The Sum & Substance

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This week on @ColoradoChamber Office Hours, we talk with state workforce-development officials about the important next steps to implementing the 232 action plans coming out of last year's regional talent summits — and the role employers can play: https://t.co/UFXgQJ6nRx

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Colorado's $1.5B budget shortfall might have killed most efforts to create or extend tax credits this #coleg session, but officials believed these two were so important that they must be continued: https://t.co/1Z1gy29k3B

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As was largely expected, we are starting this weekend with a @GovofCO veto of the priority labor bill of this #coleg session, drawing strong reaction from groups from the @ColoradoChamber to @SEIU105: https://t.co/m4lFkoVLtt

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Next step: Business leaders will sit down with educators, government officials and labor for the next six months to lay out how this "one-stop shop" will work. The payout for employers could be significant, groups like @ColoradoChamber believe: https://t.co/RJQfRh3ddW

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More bills to boost housing construction failed in the #coleg this year as compared to recent sessions. And that particularly could be detrimental to creation of new market-rate housing. Here's why: https://t.co/GuD4ZwTsjS

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Any Colorado company needing an emissions permit must be prepared to pay significantly more next year. But can they expect more efficient permitting too? https://t.co/0MHiyUtzZa

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Still catching up on everything that happened during the 2026 #coleg session? Here's a (relatively) quick overview of the most important business issues that were debated: https://t.co/TwY6MRkphK

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Members of #coleg thought they'd found a new way to raise revenues. And they will get the $200M they'd anticipated — but over a longer timeframe and only with changes to open the program to more buyers: https://t.co/1nz3dhqAyy

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These groups are asking @GovofCO to think hard before signing the bill: https://t.co/M3K1EaKyEE

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Today, @GovofCO made a statement about his priority legislation when he chose these two bills to be the first he signed into law following last night's conclusion of the 2026 #coleg session: https://t.co/xfiEKdEiOZ

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The dead bill sought to have the state regulate workplace safety for the first time if @OSHA_DOL rolled back certain rules. But employment attorneys from firms like @SPB_Global warned this could create great confusion for employers: https://t.co/ka7wftLbR9

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Two years of work resulted in just eight days of consideration and a 91-7 vote for this consequential #coleg AI bill now on its way to @GovofCO. But as Rep. @javier_mabrey said, the conversation may just be beginning: https://t.co/S39TdSS2RD

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This officially brings an end to discussion of any data-center policy — regulatory or incentive-based — in the 2026 #coleg session: https://t.co/IS8hCAgyDI

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Fiscal notes had seemed to sidetrack bills on extreme temperatures and adopting @OSHA_DOL rules for Colorado. However, in the past week, that changed: https://t.co/AxbnjjougV

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In a rare Saturday session, the #coleg House made some significant changes to this key bill that will help companies like @XcelEnergyCO: https://t.co/ry37ALCFWB

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A key senator revealed during a committee hearing Thursday night that much of the $555 million tax-break rollback package could be in trouble with less than a week left in the 2026 #coleg session. Here's why that is: https://t.co/NmN0MNaOOU

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Colorado would have been the first state to require employers to help pay for their workers' Medicaid benefits. Here's why this #coleg bill died on Thursday night: https://t.co/Ni5GxLxor8

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Appropriations committee hearings aren't usually exciting. But this #coleg Senate committee hearing on a bill to fund cash-short health-insurance subsidy programs not only removed a controversial funding idea but showed serious divides on the programs: https://t.co/adwceGI5u4

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There were many suggestions for amendments for the bill but no opposition testimony and no "no" votes in its first committee. This is a little smoother than I think even the most ardent backers of AI reform expected this bill to go this year: https://t.co/WGgpfztycF

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This is $555M that Colorado businesses will lose in tax breaks. This is also roughly that amount that will be going to lower-income families in tax credits. The opposing sides on this #coleg bill each argue one of those two points, with little overlap: https://t.co/Nfac9YOWqe