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House panel advances bill offering about $300 in property tax relief
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Legislation that taps into TABOR surpluses to offer roughly $300 on average in property tax relief won support from a House panel on Tuesday. Senate Bill 238, which affects property taxes in 2023 and 2024, would take $200 million from 2023 TABOR surpluses, combined with $200 million in general fund dollars in the 2022-23 budget,…
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Bills offering property tax relief, early refunds funded with TABOR surplus win Senate approval
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Two bills that tap into TABOR surpluses to pay for property tax and early taxpayer refunds both won approval from the state Senate Tuesday. Senate Bill 238, which affects property taxes in 2023 and 2024, won a 5-2 vote from the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday morning and preliminary approval from the Senate hours later.…
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Justices weigh whether Colorado’s paid family, medical leave program violates TABOR
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The survival of Colorado’s paid family and medical leave program, which nearly 58% of voters supported two years ago at the ballot box, may come down to a single sentence in the most controversial part of the state’s constitution: the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court considered the arguments of a…
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Conservatives target transportation funding in TABOR lawsuit
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Colorado’s leading conservatives, along with a free-market group, are challenging last year’s law that created hundreds of millions of dollars in new fees to fund the state’s transportation system and other programs. In a lawsuit this week, Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, and residents Michael Fields and Richard Orman, joined Americans for Prosperity in asking Denver…
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TABOR lawsuit comes to a close as plaintiffs decline SCOTUS appeal
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The decade-long legal attempt to declare Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights unconstitutional has come to an end, as the plaintiffs will let stand a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit that dismissed the case in December. “The lawyers representing the plaintiffs have decided not to seek Supreme Court review of the…
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COURT CRAWL | Taxpayer Bill of Rights emerges unscathed from lawsuit, update on Biden’s judge nominees
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Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit dismissed a decade-old lawsuit seeking to invalidate Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights and the U.S. Senate has gone on recess for the rest of the year without confirming one of…
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Municipal elections across Colorado include questions on taxes, bonds, housing and marijuana
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Voters in more than 80 municipalities across Colorado are electing members to city councils and town boards, as well as deciding a range of ballot measures covering everything from tax and bond questions to pot sales and high-speed internet, according to data compiled by the Colorado Municipal League. For the first time since 2009, there…
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Losers outnumber winners in Colorado Legislature’s brief special session on pot tax
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It’s safe to say no one is happy with the special legislative session that convened Monday and concluded Tuesday at the Colorado Capitol. Gov. John Hickenlooper has faced nearly unified opposition from Republican lawmakers since calling the special session in order to come up with a “simple fix” to a drafting error in complicated legislation…
