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Nursing bill picks up bragging rights en route to guv’s office
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Like the first baby born on New Year’s Day, a proposal to include Colorado in a multi-state network that will share information and speed background checks on nurses – improving their ability to work across state lines – became the first bill to clear the 2018 legislature. The bipartisan Senate Bill 27, introduced in the upper…
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Colorado Senate OKs legislation expanding workers comp to cover PTSD
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Democrats cheered the Senate’s passage Tuesday of a bipartisan plan to extend workers-compensation coverage to on-the-job victims of post-traumatic stress disorder. House Bill 1229 theoretically could apply to any line of work but is especially aimed at cops, firefighters, paramedics and other first-responders whose duties routinely expose them to high levels of stress, danger, violence, and even…
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Bill forging better military-community ties en route to guv’s desk
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Gov. John Hickenlooper soon could ink legislation to help combine overlapping services – like schools, restaurants, parks and shops- that are provided at military bases and by the local communities that host them. House Bill 1054, which was OK’d unanimously by the state Senate, was touted today in a press release by the Senate Democrats as “creating a closer…
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Neville FASTER bill about more than transportation spending
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A transportation bill dealing with how $15 million in funding is allocated is closely tied to the main battle underway at the Capitol this year over the budget. The bill, sponsored by influential Republican Sen. Tim Neville, a candidate for U.S. Senate this year, offers a conservative policy alternative to a plan being pushed by Gov.…
