Senate Dems’ whip says ‘I am a no’ to SB 3, the semi-auto gun ban bill, absent of significant changes
The house of cards on Colorado Senate Bill 25-003 appears to be collapsing in the wee hours before it is set for a vote.
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Report finds 63% of age 25-plus Coloradans have education beyond high school, leading the nation
Colorado residents are still the most educated in the nation, but Massachusetts now shares the top spot, according to a report released last week.
Why lawmakers are afraid 24k Coloradans may disappear in the next budget year, and with them $77M
Nearly 24,000 Coloradans are set to disappear from the state’s population this year — at least as far as the state budget is concerned.
Senate confirms Coloradan Chris Wright to lead Energy Department
The Senate on Monday confirmed Chris Wright, the CEO of fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the Energy Department.
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House Bill 1133 aims to raise state’s minimum age to buy firearm ammunition to 21
Colorado is poised to raise the minimum age to buy firearm ammunition to 21 and require that retailers keep bullets in an enclosed display or behind a counter where customers could not access them without assistance.
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A state shroom? Colorado House advances bill to crown emperor mushroom the state fungi
Colorado’s quest for a state mushroom started in a high school politics club. On Tuesday, Horizon High School students saw their bill proposing an official state mushroom pass the house committee on State Civic Military & Veterans Affairs with a unanimous 11-0 vote.
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Supporters of single-payer health care hope third time is charm for advancing study bill
For the third year in a row, Colorado Democratic legislators have begun to advance a bill to study the impact of implementing a single-payer health-care system, though this year’s version of the legislation would carry no cost to the state itself.
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Colorado House committees to tackle school lunch waste, NIL deals; Senate to hear 911 obstruction bill
In schools across Colorado, the waste during a lunch period might be astounding — on average a school-age child throws away 67 pounds of food annually. One bill in the Colorado House aims to limit it.
How the Colorado Labor Peace Act came to be and why unions want so desperately to get rid of it
One of the headline bills of Colorado’s 2025 legislative session would rewrite the state’s 80-year-old rule on labor organizing, making it easier for unions to require that all employees at a company pay fees for collective bargaining representation, regardless of whether they are members of the union.
Property squatters would face stiff $1,000-a-day fines in HB 1104, slated to be heard Feb. 4
The Colorado solution to a national problem of squatters occupying a property without consent or ownership and with few remedies to remove them will be considered Tuesday during the House Judiciary Committee.