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Lawmakers convene on Monday for the second special legislative session on property taxes in less than a year, with an already-established deal in place. Now, some Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce a constitutional amendment to give local communities control over property taxes. Republicans are calling it a “dealbreaker.”
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A group of Colorado ski towns wants the ability to tax homeowners who let their vacation houses sit empty for long stretches. And they’re asking state lawmakers to help them do it. We discuss their proposal on today's In The NoCo.
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Starting on Monday, new state laws will ban firearms in so-called “sensitive spaces” and remove local limits on how many people can live together. The measures are among more than a dozen new state laws going into effect next week.
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Colorado legislators are taking a bold step to protect wetlands and streams by enacting a bill that will issue permits for activities such as road-building and homebuilding while monitoring impacts on waterways.
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The Colorado House passed a bill this month that supporters hope can help preserve affordable housing units. House Bill 1175 would give local governments a “right of first refusal” to buy privately owned affordable housing once its rent restrictions expire. Colorado Sun reporter Michael Booth joined KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on the story.
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Democratic state lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled the results of a survey they use to help decide the fate of dozens of bills competing against each other for state funding. Thanks to a recent lawsuit, there's something different about it this year. For the first time since the survey was introduced to the Capitol in 2019, lawmakers’ votes aren’t being kept secret.
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Libertarian activist and businessman Jon Caldara has filed a ballot initiative to repeal Senate Bill 157, which allows lawmakers to have more conversations in private.
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The change to make a secret survey used at the state Capitol public comes months after a judge ordered lawmakers to stop using their previous secret ballot system to prioritize legislation because it violated Colorado’s open meetings law.
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The new measure will let lawmakers have more private conversations. It will do that by narrowing the definition of public business, let lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically without the communications constituting a public meeting, and meet one on one with fewer restrictions.
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The measure would let state lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically with each other by email or text message without the communications constituting a public meeting.