Finally, some serious progress has been made on the number of bills awaiting the final up or down vote in the Colorado General Assembly!

The legislature is finally whittling down the looooong list of bills left to work through the 2018 session, which ends exactly in one week, no later than midnight, Wednesday, May 9.

As of the beginning of the Wednesday session, May 2, there are still 244 bills (not counting resolutions or anything else) remaining on the House and Senate calendars. That’s 105 in the House and 139 in the Senate, down from 315 a week ago.

In the intervening week, however, another 27 bills were introduced, bringing the grand total to 716. So better than a third of the bills introduced are still facing lawmakers.

Can you say “Saturday session?” Speaker of the House Crisanta Duran of Denver is holding the prospect of a very rare Saturday workday over House lawmakers’ heads, and that’s a serious threat since Saturday is also Cinco de Mayo.

The Senate has more bills to work on because most of their remaining bills came over from the House.

And there’s been progress, more or less, on some of the major bills still waiting on the docket:

Seven days to go, folks. Putting on my Carnac hat (yeah, I know, it dates me something awful), I foresee late nights in the week to come.