Today is Feb. 15, 2024, and here’s what you need to know:

A measure in the Colorado state Senate aims to impose a host of requirements on social media companies, including age verification, tools and settings for parents and a prohibition against practices that are “not in the best interest of juveniles.”

Notably, the proposal mandates social media companies to respond to inquiries from law enforcement agency within three days – and to fulfill such requests within 30 days.

The new guardrails would help create a safer and healthier online environment for children, the bill’s sponsors said, adding that “unregulated” social media platforms have wreaked havoc on kids’ mental health and made it dangerously easy for sexual predators to target them.

For two hours on Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court grappled with a question that could significantly affect the composition of juries going forward: If a juror of color, based on her experiences, says that bias in policing exists, would removing that person from the jury pool be tantamount to dismissing her because of her race?

Previously, in a pair of cases out of Arapahoe County, the state’s second-highest court overturned the defendants’ convictions because prosecutors dismissed, or “struck,” two women of color from the jury pool. Although the prosecutors explicitly justified the strikes with concerns about the women’s attitudes toward police, the Court of Appeals concluded those views were linked to race.

During oral arguments, Justice Richard L. Gabriel warned that if prosecutors could strike jurors of color whose negative experiences with police were informed by their race – or the race of their friends and family – anyone who speaks about a “driving while Black” encounter could effectively be barred from serving on criminal juries.

When Friday Health Plans went belly up in August last year, it didn’t just leave 30,000 Coloradans without health insurance.

Most of those former clients, largely in the individual market, found themselves facing the prospect that they’d have to start over with a new health insurance company mid-year and pay a new round of deductibles in the months to come.

Officials urged health insurers to honor those out-of-pocket and deductibles and not require their new clients to pay them twice in a calendar year.

A bipartisan group of Colorado officials and lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled legislation that allocates millions of dollars in tax credits, which they say would help position Colorado as one of the nation’s top quantum tech hubs.

Gov. Jared Polis and state legislators on Wednesday announced legislation that creates an income tax credit and a “loan loss” reserve.

The Biden administration named Colorado a federally-designated quantum tech hub in October, citing the industry’s technological uses for medicine, computing, logistics, networks and military operations.

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman met with three homeless men over the weekend and said on social media that the conversation reaffirmed his belief in a “work first” approach to homelessness.

The three men Coffman met with were living in a hotel used by Denver, he said. The four met for breakfast at a truck stop near the hotel.

On Dec. 31, Coffman wrote, the three men were told they’d be arrested if they stayed at the encampment they lived in. They were told to pack their things into two large yellow trash bags and prepare to move into a hotel, Coffman wrote.