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…
Legislative Session
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…
Colorado leaders push incentives that could leverage significant federal technology funds
As legislators try to squeeze new programs into a tight budget hole this year, state economic-development leaders are working similarly to leverage limited resources to…
Bills to boost regulations on Uber, DoorDash and others appear headed to Polis’ desk
Companies from DoorDash to Uber to Lyft that use gig workers to deliver people and goods throughout Colorado largely have reached agreement — even if…