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LIVE UPDATES: Senate debates fentanyl bill
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LATEST: Senate gives House Bill 1326, on fentanyl, preliminary approval 6:15 p.m. – Senate members minutes ago gave preliminary to the sweeping legislation policymakers hope would confront Colorado’s fentanyl crisis. Procedurally, once a bill has gone through second reading debate, there’s one more piece of business to be conducted – what’s known as approval of a…
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Senate panel adds money, minor tweaks to fentanyl bill ahead of chamber’s floor debate
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The bill seeking to address the state’s fentanyl crisis received some money and clean-up work during a Wednesday morning Senate Appropriations Committee meeting. Eleven of the 12 amendments offered to change House Bill 1326 were adopted by the appropriations committee, which then voted, 6-1, to send it to the Senate floor for debate. That will take place…
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Cynthia Coffman, attorneys general ask Congress to preserve federal legal aid funding
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican, and her Democratic counterpart in Massachusetts this week organized 30 of their fellow attorneys general urging Congress to reject a Trump administration budget proposal that would eliminate federal spending on civil legal services for rural and low-income Americans. “For more than 40 years, under Republican and Democratic administrations, the Legal…
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Drama-laden open records bill survives another hearing
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A bill aimed at modernizing Colorado’s Open Records Act has survived its first Senate hearing – but with an amendment that could mean trouble down the road. The GOP-led Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted 4-1 Wednesday to send Senate Bill 40 by Democratic Sen. John Kefalas to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill would, in…
