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Colorado legislature approves removing medical debt from credit scores, reports
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The more than 700,000 Coloradans with medical debt may soon have that debt removed from their credit scores – thanks to a new bill passed by the state legislature. If enacted, House Bill 1126 would prohibit consumer reporting agencies in Colorado from including medical debt in credit reports through July 1, 2028. The bill would also require debt…
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Colorado House OKs removing medical debt from credit scores, reports
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More than 700,000 Coloradans have medical debt. A new bill is seeking to remove that debt from their credit scores and credit reports. The state House of Representative passed House Bill 1126 on Tuesday. If enacted, the bill would prohibit consumer reporting agencies in Colorado from including medical debt in credit reports and require debt…
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Colorado bill would cap medical debt interest, implement other consumer protections
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Cindy Powers underwent emergency surgery to fix a life-threatening abdominal obstruction in 2004. Over the next five years, she received 18 additional surgeries to address complications, infections and hernias, before her condition was finally fixed in 2009. But while her medical nightmare had come to an end, the financial nightmare was just beginning. Even with…
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Metro district bill dies in late-night committee hearing
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A bill that at first prevented, then allowed, then again prevented metro district developers from owning their own public financing died in a state Senate committee not long after the clock passed midnight Friday and bleary-eyed lawmakers trying to make sense of it all decided to put it to sleep. House Bill 1363 roller-coastered its…
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Gorman: Rural Colorado bill seriously lacking in transparency, accountability to taxpayers
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Senate Bill 17-267 was recently approved by the Senate Finance Committee on a 4-1 vote. That’s potentially bad news for taxpayers, and sick people. The bill would make Colorado’s state budget less transparent, reduce legislative and taxpayer control over state spending, create two new slush funds outside of legislative control, increase state indebtedness, and use…
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Nordberg: No bail out for Puerto Rico
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If we ran the state of Colorado like Puerto Rico’s politicians have run that U.S. territory’s government for the last decade, we would have had to close up shop a long time ago. As a member of the Colorado House of Representatives, balancing our state budget on a yearly basis, and responsibly spending the taxpayers’…
