2016 general assembly
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Rain barrels, pot couriers among new Colorado laws
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It’s now legal to do some things many Coloradans already do. New laws taking effect in Colorado Wednesday include one allowing residential rain barrels and another saying it’s OK to leave an unattended car running as long as the owner has a remote-start system. Colorado generally says that bills signed by the governor take effect 90 days after…
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Noonan: Surprise! State House and Senate leadership agreed with each other in 2016
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Four of the six legislative leaders are retiring: Democratic House Speaker Dickie Lee Hullinghorst, Senate President Bill Cadman, Senate Majority Leader Mark Scheffel and House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso. House Majority Leader Crisanta Duran and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, both from Denver, will return. With four members of leadership waving goodbye, perhaps it’s not…
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Noonan: Republican senators lay off contentious bills to hold the chamber
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Nine state senators are up for re-election and nine Senate seats are up for grabs in November. Seven of those seats have fewer than 9,000 votes separating the parties in registration numbers, while two seats have under 800. The Senate is 18-17 to the Republicans, all of which explains why the Senate was a more…
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Cadman: Session much more successful than advertised
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It’s that time of year again – the legislative interim – when our media friends and editorial writers draw sweeping but invariably distorted conclusions about “what the session really meant.” These are the same people who spent months largely ignoring the bipartisan successes while hyping partisan flaps, proclaiming that rancorous “partisanship” blocked passage of all…
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Noonan: Mulligan legislation has poor success record at Capitol
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Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, chastised Gov. John Hickenlooper and Capitol leadership at a recent luncheon for a poor record of accomplishment in the 2016 General Assembly. She wants legislators to take another crack at reclassifying the hospital provider fee and reforming construction defects law, two issues that got…
