Single-use Plastics Legislation

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), plastic containers and packaging, including single-use plastics, constitute the majority of plastic waste in the United States.1 1National Strategy to Preve...

The Impact of Tax Increment Financing on School Finance

Public K-12 education in Colorado is financed through state and local sources. The school finance formula in state law establishes a statewide total funding level. The difference between this amount and the local shar...

Overview of the Colorado Judicial Branch

This memorandum provides an overview of the Colorado Judicial Branch, also referred to as the Judicial Department when described as part of the state budget. Established in Section 1 of Article VI of the Colorado Cons...

State Land Board & the Permanent Fund

When Colorado became a state, the federal government granted the state lands to be held in an intergenerational public trust to support public education. This trust is made up of about 2.8 million acres of surface lan...

Agreements Governing Colorado’s Rivers

This memorandum provides information about the interstate compacts, Supreme Court decrees, and international treaties that govern Colorado’s use of interstate streams. Specifically, it gives a brief history of each co...

Medical Aid-in-Dying

This memorandum provides an overview of Colorado’s Medical Aid-in-Dying law, which legalized the practice of prescribing medical aid-in-dying medication to eligible terminally ill patients in Colorado.

Colorado’s Child Welfare System

Colorado’s child welfare system provides services to protect children from abuse and neglect and to support families in caring for their children. This issue brief provides an overview of the child welfare system in C...

Long Bill Footnotes Under Section 24-75-112 (2), C.R.S.

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Folleto de información 2025 Legislación remitida

Este documento incluye los dos proyectos de ley que remitieron medidas a la boleta de noviembre de 2025.

Folleto de información 2025 Declaraciónes de Impacto Fiscal

Este documento incluye declaraciónes de impacto fiscal preparadas por el personal del Consejo Legislativo para las medidas en la boleta estatal de noviembre de 2025.

2025 Blue Book Referring Legislation

This document includes the two bills that referred measures to the November 2025 ballot.

2025 Blue Book Fiscal Impact Statements

This document includes fiscal impact statements prepared by Legislative Council Staff for the following measures on the November 2025 statewide ballot.

2025 Blue Book Referring Legislation

Folleto de información 2025

2025 Blue Book (English)

The statewide General Election will be held on November 4, 2025. This booklet provides information on the 14 statewide measures that will appear on your ballot. You will receive information about local government ball...

Forecast September 2025

Focus Colorado presents forecasts for the economy and state government revenue through FY 2026-27. Implications of the forecast for the state's General Fund budget and spending limit are described in the report's high...

Economic Outlook Presentation September 2025

Legislative Council Staff economic outlook presentation to the Joint Budget Committee.

Report on Business Incentive Tax Expenditures

Report No. 2025-TE12

2025 Cumulative Senate Journal

Medicaid Impacts from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Medicaid is a joint federal and state insurance program that provides health care coverage to low-income families and individuals, including children, pregnant people, seniors, and people with disabilities. Colorado’s...