Disabilities-rights lawsuit bill now before Colorado Senate has undergone major changes
When a Colorado Senate committee considers a bill next week to expand the ability of people with disabilities to recover damages in lawsuits, it will…
Legislative Session
Bill would curb tax breaks for insurers, software and enterprise-zone investment
Colorado legislators are considering a rewrite of the state’s tax code that would curtail incentives now offered to certain industries — including telecommunications and oil…
Construction-defects reform bill getting support. But will it get condos built?
After the addition of eight amendments meant to salve critics, sponsors of a construction-defects reform bill watched it pass the House Monday by a 59-5…
Senate kills bill to make it easier to file some business-focused lawsuits
Having advanced for the first time as far as the floor of the Colorado Senate, a bill to make it easier to file pricey deceptive-trade-practices…
Polis signs law to promote nuclear-energy development in Colorado
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Monday that redefines nuclear energy as clean energy under state law, opening the market significantly to potential power…
Seemingly conflicting bills around drug-discounting are advancing through Legislature
Given the option between a hospital-backed bill or a pharmaceutical-backed effort to put state guardrails around a federal prescription-drug discounting program, members of the Colorado…
Bill to regulate work in “extreme temperatures” dies in House committee
Facing severe business backlash and bipartisan opposition, a pair of Colorado House Democrats on Thursday killed their bill to require a slew of new temperature-based…
Business leaders played major role in bill that helped Colorado land Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival is coming to Boulder — a relocation made possible in no small part by a $34 million incentive bill that business…
Labor advocates seek to scrap workers’ compensation doctor-choice limits
Unions and labor advocates want to expand the number of doctors that injured workers can choose from for treatment — from the four they now…
Senate makes major concession before passing bill to ban “junk fees”
Colorado senators gave their final approval to a bill aimed at banning “junk fees” on services from meals to rental agreements Wednesday — but only…