Colorado Special Session
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Gov. Jared Polis announces $252.5 million in cuts to Colorado state budget
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Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed an executive order, initiating the process to cut $252.5 million in cash and general funds from the current year’s budget, with the most significant impact on the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, which administers Medicaid. Polis also signed into law a measure from the recently concluded special…
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Senate committee gives green (well, maybe yellow) light to artificial intelligence bill
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The Senate Appropriations Committee on Sunday handed Senate Bill 4, the artificial intelligence bill sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, a 4-3 win and moved it on to the full Senate. Whether the measure has the votes to get out of the Senate is another matter entirely. Much of the discussion was around the…
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Colorado General Assembly, special session, day four: wolves, health insurance and taxes
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Day three of the legislature’s special session ended with the Senate working late into the night to begin debate on the House tax bills sent over earlier in the day after representatives wrapped up voting on those measures, along with measures on health insurance and the ballot measure dealing with the state’s free meals program.…
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Special Session Day 1 recap: A high-profile resignation, heated debates and fast-tracked bills
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Day 1 recap The Colorado General Assembly started Thursday with 33 bills and two concurrent resolutions that would go to voters. The first day ended with just 13 bills left, five in the Senate and eight in the House. The Senate put four of its five bills through to a second reading debate Thursday night, meaning today…
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Artificial intelligence bill clears first Senate special session committee
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The proposed Senate Democrats’ fix to the first-in-the-nation artificial intelligence regulation dealing with “algorithmic discrimination” won approval from its first committee on the first day of the 2025 special session. Senate Bill 4 — sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez, D-Denver, who is also the author of the 2024 law that Gov. Jared Polis…
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Senate committee advances bills to shift wolf program funds, proposal on governor’s budget authority
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Colorado legislators began to advance proposals dealing with an $800 million budget shortfall on Thursday, just hours after the legislature officially re-convened to deal with the revenue shortfall. They started with a hearing on Senate Bill 1, which adds a requirement to the existing state law that outlines the governor’s authority to make spending reductions…
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Colorado lawmakers begin special session — here’s what’s at stake
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Colorado legislators will officially convene in a special session this morning to plug an $800 million budget deficit that Democrats insist is the result of the congressional budget but which Republicans argue is the state’s own making after failing to heed warnings and years of overspending. Here’s what’s at stake. Analysts said Colorado will lose…
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Big cuts, bigger questions: Here’s how lawmakers plan to fill $800 million shortfall
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Plans are taking shape on how Colorado’s state government will trim $800 million in general fund expenses. The shortfall, according to Democrats, is due to a $1.2 billion loss of income tax revenue, mainly on the corporate side. The state has enough in surplus to cover about a third of that, but then the question…
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A not-so-special session | SONDERMANN
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As legislators gather in the coming days for the special session called by Gov. Jared Polis to address a worsening budget shortfall, Coloradans can be assured of one thing. That being that the shots will be called – or already have been – by our Democratic governor and his party’s legislative leadership. Republican input will…
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Colorado lawmakers wrap up special session, pass property tax deal
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Colorado’s lawmakers on Thursday concluded a special session by passing a compromise measure that will reduce property tax liabilities for residential and business owners and, in return, mean withdrawing two initiatives containing deeper tax cuts from the November ballot. The final vote on House Bill 24B-1001 — the deal crafted by legislative leaders, the governor,…
