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Lt. Gov. Lynne signs marijuana tax fix into Colorado law
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The bill to fix the mistake made in the 2017 omnibus bill for rural Colorado has now made it into law. Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne signed Senate Bill 88 into law Thursday afternoon. The measure restores the ability of 14 special districts to collect retail marijuana taxes, an authority they lost last year. Lynne signed…
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The marijuana tax fix that missed in October is on its way in January
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The correction to a 2017 bill that has inadvertently taken marijuana tax revenues from a handful of special taxing districts won split approval from a Senate committee Tuesday. Senate Bill 88 seeks to remedy the problem of a drafting error in last year’s omnibus bill for rural Colorado, SB 17-267. The error was one of…
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Senate fix to last year’s hospital provider fee bill to surface Tuesday
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UPDATE: Senate Bill 18-088 was introduced late Tuesday and sent to the Senate Finance Committee. The issue that caused Gov. John Hickenlooper to call back lawmakers for what turned into a failed special session makes a return visit to the Capitol this week. But Senate leaders indicated Tuesday this measure might actually solve the mess that…
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Senate Transportation Committee, as expected, kills first special session bill
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The first day of the General Assembly’s special session held no surprises for anyone who listened to Senate Republicans early Monday morning: as expected, a bill to fix a drafting error in a measure from the 2017 regular session, went down on a party-line 3-2 vote. In a vote less than an hour later, the…
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Legal questions over fix stymie special session
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The biggest fight over whether to fix a drafting error in an omnibus rural sustainability bill is whether the fix requires voter approval. Senate Republicans are adamant that voters in those special districts should weigh in. Democrats and those who have fought similar battles in the courts say no. And it’s all about how the Taxpayer’s…
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Hickenlooper’s call for special districts to pay for special session doesn’t sit well with lawmakers on both sides
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When Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper called lawmakers back to the state Capitol for Monday’s special session, he also had another plan: how to pay for it. The governor’s idea was to ask special districts affected by a drafting error in Senate Bill 17-267 to pay the tab, around $25,000 per day. But representatives of some of…
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Hickenlooper addresses rhetoric over special session, says it should be simple, not partisan
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Gov. John Hickenlooper Monday responded to criticism from Republican lawmakers and others about the special session he called last week to address a mistake made in the hospital provider fee law. The measure, signed into law on May 30, is intended to spare hospitals from a greater than half-billion budget cut in 2017-18. The law…
