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Bill to fix PERA amended to exclude taxpayers from ‘shared responsibility’
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A bill to fill a $32 billion to $50 billion hole in the Public Employees’ Retirement Association won’t have the public employers’ help, if it keeps an amendment passed in Senate Bill 200‘s first committee vote Thursday. In a five-member committee with three Republicans, Sen. Jack Tate. R-Centennial, needed to make the change to secure…
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Transportation funding without tax hike bogs down in Colorado Senate
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The Colorado Senate considered a bill to beef up funding for transportation without raising taxes Wednesday, but it bogged down in amendments about where the money would go, as well as delivering a tacit protest of the bill’s sponsor. Senate Bill 1 would ask voters in November to set aside more than $300 million a…
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Senate votes to let Coloradans carry concealed guns without a permit
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The Colorado Senate gave a narrow passage to “constitutional carry” – carrying a concealed weapon without a permit – Thursday morning, one of the last gun bills filed so far this session. The Republican legislation likely faces the same outcome other gun bills have received in the Democratic -led House: certain defeat. Senate Bill 97…
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Income tax rate reduction bill clears Senate Finance Committee
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Senate Republicans Tuesday championed a bill on tax cuts that would spend down some of the estimated $1 billion revenue surplus expected by state economists in 2018-19. Senate President Kevin Grantham of Cañon City and his number two, Senate President Pro tem Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling, are the sponsors of Senate Bill 61, which would…
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Hands-free driving, seat belt bills squeezed in Colorado Senate committee
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Republicans on a Senate committee put the brakes on Sen. Lois Court’s bill to make Colorado the 16th state with hands-free driving this week. Another failed bill before a Republican majority would have made failing to wear a seatbelt a primary offense that alone could get a driver pulled over. Senate Bill 49 on hands-free driving…
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DON’T hold the phone: Sen. Lois Court’s bill would require hands-free driving
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Hands on the wheel, Colorado. You can talk on the phone while you’re driving, but the phone shouldn’t be in your hand. That’s the aim of Senate Bill 49 introduced by safety maven Lois Court, a Democratic senator from Denver, in the General Assembly that started last week. “We’re not saying you can’t use your…
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A 25-cent Colorado plastic bag tax proposed by Rep. Paul Rosenthal and Sen. Lois Court
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State Rep. Paul Rosenthal and Sen. Lois Court think plastic bags can help fund affordable housing. The bill, if passed, would refer a measure onto the ballot to ask Colorado voters to approve a tax on plastic bags from the supermarket. The tax would be a quarter, the same amount whether the customer at the…
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Keep your eyes on the road — and please put down that phone!
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We all try to multitask in the modern world, but when it comes to texting while driving, no message is worth a life. Texting while driving kills people in Colorado. In January of this year, Brian and Jacquie Lehner, a couple, died while on their motorcycle when struck by a woman who was drunk and…
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Is texting while driving legal in Colorado? State lawmaker says, ‘Hell, no!’
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A state senator behind legislation this year that increased the penalty for texting while driving is “livid” over recent conversations that the bill may have made the dangerous practice legal. Sen. Lois Court, D-Denver, referenced a Tuesday Denver Post article with the headline, “Hold the phone. Did Colorado just make it legal to text and…
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Getting to yes, just saying no: Lawmakers Everett, Hansen and Kennedy talk session votes
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By one measure, state Rep. Justin Everett, a House Republican serving his third term in the Colorado General Assembly, and state Reps. Chris Hansen and Chris Kennedy, a pair of Democrats in their first terms, stand as far apart as any lawmakers at the Capitol, based on the votes they cast in the just-completed 2017…
