Committee kills bill to prevent drilling of future oil-and-gas wells
A proposed ban on new oil-and-gas wells failed to make it out of its first legislative committee Thursday, dying after a nearly nine-hour hearing in…
Legislative Session
Legislators remove local-control provision from environmental-cleanup bill
A bill to offer more environmental protections to disproportionately impacted communities is advancing in the Colorado Legislature, but without a key provision that would have…
Advancing workforce-development bills aim to give learners in-demand skills
Colorado legislators this week advanced two significant pieces of workforce-development legislation — one bill to create regional talent-development plans and grow an existing grant program,…
Construction-defects reform bill passes out of key committee
A construction-defects reform bill that builders argue is integral to the state’s affordable-housing push cleared a major hurdle Thursday when it advanced through a committee…
Senators advance seasonal oil-and-gas activity pause, industrial fine increases
Legislators looking to ramp up both regulations against air-quality violators and the enforcement of those laws advanced two major pieces of legislation Wednesday, despite warnings…
“Worker Freedom Act” designed to protect employees from anti-union meetings
Employers who require workers to attend meetings featuring political or religious messages and then retaliate against staffers who walk out or refuse to go could…
Legislator ends effort to require insurance networks to include all Colorado primary-care docs
A Colorado House leader nixed his plan Tuesday to let state residents keep primary-care providers even when they change jobs or insurers, opting instead for…
Senate committee kills bill to give regulatory relief to appraisers
Appraisers, an aging and thinning sector crucial to Colorado leaders’ goal of increasing the supply of housing statewide, will not get the regulatory relief this…
10-point property tax commission recommendation includes flexible tax-revenue cap
A state commission on Friday recommended a 10-point plan to reduce tax pain caused by rising property valuations, including continuation of soon-to-expire residential tax breaks,…
House votes to extend right-to-repair law to digital electronic equipment
Once again it will fall to the Colorado Senate to determine whether to expand Colorado’s right-to-repair law, this time to the wide category of digital…