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Legislative NewsRitter signs FASTER bill as cars speed past
3/6/2009
By Jason Kosena THORNTON — It’s official. At a press conference just yards from the southbound lanes of Interstate 25, Gov. Bill Ritter signed Senate Bill 108, known as FASTER, into law on Monday. Kefalas, Dems tackle single-payer health insurance
3/6/2009
By Richard Haugh Legislators may soon consider the merits of a single-payer system for delivering health care — a concept that was rejected in 2007 by a blue-ribbon health care commission appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter. Rep. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, has introduced House Bill 1273, dubbed the Colorado Guaranteed Health Care Act. HB 1273 is sponsored in the Senate by Joyce Foster, D-Denver. The bill has 16 House and three Senate sponsors, all Democrats. Ritter, JBC back plan to reduce hospital 'cost-shifting'
3/6/2009
By Richard Haugh Gov. Bill Ritter’s administration is rolling out legislation calling for a fee to be assessed on hospitals — a fee that, when matched by federal dollars, could result in as much as $1.2 billion in additional state Medicaid money. In an interesting twist, the legislation — House Bill 1293, introduced Feb. 26 — provides a pot-sweetener for hospitals that meet certain quality-of-care goals. Primavera wants pink-ribbon license plates to raise money as well as cancer awareness
3/6/2009
By Elizabeth Stortroen If your car has idled at a stoplight behind a car with pink-lettered “Committed to a Cure” vanity license plates, perhaps you assumed that part of the money that went to purchase them helped fund breast cancer research or treatment. If so, you assumed wrong. Rep. Marostica's SB 228 defies GOP
2/26/2009
By Jason Kosena Taking a stand is never easy. That was the lesson learned last week by Rep. Don Marostica, a Loveland Republican and Joint Budget Committee member, when he bucked Republican leadership and continued his sponsorship of Senate Bill 228. If passed, the bill would repeal the Arveschoug-Bird spending limit, a provision passed by the Legislature in 1991 that allows Colorado’s General Fund to grow by only 6 percent per year. FASTER bumps through House
3 votes take bill back to Senate
2/26/2009
By Leslie Jorgensen A bill to raise $265 million a year for road and bridge improvements won House approval in a close vote that split along partisan lines with the exception of four Democrats who joined the Republicans. Sex, sin, vengeance and Senate Bills 179 and 88
2/26/2009
By Leslie Jorgensen An attorney — and a Republican for 30-something years — predicted after the November election that the GOP would become extinct if it couldn’t tame its social crusaders. He was hoping for a return to the “big tent” filled with Republicans who don’t shoot “Rhinos” or wear elephant-size righteousness like merit badges. He probably joined the Democratic Party this week. Bill to bring back no-fault insurance defeated
2/26/2009
By Richard Haugh A bill returning no-fault insurance to Colorado was killed Feb. 18 by a 7-3 vote in the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee. In 2003, Colorado switched to a tort system of auto insurance, in which the at-fault driver’s insurance pays for medical bills and property damage. House Bill 1226, sponsored by Rep. Anne McGihon, D-Denver, and Sen. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, would have reversed that. JBC seeks to delay budget pain
Gloom, doom under gold dome
2/19/2009
By Jason Kosena Another dire forecast hit lawmakers on Monday with the unveiling of the Joint Budget Committee’s recommendation for balancing the 2008-’09 fiscal year budget during a rare joint session of the House and Senate. The answer? Transfer cash funds and reserves into the General Fund, cut some state programs and hold Dems push FASTER through
SB 108 wins approval in transport committee
2/19/2009
By Leslie Jorgensen Senate Bill 108, the FASTER bill, squeaked through the House Transportation and Energy Committee late Tuesday night after more than five hours of scrutiny from Republican committee members and pro-and-con testimony from 51 witnesses. FASTER (an acronym for Funding Advancement for Surface Transportation and Economic Recovery) slipped through the committee on a 7-5 straight party line vote on Feb. 17. |
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