By Sandra Fish | The Colorado Sun
All but three of the 519 bills that became law in the 2024 legislative session passed with bipartisan support, a Colorado Sun analysis of House and Senate votes shows.
That’s the highest rate of bipartisanship — 99.4% — in the five years The Sun has analyzed votes by lawmakers. Divisions among House Democrats and the willingness of Senate Republicans to reach across the aisle meant that none of the bills that became law passed on a straight party-line vote, with all 31 Republicans voting “no” and all 69 Democrats voting “yes.”
About three-quarters of the measures introduced in the House and the Senate passed both chambers. Democratic Gov. Jared Polis vetoed six of those 525 bills. Lawmakers introduced 705 bills in 2024, the second highest in the past 12 years exceeded only by 2018, when 721 bills were introduced.