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DENVER – The Colorado Chamber of Commerce today released its 2025 Legislative Agenda ahead of the upcoming state legislative session. A key focus of the agenda is a comprehensive regulatory package incorporating policy solutions outlined in a recent Chamber study finding Colorado is the sixth most regulated state.
“In our 2025 Legislative Agenda, we’re offering a package of bold solutions to get our regulatory climate under control and provide relief to the business community,” Colorado Chamber President and CEO Loren Furman said. “This includes reducing the current volume of regulations on the books and looking ahead to create more balance and transparency when passing new regulations. We’re thrilled to share these ideas with state leaders to make it easier to do business here in Colorado.”
Proposals outlined in the Colorado Chamber’s regulatory relief package include a comprehensive audit and evaluation process modeled after existing programs under the Office of the State Auditor, sunsetting for certain regulations and rules, and the creation of a new legislative regulatory oversight committee. The Chamber’s agenda also calls for a more balanced regulatory framework for future laws, asking state leaders to consider mechanisms like regulatory caps to limit the growth of excessive business restrictions.
The Chamber will also continue to oppose legislation that threatens to undermine the state’s economic climate. In 2024, the Chamber led a strategic campaign against harmful, job killing legislation, successfully defeating every targeted bill. Carrying this momentum into 2025, the Chamber is committed to preserving the livelihoods of hardworking Coloradans and promoting policies ensure our economy is on a path to success.
The Colorado Chamber’s 2025 Legislative Agenda is summarized below:
Regulatory Climate
- Support regulatory review through audit and sunset process
- Create regulatory oversight committee
- Establish performance audits on certain agencies
- Create more balanced regulatory framework for future laws
- Do no harm: no new mandates and regulatory burdens on employers
- Support policies that streamline and accelerate the air permitting process
- Support continuation of Chamber’s environmental work through creation of state-level task force
- Oppose efforts that limit the operations of the energy sector
- Support business and employee programs and autonomy when commuting
- Align state and federal environmental regulations
- Protect and continue to promote the health of the unemployment insurance fund
- Protect Colorado’s workers’ compensation system
- Oppose attempts to interfere with employer-employee relationship
- Support litigation transparency reforms
- Oppose needless new private rights of action against business
- Support construction defect reform
Protecting and Building Colorado’s Workforce
- Oppose job killers
- Preserve Colorado’s Labor Peace Act
- Align workforce programs to ensure efficient and effective funding
- Ensure education providers are focused on the skills employers need
- Protect workers from unintended consequences of labor regulations
Cost of Living and Competitiveness
- Support policies to increase housing in Colorado
- Support innovative housing funding policies
- Oppose tax and fee hikes that increase cost of doing business
- Support improvements to the business personal property tax credit
- Improve access and affordability of childcare
- Promote flexibility in Colorado’s health care system
- Support balance in emissions-cutting regulations
Tech Innovation and Economic Growth
- Ensure updates artificial intelligence regulations preserve economic competitiveness
- Support policies that ensure Colorado’s technology sector continues to grow
- Promote safe online environment for children
For a full explanation of each priority, view the Chamber’s 2025 Legislative Agenda here: https://cochamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2025-Legislative-Agenda.pdf
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The Colorado Chamber of Commerce champions free enterprise, a healthy business environment and economic prosperity for all Coloradans. It is the only business association that works to improve the business climate for all sizes of business from a statewide, multi-industry perspective. What the Colorado Chamber accomplishes is good for all businesses, and that’s good for the state’s economy. It was created in 1965 based on the merger with the Colorado Manufacturers’ Association.