Colorado board declares second prescription drug to be unaffordable
Colorado’s precedent-setting Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board has declared a second medication to be unaffordable, setting it up for a possible upper price limit after…
Regulatory Issues
Commission sets timeline for review of key permitting documents
Colorado air-quality regulators and oil-and-gas leaders agreed on a timeline to keep the growing number of environmental-justice summary reviews on track, though the new rules…
Coalition of business groups ask Polis to veto wage-theft bill
A dozen contractors and business organizations have mounted an effort to ask Gov. Jared Polis to veto a recently passed bill that would ramp up…
Legislators put brakes on most proposed new railroad regulations before passing bill
Colorado senators gutted most provisions of a wide-ranging railroad-safety bill before giving it final approval this week, choosing to create a new Office of Railroad…
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…
Recycling organization begins work of determining fees that consumer-goods packagers will pay
Producers of material from plastic bottles to burlap coffee bags that package goods sold within the state of Colorado have just over nine months to…
A battle over Colorado railroad regulations is about safety, costs
A storied part of Colorado’s history, railroads continue to serve as key infrastructure for its present too, hauling durable goods, consumer items and oil and…
Study: Removing lawsuit caps will cost Colorado $2 billion
Eliminating caps on noneconomic damages for lawsuits involving catastrophic injury and death, as a proposed ballot initiative aims to do, could cost Colorado $2.1 billion…
Colorado’s legislative liquor wars are back
After a several-year pause, Colorado’s long-running liquor wars are returning to the state Capitol this year, with two bills that could reshape how alcohol is…
“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…