Democrats are back once again with an overwhelming majority in the Colorado House because we deliver results for the working people and families of our great state. … And the same burdens that are pinching the people of Colorado have hit the businesses of Colorado hard too. The Colorado Chamber of Commerce recently released a […]
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Sky-Hi News: Study says Colorado businesses are overregulated. Not everyone agrees on how to fix it.
A new study reports excessive business regulations in Colorado are straining jobs, economic growth and affordability for lower-income residents. Organizations like the Colorado Chamber of Commerce are calling for reform, while others argue deregulating the state could have consequences. The 2024 Regulatory Impact Analysis Report identified Colorado as the sixth-most regulated state in the nation, […]
DBJ: Colorado Chamber seeks to curtail state regulation with legislative package
The Colorado Chamber of Commerce will enter the state Capitol in 2025 with new tools to tackle a regulatory climate that the organization says has grown out of control. The chamber is pursuing a set of legislative proposals — likely three of them — that would curtail the number of business regulations in the state […]
Denver Post: Study sponsored by Colorado Chamber critical of state’s regulatory environment
Many states have slowed the pace at which they added new regulations or even reduced the total number, but Colorado has moved in the opposite direction and will pay an economic price for doing so, according to a study sponsored by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce. “A lot of these regulations could be considered redundant […]
Steamboat Pilot: Study says Colorado businesses are overregulated. Not everyone agrees on how to fix it.
A new study reports excessive business regulations in Colorado are straining jobs, economic growth and affordability for lower-income residents. Organizations like the Colorado Chamber of Commerce are calling for reform, while others argue deregulating the state could have consequences. The 2024 Regulatory Impact Analysis Report identified Colorado as the sixth most regulated state in the […]
Gazette: EDITORIAL: Rays of hope for Colorado businesses?
Will the employers who create most of Colorado’s jobs get a reprieve, even if only slight, from a yearslong assault on business by the Legislature? … As noted most recently by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s news service, it’s now pretty much official that Democrats have lost their veto-proof super-majority in the state House of […]
Colorado Politics: Colorado Chamber of Commerce releases 2025 legislative agenda
The Colorado Chamber of Commerce has released its agenda for the upcoming legislative session, with a focus on scaling back the state’s regulation policies following a study that found Colorado to be the sixth-most regulated state in the nation. “In our 2025 Legislative Agenda, we’re offering a package of bold solutions to get our regulatory climate […]
Colorado Politics: Colorado Gov Jared Polis rescinds 200 ‘unnecessary, outdated, wasteful, obsolete’ executive orders
Gov. Jared Polis issued an executive order on Thursday to rescind more than 200 executive orders, almost all of which had been issued before he took office. He said this move would make the government more efficient. From 2019 through Thursday, Polis has issued 586 executive orders, not including clemency orders, which are another form […]
Center Square: Polis takes a table saw to hundreds of executive orders
Gov. Jared Polis this week took executive action to reverse over 200 executive orders that he argues are obsolete. “Today, I took a table saw to outdated and wasteful Executive Orders, cutting away at bureaucracy to make our government more efficient,” the governor said in a statement. … Another report released this week by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce […]
11 News: Gov. Polis ‘cuts away’ more than 200 Colorado Executive Orders in government efficiency effort
Governor Jared Polis signed an Executive Order Thursday rescinding more than 200 outdated Executive Orders in what he said is an effort to make Colorado’s government more efficient. To symbolically accompany the action, he also cut away physical copies of those orders. With a table saw. … “As governor, I can do this with Executive […]