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
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
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 (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
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
Budget Related Publications
Publishing agency:
Joint Budget Committee Staff
Release date:
2025-11-18
Tax Expenditure Evaluation
Report No. 2025-TE13
Publishing agency:
Office of the State Auditor
Release date:
2025-11-17
Subjects:
- Fiscal Policy & Taxes
- Housing
Staff Publications
For more information, see also Workplace Expectations.
Publishing agency:
Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-11-14
Staff Publications
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
Staff Publications
For more information, see also https://leg.colorado.gov/workplace-harassment-policy.
Publishing agency:
Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-11-13
Increasingly, there is interest in carbon-free energy sources, or energy sources that emit minimal to no greenhouse gases (GHGs) to produce electricity. Nuclear energy, which is a carbon-free energy source, accounts f...
Publishing agency:
Legislative Council Staff
Release date:
2025-11-12
Over the past few years, Colorado has set ambitious goals to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This issue brief provides an overview of the state’s climate action plan and recent legislation that has ...
Publishing agency:
Legislative Council Staff
Release date:
2025-11-12
Subjects:
- Natural Resources & Environment
Staff Publications
This memorandum addresses patient access to experimental treatments, including access to clinical trials, participation in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Expanded Access Program, and access to treatments unde...
Publishing agency:
Legislative Council Staff
Release date:
2025-11-05
Subjects:
- Health Care & Health Insurance
Several factors contribute to high housing costs in Colorado. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development defines being housing cost burdened as households paying more than 30 percent of their income...
Publishing agency:
Legislative Council Staff
Release date:
2025-11-04
Legal Topics
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Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-10-31
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Office of Legislative Legal Services
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2025-10-31
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Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-10-30
Staff Publications
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Office of Legislative Legal Services
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2025-10-30
Staff Publications
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Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-10-29
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Publishing agency:
Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-10-28
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Publishing agency:
Office of the State Auditor
Release date:
2025-10-27
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Publishing agency:
Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-10-21
Legal Topics
Publishing agency:
Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-10-20
Legal Topics
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Publishing agency:
Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-10-20
Staff Publications
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Publishing agency:
Office of Legislative Legal Services
Release date:
2025-10-20