2025 legislative review: Business wins, a few losses and more battles to come
The 2025 legislative session was one where business leaders engaged early — rallying against the first bill to get a Senate committee hearing — and…
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Proposed new safety regulations for Uber, Lyft could cause rideshare to exit Colorado
Despite a bevy of amendments added by sponsors over the legislative session’s final two days to try to temper opposition, Colorado’s largest rideshare company is…
Late-night legislative drama attempts to extend deadline for implementation of artificial-intelligence regulations
A last-minute attempt to push implementation of Colorado’s groundbreaking artificial-intelligence regulations back to the start of 2027 failed late Tuesday, seemingly guaranteeing that state officials…
Health-care bills, data-center tax breaks die as they run out of time
Two controversial health-care bills that had been priorities of Gov. Jared Polis’ administration but also had garnered tremendous pushback because of their potential to raise…
In a surprise move, legislators kill bill to loosen AI regulations they passed in 2024
Feeling that nine months of talks could not produce consensus, Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez decided to kill his bill Monday to loosen artificial-intelligence regulations,…
Gov. Polis stared down legislators that sought social-media regulation. Polis won.
During an April 14 news conference urging Gov. Jared Polis to sign a bill seeking to impose new child-safety protections on social-media companies, Chelsea Congdon…
Effort to ban use of consumer surveillance data meets its legislative end
Legislators squelched a plan Tuesday to make Colorado the first state to ban companies from using consumer surveillance data to set prices or wages, though…
Supporters fix potentially fatal flaw in bill to speed up cell-tower permitting, close connectivity gaps
Supporters of a bill to speed up permitting for wireless towers throughout Colorado have fixed a potentially fatal flaw that was added into the proposal…
New incentive proposal aims to get Colorado into data-center recruitment game
Feeling that Colorado has fallen way behind other states in the effort to attract capital-intensive data centers, a bipartisan pair of senators is pushing the…
Effort to speed wireless-infrastructure permitting could be undermined by Senate amendment
Critics of a bill that seeks to offer regulatory predictability to the wireless industry tacked on an amendment this week that undermines the intent of…