House Speaker Becker’s TABOR Surplus Proposal

Discussions around the idea, which Becker first revealed at the Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s Colorado Business Day luncheon in mid-January, are escalating in the absence of other ideas gaining traction on how to raise a substantial amount of money to address the $8.5 billion transportation infrastructure backlog that is estimated by the Colorado Department of Transportation.  Read […]


HB-1025, “the Ban the Box” Proposal, Clears First House Committee

HB-1025 would, among other things, prohibit a business from asking about a job applicant’s criminal history on an employment application form, hence the name, “ban the box.” Majority House Democrats passed similar bills in 2017 and 2018 only to see them die in the Republican-controlled Senate. In both sessions, the Colorado Chamber opposed the bills […]