House Republicans threw a last-minute scare into majority Democrats as the 2022 legislative session hurtled to a close. But GOP procedural slowdowns in the House on days 118 and 119 turned into general amity and mostly good feelings on the final, 120th day, and Democrats went home and into the election season knowing they had[…]
Lawmakers faced two sets of budget decisions during the 2022 session. The first was the normal, annual consideration of the upcoming year’s long appropriations bill, companion bills and the usual separate bills to fund new programs. The second was the set of bills needed to spend some of the $2.6 billion in one-time pandemic relief[…]
Passage of the federal ARPA law in early 2021 provided Colorado state government with $3,828,761,790. (The state also received substantial amounts of other federal pandemic relief funding such as the CARES Act, most of which was spent by the governor without legislative appropriation. Various – and much larger – amounts of federal pandemic relief went[…]
It became pretty clear on election night that Republicans would retain narrow control of the state Senate and that Democrats would hold onto their House majority. Now, two questions are on the minds of lobbyists, advocates and Capitol hangers-on. Who will be the new leaders of the four party caucuses, and what new members do[…]