This archive page features Capitol Updates for the 2016-22 Colorado General Assembly sessions. Updates are sorted in reverse chronological order, based on the date they were last updated. For additional legislative information, including Capitol Updates prior to 2016, please see our Legislative blog category. For Capitol Updates beginning in the 2023 legislative session, please see our new Capitol Updates page.
This bill would provide funding to nonprofit organizations across the state, including diaper banks and family resource centers, to allow these organizations to distribute diapers to families in their communities.
View UpdateThis bill would restore funding to certain behavioral health programs that received a reduction in funding during the 2020 legislative session due to the budgetary impact of the pandemic.
View UpdateThis bill continues the registration of Direct Entry Midwives, otherwise known as Certified Professional Midwives or “home-birth” midwives, and implements the recommendations made by the Department of Regulatory Agency’s 2020 report.
View UpdateThis bill would remove the exemption of agricultural labor from state and local minimum wage laws and would grant agricultural employees meal breaks and rest periods throughout each work period, consistent with protections for other employees.
View UpdateThis bill would hold insurers accountable for testing their big data systems to ensure they are not unfairly discriminating against protected classes and requires them to take corrective action to address any consumer harms that are discovered.
View UpdateThis bill would make changes to several state and local government taxes, including increasing the threshold for the business personal property exemption from $7,900 to $50,000, raising the value of personal property owned by a business that may be exempted from tax filings.
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