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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs bills aimed at boosting Colorado affordable housing efforts

May 31, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Gov. Jared Polis this week signed three bills related to affordable housing into law. These measures gained the sought-after support from local governments that had eluded the administration up until now. All three measures received bipartisan support, differentiating them from most affordable housing legislation that succeeded this year and failed in 2023. Senate Bill 174…
Colorado lawmakers introduce 705 bills in 2024 session, 525 approved

May 17, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Final statistics on the bills offered by lawmakers during the 2024 session are in. As previously reported by Colorado Politics, lawmakers introduced 705 bills. That’s the most since 2019 when 721 bills were introduced, but far short of the record set in 2003, at 735. Here’s what happened to them. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); The General…
Colorado faces budget deficit as lawmakers consider $2 billion more in spending

Mar 30, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Colorado lawmakers this month began reviewing the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal year in the face of tight revenues and a budget deficit — even as policymakers are pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests. Only a tight sliver of those requests will likely get funded, if at all, once…
Colorado faces budget deficit as lawmakers consider $2 billion more in spending

Mar 30, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Colorado lawmakers this month began reviewing the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal year in the face of tight revenues and a budget deficit — even as policymakers are pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests. Only a tight sliver of those requests will likely get funded, if at all, once…
Cyberattack disables Colorado public defender’s network; groups seek cap on property tax revenue growth; lawmakers eye ban on cellphones while driving | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Feb 9, 2024

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Colorado Politics

Today is Feb. 13, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: Two groups at the opposite ends of major tax policies in past years have banded together to push for a ballot measure to reduce residential and business property tax rates down to roughly 2022 levels and cap future revenue growth to no more…
State Supreme Court rebuffs challenge to oil, gas taxation in Montezuma County

Feb 21, 2023

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Michael Karlik

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned an appellate court decision that would have enhanced the ability of individual oil and gas owners to challenge their property tax bills, and would have also increased the administrative workload for counties in extraction-rich areas of the state. The justices clarified that the legislature intended to create a “representative”…
Colorado Senate Republican put Barbara Kirkmeyer on Joint Budget Committee

Dec 9, 2022

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Marianne Goodland

Colorado Senate Republicans on Friday unanimously chose Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer to be the caucus’s representative on the Joint Budget Committee. Kirkmeyer, a Brighton Republican who is halfway through her first term, replaces Sen. Bob Rankin. The Carbondale Republican was the committee’s longest-serving member, having been on JBC since 2014. He announced Dec. 1 he would…
Candidates line up to replace Rankin, both on JBC and in SD5

Dec 2, 2022

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Marianne Goodland

Sen. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, who announced he would resign his western slope Senate district seat on Jan. 10, is leaving the Joint Budget Committee as of Monday, prompting the Senate GOP caucus to scramble to find a replacement to join the influential panel. The committee is already well into its work on the 2023-24 budget…
Oil, gas tax law under consideration by Colorado Supreme Court

Nov 19, 2022

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Michael Karlik

The Colorado Supreme Court stepped in this week to clarify whether the owners of a Montezuma County oil and gas formation have the opportunity to challenge a retroactive $2 million increase to their collective property tax bill. The underlying sequence of events already made its way to the justices once in 2017, when the court…
WATCH: Democrats slam Kirkmeyer over GOP candidate’s support for national abortion ban in new TV ad

Sep 27, 2022

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Ernest Luning

National Democrats took to the air Tuesday in Colorado with a TV ad linking Republican congressional candidate Barb Kirkmeyer to a potential national ban on abortion. The 30-second spot, released by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s independent expenditure arm, includes archival footage of the GOP nominee in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District saying she “[doesn’t] agree…