With groups sounding alarm, Senate passes regulatory-review bill unanimously
After a week in which Colorado’s receding business friendliness was laid bare, Colorado senators took what might be seen as a first step to reversing…
Legislative Session
April 13 “Colorado Chamber Office Hours”: A package of major tax-break rollbacks
Colorado legislators have begun advancing a package of bills that could reduce tax breaks by a combined $746 million, largely to businesses. And on this…
Questions abound on proposal to slow the rise of homeowners’ insurance premiums
As the Senate Finance Committee considered a bill last May to put fees on homeowners’ insurance policies and create a grant fund for disaster mitigation,…
Colorado insurers barred from getting criminal restitution in most cases
Colorado insurers no longer will be able to receive criminal restitution payments unless they are direct victims of a crime, according to a new law…
Colorado Democrats are trying again for arbitration reform — in a different way
The requirement to settle disputes via arbitration rather than through the court system has become a near-ubiquitous clause in many contracts, including those between employers…
April 6 “Colorado Chamber Office Hours”: Dissecting a key workforce-development bill
As Colorado employers continue to rank a lack of skilled talent as one of their biggest obstacles to growing in this state, House Speaker Julie…
Once-vetoed social-media regulatory bills are becoming law. Here’s why.
Last year, proponents of a far-reaching bill to make social-media companies rein in crime on their sites rallied on the west steps of the Capitol,…
Hospitals win again, leading defeat of bill to limit medical debt collection
Less than a month after fending off a bill to boost state oversight of healthcare mergers and acquisitions, Colorado hospitals scored a second big legislative…
Business-backed bill to review regulations clears committee on unanimous vote
Colorado legislators across the ideological spectrum agreed Tuesday that the state needs to more thoroughly review the efficacy of its more than 200,000 regulations —…
Polis signs environmental regulation into law — and immediately asks for changes
Gov. Jared Polis signed into law Monday a bill that would prohibit companies from discharging plastic pellets into state waters and many landfills — and…