By Ed Sealover Colorado’s right-to-repair movement, which began last year with wheelchair equipment, could spread this year to agricultural equipment — a decision that will lie with the Colorado Senate. Read More at The Sum & Substance.com
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Special committee questions justification for utility rate hikes
By Ed Sealover Colorado legislators on the Joint Select Committee on Rising Utility Rates pressed witnesses during the panel’s first meeting Tuesday on how regulators might determine when requests for rate hikes would not be considered just or reasonable and when they might reject them. Read More at The Sum & Substance.com
Businesses poised to get relief from retail delivery fee
BY: ED SEALOVER Supporters of Colorado’s 2021 transportation-funding law have made it clear that they don’t intend to repeal any of the fees that generated much of its opposition. But they are in the process of tweaking one requirement that’s proven especially frustrating to business owners. Read More at The Sum & Substance.com
Legislators kill predictive-scheduling bill
BY: ED SEALOVER Members of a Colorado House committee decisively struck down a bill Thursday that would have upended the ways that restaurants and retailers schedule workers for shifts, saying it could have created significant problems for a restaurant industry that is still trying to recover from myriad coronavirus damages. Read More at The Sum […]
New bill seeks again to change definition of harassment
BY: ED SEALOVER Once again, the Colorado Legislature will consider changing the definition of harassment — and whether that will lead to increased lawsuits — following introduction this week of an updated version of a bill that died in the waning days of the 2021 session. Read More at The Sum & Substance.com
Housing Discussions Ramping Up
BY: ED SEALOVER It’s been a big week for affordable-housing bills at the Colorado Capitol, even for a session where the subject will dominate debates this year. House members passed a much-publicized bill that would end the state’s 42-year-old prohibition against cities and counties enacting rent-stabilization or rent-control ordinances — a bill that is not likely […]
A look at two diverging approaches to affordable housing this session
BY: ED SEALOVER As Colorado legislators seek solutions to the state’s affordable-housing crisis, the contrast between two proposals that played out Monday at the Capitol shows how wide a gulf there is between market- and government-centered proposals. Read More at The Sum & Substance.com
Colorado governments could insert themselves into apartment sales to preserve affordable housing
BY: ED SEALOVER Colorado could become the first state to require that local governments get a first crack at buying any substantially sized multifamily housing complex that goes up for sale — a proposal that both proponents and opponents said could have major impacts on housing affordability. Read More at The Sum & Substance.com
Sponsors resist requests to lighten equal pay regulations
BY: ED SEALOVER A bill that would boost regulations on employers surrounding interviewing and hiring procedures in the name of pay equity cleared its first legislative committee Tuesday without the addition of any of a slew of amendments that had been requested by business leaders. Read More at The Sum & Substance.com
A look at two diverging approaches to affordable housing this session
BY: ED SEALOVER As Colorado legislators seek solutions to the state’s affordable-housing crisis, the contrast between two proposals that played out Monday at the Capitol shows how wide a gulf there is between market- and government-centered proposals. In the morning, the House, as expected, passed HB 1115, which would repeal the state’s 42-year-old ban on […]