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Sex-harassment panel starts work at Colorado Capitol
A bipartisan committee of the Colorado legislature began work Monday on policies that could change how sexual harassment complaints are handled at the state Capitol. The committee will hold four more meetings before making recommendations to legislative leaders who could adopt policies or, possibly, recommend legislation lawmakers could consider when the next session begins in…
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Q&A with Bob Gardner | Policy maven, military veteran, school-choice champion
There’s an old wisecrack that members of Colorado’s House of Representatives lob at colleagues who get elected to the state Senate – that the move will raise the average IQ of both chambers. While senators of course are quick to offer a second opinion on the well-worn quip, one thing they and their House counterparts…
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Hickenlooper vetoes autopsy bill opposed by news outlets
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Friday afternoon announced he had vetoed three bills passed in the 2018 legislative session that ended last month, including one that would have placed autopsy reports on children off limits to the public except under limited circumstances. Senate Bill 223 was brought to the General Assembly by El Paso County Coroner…
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Duran, other members picked for Legislature’s workplace harassment panel
All six members of a summer committee that will review the Colorado General Assembly’s workplace harassment policies have been chosen, with Speaker of the House Crisanta Duran among its members, Colorado Politics has learned. Sens. Bob Gardner of Colorado Springs and Beth Martinez Humenik of Thornton will represent Senate Republicans on the panel, known as…
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Hickenlooper signs bill reauthorizing Colo. civil rights agency
Surrounded by more than a hundred supporters, civil rights commissioners and the staff of Colorado’s civil rights agency outside the state Capitol, Gov. John Hickenlooper Tuesday signed into law the bill that keeps the agency on course for the next nine years. House Bill 1256 reauthorizes both the Division of Civil Rights and the Colorado…
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2018 Colo. legislature, by the numbers
The 2018 General Assembly session that wrapped up on May 9 is notable for a lot of reasons, starting off with the first expulsion of a sitting lawmaker in more than 100 years. And there are lots of other notable numbers to come out of the session: Number of bills: 721. Is it a record?…
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ProgressNow picks winners and losers from the left’s view
ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s best-known liberal advocacy group, has picked its winners and losers from the four-month legislative session that ended last week. And if you know ProgressNow’s partisan pugilistic tendencies, then it comes as no surprise that Democrats and their agenda looked good, but Republicans got a sock in the election-year kisser. But not entirely.…
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11th hour compromise over Colo. civil rights panel in legislature
A bill reauthorizing Colorado’s Division of Civil Rights and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission – the subject of much contention during the 2018 Colorado legislative session – was sent on its way to the governor’s desk just before the final gavel fell Wednesday night. As a midnight deadline approached, a legislative conference committee worked out…
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Anti-squatters bill on its way to Hickenlooper
A Colorado legislative measure born out of frustration with the process of evicting those who illegally take over someone’s home is on its way to Gov. John Hickenlooper for signing. Senate Bill 15 would set up a faster process for getting “squatters” – people who move into a home without homeowner authorization – evicted from…
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Civil rights division bill could go by the wayside in session’s final days
With just over 36 hours to go in the 2018 legislative session, one issue that has yet to be resolved is what happens to Colorado’s Division of Civil Rights and Colorado Civil Rights Commission. On April 30, the Senate passed its version of House Bill 1256, which drew immediate criticism from House Democrats and Gov.…