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Legislative NewsAlternative PERA plan dies in legislative committee
3/5/2010
By Marianne Goodland An alternative plan to shore up the Public Employees’ Retirement Association failed to gain enough support to get it out of the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee this week. Burials on private land would require proper recording
3/5/2010
By Cindy Brovsky Rep. Randy Baumgardner heard the snickers when he introduced a bill concerning burials on private property. “Some fractions asked if this was about grandma being buried in the back yard — joking stuff,” the Republican from Hot Sulphur Springs said. Lundberg bill would increase exemption on life insurance money
3/5/2010
By Cindy Brovsky Coloradans could see the amount of life insurance money exempted from creditors double under a proposed bill. Bill to ban harmful chemicals in toilertry products go down the drain
3/5/2010
By Jimy Valenti Check your medicine cabinet. A proposed bill banning 15 harmful chemicals in personal care products, including arsenic and formaldehyde, died in a legislative committee this week. Legislation establishes all-payer database
3/5/2010
By Jimy Valenti A bill that lawmakers say will improve health care quality while lowering costs unanimously passed the House Health Committee last Thursday. Democrats' health care agenda includes ten bills
3/5/2010
By Jimy Valenti Gov. Bill Ritter and legislative Democrats say they can’t wait on Washington for health care reform. Ritter introduced a package of bills Feb. 11 designed to improve Colorado’s health care system despite a down economy. The ten bills and an executive order range from simplifying insurance forms to providing better care to women, all with minimal cost to the state. Schultheis bill on unborn victims of violence dies in committee
3/5/2010
By Jimy Valenti A bill that would have made the death of an unborn child as the result of killing the mother a capital offense died a death of its own this week in a legislative committee on grounds that the bill would have attempted to define the controversial topic of when life begins. Senate Republicans' budget proposal goes down
3/5/2010
By Marianne Goodland The major plan put forth by Senate Republicans to balance the 2009-10 and 2010-11 budget went down to defeat on Wednesday. Balmer bill honors military personnel, aids highway fund
3/5/2010
By Jimy Valenti A bill honoring Colorado’s military while also boosting revenue for highways passed a legislative committee this week. State Senate approves 'negative supplementals'
2/26/2010
By Marianne Goodland The Senate Wednesday gave preliminary approval to 32 so-called “negative supplementals” that would shave $475 million from the state’s 2009-10 general fund budget. The bills reduce general fund appropriations to state agencies and enact a series of cash fund transfers to the general fund. Final Senate votes were held Friday, Feb. 26, and all supplementals were approved. But amidst the gloom of cutting the budget, there were a few winners. |
May. 17, 2013Vol. 114, No. 20 |
