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New Colorado Law Aims to Raise Accessibility Standards in Local Building Codes

The law’s sponsors hope that the measure will increase accessibility and reduce the amount of ADA lawsuits brought against municipalities and businesses.

Two Labor, Employment Bills to Watch This Session

One bill would add three professions to the “highly compensated workers” exemption for the state’s new noncompete law and the other restricts “surveillance pricing” for wages and consumer prices alike.

Bipartisan Bill Aims to Protect Whistleblowers at Large Artificial Intelligence Companies

Two Colorado lawmakers brought forth a measure to create a state-level whistleblower protection for workers building artificial intelligence models.
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Whittled Down Bill Adding Judgeships in Colorado Advances to Final Legislative Step

A bipartisan bill adding 15 judgeships, down from an initially proposed 29, passed its second-to-last legislative step before the governor’s desk on March 12.
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Colorado Judiciary Committee Advances Bill Giving Defendants in Eviction Proceedings a Right to a...

Colorado’s House Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would establish a right to trial for defendants in eviction cases.

Two Bipartisan Bills Aim to Address CBI Misconduct Allegations, DNA Testing Backlogs

Recent issues lawmakers are trying to address at the CBI seem to be comorbidities of an investigation into former CBI forensic scientist Missy Woods.
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Legislative Effort to Expand Automatic Residential Solar Permitting Clears First Hurdle

The bill would mandate local governments use an automated process for a large portion of their residential solar applications.

Proposed Bill Would Allow Local Governments, Attorney General to Put Unsafe, Dangerous Properties Under...

A bill that would expand on the warrant of habitability passed in the previous year’s legislative session was held following its first hearing to give time for amendment drafting.

Lawmakers Introduce a Bill to Repeal Open Meetings Law Shield for the General Assembly

It’s unclear if the bill will survive long with the committee it was assigned to, which is popularly known as a “kill committee.”

Bill Prohibiting Jail Time for Failures to Appear in Municipal Court Advances to Third...

A group of Democrats in the General Assembly are working to ban municipal courts from using a failure to appear charge as the basis for a criminal sentence.