Business leaders breathing easier about air-quality permitting bill
An air-quality permitting reform bill originally criticized as a “backdoor ban on oil and gas” underwent a third major set of revisions during a rare…
Legislative Session
Senate passes long-delayed right-of-first-refusal bill
A bill that would make Colorado the first state in the nation to give local governments a first right of refusal on many apartment complexes…
Colorado looking to offer incentives to grow semiconductor industry locally
Hoping to grow businesses in the semiconductor and advanced-manufacturing industries, the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade wants to replicate its popular enterprise-zone…
Colorado commission on track to get ability to raise water-quality permitting fees
A bill to let the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission raise clean- and drinking-water fees without legislative approval is on its way to Gov. Jared…
Polis signs law fixing Colorado retail delivery fee
Colorado’s recently enacted retail delivery fee isn’t going away. But at least it’s getting easier for retailers with delivery arms to administer. Gov. Jared Polis…
Equal-pay law upgrade heads to governor’s desk largely unchanged
Despite extensive negotiations on the part of business leaders, a bill to add more regulations to Colorado’s equal-pay law is on its way to Gov….
Could Colorado bills stifle the new energy sources they seek to promote?
Colorado stands poised to set up regulatory frameworks for alternative energy sources that, if developed correctly, could net the state “billions of dollars of wages…
Gig-worker transparency bill runs out of gas
Colorado’s attempt to craft the strictest transparency law in the country for transportation- and delivery-network companies crashed to halt Tuesday, stifled by what some of…
Changes restore most original provisions to land-use reform bill
Less than one week after a Senate committee gutted a bill to create statewide standards that would allow more development of urban housing, a House…
Legislators nix idea of boosting unemployment benefits
Colorado legislators will not be dipping into the state’s still-insolvent Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund to create new payments for children of unemployment-benefit recipients, after a…