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Report highlights ‘medical debt malpractice’ as Colorado Senate pushes reform of collection tactics

Apr 13, 2017

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Mary MacCarthy

Have you ever received a medical bill — even though you hadn’t been to the doctor or a hospital in a year? Or opened a letter from a collection agency regarding a debt you had paid off months earlier? If that’s happened to you, you’re not alone. A new report by the Colorado Public Interest Research…
Colorado tampon tax repeal passes first hearing with narrow support

Feb 14, 2017

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John Tomasic

A bill that aimed to eliminate Colorado’s version of the so-called tampon tax passed out of a Democratic-controlled state House committee Monday – but the bill didn’t draw the kind of support that its sponsor had hoped for and that might bolster its chances in the Republican-controlled state Senate. The bill, HB 1127, made it through…
#Coleg Week 6: Concerning would-be fracktavist vandals, the death penalty, civil forfeiture, the tampon tax, PERA, broadband

Feb 13, 2017

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John Tomasic

Lawmakers today embark on their sixth week of the session. Eleven weeks to go. What’s on the schedule at the gold dome this week? The “Most Accessed Bills” box on the General Assembly website offers a snapshot. It includes Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg’s SB 35, a “fracktavist beware” bill that would hike penalties for tampering with…
Democrats reject GOP efforts to curb abortion, including ‘reversal method’

Feb 10, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Democrats early Friday morning shot down a trio of bills pushed by abortion opponents following an 11-hour marathon hearing that saw an effort to reverse abortions. The bills that were rejected by the House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee on party-line votes included: House Bill 1086, sponsored by Reps. Justin Everett, R-Littleton, and Dan Nordberg, R-Colorado Springs, which…
#Coleg Week 5: State Obamacare repeal, construction defects, weed clubs, tax breaks for private school parents, home energy storage

Feb 6, 2017

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John Tomasic

What’s happening this week under the gold dome? Here are some select highlights from the legislative schedule, all of which of course subject to change, given that there are 100 lawmakers and a million lobbyists in the building each day. Monday HB 1038, prohibiting corporal punishment in public school and state-licensed day care centers. The…
In battle pitting religious freedom against discrimination, a small surprise victory

Jan 30, 2017

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John Tomasic

Colorado House Republicans pitched a religious liberty bill last Wednesday to the Democratic-controlled State Affairs committee. It was the same kind of bill that has stirred hornets nest-like national protests in other states for fear that religious liberty might translate on the ground as discrimination. Republicans knew the bill, HB 1013, would die in committee,…
Faulty data doesn’t stop bill to ban corporal punishment

Jan 24, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Colorado would become the 32nd state in America to outlaw corporal punishment in public schools under a bill approved by the House Education Committee, after lengthy discussion and questions about disputed data about the number of such incidents in the Sheridan School District No. 2 and other districts. State Rep. Susan Lontine, D-Denver, sponsors House…
Corporal punishment takes a beating in first statehouse hearing

Jan 23, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Corporal punishment, an education staple of yesteryear, is a rare occurrence in Colorado public schools, but state Rep. Susan Lontine of Denver says even one spanked child is too many. “If you do this at home, it’s child abuse,” Lontine said. “If it happens at school it’s allowed.” Lontine is sponsoring a bill to impose…
Campaign launch to hike Colorado minimum wage sees good turn out, high energy

May 19, 2016

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Ramsey Scott

Supporters of a statewide ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage to $12 an hour enjoyed an energetic formal launch on Wednesday in Denver. They’ll have to keep stoking and feeding off of the same grassroots energy if they hope to overcome stiff resistance from big-money business groups in the state. “There’s a lot of…
Hickenlooper pledges support to anti-BDS bill as Senate gives initial nod

Mar 8, 2016

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Jared Wright

Gov. John Hickenlooper says he will support House Bill 1284, a proposal with bi-partisan sponsorship in both legislative chambers, when the measure arrives at his desk. The bill would require the state’s public employee pension fund, PERA, to oppose the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement which seeks to punish Israel for its alleged poor treatment of Palestinians. The…