The impact of the 2023 legislative session on business? Better than expected
When Democrats swept the November elections and claimed their largest majorities in legislative history — after more than a few campaigned for new environmental and…
Legislative Session
Property-tax relief plan seeking to limit TABOR refunds gets OK for November ballot
Colorado business and residential property owners will have a choice on the November ballot to reduce property-tax assessments in a way that could save them…
Governor’s housing bill dies over insurmountable gulf on local control
An ambitious bill to reform Colorado land-use codes to spur construction of more housing along key corridors and throughout cities died on the final day…
Bill to study single-payer health-care system dies in Senate
Colorado legislators quietly killed a bill Sunday to study implementation of a single-payer health-care system, letting it die on the Senate calendar rather than give…
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…
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….