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Staff Publications

Funding Mechanisms and Fiscal Notes

This memorandum is intended for use by policymakers, legislative drafters, and budget analysts to understand the different funding mechanisms that may be used in legislation. It describes how different funding mechani...

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-12-08
Staff Publications

National Environmental Policy Act and Large Transportation Projects

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) was signed into law in 1970. It requires federal agencies to consider the environmental effects of a project and involve the public in the decision-making process b...

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-12-01
Subjects:
  • Transportation & Motor Vehicles
Staff Publications

2025 Colorado Legislative Rules

The handbook is divided into four sections, 1:  Rules of the House of Representatives; 2:  Rules of the Senate; 3:  Joint Rules of the Senate and House and Joint Session Rules; and 4:  Colorado Constitution. This sect...

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-11-28
Subjects:
  • General Assembly

Competency for Criminal Trial in Colorado

Competency to stand trial, refers to the constitutional requirement that people facing criminal charges must be able to assist in their own defense. A criminal case cannot be adjudicated unless this requirement is met...

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-11-28
Subjects:
  • Civil Law
  • Courts & Judicial
  • Crimes, Corrections, & Enforcement

Regional Accountable Entities (19-20)

This issue brief provides an overview of Regional Accountable Entities, organizations responsible for coordinating the physical and behavioral health care of the state’s Medicaid members.

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-11-20
Subjects:
  • Health Care & Health Insurance
  • Local Government

Overview of Minimum Wage Laws

Federal law requires employers to pay their employees a minimum hourly wage. States have the authority to set different pay standards than the federal minimum wage requirement. However, when the state and federal law ...

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-11-20
Subjects:
  • Business & Economic Development
  • Labor & Employment

Specific Ownership Tax

In place of property taxes, Coloradans pay the specific ownership tax (SOT) on their vehicles. This issue brief provides an overview of the SOT, including how it is calculated, collected, and distributed.

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-11-19
Subjects:
  • Transportation & Motor Vehicles

Aquatic Nuisance Species Program

Aquatic nuisance species (ANS) are invasive animals, plants, and disease-causing pathogens that can affect lakes, reservoirs, rivers, streams, and wetlands. This issue brief provides an explanation of ANS and an overv...

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-11-19
Subjects:
  • Natural Resources & Environment
  • Water
Staff Publications

Organizational Structure of Legislative Staff, FY 2025-26

This memorandum describes the organizational structure of the staff of the Colorado legislative branch. These staff are categorized as follows: Senate staff, who are overseen by the top three members of leadership in...

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-11-18
Subjects:
  • General Assembly
  • State Government
Staff Publications

Overview of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is an emerging technology that has the potential to reshape the economy. Although AI research has been conducted for decades, products are now proliferating due in part to advances in comp...

Publishing agency: Legislative Council Staff
Release date: 2025-11-13
Subjects:
  • Business & Economic Development

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