of future oil-and-gas wells
A proposed ban on new oil-and-gas wells failed to make it out of its first legislative committee Thursday, dying after a nearly nine-hour hearing in…
Legislators remove local-control provision from environmental-cleanup bill
A bill to offer more environmental protections to disproportionately impacted communities is advancing in the Colorado Legislature, but without a key provision that would have…
Advancing workforce-development bills aim to give learners in-demand skills
Colorado legislators this week advanced two significant pieces of workforce-development legislation — one bill to create regional talent-development plans and grow an existing grant program,…
Construction-defects reform bill passes out of key committee
A construction-defects reform bill that builders argue is integral to the state’s affordable-housing push cleared a major hurdle Thursday when it advanced through a committee…