Legislative Achievements

I’m proud to have represented Senate District 18 and the community of Boulder as a bold, progressive voice at the Capitol. Over the past 8 years, I’ve focused most of my work around combating climate change, increasing access to our elections, ensuring equal rights for all Coloradans, and making higher education more affordable.

Legislative Priorities

  • The economic, moral, and environmental ramifications of climate change are not just something we read about anymore – they’re now something we experience on an all-too regular basis in Boulder County and throughout our state. Whether it’s a 100-year flood that leaves utter destruction in its wake, forest fires which threaten habitats and residents’ homes, the Pine Beetle epidemic, or a shortage of snowpack, climate change is a problem that requires aggressive intervention by our government to solve.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed the largest overhaul of oil and gas regulations in over 60 years. We ensured that regulators are considering the health and safety of Coloradans first, and gave local governments much more control over what is happening in their backyards.

    • Sponsored & passed historic legislation to clean up Colorado’s air through investments to lower emissions in the industrial and transportation sectors, electrify school buses and other highly polluting vehicles, and improve air quality monitoring and reporting.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation that establishes tax credits to lower utility bills, fund the exploration of new, clean energy technologies, and extend tax credits for electric vehicles and ebikes amounting to $60 million annually for the next decade.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation that will protect Coloradans from future energy bill volatility, hold utility companies accountable, and invest in the transition away from expensive fossil fuels.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to expand the use of renewable energy and to account for the social cost of carbon in utility planning.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to expand individual customers’ ability to store energy on their property.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation allocating $15 million to the Office of Just Transition, tasked with supporting traditionally coal-based economies as they plan for the transition to clean energy.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to strengthen protections for local governments who own minerals and prevent oil and gas operators from drilling into minerals owned by local governments without their consent.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to revitalize Colorado’s community solar program, making it easier and more affordable for low-income households, renters, non-profits, and small businesses to access solar energy. 

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to provide resources to local governments to assess, site, and permit large-scale renewable energy projects while thoughtfully considering community values and impacts to land and wildlife. 

    • Sponsored & passed legislation that sets Colorado up to meet our clean energy goals by modernizing our electric grid and ensuring utilities continue to make proactive investments to prepare it for the adoption of clean energy technologies. 

    • Sponsored & passed landmark legislation that holds the oil and gas industry accountable for their negative environmental impacts by creating a new fee on oil and gas production that will allow the state to remediate the environmental harm caused by oil and gas production and fund transit projects across the state. 

    • Supported & passed the most aggressive carbon emission reduction goals in the country.

    • Supported & passed legislation to protect Colorado's vital water supply, including streams, rivers, and wetlands, and increase resources for water projects. 

  • As a result of climate change, Colorado is seeing wildfires increase in frequency and destruction. High winds, low humidity, and unseasonably high temperatures combine to turn Colorado into a tinderbox – where one spark could threaten lives, neighborhoods and businesses. In recent years, I’ve worked hard to ensure Colorado is as prepared as possible for future fires, and that we’re adequately supporting Coloradans who are rebuilding and recovering from past fires.

    As your Senator I have…

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to purchase two Firehawk helicopters, a state of the art wildfire fighting tool that can more quickly respond to and put out fires.

    • Secured $20 million in funding to contract additional air tankers and helicopters to quickly and decisively respond to fires before they get out of control, ensure we have year-round and expanded dispatch services to immediately respond when a fire is spotted, and implement new technology systems for on-the-ground fire fighting coordination.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to create grant programs to help those affected by the Marshall Fire rebuild more resilient and more sustainably.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to improve insurance claims processes for homeowners affected by wildfire disasters.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to lower rebuilding costs for victims of wildfires.

    • Supported & passed legislation to prohibit price gouging following a declared emergency, like a wildfire or natural disaster. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to create a wildfire resilient homes grant program and wildfire resiliency code board to keep Coloradans living in the wildland-urban interface safer from catastrophic wildfires.

    • Supported & passed legislation to offer insurance options for homeowners who cannot access adequate coverage.

  • I believe the fundamental building block of a strong economy and a vibrant democracy is our public education system. However, Colorado ranks right near the bottom in terms of level of investment in K-12 and higher education, and this must change.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to establish the Department of Early Childhood Education, which is bringing universal preschool to every child in Colorado.

    • Supported & passed fully funded full day Kindergarten for every child in Colorado.

    • Fixed an error in our property tax system to ensure we are fairly and sufficiently funding K-12 education.

    • Supported & passed improvements to the READ Act, which will help schools improve teaching methods and increase the number of students reading at grade level.

    • Supported & passed an increase to the number of stipends available to teachers who choose to teach in rural school districts, where there is a teacher shortage.

    • Supported & passed legislation to provide historic funding for K-12 public schools by finally eliminating the Budget Stabilization Factor, increasing total funding for schools by over $560 million.

    • Supported & passed legislation to expand behavioral health services to Colorado students, including extending the first-of-its kind I Matter youth mental health program and creating the school-based mental health support program. 

  • With all the growth our state is seeing, especially along the Front Range, it is imperative that we are making investments in affordable housing so that longtime residents can afford to live in the communities they call home. We must also strengthen the protections of renters in the face of predatory housing practices.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to create an enforcement mechanism for the Mobile Home Park Act and strengthen the rights of mobile home owners.

    • Supported & passed legislation to protect renters by limiting security deposit amounts, capping income requirements, and reducing barriers to housing eligibility.

    • Supported & passed legislation to protect lower-income Coloradans from eviction.

    • Supported & passed legislation to increase Colorado’s stock of permanently affordable housing.

    • Supported all legislation developed from the recommendations by the Affordable Housing Task Force, which leveraged $400 million of federal pandemic relief funding to make transformational investments to increase availability and accessibility of affordable housing all across Colorado.

    • Supported and passed several bills to shift funding toward affordable housing initiatives and provide incentives for developers to invest in affordable housing options.

    • Sponsored legislation to increase the transparency of rental application fees.

    • Sponsored legislation in support of inclusionary housing programs to make it easier for municipalities to diversify their housing plans.

    • Supported & passed legislation to save Coloradans money on housing by encouraging new development in transit-oriented communities and eliminating harmful parking minimums. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to expand housing options by allowing property owners to build accessory dwelling units. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to lower property taxes for homeowners and businesses and prevent future property tax hikes while protecting funding for schools. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to save seniors money on housing by expanding access to the senior homestead exemption and creating tax credits for senior renters. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to prohibit price gouging following a declared emergency, like a wildfire or natural disaster. 

  • Although Colorado’s economy has been and continues to be performing better than most states across the country, it’s clear that it’s still not working for all of us. We need an economy that benefits not just the wealthy, but everyone.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to hold utilities more accountable to ratepayers while better aligning utility companies’ and Coloradans’ interests and expectations about their energy service, ultimately saving people money on their energy bills in the short- and long-term.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to guarantee paid sick days for hardworking Coloradans.

    • Supported & passed legislation to allow municipalities to increase their local minimum wage.

    • Supported & passed an implementation plan to create paid family leave in Colorado.

    • Supported & passed legislation to strengthen the penalties for employers who engage in wage garnishment.

    • Supported & passed legislation to increase access to child care services and make it easier for preschool teachers to get licenses.

    • Supported & passed legislation to provide a historic tax package that will return hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits to Coloradans and cut child poverty nearly in half. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to establish tax credits that support employee-owned businesses, create more jobs, and encourage industry to come to Colorado. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to fill critical jobs in growing industries by making it easier for Coloradans to find and enter trade degree programs and reimbursing employers for the costs of bringing on apprentices. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to make it easier for in-demand health care professionals, including physicians assistants, dentists and dental hygienists, and social workers, to practice in Colorado. 

  • In the wake of a seemingly endless number of mass shootings, we must take meaningful steps to keep our communities safe. Colorado has lost far too many people to gun violence. The King Soopers shooting in Boulder renewed my sense of urgency to take action, and I’m proud of the work we’ve gotten done in recent years to build safer communities.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to allow local governing bodies to regulate firearms.

    • Cosponsored & passed legislation requiring safe storage of firearms and reporting standards for lost & stolen firearms.

    • Cosponsored & passed legislation to expand & improve background checks.

    • Cosponsored & passed legislation to establish the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, tasked with conducting public education & outreach campaigns to inform Coloradans about existing gun legislation.

    • Cosponsored & passed the creation of an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) as a mechanism for a court judge to remove firearms from an individual deemed to be at risk to themselves or others. Four years later, cosponsored & passed legislation to expand and strengthen our ‘Red Flag’ law to allow more qualified individuals, such as teachers and DAs, to file ERPOs.

    • Supported & passed legislation to increase the minimum age to purchase firearms from 18 to 21.

    • Supported & passed legislation to establish a minimum 3 day waiting period for a firearm purchase.

    • Supported & passed legislation to remove the gun industry’s overly broad legal protections, holding them to the same rules as everyone else.

    • Supported & passed legislation to ban the purchase, possession, and sale of unserialized guns, known as “ghost guns”.

    • Repeatedly voted against Republican efforts to roll back Colorado’s universal background check laws.

    • Supported & passed legislation to strengthen Colorado’s enforcement of gun laws by giving the Colorado Bureau of Investigation the tools needed to investigate illegal firearm activity and creating a new state permit for firearms dealers. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to promote responsible firearm ownership by strengthening the requirements for people seeking a concealed carry permit and requiring firearms left in unattended vehicles be stored in a locked container or in the locked trunk of a locked vehicle. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to prohibit firearms in sensitive public spaces, including government buildings, courthouses, preschools, K-12 schools, colleges, and polling locations. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to create merchant codes for businesses that sell firearms, allowing banks and credit card companies to better recognize dangerous firearm purchasing patters and report them to law enforcement. 

    • Supported & passed a referred measure, approved by Colorado voters, to fund services for crime victims and behavioral health crisis response system services through an excise tax on the firearm industry. 

  • Higher education needs to not only be taken off the chopping block for budget cuts, but we need to double-down on the amount of public dollars available for further investment. If we continue to rely on only private dollars and repeated tuition increases, we’re only going to make higher education further and further out of reach from the average Coloradan. Runaway student loans with double-digit interest rates are not the answer and we need to make college more attainable for everyone.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to increase awareness of, and enrollment in, public student loan forgiveness programs.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to automatically create a college savings account with $100 for every child born or adopted in Colorado.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to put an end to the predatory practices of student loan servicers and create an ombudsman to help assist Coloradans with questions and issues regarding their loans.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation that allows students who have tribal membership with a tribe with historical ties to Colorado to qualify for in-state tuition at public universities and colleges.

    • Supported & passed legislation to make the first two years of college free for all students and families in Colorado making under $90,000. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to cap higher education tuition increases and make it easier for students to transfer college credits. 

  • Access to quality health care is a fundamental human right. While 93.5% of Coloradans have health insurance, the problem is that coverage is simply too expensive for most families. We must address the existing coverage gaps across the state and examine methods to reduce costs.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to help create the Office of Saving People Money on Healthcare.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to expand access to prescription drug label information for blind and print-disabled Coloradans. 

    • Supported all legislation developed from the recommendations by the Behavioral Health Task Force, which leveraged $450 million in federal pandemic relief funding to expand our behavioral health system capacity, resources, and workforce to ensure every Coloradan who needs help, can get help.

    • Supported & passed legislation to create a reinsurance program which will assist health insurers in paying high-cost insurance claims. By reducing system-wide costs and paying for a portion of high-cost claims, we can reduce premiums for all Coloradans.

    • Supported & passed measures to increase the transparency of medical billing to protect consumers from things like surprise bills from out of network providers.

    • Supported & passed legislation to increase access to programs and services for those in need of treatment for opioid and substance use disorders.

    • Supported & passed legislation to bring down the costs of life-saving prescription drugs.

    • Supported & passed the Colorado Option, a plan to bring more affordable health insurance options to Coloradans.

    • Supported & passed legislation to protect patients from the overwhelming costs of medical care by capping medical debt interest rates and increasing transparency for prescription drug prices and hospital services billed.

    • Supported & passed legislation to ensure continuity in health care coverage for patients who have been disenrolled from a previous health care plan. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to improve transparency in insurance plans by requiring carriers to share accessible information on their negotiated rates and prescription drug trends. 

  • With our state’s population slated to double in the next 50 years, we need to be making forward looking investments in infrastructure and public transit.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed a $5.4 billion transportation package.

    • Helped pass a budget that included $330 million for transportation projects across Colorado.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to provide thousands of dollars of tax credits - some of the best in the country - for Coloradans to purchase electric vehicles (EV) and ebikes.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to curb the predatory behavior of booting companies (get it?).

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to improve transit and help meet our climate goals by dedicating $100 million per year to local and statewide transit operations through a fee on oil and gas production. 

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to leverage historic federal investments for Front Range Passenger Rail, Mountain Rail, and expanded bus services across the state. 

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to better protect communities from the noise and lead pollution of general aviation activities. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to make it easier to purchase an EV and dedicated more funding to expand EV infrastructure across the state.

    • Supported & created a study to examine solutions to improve transportation access for people with disabilities.

  • We’ve made huge strides in the past several years when it comes to ensuring that every Coloradan is treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, race, or economic circumstance. However, discrimination is very much still a reality for many LGBTQ Coloradans and we need to be steadfast in supporting policies that create a more fair, just, and equal state for everyone.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to restore voting rights for tens of thousands of parolees in Colorado.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to improve Colorado’s elections system by reforming election security and administration, strengthening financial disclosures of candidates and elected officials, improving the vacancy elections process, and increasing access to voting on college campuses and reservations. 

    • After 3 years of sponsoring the bill, I finally banned gay conversion therapy for minors in 2019.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to reduce youth suicide rates in Colorado by expanding access to mental health services for minors.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to expand automatic voter registration and increased access to our elections.

    • Supported & passed legislation to prevent institutions from asking about criminal history on college and job applications.

    • Supported & passed legislation to make it easier for transgender Coloradans to get a new birth certificate.

    • Supported & passed legislation to reduce the penalties for possession of drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor.

  • One would think we wouldn’t still be having the conversation about access to birth control and the right to make decisions about what’s best for one’s health and family. But, we are. And with near abortion bans passing in states across the country, it is more critical than ever to have strong voices in the legislature ready to stop conservative politicians from getting in between decisions best left to a patient and their doctor. Further, we shouldn’t only be standing our ground, but also moving forward and expanding access to comprehensive birth control.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Supported & passed legislation to shield patients, providers, and assistors of politically targeted health care services - like abortion or gender-affirming care - from criminal prosecution, de-licensing, or discrimination.

    • Supported & passed legislation to increase access to reproductive health care services.

    • Supported & passed legislation to prohibit the use of deceptive advertising by anti-abortion centers and crack down on unethical “medical abortion reversals”.

    • Supported & passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act, codifying the right to abortion in Colorado state law.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation requiring large group insurance plans cover to fertility treatment.

    • Supported & passed legislation to expand sexual education in Colorado, and ensure that curriculums are comprehensive and include consent.

    • Supported & passed legislation to ensure incarcerated individuals have access to feminine hygiene products.

    • As a member of the State Affairs committee in 2018, helped defend the right to choose by voting against a number of bills involving personhood, heartbeat restrictions, and required dissemination of misinformation by health care providers to patients considering abortion.

  • There is no question that Colorado’s communities are better off because of contributions from immigrants. We must celebrate and embrace our diversity by standing strong to ensure everyone in Colorado feels safe and welcome here.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to allow refugees access to in-state tuition at Colorado universities.

    • Supported and passed measures to protect undocumented citizens against deportation from ICE.

    • Supported the creation of a grant program to fund targeted outreach to hard to count populations for the 2020 US Census.

    • Supported & passed legislation to allow undocumented immigrants to receive a driver license or state identification card through the Department of Revenue. 

    • Supported & passed legislation to provide grants to community organizations that provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services to new immigrants as they navigate state services. 

  • Colorado has long been at the forefront of legalized and well regulated marijuana and hemp production. As your Senator, I am proud to have led the charge to ensure these important products remain a strong part of the economy in a safe and healthy manner.

    As your Senator I have:

    • Sponsored & passed the Marijuana Sunset bill to streamline and modernize our marijuana regulations.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation that allows people with autism to qualify for medical marijuana cards.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to require the CO Department of Agriculture to develop a Statewide Hemp Plan to address regulatory questions and foster development of the commodity.

    • Sponsored & passed legislation to increase funding to the CO Department of Health and Public Safety’s hemp regulation programming.

Past Legislation

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SEASONAL OUTDOOR ADVENTURE DAY CAMP PROGRAM ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-071: Concerning including seasonal outdoor adventure day camp programs in the definition of children’s resident camps.

PRESCRIPTION DRUG LABEL ACCESSIBILITY ✔️Signed into law

RECORDS OF WORKPLACE DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINTS ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-160: Concerning records related to complaints of discriminatory workplace practices

COLORADO OPEN MEETINGS LAW FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-157: Concerning clarifying the application of the Colorado open meetings law to the Colorado general assembly.

CREATIVE INDUSTRY COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION INCENTIVES ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 24-1295: Concerning community revitalization incentives for the support of creative industries, and, in connection therewith, extending the community grant revitalization program and creating an income tax credit for expenses incurred in completing infrastructure that supports creative industries and creative industry workers.

REDUCE AVIATION IMPACTS ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 24-1235: Concerning measures to reduce the impact of aviation on surrounding communities.

FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025 LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL ✔️Signed into law

REPEAL COLORADO DIGITAL TOKEN ACT ✔️Signed into law

SUPPORT SURFACE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-184: Concerning support for the development of surface transportation infrastructure, and, in connection therewith, providing funding and operational flexibility needed to support the development of transit and rail infrastructure.

PROTECTIONS MINERAL INTEREST OWNERS FORCED POOLING ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-185: Concerning protections for unleased mineral interest owners in the pooling of mineral interests by the Colorado energy and carbon management commission.

REGULATED NATURAL MEDICINE IMPLEMENTATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-198: Concerning measures to support the implementation of the state’s regulated natural medicine program.

CAPITAL BUILDING ADVISORY COMMITTEE MODIFICATIONS ✔️Signed into law

CAPITOL COMPLEX RENOVATION FUND ✔️Signed into law

ACCESS TO DISTRIBUTED GENERATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-207: Concerning access to distributed energy, and, in connection therewith, establishing requirements for the development of inclusive community solar capacity that investor-owned electric utilities must make available to utility customers and requiring the acquisition of distributed generation facilities paired with energy storage.

MODIFICATIONS TO LAWS REGARDING ELECTIONS ✔️Signed into law

LOCAL GOVS RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-212: Concerning measures to facilitate the construction of renewable energy projects.

EXEMPT CERTAIN STRUCTURES FROM COUNTY REGULATION

  • Senate Bill 24-213: Concerning an exemption from county short-term rental regulation for certain structures located in an unincorporated area of a county that are used for recreational purposes and do not receive public services.

MODERNIZE ENERGY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS ✔️Signed into law

LICENSING FOR CLINICS THAT PROVIDE FERTILITY SERVICES ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-223: Concerning licensing issues for clinics that perform services related to fertility.

MODIFICATION TO COLLEGE KICKSTARTER ACCOUNT PROGRAM ✔️Signed into law

MODIFY CONSTITUTIONAL ELECTION DEADLINES ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Concurrent Resolution 24-002: Submitting to the registered electors of the state of Colorado an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the modification of certain deadlines in connection with specified elections.

OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION FEES ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 24-230: Concerning support for statewide remediation services that positively impact the environment.

RETAIL DELIVERY FEES ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 23-143: Concerning the administration of the existing retail delivery fees collected by the department of revenue

LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 23-1071: Concerning the authority of a licensed psychologist to prescribe psychotropic medication for the treatment of mental health disorders

FINANCING TO PURCHASE FIREFIGHTING AIRCRAFT ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 23-161: Concerning state funding to finance the purchase of a firefighting aircraft to respond to wildfires

EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDER PETITIONS ✔️Signed into law

SALES USE TAX EXEMPTION WILDFIRE DISASTER CONSTRUCTION ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 23-1240: Concerning a sales and use tax exemption for construction and building materials used for repairing and rebuilding residential structures damaged or destroyed by a declared wildfire disaster in 2020, 2021, or 2022

MODIFICATIONS TO LAWS REGARDING ELECTIONS ✔️Signed into law

FISCAL YEAR 2023-24 LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS BILL ✔️Signed into law

TAX POLICY THAT ADVANCES DECARBONIZATION ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 23-1272: Concerning tax policy that advances decarbonization, and, in connection therewith, extending tax credits for the purchase or lease of electric vehicles; creating tax credits for industrial facilities to implement greenhouse gas emissions reduction improvements, for expenditures made in connection with geothermal energy projects, for production of geothermal electricity generation, for the deployment of heat pump technology, for retail sales of electric bicycles, and for construction of sustainable aviation fuel production facilities; creating a temporary specific ownership tax rate reduction and a temporary sales and use tax exemption on a portion of the sale of electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks; temporarily decreasing the severance tax credit for oil and gas production, requiring the revenue that is attributable to the decrease be deposited in the decarbonization tax credits administration fund, and creating the cash fund.

LABOR REQUIREMENTS FOR ENERGY SECTOR CONSTRUCTION ✔️Signed into law

UTILITY REGULATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 23-291: Concerning the public utilities commission's regulation of energy utilities.

NATURAL MEDICINE REGULATION AND LEGALIZATION ✔️Signed into law

REDUCE PROPERTY TAXES AND VOTER-APPROVED REVENUE CHANGE ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 23-303: Concerning a reduction in property taxes, and, in connection therewith, creating a limit on annual property tax increases for certain local governments; temporarily reducing the valuation for assessment of certain residential and nonresidential property; creating new subclasses of property; permitting the state to retain and spend revenue up to the proposition HH cap; requiring the retained revenue to be used to reimburse certain local governments for lost property tax revenue and to be deposited in the state education fund to backfill the reduction in school district property tax revenue; transferring general fund money to a cash fund to also be used for the reimbursements; eliminating the cap on the amount of excess state revenues that may be used for the reimbursements for the 2023 property tax year; and referring a ballot issue.

PROPERTY TAX VALUATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 23-304: Concerning changes to property tax valuation practices, and, in connection therewith, requiring property tax assessors to consider certain information when valuing real property, requiring certain counties use an alternative protest and appeal procedure in any year of general reassessment of real property that is value biennially, and clarifying that data that a property tax assessor is required to provide at the request of a taxpayer must include certain information.

BOARDS & COMMISSIONS ✔️Signed into law

INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR LOSS DECLARED FIRE DISASTER ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 22-1111: Concerning insurance coverage for insured losses incurred as a result of a declared fire disaster

IMPLEMENTATION OF FERTILITY COVERAGE ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 22-1008: Concerning the federal requirements for the implementation of fertility coverage under health benefit plans.

PROTECTIONS FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS ✔️Signed into law

INFORMATION SHARING FOR CONSUMER PROTECTION INVESTIGATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-157: Concerning the enforcement of laws relating to unfair business practices committed by regulated persons.

MEDICAID PRIOR AUTHORIZATION AND RECOVERY OF PAYMENT ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-156: Concerning placing limitations on prepaid inpatient health plans, and, in connection therewith, removing prior authorization for outpatient psychotherapy and limiting when a prepaid inpatient health plan can retroactively recover provider payments.

INTERNAL ELECTION SECURITY MEASURES ✔️Signed into law

RESIDENCE OF VOTER WHOSE HOME IS DESTROYED ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-152: Concerning authorization for a person whose residence is destroyed or becomes uninhabitable to continue to use the address of the residence as the person's residence for purposes of voting if the person intends to return to the residence once it is replaced or becomes habitable.

DEPARTMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD AND UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL PROGRAM ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 22-1295: Concerning the department of early childhood, and, in connection therewith, establishing the duties of the department of early childhood and the executive director of the department, relocating early childhood programs from the departments of human services and education to the department of early childhood, and creating the Colorado universal preschool program.

SUNSET CONTINUE COLORADO RESILIENCY OFFICE ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 22-1225: Concerning the continuation of the Colorado resiliency office in the department of local affairs, and, in connection therewith, implementing recommendations contained in the 2021 sunset report by the department of regulatory agencies.

FISCAL YEAR 2022-23 LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL ✔️Signed into law

INFORMATION SHARING FOR CONSUMER PROTECTION INVESTIGATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-157: Concerning the enforcement of laws relating to unfair business practices committed by regulated persons.

COMPENSATION REQUIREMENTS FOR MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-184: Concerning authority for a member of the general assembly to be absent during the legislative session without forfeiting compensation.

AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INVESTMENTS ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-193: Concerning measures to improve air quality in the state, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

ORPHANED OIL AND GAS WELLS ENTERPRISE ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-198: Concerning measures to address orphaned wells in Colorado, and, in connection therewith, creating the orphaned wells mitigation enterprise.

PROTECTIONS FOR DONOR-CONCEIVED PERSONS AND FAMILIES ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-224: Concerning the creation of the "Donor-conceived Persons and Families of Donor-conceived Persons Protection Act".

SUNSET BILL SPONSORSHIP ✔️Signed into law

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RECOVERY RESOURCES ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-206: Concerning resources for disaster preparedness and recovery, and, in connection therewith, creating the disaster resilience rebuilding program, the sustainable rebuilding program, and the office of climate preparedness.

INTOXICATING HEMP AND TETRAHYRDOCANNABINOL PRODUCTS ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-205: Concerning the regulation of cannabis-related products that may potentially cause a person to become intoxicated when used.

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR COUNTIES ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-230: Concerning the expansion of county employees' rights to collective bargaining, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

BALLOT MEASURE CAMPAIGN FINANCE ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 22-237: Concerning measures to promote increased transparency of funds used in ballot measure campaigns.

REMOTE TESTIMONY BEFORE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 22-1413: Concerning authority for the executive committee of the legislative council to allow remote testimony before legislative committees.

COLORADO AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBES IN-STATE TUITION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-029: Concerning In-State Tuition Classification For Members of American Indian Tribes With Historical Ties to Colorado.

FIREFIGHTING AIRCRAFT WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSE ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-113: Concerning state funding of firefighting aircraft to respond to wildfires.

RANKED CHOICE VOTING IN NONPARTISAN ELECTIONS ✔️Signed into law

SUNSET OFFICE OF CONSUMER COUNSEL ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-103: Concerning the continuation of the office of consumer counsel, and, in connection therewith, implementing the recommendations contained in the 2020 sunset report by the department of regulatory agencies regarding the office of consumer counsel and the utility consumers’ board.

COLORADO FIRE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-166: Concerning the implementation of recommendations from the Colorado fire commission.

TOTAL PROGRAM MILL LEVY TAX CREDIT ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 21-1164: Concerning reductions in the property tax credits that apply to school districts’ total program mill levies for purposes of funding the “Public School Finance Act of 1994”.

ELECTRIC UTILITY PROMOTE BENEFICIAL ELECTRIFICATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-264: Concerning measures to encourage beneficial electrification, and, in connection therewith, directing the public utilities commission and Colorado utilities to promote compliance with current environmental and labor standards.

FUNDING HEALTH BENEFITS FOR LEGISLATIVE AIDES ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-244: Concerning funding for permanent part-time legislative aides for members of the general assembly to allow aides to be eligible to enroll in state health benefit plans pursuant to a policy adopted by the executive committee of the general assembly.

ADJUST REDISTRICTING COMMISSION PROCEDURES

  • Senate Bill 21-247: Concerning the procedures of the independent redistricting commissions.

LOCAL REGULATION OF FIREARMS ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-256: Concerning permitting regulation of firearms by local governing bodies.

KEEP COLORADO WILD ANNUAL PASS ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-249: Concerning the creation of an optional discounted parks and public lands access pass that is purchased at the time a motor vehicle is registered, and, in connection therewith, using the pass fees to finance a number of goals of the division of parks and wildlife related to increased conservation of, safety at, and access to state parks and public lands.

ELECTIONS AND VOTING ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-250: Concerning modifications to certain statutes governing the conduct of elections.

COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION GRANT PROGRAM ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-252: Concerning the establishment of a state grant program to promote projects in commercial centers throughout the state that will revitalize community spaces and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

SUSTAINABILITY OF THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-260: Concerning the sustainability of the transportation system in Colorado, and, in connection therewith, creating new sources of dedicated funding and new state enterprises to preserve, improve, and expand existing transportation infrastructure, develop the modernized infrastructure needed to support the widespread adoption of electric motor vehicles, and mitigate environmental and health impacts of transportation system use; and expanding authority for regional transportation improvements.

PUC ENCOURAGE RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 21-261: Concerning measures to increase the deployment of renewable energy generation facilities to meet Colorado’s energy needs, and, in connection therewith, raising the allowable capacity of customer-sited renewable energy generation facilities and giving customers additional options for increasing the scale and flexibility of new installations.

EARLY CHILDHOOD SYSTEM ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 21-1304: Concerning measures to establish a unified early childhood system in Colorado, and, in connection therewith, creating the department of early childhood.

ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR JUST TRANSITION ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 21-1290: Concerning funding to provide just transition for coal transition workers and coal transition communities, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

GET ON YOUR FEET

  • Senate Bill 20-004: Concerning creating a student loan repayment assistance program for postsecondary education.

HOMELESS OUTREACH PROGRAMS TO REDUCE WILDFIRE RISK

  • Senate Bill 20-018: Concerning programs to reduce wildfire risk through outreach to people experiencing homelessness, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation..

STATEWIDE BIODIESEL BLEND REQUIREMENT DIESEL FUEL SALES

  • Senate Bill 20-038: Concerning the establishment of a statewide standard for the sale of biodiesel-blended diesel fuel in Colorado.

CONSUMER AND EMPLOYEE DISPUTE RESOLUTION FAIRNESS

  • Senate Bill 20-093: Concerning protections related to mandatory agreement provisions, and, in connection therewith, enacting the “Consumer and Employee Dispute Resolution Fairness Act.”

COLORADO REDISTRICTING COMMISSIONS ✔️Signed into law

LOCAL GOVERNMENT PESTICIDE NO PREEMPTION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 20-189: Concerning provisions that preempt a local government’s authority to regulate the use of pesticides within the local government’s jurisdiction.

BREW PUB RETAIL SALES MALT LIQUOR SEALED CONTAINER ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 20-194: Concerning the ability of a licensed brew pub to sell at retail malt liquors that are manufactured at a separate brew pub under the same ownership as the brew pub at which the sale occurs.

ALIGNING STATE AND FEDERAL LAW ON HEMP ✔️Signed into law

MODIFY WILDFIRE RISK MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 20-1057: Concerning modifications to the “Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation Act.”

COUNTY REIMBURSEMENT FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS SUPPLIES ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 20-1132: Concerning county reimbursements for election supplies from the local elections assistance cash fund.

INSURANCE COVER INFERTILITY DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT PRESERVE ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 20-1158: Concerning insurance coverage for infertility, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

MOBILE HOME PARK ACT UPDATES ✔️Signed into law

COOPERATIVE ELECTRIC UTILITIES REASONABLE RATES ENERGY STORAGE ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 20-1225: Concerning clarification of the requirement of reasonableness in charges imposed by one cooperative electric association upon another.

FAILURE-TO-COOPERATE DEFENSE FIRST-PARTY INSURANCE ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 20-1290: Concerning the ability of an insurer to use a failure-to-cooperate defense in an action in which the insured has made a claim under insurance coverage for an incident.

HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 20-1336: Concerning requiring the satisfactory completion of a course that includes Holocaust and genocide studies as a condition of high school graduation in public schools.

FISCAL YEAR 2020-21 LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL ✔️Signed into law

REGULATE STUDENT LOAN SERVICERS ✔️Signed into law

CRYPTOCURRENCY EXEMPTION COLORADO DIGITAL TOKEN ACT ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 19-023: Concerning exemptions from the securities laws for cryptocurrencies, and, in connection therewith, enacting the “Colorado Digital Token Act”.

EMPLOYEE INFORMATION STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 19-057: Concerning information relating to employee eligibility for student loan repayment and forgiveness programs.

ADJUST DAMAGES LIMITATIONS FOR INFLATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 19-109: The limitations on the amount of damages for unlawfully serving alcohol, for noneconomic loss or injury, and for wrongful death were last adjusted for inflation on January 1, 2008. The bill adjusts those damage limitations for inflation on January 1, 2020, and each January 1 every 2 years thereafter.

PROTECT PUBLIC WELFARE OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 19-181: Concerning additional public welfare protections regarding the conduct of oil and gas operations.

FISCAL YEAR 2019-2020 LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS BILL ✔️Signed into law

HEMP REGULATION ALIGNMENT WITH 2018 FEDERAL FARM BILL ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 19-220: Concerning updates to the industrial hemp regulatory program administered by the commissioner of agriculture to align the program with the regulatory requirements set forth in the federal “Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018”.

SUNSET REGULATED MARIJUANA ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 19-224: Concerning the continuation of the regulated marijuana programs, and, in connection therewith, implementing the recommendations contained in the 2018 sunset report by the department of regulatory agencies.

SUNSET PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 19-236: Concerning the continuation of the public utilities commission, and, in connection therewith, implementing the recommendations contained in the 2018 sunset report by the department of regulatory agencies.

AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 19-235: Concerning the transfer of electronic records by voter registration agencies in order to register voters.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE FOR AUTISM AND ACUTE PAIN ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 19-1028: Concerning the conditions for medical marijuana use for disabling medical conditions, and, in connection therewith, adding autism spectrum disorders to the list of disabling medical conditions for medical marijuana use.

YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 19-1120: The bill allows a minor 12 years of age or older to seek and obtain psychotherapy services with or without the consent of the minor’s parent or guardian. A registered psychotherapist or licensed social worker providing psychotherapy services to a minor may, with the consent of the minor, advise the minor’s parent or legal guardian of the psychotherapy services provided.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR CONCURRENT STATE SERVICE ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 19-1127: Concerning the appointment of the lieutenant governor to serve concurrently as the director of the office of saving people money on health care, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

PROHIBIT CONVERSION THERAPY FOR A MINOR ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 19-1129: Concerning prohibiting a mental health care provider from engaging in conversion therapy with a patient under eighteen years of age.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS EX OFFICIO MEMBERS ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 19-1173: Concerning the authority of an ex officio member of the legislative council to appoint a temporary replacement for that ex officio member at a meeting of the legislative council.

RESTORE VOTING RIGHTS PAROLEES ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 19-1266: Concerning the voting rights of persons serving a sentence of parole, and in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

MODIFICATIONS TO UNIFORM ELECTION CODE ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 19-1278: Concerning modifications to miscellaneous provisions of the “Uniform Election Code of 1992”.

CHILD COLLEGE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 19-1280: Concerning the creation of the college kickstarter account program to incentivize the creation of a college savings account for every child born in Colorado.

MOBILE HOME PARK ACT OVERSIGHT ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 19-1309: Concerning the regulation of mobile home parks, and, in connection therewith, granting counties the power to enact ordinances for mobile home parks, extending the time to move or sell a mobile home after eviction proceedings, and creating the “Mobile Home Park Dispute Resolution and Enforcement Program”.

ALLOW ELECTRIC UTILITY CUSTOMERS INSTALL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 18-009: Concerning the right of consumers of electricity to interconnect energy storage systems for use on their property.

IN-STATE TUITION FOREIGN NATIONALS SETTLED IN COLORADO ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 18-087: Concerning in-state tuition at institutions of higher education for certain foreign nationals legally settled in Colorado.

PARKS AND WILDLIFE MEASURES TO INCREASE REVENUE ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 18-143: Concerning measures to increase revenue for the parks and wildlife division, and, in connection therewith, setting certain hunting, fishing, parks, and recreation fees.

VOTER REGISTRATION INDIVIDUALS CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 18-150: Concerning measures to facilitate voter registration of individuals in the criminal justice system, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

ELECTION CLEAN-UP ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 18-233: Concerning technical modifications to miscellaneous provisions of the “Uniform Election Code of 1992”, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

PSYCHOLOGY INTERJURISDICTIONAL COMPACT ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 18-1017: Concerning the adoption of an interstate compact to allow a person authorized to practice psychology in a compact state in which the person is not licensed, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD RENTAL APPLICATION

INCREASED REPORTING OIL AND GAS INCIDENTS

HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW DEGREE PROGRAM COSTS AND OUTCOMES ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 18-1226: Concerning the review of degree programs offered by state institutions of higher education, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation

CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCY SECURITY FREEZE MINORS ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 18-1233: Concerning a consumer reporting agency’s placement of a security freeze on the consumer report of a consumer who is under the charge of a representative at the request of the consumer’s representative.

MARIJUANA ACCESSORY CONSUMPTION ESTABLISHMENTS

  • House Bill 18-1258: Concerning authorization for an endorsement to an existing marijuana license to allow for a marijuana accessory consumption establishment for the purposes of consumer education, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

PROTECT WATER QUALITY ADVERSE MINING IMPACTS

  • House Bill 18-1301: Concerning the protection of water quality from adverse impacts caused by mineral mining.

APPRENTICESHIP AND VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL TRAINING

  • House Bill 18-1341: Concerning creation of the Colorado state apprenticeship resource directory, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

STAND BY YOUR AD ACT

  • House Bill 18-1403: Concerning the expanded disclosure of information in disclaimer statements about persons paying for certain forms of political communication.

MEASURE VOTER SERVICE AND POLLING CENTERS WAIT TIMES

  • Senate Bill 17-037: Concerning data-gathering at voter service and polling centers in certain counties during each general election.

AUTHORIZE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS INCLUSIONARY HOUSING PROGRAMS

  • Senate Bill 17-086: Concerning a clarification that the statute prohibiting local governments from enacting local legislation that would control rent on private residential housing units does not prohibit local governments from adopting inclusionary housing programs.

CREATING A RIGHT FOR ELECTRIC UTILITY CUSTOMERS TO INSTALL ENERGY STORAGE

  • Senate Bill 17-089: Concerning the rights of consumers of electricity to install electricity storage systems on their properties.

ELECTRIC UTILITY DISTRIBUTION GRID RESOURCE ACQUISITION PLAN

  • Senate Bill 17-145: Concerning modifications to the electric utility resource acquisition process, and, in connection therewith, promoting a more resilient, reliable, and cost-effective electrical grid through enhanced planning and data transparency.

PRIMARY ELECTION CLEAN-UP ✔️Signed into law

  • Senate Bill 17-305: Concerning modifications to select statutory provisions affecting primary elections enacted by voters at the 2016 statewide general election to facilitate the effective implementation of the state’s election laws, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.

ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE NONTRIBUTARY AQUIFER RULES ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 17-1076: Concerning rule-making by the state engineer regarding permits for the use of water artificially recharged into nontributary groundwater aquifers.

OLYMPIC ATHLETES COLORADO IN-STATE TUITION ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 17-1081: Concerning authority to offer in-state tuition classification at state-supported institutions of higher education for athletes training in Colorado in programs approved by the United States olympic committee.

ELECTRIC DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM EXTENSION ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 17-1227: Concerning an extension of demand-side management goals for investor-owned utilities as set by the public utilities commission.

CONTRIBUTION LIMITS FOR COUNTY OFFICES

  • House Bill 17-1260: Concerning the establishment of contribution limits under the ‘Fair Campaign Practices Act’ for candidates for county offices.

SEAL MISDEMEANOR MARIJUANA CONVICTION RECORDS ✔️Signed into law

  • House Bill 17-1266: Concerning allowing persons who were convicted of misdemeanors for marijuana-related behaviors that are no longer illegal to petition for the sealing of criminal records relating to such convictions.

TRANSPORTATION LEGISLATION REVIEW COMMITTEE INTERIM HEARING ELECTRIC UTILITY ENERGY STORAGE

  • House Bill 17-1299: Concerning a transportation legislation review committee hearing on the integration of energy storage into the electric resource planning process for public utilities.

RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD APPLICATION SCREENING FEE

  • House Bill 17-1310: Concerning an application screening fee that a residential landlord charges a prospective tenant.

AGE OF CONSENT OUTPATIENT PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR MINORS

  • House Bill 17-1320: Concerning lowering the age of consent for minors seeking outpatient psychotherapy.

PARKS AND WILDLIFE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

  • House Bill 17-1321: Concerning the parks and wildlife commission’s authority to set certain charges assessed on people engaging in activities regulated by the division of parks and wildlife, and, in connection therewith, setting certain hunting, fishing, parks, and recreation fees and fines, creating an aquatic nuisance species sticker and associated fee structure, and requiring reporting by the division of parks and wildlife on fee amounts and the use of division-managed lands by nonconsumptive users.

TEACHERS NONPUBLIC CHILD CARE & PRESCHOOL FACILITY | SIGNED INTO LAW

  • House Bill 17-1332: Concerning state board of education authorization for an alternative teacher license for a person who participates in an alternative teacher program provided by a designated agency working with a nonpublic early child care facility.