Is Colorado inviting Trump’s retribution, book removals in schools and more from the Colorado legislature

Live updates Lawmakers debate whether Colorado is inviting Trump s retribution with immigration bill p m update After its morning scuffle and several quicker floor work the House has been debating an immigration bill for much of the afternoon Senate Bill would expand state law that prohibits state employees from working with federal immigration executives to include local bureaucrats agencies and law enforcement Among other changes the bill would prohibit immigration personnel from entering nonpublic areas of population buildings without a warrant U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could enter a hospital waiting room for instance but not a hospital room Read more Live updates Gov Polis signs law requiring populace schools to set book-removal policies hospital showdown in legislature p m update Gov Jared Polis currently signed Senate Bill which requires masses schools libraries to create policies for deciding which books to keep on their shelves and which ones to remove Under the new law population schools can remove a book only if it s been reviewed under that initiative The new bill was inspired in part by controversial book-removal decisions like the Elizabeth School District s latest removal of books deemed highly sensitive from its library shelves the school district has faced a lawsuit and court orders to restore them Read more Colorado lawmakers strip trans rights bill s majority of controversial provisions before overnight vote Rule that would enact new antidiscrimination protections for transgender Coloradans passed a Senate committee early Thursday morning after its backers altered the the bulk controversial provisions to assuage advocacy groups concerns House Bill is now two votes and specific procedural smoothing away from Gov Jared Polis desk The proposal would expand the state s antidiscrimination law to include intentionally repeatedly deadnaming or misgendering a transgender person The measure passed the House a month ago but has since hit whitecaps Two weeks ago certain prominent LGBT groups began to hedge their previous endorsement over fears of legal backlash Those concerns prompted key changes to the bill early Thursday after hours of testimony in a marathon hearing that had begun Wednesday afternoon HB- passed Senate Judiciary on a party-line - vote just before a m Read more Live updates Colorado trans rights bill is set for changes sponsors say as Senate committee hears testimony p m update The Senate Judiciary Committee s hearing on the transgender rights bill is ending its fourth hour with testimony expected to continue late into the evening or longer Once testimony ends the committee is set to consider amendments and then vote on full bill Read more With drop in Medicaid-covered patients Colorado safety-net clinics seek help from lawmakers Over the last months the nonprofit Jefferson Center for Mental Vitality has seen a increase in patients without insurance They re people who still need and receive care only now the nonprofit center has fewer workers to provide it The behavioral strength center like medical care providers across the state has felt the financial strain of more than Coloradans losing Medicaid coverage following the end of the COVID- inhabitants urgency The so-called unwind hasn t just cost those individuals vital robustness care coverage it s cut off the flow of federal money that plenty of such safety-net clinics rely on to care for the state s greater part vulnerable residents The resulting cuts have affected therapists counselors and administrative roles The center has fewer people who can trip to meet patients with mobility issues Device and physical infrastructure demands have been kicked down the priority list Jefferson Center President and CEO Kiara Kuenzler revealed Read more Gov Jared Polis help uncertain as ban on program used by landlords to set rents nears finish line Colorado lawmakers are poised to pass a bill banning the use of algorithms that state and federal authorities say are used to artificially hike rents in the Denver metro area But the proposal has received a lukewarm reception from Gov Jared Polis who will soon decide whether to sign it into law Barring a perfunctory procedural vote in the House House Bill is on a glide path to Polis desk after clearing the Senate on Monday The bill s Senate sponsors had temporarily delayed the vote to continue discussions with Polis office Senate leadership stated Tuesday morning but then pushed the bill through as the session winds down If passed the law would become the first of its kind in the country supporters explained Read more Live updates Colorado lawmakers kill new car insurance fee send voting rights bill to Gov Polis p m update The Colorado legislature officially passed a bill aimed at protecting voting rights Tuesday afternoon sending it to Gov Jared Polis for his signature The Senate voted to accept amendments from the House Sponsor Sen Julie Gonzales a Denver Democrat revealed the tweaks in that chamber were made in consultation with county clerks to make sure Senate Bill was manageable implementable and doable Read more Colorado lawmakers drop effort to override Gov Polis veto of social media bill amid intense lobbying The Colorado House declined to pursue an override of Gov Jared Polis veto of a social media regulation bill Monday three days after the Senate voted to find a way around the governor s rejection and after a weekend of intensive lobbying Rep Andy Boesenecker a Fort Collins Democrat explained House leadership early Monday afternoon that he requested to table the vote on Senate Bill until after the legislative session ends effectively abandoning the override effort A meager moments later he informed colleagues on the floor that the votes are not here in this chamber to match the Senate s override Read more Colorado Gov Jared Polis signs budget with more than billion in cuts doing the least amount of harm Gov Jared Polis signed Colorado s billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year on Monday placing an emphasis on what the final budget protected not the billion in cuts needed to close a gap facing the state Lawmakers split from Polis in numerous means between his November budget proposal and the spending bill he signed Monday morning More money for the Department of Robustness Care Initiative and Financing which oversees the state s Medicaid operation More money for higher teaching and the Colorado departments of transportation and masses safety And the legislature left alone Pinnacol Assurance the quasi-governmental insurance company despite Polis proposal to spin it off and reap a expected nine-figure windfall As the six lawmakers on the Joint Budget Committee stood behind him Polis praised their work The budget struggle is somewhat of a return to normalcy Polis announced after up-to-date boom years Read more Colorado lawmakers may table attempted TABOR reckoning as labor union hospital fights linger in final days Just over a week remains in the Colorado legislature s session and a number of the Democratic majority s marquee proposals remain in limbo Big tax and labor bills are still unresolved as the end of the session approaches Time pressure is mounting in other fights including one between hospitals and the drug industry over how the proceeds from a prescription drug initiative can be spent And top lawmakers already have punted on other priorities or scaled them back Related Articles Live updates Lawmakers debate whether Colorado is inviting Trump s retribution with immigration bill Live updates Gov Polis signs law requiring residents schools to set book-removal policies hospital showdown in legislature Colorado lawmakers strip trans rights bill s greater part controversial provisions before overnight vote Don t override Polis s veto on a bill that slows down the citizens s access to records Opinion Live updates Colorado trans rights bill is set for changes sponsors say as Senate committee hears testimony Limbo doesn t mean death in the legislature but every flip of the daily calendar puts more pressure on a bill s backers opponents and interested parties to find a resolution to their liking In particular cases bills have lingered as negotiations proceeded in the background Other deals have been hinted at but haven t yet emerged But the clock is ticking Read more Veto overrides an Uber pressure campaign and a race to get bills to the floor in the Colorado legislature this week One hundred and selected days after Colorado lawmakers convened Monday begins the final full week of the legislative session Rarely do the final days of the session mean a lessening of tensions or a lightening of loads So it is this year In a story this morning we described various of the outstanding debates and decisions looming including a tax reckoning that may never come and the muddy future of session-long labor and robustness care negotiations There may be various clarity on those fights in the next sparse days The robustness care fight over a discount drug scheme will play out in the House s Robustness and Human Services Committee on Monday Two competing bills one backed by hospitals and the other by pharmaceutical companies will both be up for debate Read more Stay up-to-date with Colorado Politics by signing up for our weekly newsletter The Spot