Colorado General Assembly

Optometrists aren’t eye surgeons. Yet Colorado lawmakers have printed up a new law that allows them to do surgery, with minimal training

The Colorado Sun combed through the roughly 650 pieces of legislation introduced at the Capitol this year to find the ones that will affect — or would have affected — your life.

Colorado’s 2022 lawmaking term is ending at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday as most legislative sessions do: with some bills falling short of the finish line but most big-ticket items pared back but passing

Stuck in a long queue are bills that would change Colorado’s unemployment system, increase penalties for fentanyl users and dealers, and spend millions of dollars in federal coronavirus aid. The School Finance Act is also stuck in the logjam.

That’s the ingredient missing from the recycling bill in the Colorado General Assembly

$400 million in federal funding must do more than just build new homes

Two bills with bipartisan support would help therapists in private practice who are fed up with the convoluted Medicaid payment system. They follow investigative reporting by The Sun and Colorado News Collaborative.

The benefit would be felt most by northeast Denver’s heavily polluted neighborhoods

A bill before the General Assembly would help unlock geothermal’s potential and bridge the gap to a renewable-energy future

The problem — kids using vapor products — is much narrower

It’s too deadly and prevalent to handle with kid gloves

The spending is unprecedented and doesn’t include $2.8 billion in federal coronavirus aid the legislature is doling out this year

Our idea is to make sure they know, and now it’s a bill in the General Assembly

They lost their homes in an instant. Getting a settlement shouldn’t take months

It would help small businesses — and bolster institutions that are core to the fabric of democracy

By increasing funding for wildfire prevention local fire departments, we can make Colorado safer and reduce the cost of living

Voters raised some taxes in 2020 to pay for greater access. House Bill 1295 will put that vote into action

The measure, which was unanimously opposed by district attorneys, would have prohibited attorneys from trying to disqualify a potential juror based only on reasons like expressing a distrust of police

One in five current Colorado lawmakers were at some point in their career appointed to a statehouse seat by a vacancy committee