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Renters, mobile home dwellers gain ground under two new Colorado laws
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Two pieces of legislation that became law Wednesday will help protect the rights of Colorado renters and mobile home residents. Hundreds of other laws take effect on the 90th day since the end of the legislative session. Senate Bill 245 requires landlords to give 21 days’ notice before raising the rent, instead of seven under…
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Democrat Alan Kennedy-Shaffer announces he’s running for Colorado Senate District 34 seat
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Democrat Alan Kennedy-Shaffer, a captain in the Colorado Army National Guard and a civil rights attorney, declared on Tuesday that he’s running for Denver’s Senate District 34 seat represented by term-limited Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, D-Denver. Kennedy-Shaffer, 33, made news recently when he successfully sued President Trump on behalf of a Libyan college student…
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Hickenlooper vetoes bill to extend tax credit on some cigar sales
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Gov. John Hickenlooper uncapped his veto pen for the first time this session to reject a bill that would extend a tax credit on cigars sold to out-of-state consumers, saying the credit hasn’t generated enough economic activity to pay for even one job. Senate Bill 139, would extend for three years a credit retailers have been…
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Electronic records bill gets Colorado House hearing
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A bill to modernize Colorado’s Open Records Act gets its first hearing in the Democrat-led House Monday, with Democrats pushing for a measure that presumes the public is entitled to access government records in ways that can be analyzed by computer. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Dan Pabon and Sen. John Kefalas, would require government…
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Friday is Jack Tate election bills day in the state Senate
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On Friday, the Senate is scheduled to act on two closely watched elections bills sponsored by Centennial Republican Jack Tate. As The Statesman has reported, the first, Senate Bill 71, proposes to reallocate resources during the early voting period, shutting down some voter service centers in the first lightly trafficked week in the state’s largest…
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Kefalas on open records bill: An ‘interesting journey’
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Opening the hood of Colorado’s Open Records Act to change out even a few parts is a massive undertaking – too many of the components in this aging machine are moving. Aiming to make some long-overdue digital-era updates to CORA, state Sen. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, started that process months ago and has been wrestling…
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Colorado’s closely watched digital database open records bill advances
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A long-coming update to the Colorado Open Records Act that aims to make government digital datasets more readily accessible to and manageable for the public advanced with bipartisan support in the State Senate Tuesday night. Senate Bill 40, sponsored by Fort Collins Democrat John Kefalas, is the latest version of a proposal that has been…
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Pabon and Landgraf: Colorado must continue to unleash the sharing economy
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A few years ago, Colorado triggered a wave of innovation when it became the first state to update its laws so that ride-sharing digital platforms, Uber and Lyft, could continue to thrive while establishing proper safety and consumer protections. What we know now, two years after that effort, is that it was crucial for Colorado’s…
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Tate early-voting cost-savings bill still waiting back stage for big Senate curtain call
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An elections administration bill that has been quietly hanging around the Senate chamber since it was introduced the first week of the legislative session in Colorado will stay a little while longer. On Friday, lawmakers laid over Senate Bill 71 for second reading until Monday. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jack Tate, a Republican from…