THIS WEEK AT THE COLORADO CAPITOL | Week of Jan. 29, 2024
Here are legislative committee hearings and other events of note for the week ahead for the Colorado General Assembly.
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Legislative Session
State Sen. Perry Will Moves from State Legislature to a County Commissioner Race
State Senator Perry Will announced his decision to step down from the state legislature and run for a position on the Garfield County Board of County Commissioners. The move comes as Will’s decision adds him to a competitive race following the retirement of longtime county commissioner John Martin.
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Colorado’s Push for Multiple Housemates to Solve ‘Affordable Housing’ Raises Concerns
A controversial bill introduced in the Colorado legislature aims to tackle the state’s housing shortage by prohibiting cities from implementing limits on how many people can live together.
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Colorado House Republicans pick Ty Winter as assistant leader
By Marissa Ventrelli, Colorado Politics House Republicans on Friday picked Rep. Ty Winter of Trinidad as the new assistant minority leader. His election was uncontested. The caucus picked Winter to replace Rep. Rose Pugliese of Colorado Springs, who was promoted to serve as the House minority leader earlier this week. Pugliese was elected via secret
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New GOP leader Pugliese says the fight is on to make Colo safer and more affordable
SOURCE: Colorado Peak Politics State Rep. Rose Pugliese of Colorado Springs was elected Thursday by State House Republicans to lead their caucus and serve as minority leader. Her top task — growing the caucus and bring some balance to the policies passed by controlling Democrats who keep trying to tilt this state to the bizarre
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Move to Classify Colorado Nuclear as ‘Clean Energy’ Killed
SOURCE: INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE On Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Independence Institute’s Energy and Environmental Policy Analyst Jake Fogleman testified on SB24-039 in the Colorado Senate Transportation & Energy Committee. The bill would have amended the state’s statutory definitions of “clean energy” and “clean energy resources” to include nuclear energy. The committee ultimately voted not to pass the bill
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A bill to designate nuclear energy as clean energy dies in committee
A Senate bill that would have defined nuclear energy as clean energy died along party lines in committee Thursday.
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Democracies, Republics, and TABOR
By Rob Natelson, Independence Institute In 2011, a group of politicians and special interests sued in federal court to void Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR). The case was Kerr v. Hickenlooper. The plaintiffs’ primary argument was that TABOR violated the U.S. Constitution’s Guarantee Clause (Article IV, Section 4), which says in part, “The United
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On the table — a crazy quilt of Dem justice ‘reforms’ | George Brauchler
With more than 100 days left in the 2024 legislative session, the Democrat-controlled General Assembly has already revealed its theme for criminal justice reform, and that theme is “bonkers.”
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Rose Pugliese elected new leader of Colorado House GOP caucus following Mike Lynch’s resignation
Republicans in the Colorado House of Representatives on Thursday elected a first-term lawmaker from Colorado Springs to be their new leader, replacing Mike Lynch, who stepped down from his leadership role a day earlier following revelations about his 2022 arrest on suspicion of drunken driving.