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Colorado Senate approves rewritten construction defects bill, which faces uncertain future
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A watered-down version of the Senate’s “construction defects” bill won preliminary approval on Wednesday after four hours of debate and over two weeks of delays, as bill sponsors worked with multiple amendments. A final 25-8 vote Thursday sends to the bill to the House. With just a few provisions remaining from the original version, Senate Bill…
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Colorado Senate approves rewritten construction defects bill, which faces uncertain future
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A watered-down version of the Senate’s “construction defects” bill won preliminary approval on Wednesday after four hours of debate and over two weeks of delays, as bill sponsors worked with multiple amendments. A final 25-8 vote Thursday sends to the bill to the House. With just a few provisions remaining from the original version, Senate Bill…
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Colorado proposal to create library committees to consider whether to ban books fails to advance
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A Senate panel rejected a bill that would have created an official process for parents, students and the public to object to materials in a school or public library. The bill — which was heard by the Senate Education Committee but not voted on — dove into an issue that has divided communities and at times pitted…
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GOP groups outspending Democratic allies in Colorado Senate races
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The latest campaign finance reports show the “soft money” group dedicated to supporting Republicans running in Colorado Senate races is outspending its Democratic counterpart by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. The Senate Majority Fund’s independent expenditure committee, which backs Senate Republican candidates, and All Together Colorado, the Democrats’ soft side IEC, collectively spent about $6 million on…
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Consider pets in evacuation plans, animal rights group urges lawmakers
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A fire evacuation plan should include pets. That’s the message policymakers reviewing potential wildfire legislation heard on Wednesday from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Saving pets became a major issue during the Marshall fire, which struck on New Year’s Eve last year and tore through more than 1,000 homes and businesses.…
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New legal opinion casts doubts on recycling bill
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A legal opinion from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck casts doubts about the legality of a measure that intends to make a long list of industries pay for a new state recycling program. Should House Bill 1355 be signed into law, that opinion could lay the groundwork for a court challenge. The Producer Responsibility Act, as HB 1355…
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Bill to mandate industry-paid recycling poised to surface in Colorado House
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A proposal that would require a shift in the financial responsibility for recycling from consumers to manufacturers is generating an uproar among a diverse coalition of industries, ranging from cannabis to newspapers, big box stores to small businesses. The bill, known as the Extended Producer Responsibility Act from Rep. Lisa Cutter, has not yet been…
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Bill aims to slash Colorado business fees
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Colorado Democratic legislators, with backing from the governor and secretary of state, aim to reduce the amount of fees new businesses pay when forming. Dubbed the “Colorado Business Fee Relief Act,” House Bill 1001 would reduce common filing fees for new business registrations, annual renewals, trade name registrations and others. Some would be cut to…
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Bills aiming to combat wildfire ready for committee action
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Legislators last week introduced a slate of legislation crafted during the legislative interim to combat wildfires in Colorado. The five bills, now ready for committee action, stem from the work of the Wildfire Matters Review Committee, a 10-person panel featuring six Democrats and four Republicans charged with studying wildfire prevention and mitigation during the months in which the…
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Dominoes: State Rep. Lisa Cutter declares she’s in for Senate District 20
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The announcement Monday by U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Arvada, that he won’t run for a ninth term in Congress has started a round of dominoes in Jefferson County. The latest, less than 24 hours later, is state Rep. Lisa Cutter, D-Littleton, who told Colorado Politics she’s running for Senate District 20. Cutter made the move…
