Tag: Colorado General Assembly
Corporal punishment bill goes down in Colorado Senate committee
A Republican-controlled state Senate committee Monday killed a bill that would have prohibited corporal punishment in Colorado’s public schools and day care centers that...
Wouldn’t you love to stay on one time zone year-round? Two...
Updated: the House Agriculture Committee voted 5-8 (five Republicans in favor, 7 Democrats and one Republican opposed) to the Daylight Saving bill, based largely...
Midpoint in the Garden of the General Assembly
Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed roughly 33 bills into law in the past week. You’d be hard pressed to name even one of them....
Senate Republicans say no to legal immigrants serving in law enforcement
Should legal immigrants be police officers in Colorado? Senate Republicans say no, and today passed a bill on straight party lines that would bar...
Stalking, sexual assault victims may be able to break rental agreements...
Women’s groups, advocates for the homeless and those who support victims of sexual assault or stalking are cheering a near-unanimous vote today on a...
Americans for Prosperity flex muscles at the statehouse
A year ago, then-state Senate President Bill Cadman, a Colorado Springs Republican, told a gathering of the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity that...
The statehouse skinny: Guns, roads and rubber duckies
Editor's note: Every week, we send a newsletter to subscribers. This week's, which is republished below, is a conversation between The Colorado Independent's Managing...
Hickenlooper plays it safe with State of the State
Analysis
Gov. John Hickenlooper played it safe today.
After two years of fighting with majority Republicans in the state Senate and not getting the results he...
Opening Day at the Colorado General Assembly: One day down, 119...
The 2017 session of the Colorado General Assembly already had distinguished itself before today’s Opening Day.
It includes the first Latina Speaker of the House,...
Seven education storylines to watch as the Colorado General Assembly gets...
As Colorado lawmakers return to the Capitol on Wednesday to begin crafting education policy and setting spending priorities, they face significant budget challenges, an...