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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs bills aimed at boosting Colorado affordable housing efforts

May 31, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Gov. Jared Polis this week signed three bills related to affordable housing into law. These measures gained the sought-after support from local governments that had eluded the administration up until now. All three measures received bipartisan support, differentiating them from most affordable housing legislation that succeeded this year and failed in 2023. Senate Bill 174…
Sen. Rachel Zenzinger’s final bill aims to boost Colorado’s higher education

May 8, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Education has been Sen. Rachel Zenzinger’s top priority since she took her seat in the state Senate over nine years ago. Wednesday is Zenzinger’s last legislative session day, as she is term limited. Zenzinger, D-Arvada, was first chosen to represent the 19th Senate district in December 2013. She replaced a Democratic senator who resigned after…
Colorado Senate approves rewritten construction defects bill, which faces uncertain future

Apr 10, 2024

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Marianne Goodl

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…
Colorado Senate approves rewritten construction defects bill, which faces uncertain future

Apr 10, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

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…
Colorado faces budget deficit as lawmakers consider $2 billion more in spending

Mar 30, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Colorado lawmakers this month began reviewing the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal year in the face of tight revenues and a budget deficit — even as policymakers are pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests. Only a tight sliver of those requests will likely get funded, if at all, once…
Colorado faces budget deficit as lawmakers consider $2 billion more in spending

Mar 30, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Colorado lawmakers this month began reviewing the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal year in the face of tight revenues and a budget deficit — even as policymakers are pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests. Only a tight sliver of those requests will likely get funded, if at all, once…
Colorado Democrats pick Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg as next Senate president

Feb 9, 2022

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Marianne Goodland

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Steve Fenberg of Boulder is poised to be the next Senate president after winning the support of his Democratic colleagues Wednesday. Fenberg’s selection means he will stand for the election by the entire Senate later this month. If he wins the overall election, the Boulder Democrat will succeed Senate President Leroy…
Interim school finance panel goes another year without formula fix, finds other improvements

Jan 28, 2022

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Marianne Goodland

Let’s go back to 2017: that’s when the General Assembly passed House Bill 1340, which set up an interim committee charged with coming up with a new school finance funding formula. That committee has now met five years in a row, but over time the enabling legislation has changed, most recently in 2021. While the…
Campaign-ad disclosures would tighten under Colorado Senate bill

Feb 5, 2019

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Colorado Politics

A first step toward tightening some of Colorado’s laws around campaign communications, which stalled two years ago in the state Senate, is now out of the Senate and on its way to the House. Senate Bill 68 is sponsored by Democratic Sen. Rachel Zenzinger of Arvada and Republican Sen. Jack Tate of Centennial, and backed…
Fight over bid to strip school-choice provision from foster-kids bus law

Jan 24, 2019

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Colorado Politics

Senate Republicans Wednesday mounted a furious effort to amend a bill that would strip out what’s viewed as school-choice language from a 2018 law that pays for foster children to be transported to their original schools when they’re uprooted from one home to another. Update: Thursday, the Senate voted 19-16 along party lines to advance…