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With big changes in Colo. beer sales ahead, lawmakers scramble on rules
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Come Jan. 1, you should be able to walk into most Colorado grocery and convenience stores to buy full-strength beer, the result of a measure adopted by the General Assembly in 2016. But that measure failed to include rules for implementation. A bill currently working its way through the legislature in this session’s final days…
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Colo. House advances transportation bill
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The Colorado House of Representatives passed one of the most important bills of the session – to pump billions of dollars into transportation – Tuesday morning with 36 hours left in the four-month General Assembly. Senate Bill 1 was the first piece of legislation to be introduced this session. It passed the House on a…
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Colorado House advances transportation compromise
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The Colorado House of Representatives on Monday evening gave preliminary approval to a transportation compromise worked out by Democratic and Republican leaders in the legislature. Senate Bill 1 calls for an additional $50 million annually in transportation spending, as well as money from last year’s Senate Bill 267 to borrow $2.35 billion. The bill depends on $495…
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Colorado redistricting resolutions head to the ballot
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Two resolutions that could help create commissions to draw political boundaries for the Colorado legislature and the state’s members of Congress are headed to the ballot. Monday morning the state House of Representatives passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, which refer respective ballot questions on legislative and congressional redistricting to the November…
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Colo. House Democrats eye late overhaul on transportation
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With a week left in the legislative session, Colorado House Democrats are poised to introduce a major overhaul to a transportation bill that passed the state Senate unanimously more than a month ago. The change is significant. Rather than asking for permission to borrow $3.5 billion and repay it with $250 million a year from…
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House Democratic leaders talk final days of 2018 session
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House Democrats are committed to wrapping up many of the same issues that Senate Republicans talked about Monday – the state pension plan, transportation, and reauthorizing the civil rights commission – but how they intend to get there couldn’t be more different. And that shows the divide that must be bridged in the remaining days of the…
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Colo. House Democrats finally pass pension bill; now they negotiate
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The Colorado House passed a solution to the $32 billion hole in the state public employees’ pension Tuesday morning, sending one of the session’s biggest bills to negotiators with a little more than a week left in the session. The bill passed on a party-line vote. Senate Bill 200 was amended by Democrats in the…
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Republicans chastise leader Cole Wist for co-sponsoring gun bill
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Some House Republicans chastised Colorado state Rep. Cole Wist in a caucus meeting late Monday night over his sponsorship of bipartisan legislation to keep guns away from people considered an extreme risk, Colorado Politics has learned. House members debated bills until about 11:30 p.m., then Republicans huddled. Second Amendment advocates were unhappy with Wist. A…
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Redistricting measures pass Senate unanimously, map to the ballot seems clear
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The Colorado Senate on Monday gave unanimous approval to two resolutions that would ask voters to redraw legislative and congressional boundaries to put competitiveness over partisan advantage in future political races. The issue now goes to the House to start over, but if Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 on congressional maps and Senate Concurrent Resolution 5…
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Senate attempts compromise on civil rights division, commission; House sponsors say ‘no’
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Updated 5 p.m.: the governor weighs in. He doesn’t like it either. The Colorado state Senate Friday came up with a compromise on the reauthorization of the state’s Division of Civil Rights and Civil Rights Commission, but it’s a compromise only in the Senate between the two caucuses. House sponsors told Colorado Politics that they…
